CSBR: Ownership Transfer: Incorporation of the orphaned UCLA Fish Collection into the Marine Vertebrate Collection, Scripps Institution of Oceanography

自然历史收藏品是记录生物多样性的重要资源，为评估物种丰度和分布随时间的变化提供了必要的基线信息。这些藏品是不可替代的，因为过去的收藏活动通常很难复制，因此代表了超越世代的遗产资源。该项目将把以前在加州洛杉矶大学（UCLA）收藏的分类和地理上多样化的鱼类收藏品纳入加州圣地亚哥大学斯克里普斯海洋学研究所海洋脊椎动物收藏品（MVC）。标本将被精心策划，以保持其完整性，为后代的科学家和教育工作者。此外，这些文件将被建立数据库，以便于研究人员查阅。该奖项还支持将MVC的外展活动扩大到圣地亚哥的弱势青年。这些活动将向未来的领导者介绍潜在的职业机会，因为他们通过与海洋发现研究所的合作项目探索鱼类的多样性和生态重要性。加州大学洛杉矶分校生态与进化生物学系最近将其鱼类收藏转移到斯克里普斯海洋学研究所海洋脊椎动物收藏馆（MVC）。MVC是这个孤立集合的逻辑存储库，因为它保留了加州大学内的这些资源，该机构资助了建立这两个集合的基础设施，它显着提高了MVC的东太平洋鱼类的持有量。加州大学洛杉矶分校的收藏品包括各种各样的海洋鱼类，可追溯到20世纪40年代和50年代，代表了来自加州、热带东太平洋及其海洋岛屿的沿海鱼类的广泛收藏。这些材料为MVC增加了重要的组成部分，包括MVC的近100个新物种和近500个代表性差的物种的标本。该奖项有利于专门的工作人员的支持，将加州大学洛杉矶分校的标本数据输入到MVC编目系统和数据库，监督加州大学洛杉矶分校的本科生与加州大学洛杉矶分校的收藏工作，并参与与海洋探索研究所扩大的外联活动。海洋探索研究所在圣地亚哥地区拥有无与伦比的公共教育记录，以及评估和继续这些努力的影响的资源，远远超出了这个奖项的期限。

Natural history collections are important resources that document biodiversity and provide baseline information necessary for assessing changes in the abundance and distribution of species over time. These collections are irreplaceable, as it is usually difficult to replicate past collecting events, and thus represent legacy resources that transcend generations. This project will incorporate a taxonomically and geographically diverse collection of fishes, previously housed at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), into the Scripps Institution of Oceanography Marine Vertebrate Collection (MVC) at the University of California San Diego. Specimens will be curated to preserve their integrity for future generations of scientists and educators. Additionally, they will be databased to increase their accessibility to researchers. This award also supports the expansion of the MVC's outreach activities to disadvantaged youth in San Diego. These activities will introduce future leaders to potential career opportunities as they explore the diversity and ecological importance of fishes through a collaborative project with the Ocean Discovery Institute.The UCLA Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology recently transferred its fish collection to the Scripps Institution of Oceanography Marine Vertebrate Collection (MVC). The MVC is the logical repository for this orphaned collection because it retains these resources within the University of California, the institution that funded the infrastructure to build both collections, and it significantly improves the MVC's holdings of eastern Pacific fishes. The UCLA collection includes a variety of marine fishes dating to the 1940s and 1950s representing extensive collections of coastal fishes from California, the tropical eastern Pacific and its oceanic islands. This material adds significant components to the MVC including nearly 100 species new to the MVC and specimens of nearly 500 poorly represented species. This award facilitates the support of a dedicated staff member to enter UCLA specimen data into the MVC cataloging system and database, supervise a UCSD undergraduate student working with the UCLA collection, and participate in expanded outreach activities with the Ocean Discovery Institute. The Ocean Discovery Institute has an unparalleled record of public education in the San Diego area, as well as the resources to assess and continue the impact of these efforts well beyond the duration of this award.