CSBR: Natural History: Enhancing paleontology collections in coordination with a new Burke Museum facility

CSBR：自然历史：与新的伯克博物馆设施协调加强古生物学收藏

• 批准号: 1756218
• 负责人: Christian Sidor
• 金额: $ 22.6万
• 依托单位: University of Washington
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2019-10-15 至 2020-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1756218&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CSBR; Natural; History; Enhancing; paleontology

An award is made to the University of Washington to support the Burke Museum paleontology collection. The Burke's paleontology collection includes approximately 3 million objects, but a substantial number of these are not easily accessible to the public or even to researchers and scholars because they are currently housed offsite at a variety of locations. A primary goal of this project will be to bring together all of these offsite collections into a new facility. The new Burke Museum building will maximize accessibility to the collections, as well as to provide the best environment, with modern temperature and humidity controls (not available at some of the current offsite facilities). In addition, the design of the new building features labs and collections facilities visible to the public as well as two classrooms, which will further enhance the accessibility of the paleontology collections to the general public and students at the University of Washington.The Burke Museum consolidation of three collections form three offsite storage facilities will offer increased safety for the fossils and enhanced accessibility and potential for research and instructional use. As currently housed, the paleontology collections are severely compressed and the space available for research-related growth is limited. Recent 5-year growth rates for the three main collections (invertebrate paleontology 3%, paleobotany 46%, and vertebrate paleontology 20%) demonstrate remarkable productivity from the ongoing research of the PIs, their students, and other Burke-associated researchers. Funds from this award will be used for storage equipment, primarily cabinets and open-shelving units, to assure sufficient space for continued productivity. As a university-based natural history museum, the Burke places great importance on training future paleontologists in a museum environment. Undergraduate and graduate students will be employed throughout the proposed collections improvement project, giving them greater insight into how collections are created, maintained, and used.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

向华盛顿大学颁发了奖励，以支持伯克博物馆古生物学系列。 Burke的古生物学系列包括大约300万个物体，但其中很大一部分不容易被公众甚至研究人员和学者访问，因为它们目前是在各种位置的异地。 该项目的主要目标是将所有这些异地收集汇总到一个新的设施中。 新的伯克博物馆大楼将通过现代温度和湿度控制（在当前的某些现场设施中不可用），最大程度地利用收藏品，并提供最佳环境。 此外，新建筑的设计具有实验室和收藏设施，公众可见，以及两个教室，这将进一步增强华盛顿大学的古生物学收藏量向公众和学生的可访问性。伯克博物馆合并三个收藏馆的构成三个室外存储设施将为化石提供增强的访问和研究和研究的安全性，并增强了研究的安全性和指导性和指导性。 正如目前所容纳的那样，古生物学收集受到严重压缩，可用于研究相关的增长的空间受到限制。 最近的三个主要收集率（无脊椎动物古生物学，3％，古生物46％和脊椎动物古生物学20％）的近期5年增长率显示出了PIS，学生和其他与Burke相关的研究人员正在进行的研究。 该奖项的资金将用于存储设备，主要是橱柜和开放式单元，以确保足够的空间以持续生产力。 作为一家大学的自然历史博物馆，伯克在博物馆环境中培训未来的古生物学家都非常重视。 本科生和研究生将在整个拟议的收藏改进项目中受雇，使他们更深入地了解如何创建，维护和使用收藏品。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为是值得通过基金会的知识分子优点和更广泛的审查标准来评估的支持。