Curation of Fluid Preserved Vertebrates and Invertebrates - A Collaborative Proposal from the Museum of Wildlife and Fish Biology and the Bohart Museum of Entomology.

野生动物和鱼类生物学博物馆和Bohart昆虫学博物馆（均位于加州大学戴维斯分校）已从NSF生物研究收藏资助计划中获得495，535美元。 这笔赠款将资助他们所持有的酒精保存标本的管理需求？近三万五千种脊椎动物和二十万种昆虫 它将通过改进标本的保存、储存、盘存（采用新的条形码系统）和数据库来协助它们。 两个博物馆将协同工作，以减少重复工作，提高效率。目标是提高标本的管理标准、安全性和可访问性。由于他们的创新计划，这些博物馆已成为加州（和全国）的宝贵资源，藏品的使用和服务也相应地得到了发展。 除了博物馆标本的更传统的用途，他们提供更广泛的服务，包括：为机构和私人生物学家提供物种鉴定研讨会;教育学生在加州大学戴维斯分校（他们支持校园34门课程，每年达到1,900多名学生）;并支持K-12学生和教师团体的图尔斯之旅。 每年有超过10，000人参观他们的收藏品，其中89%是普通公众。 由于更广泛的使用，标本需要高水平的策展和维护。 研究人员的查阅请求保持稳定，平均每年有10份出版物是利用他们的馆藏。

The Museum of Wildlife and Fish Biology and Bohart Museum of Entomology, (both of the University of California, Davis) have been awarded $495,535 from the NSF Biological Research Collections Grant Program. This grant will fund curation needs for the alcohol preserved specimens in their holdings ? nearly 35,000 vertebrates and 200,000 insects. It will assist them by improving specimen preservation, storage, inventory (with new bar-coding system), and databasing. The two museums will work collaboratively in order to reduce duplicative efforts and improve efficiency. Objectives are to improve curation standards, safety, and accessibility to specimens.Due to their innovative programs, these museums have become valued resources in California (and nationally) and collection use and services have correspondingly advanced. In addition to more traditional uses of museum specimens, they provide broader services including: providing species identification workshops for agency and private biologists; educating students at UC Davis (they support 34 courses on campus reaching over 1,900 students annually); and supporting tours of K-12 students and teachers groups. Combined, their collections are visited by over 10,000 persons each year of which 89% are members of the general public. As a result of broader use, the specimens require a high level of curation and maintenance. Requests for access by researchers remains steady, with an average of 10 publications annually produced using their holdings.