Integration of University of Cincinnati Invertebrate Paleontology Collection with Cincinnati Museum Center

9616480休斯这个项目，其中包括从辛辛那提大学（UC）的无脊椎动物古生物学标本的集合转移到辛辛那提博物馆中心（CMC），是CMC的一个计划，整合研究，收藏，展览和教育，是众所周知的“使命奥陶纪”的重要的第一阶段。这个项目利用了辛辛那提独特的化石遗产，将其作为向公众介绍4.5亿年前“辛辛那提”环境的工具，当时建造城市的岩石是海底的泥浆。将UC收藏品转移到CMC将在两个主要方面产生影响：1）转移的最好的标本将成为CMC新奥陶纪大厅的一部分，该大厅目前处于规划阶段; 2）UC收藏品将得到妥善策划，这将促进对辛辛那提古代生活和环境的研究。这项研究很重要，因为它与人类对全球变化的理解器官和社区反应直接相关，其次是因为CMC将在这项研究的几个方面涉及强大的当地业余爱好者社区作为“准古生物学家”。这样做将给公众一个机会，成为直接参与一个真实的研究计划在自己的后院。与展览相关的教育项目将延伸到社区的其他部门，特别是儿童，他们将有打开岩石的兴奋，发现化石，并知道最后一个看到它的动物是三叶虫，活在4.5亿年前。该项目由CMC（提供55%）和NSF（通过该奖项提供45%的资金）合作完成。

9616480 Hughes This project, which involves the transfer of collections of invertebrate paleontological specimens from the University of Cincinnati (UC) to Cincinnati Museum Center (CMC), is the essential first phase of a program of the CMC that integrates research, collections, exhibits, and education, and is popularly known as "Mission Ordovician". This program capitalizes on Cincinnati's unique fossil heritage as a tool for introducing the public to "Cincinnatian" environments of 450 million years ago, when the rocks upon which the city is built were mud on a sea floor. Transfer of UC collections to CMC will have impact in two major ways: 1) the finest specimens that are transferred will form part of the new Ordovician Hall at CMC, which is currently in the planning phase; 2) the UC collection will be properly curated, which will facilitate specimen-based research on the ancient life and environments of Cincinnati. This research is important because it has direct relevance to humankind's understanding organismic and community responses to global change, and secondly because CMC will involve the strong community of local amateurs as "para-paleontologists" in several aspects of this research. Doing this will give the public a chance to become directly involved in a real research program in their own backyard. Educational programs associated with the exhibit will reach out to other sectors of the community-particularly children, who will have the thrill of cracking open a rock, finding a fossil, and knowing that the last animal to look at it was a trilobite, alive 450 million years ago. This project is being accomplished as a partnership between the CMC (providing 55%) and the NSF (providing 45% of the funding by way of this award).