Improvements to the USM/GCRL Ichthyological Collections

在Jacob Schaefer博士的指导下，向南密西西比大学(USM)颁发了一个奖项，以整合该大学和墨西哥湾沿岸研究实验室的两个鱼类收藏，以便改善这些收藏的管理和存储。这些收藏品被用于美国东南部的生物多样性和保护研究，在USM的教育项目中也很重要。来自密西西比河的鱼类标本在收藏中有很好的代表性，以及来自美国、墨西哥和世界其他地区海洋生物栖息地的标本。大约68,000件储存在酒瓶中的藏品将被重新安置到一个翻新的存储空间中的新的紧凑型货架上。罐子里的标签包含有价值的收集数据，这些数据将被复制并替换为更耐用的标签。此外，标本的地理数据将以数字格式获取，并在网上向广大研究人员提供。这些藏品用于本科生教育项目，以及面向K-12学校和访问团体的外展项目。这笔资金将通过研究生的参与来扩大这些项目。USM有大量的非裔美国人和其他少数族裔学生，该项目的调查人员将继续他们的计划，将这些学生招募到研究项目中。

An award has been made to the University of Southern Mississippi (USM) under the direction of Dr. Jacob Schaefer to consolidate two collections of fish from the university and from the Gulf Coast Research Laboratory so that curation and housing for the collections can be improved. This collection is used in research on biodiversity and conservation in the southeastern United States and is important in education programs at USM. Specimens of fish from the Mississippi River are well represented in the collections as well as specimens from marine habitats of the U.S., Mexico, and other areas worldwide. Approximately 68,000 collections lots stored in jars in alcohol will be relocated to new compact shelving in a renovated storage space. Labels in the jars contain valuable collection data, which will be copied and replaced with more durable tags. In addition, the geographical data for specimens will be captured in digital format and made available online to a broad community of researchers. The collections are used in undergraduate education programs and in outreach programs to K-12 schools and visiting groups. This funding will expand these programs through the participation of graduate students. The USM has a significant population of African American and other minority students, and the investigators for this project will continue their programs to recruit these students into research projects.