Support for the Bird Division Collections at The University of Michigan Museum of Zoology

项目摘要在D.Mindell博士的指导下，密歇根大学安娜堡分校获得了一笔赠款，用于支持动物博物馆鸟类部门(UMMZ-BD)的研究和教学收藏品。UMMZ-BD禽类研究收藏包括超过203,500个标本，分为六种制备类型(皮肤、骨骼、液体、蛋、巢和冷冻组织)。仅研究皮肤标本一项就包括约17.16万个样本。UMMZ-BD是与大型研究型大学有关的两到三个最大和最全面的收藏之一，该大学拥有积极和富有成效的研究生培训计划，在系统生物学和生物多样性方面。鸟类学收藏以其出色的分类学和地理覆盖率而闻名，包括来自世界相对偏远地区的许多罕见物种，许多物种的大量地理序列，以及其316个全型(用于描述新物种的个体标本)。目的是(1)购买新的标本箱，以取代在20世纪20年代至40年代建造的旧标本箱，这些箱不能提供足够的昆虫保护，以及(2)聘请博物馆助理帮助移动和转移标本到新箱中。新的、更高的箱子加上额外的抽屉，也将更有效地利用密歇根大学中心校区鲁斯文博物馆大楼的现有空间。这将有助于缓解目前抽屉里标本拥挤的状况，并促进未来收藏品的增长。该大学将购买大约137个带抽屉的新双盒和79个带抽屉的新单盒，以及抽屉所需的无酸吸墨纸和托盘。将雇用一名馆长助理，为期14个月，协助将标本从旧案件转移到新案件。鲁斯文博物馆大楼的一个集结区将被用来搬出旧箱子，并在增加的基础上接收新箱子的发货。国家科学基金会提供的资金将得到密歇根大学的大量配套资金的补充，包括支持购买新病例和改善UMMZ-BD的物理设施(空调)。该项目对促进知识和科学发展的潜在影响可以描述如下。保持UMMZ-BD广泛的鸟类收藏，并将其广泛提供给科学、教育和资源管理社区以及公众，将加强未来在鸟类系统学(分子和形态)、进化以及生态学和保护领域的研究和教学，供国内和国际上对这些方面的生物多样性研究感兴趣的所有科学家和学生使用。藏品维护对于完成UMMZ-BD的研究和教学任务也至关重要。

PROJECT ABSTRACT A grant has been awarded to the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor under the direction of Dr. D. Mindell to support the research and teaching collections in the Museum of Zoology Bird Division (UMMZ-BD). The UMMZ-BD avian research collections include over 203,500 specimens, divided among six preparation types (skins, skeletons, fluids, eggs, nests, and frozen tissues). The study skin collection alone includes about 171,600 specimens. The UMMZ-BD is one of the two or three largest and most comprehensive collections to be associated with a major research university having an active and productive graduate student training program in systematic biology and biodiversity. The ornithological collections are notable for their excellent taxonomic and geographic coverage, including many uncommon species from relatively remote areas of the world, for the large number of geographic series for many species, and for its 316 holotypes (individual specimens used to describe new species). The objectives are (1) to purchase new specimen cases to replace old ones, constructed during the 1920s through the 1940s, which do not provide sufficient protection from insects, and (2) to employ a Curatorial Assistant to help move and transfer specimens to the new cases. New, taller cases with additional drawers, will also make more efficient use of existing space in the Ruthven Museums Building on central campus at the University of Michigan. This will help to alleviate current crowding of specimens in drawers and facilitate future growth of the collections. The university will purchase approximately 137 new double cases with drawers and 79 new single cases with drawers along with the necessary acid-free blotting paper and trays for the drawers. A Curatorial Assistant will be hired for 14 months to assist in transferring specimens from the old to the new cases. A staging area in the Ruthven Museums Building will be used to move out old cases and receive shipments of new cases on an incremental basis. Funds provided by the National Science Foundation will be augmented by significant matching funds from the University of Michigan, including support toward the purchase of new cases and for physical facilities improvement (air conditioning) in the UMMZ-BD. The potential impact of the project on advancing knowledge and science may be described as follows. Maintaining the extensive UMMZ-BD avian collections and making them broadly available to the scientific, educational, and resource management communities and to the public will enhance future research and teaching in the areas of avian systematics (molecular and morphological), evolution, as well as ecology and conservation for all scientists and students, nationally and internationally, interested in these aspects of biodiversity research. Collections maintenance is also vital in fulfilling the UMMZ-BD's research and teaching missions.