Specimen cases for the University of Alaska Museum bird collection

在K博士的指导下，阿拉斯加大学获得了一笔赠款。温克为阿拉斯加大学博物馆鸟类收藏馆获得更多的标本。 由于阿拉斯加的面积和位置，它构成了一个独特的动物区系，包括北美和欧亚鸟类动物群和白令鸟动物群。在过去的五年中，阿拉斯加大学博物馆鸟类收藏品增加了近11，000个标本，这可能使UAM在鸟类收藏增长方面跻身北美前10名。目前的标本储存量已超过现有的案件空间。 增加20个标本箱将使这一重要的标本库能够按照标本采集标准进行存放和维护。这20个额外的箱子安装在收集和相应的重新安排鸟类收集在增加的箱子空间，从而提供了自然导致提高护理质量，可以保持收集。 UAM的每一个鸟类标本都提供了一个独特的快照-在时间和空间上-北美最西北部鸟类种群的一个方面的动态。 随着时间的推移，它们被证明具有多方面的重要性，包括现在才被问到的问题，例如阿拉斯加不同鸟类物种对北极气候变化的立即和不同的反应;变化的食物网中稳定同位素比的测量;以及高纬度地区重金属污染物水平的量化。这些标本已经证明对科学很有价值，毫无疑问，在未来对尚未提出的问题将继续具有巨大价值。

A grant has been awarded to the University of Alaska under the direction of Dr. K. Winker to obtain additional specimen cases for the University of Alaska Museum Bird Collection. Because of Alaska's size and location, it constitutes a unique faunal region that includes components from both the North American and Eurasian bird faunas and a Beringian bird fauna. Over the past five years the University of Alaska Museum Bird Collection has grown by almost 11,000 specimens which probably places UAM among the top 10 institutions in North America in terms of bird collection growth. The current specimen holdings now exceed existing case space. Twenty additional specimen cases will allow this important collection to be housed and maintained according to collection standards. The installation of these 20 additional cases in the Collection and concomitant rearrangement of the Bird Collection in the increased case space thus made available lead naturally to an enhancement of the quality of care with which the collection can be maintained. Every bird specimen at UAM provides a unique snapshot--both in time and in space--of the dynamics of a facet of the bird populations of northwesternmost North America. The manifold ways in which they prove to be of importance over time include questions only now being asked, such as the immediate and varied responses of different species of birds in Alaska to climate change in the Arctic; measurements of stable isotope ratios in changing food webs; and quantification of heavy-metal contaminant levels at high latitudes. These specimens, already proving valuable to science, will without doubt continue to be of great value in the future in relation to questions not yet posed.