Specimen Storage Equipment for New Mollusk Collection Facility

圣巴巴拉自然历史博物馆自1923年以来一直是一个致力于收藏和研究的独立机构。博物馆的无脊椎动物动物部在过去十年中急剧增长，其软体动物收藏现在包括近20万个标本批次和1700多个模式标本。这个收藏是北美最好的收藏之一，也是该地区特别的软体动物保管库之一。这些藏品将搬到更大的新建住宅区，一个新的捐赠馆长最近被一名软体动物专家填满了。软体动物馆长埃里克·霍赫伯格博士为这些收藏的增长和管理制定了一个长期计划。第一阶段涉及在最近完工的收藏大楼安装新的储藏柜。南加州大学艾伦·汉考克基金会捐赠的头足类收藏将与其他收藏整合在一起。圣巴巴拉自然历史博物馆软体动物收藏的拟议改进将使该机构成为一个日益增长的研究和管理中心。生态学、生物地理学、系统学和进化生物学(仅举几例)领域的研究人员将获得新的、容易获得的重要标本收藏。像这样的自然历史收藏是研究生物多样性不可或缺的资源。

The Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History has been an independent institution dedicated to collections and research since 1923. The Museum's Department of Invertebrate Zoology has grown dramatically during the past decade, and its mollusk collection now comprises nearly 200,000 specimen lots and more that 1,700 type specimens. This collection ranks among the finest in North America, and is one of the exceptional repositories for mollusks in the region. The collections will be moving into much larger, newly constructed quarters, and a new endowed Curatorship has recently been filled with a mollusk specialist. Dr. Eric Hochberg, Curator of Mollusks, has crafted a long-range plan for growth and curation of the collection. The first phase involves installation of new storage cabinets in the recently completed collections building. The cephalopod collection that was donated by the Allan Hancock Foundation of the University of Southern California will be integrated with the rest of the collection. The proposed improvements to the mollusk collection of the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History will establish this institution as a growing center for research and curation. Researchers in the areas of ecology, biogeography, systematics, and evolutionary biology (to name a few) will be given new and easy access to important specimen collections. Natural history collections such as this are indispensable resources in the study of biological diversity.