Curation of a Major Alaska, Arctic and West Coast Orphan Paleontological Collection

这个项目将帮助管理最近由美国地质调查局转移到博物馆的大量、独特的、不可替代的海洋无脊椎动物化石收藏。这个收藏中最重要的部分是阿拉斯加和北极的材料，其中包括从阿拉斯加许多地区收集到的唯一化石标本。门洛帕克的藏品目前存放在校外的一个地点，由于仓促地将藏品转移到加州大学古生物学博物馆，造成了相当大的混乱。因此，获取研究信息非常困难。该项目将提供工作人员对收藏品进行分类，让搬运工将阿拉斯加和北极的材料带到校园，并将其与UCMP无脊椎动物化石收藏结合起来，并进行额外的个案工作，以将这些材料存放在UCMP收藏室。剩下的材料，主要来自加利福尼亚州、俄勒冈州和华盛顿州，将被编目和放置，以便于进行科学研究，但由于校园空间的限制，仍将留在场外存储设施中。该奖项将对藏品进行彻底的物理重组，提供对这些独特标本的高效和有效的访问，提供一个完整的藏品计算机位置数据库，并增加研究团体对藏品数据的可用性。

This project will assist in the curation of a large, unique, and irreplaceable collection of fossil marine invertebrates recently transferred to the museum by the U.S. Geological Survey. The most significant part of this collection is the Alaskan and Arctic material, which includes the only fossil specimens ever collected from many regions of Alaska. The Menlo Park Collection is currently stored in an off-campus site, in considerable disorder due to the haste with which the collection was transferred and moved to the University of California Museum of Paleontology. As a result, research access is very difficult. The project will provide staff to catalog the collection, for movers to bring the Alaska and Arctic material to campus and integrate it with the UCMP fossil invertebrate collections, and for additional casework to accommodate this material in the UCMP collection room. The remaining material, primarily from California, Oregon and Washington, will be cataloged and placed in order to make it accessible for scientific study, but will remain in an off-site storage facility due to space limitations on campus. This award will provide a complete physical reorganization of the collection, provide efficient and effective access to these unique specimens, provide a complete computer locality database of the collection, and increase the availability of collection data to the research community.