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.

华盛顿大学获得了一个奖项，以支持伯克博物馆的古生物学收藏。 伯克的古生物学收藏包括大约300万件物品，但其中相当一部分不容易向公众甚至研究人员和学者开放，因为它们目前被安置在不同的地点。 该项目的主要目标是将所有这些非现场收集到一个新的设施。 新的伯克博物馆大楼将最大限度地提高藏品的可访问性，并提供最佳的环境，现代化的温度和湿度控制（目前的一些场外设施不提供）。 此外，新建筑的设计还包括公众可见的实验室和收藏设施以及两间教室，这将进一步提高公众和华盛顿大学学生对古生物学藏品的可访问性。伯克博物馆将三个藏品合并成三个异地储存设施，将为化石提供更高的安全性，并提高研究的可访问性和潜力和指导性使用。 由于目前的安置，古生物学收藏品被严重压缩，可用于研究相关增长的空间有限。 最近5年的增长率为三个主要收藏（无脊椎动物古生物学3%，古植物学46%，和脊椎动物古生物学20%）证明从PI，他们的学生，和其他伯克相关的研究人员正在进行的研究显着的生产力。 这笔资金将用于存储设备，主要是橱柜和开放式货架，以确保有足够的空间继续生产。 作为一所大学的自然历史博物馆，伯克非常重视在博物馆环境中培养未来的古生物学家。 本科生和研究生将在整个拟议的馆藏改进项目中被雇用，让他们更深入地了解馆藏是如何创建、维护和使用的。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并被认为值得通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估来支持。