Compactorization and Relocation of the Marine Vertebrates Collection of Scripps Institution of Oceanography

摘要该项目将支持加州大学圣地亚哥分校斯克里普斯海洋研究所海洋脊椎动物收藏的改进。这一系列具有世界其他地方无与伦比的地理和水深优势。该收藏定期支持来自美国和海外的各种调查人员的校外研究项目。该收藏包括来自世界海洋大部分区域的110,000多批和150万个鱼类标本，太平洋的地理覆盖面广泛而密集。1996年初，这些藏品可以在互联网上进行搜索。海洋脊椎动物收藏馆目前大部分都在一座被宣布为不适合地震的建筑中。此外，50,000多个标本存放在一个严重不足的偏远存储区域，暴露在高达34摄氏度的温度和广泛的每日温度变化中。主要区域的空地几乎不存在，供新加入的植物和其他用途使用。在某些情况下，成箱的标本罐被堆放在货架上的其他标本罐上。添加新的、有价值的材料经常会导致更多的标本被转移到远程存储区域。将收藏品搬迁到新的设施是至关重要的。加州已经向加州大学提供了建造一座新楼以取代现有里特大厅的资金。新大楼建成后，里特霍尔将被拆除。藏品的搬迁提供了一个机会，通过利用紧凑的移动货架来极大地增加可用的存储空间。这将允许所有标本被安置在适当的安全区域，并将为未来的生长做好准备。本项目将支持在这座新建筑中安装紧凑型移动和固定货架。在这座大楼里存放藏品需要节省空间的存储手段。

ABSTRACT This project will support improvements for the Marine Vertebrates Collection of Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego. This collection has geographic and bathymetric strengths unequaled elsewhere in the world. The collection regularly supports extramural research projects from a variety of investigators in the U.S. and abroad. The collection includes over 110,000 lots and 1.5 million specimens of fishes from most regions of the world ocean, with extensive and intensive geographic coverage of the Pacific. The holdings of this collection became searchable on the Internet in early 1996. The Marine Vertebrates Collection, for the most part, is currently in a building which has been declared seismically unfit. In addition over 50,000 specimens are housed in a severely inadequate, remote storage area exposed to temperatures as high as 34 C and extensive daily temperature variations. Open space in the main area for new accessions and other purposes is almost non- existent. In some cases, boxes of specimen jars are stacked on other specimen jars on the shelves. Adding new, valuable material frequently results in more specimens being transferred to the remote storage area. Relocation of the Collection to a new facility is essential. Funds to construct a new building to replace existing Ritter Hall have been provided to the University of California by the State. After construction of the new building, Ritter Hall will be demolished. Relocation of the collection provides an opportunity to greatly enhance available storage space by utilization of compact mobile shelvlng. This would allow all specimen to be housed in an appropriate secure are and will provide for future growth. The present project will support installation of compact mobile and fixed shelving in this new building. Space-efficient means of storage are necessary to house the collection in this building.