Emergency Curation of the Endangered University of Miami Ichthyological Collection at the Florida Museum of Natural History

小行星9616312& 1972年，热带大西洋生物实验室的鱼类收藏被分配给佛罗里达自然历史博物馆和迈阿密大学，后者选择放弃收藏，佛罗里达博物馆选择采用它，从而重新统一了热带大西洋生物实验室的收藏。 该奖项提供物资和人员，以紧急策划这些标本，以确保他们的寿命。 总的来说，收养这些孤儿收藏品的过程是由各机构和机关的伙伴关系资助的。 剥离机构（迈阿密大学）提供了从迈阿密到盖恩斯维尔的运输支持，国家生物服务（现为美国地质调查局生物资源部）和佛罗里达州为馆藏的计算机编目提供了资金，佛罗里达自然历史博物馆提供资金租赁收藏品的存储空间，而博物馆本身的新收藏空间正在建设和翻新。 此外，博物馆还制定了一项计划，在现任鱼类馆长退休后更换他，并聘请一名收藏经理，不仅在该项目期间，而且是永久性的。 NSF在这个多方合作的杠杆项目中的投资是用于学生援助，以及策展设备和用品。 这个项目的目标是与新印刷的标签，有一个佛罗里达博物馆的登录号，并完全计算机目录所采用的收集到一个标准相当于现有的佛罗里达博物馆收藏。这项工作将由学生工作者和新的收集经理进行，他们将由PI监督。 在该项目结束时，佛罗里达博物馆的鱼类收藏，这是目前排名第二的最重要的国家鱼类学中心，很可能已经取得了国际中心的地位。

9616312 Burgess & Gilbert The collection of fishes from the Tropical Atlantic Biological Laboratory was divided in 1972 between the collections of the Florida Museum of Natural History and the University of Miami, the latter institution chose to divest itself of the collection and the Florida Museum chose to adopt it, thus reuniting the Tropical Atlantic Biological Laboratory collection. This award provides supplies and personnel to emergency-curate these specimens to ensure their longevity. Overall, the process of adoption of this orphaned collection has been funded by a partnership of institutions and agencies. The divesting institution (University of Miami) provided support for the transport of the collection from Miami to Gainesville, the National Biological Service (now the Biological Resources Division of the USGS) and the State of Florida provided funding for computer cataloging of the collection, and the Florida Museum of Natural History has provided funds for leasing storage space for the collection while new collections space in the Museum itself is being constructed and renovated. In addition, the Museum has put in place a plan to replace the current curator of fishes upon his retirement, as well as to hire a collection manager for the fish collection not only for the duration of this project, but permanently. The NSF investment in this multi-partnered, leveraged project is for of student assistance, and in curatorial equipment and supplies. The objectives of this project are to with newly printed labels that have a Florida Museum accession number, and completely computer catalog the adopted collection to a standard equivalent to the existing Florida Museum collections. This work will be carried out by the student workers and the new collection manager, who will be supervised by the PI. At the end of the project, the Florida Museum fish collection, which is currently ranked as the second most important National Center for ichthyology, may well have achieved International Ce nter status.