Infrastructure improvements to support invertebrate research at The Field Museum

该奖项是根据2009年美国复苏和再投资法案（公法111-5）资助的。该项目涉及菲尔德自然历史博物馆（FMNH）内无脊椎动物研究领域的翻新。 翻修后的无脊椎动物研究设施将支持由个人、团体和团队进行的无脊椎动物生物多样性、进化、系统发育和保护研究以及研究培训。 该博物馆是世界上最大的自然历史博物馆之一，也是世界上最大的博物馆之一。它是一个非营利的独立研究博物馆，积累和传播有关地球生物和文化多样性的知识。博物馆的研究方面支持终身教职/终身教职员工，常驻研究生和博士后研究员以及国家和国际相关研究人员的调查。 博物馆拥有世界著名的人类学、动物学、植物学和地质学领域的研究藏品。博物馆提供研究标本，可借给世界上任何国家与学术机构有关的任何真正的研究人员。 拟议的翻修将有助于利用数百万无脊椎动物标本进行无脊椎动物学、进化生物学、系统发育分析和保护生物学方面的研究和研究培训，这些研究和培训由菲尔德博物馆和外部机构的科学家进行。 基础设施的改善将提高研究项目的效率，涉及项目的高级人员，他们的学生，博士后和其他合作者。共享的集中设施将促进研究小组之间的合作和技术与思想的交流。 学员将接触到各种研究以及国家的最先进的设备和方法进行形态分析。 翻修将提高博物馆容纳和培训某些残疾人的能力。 这次翻修还将促进FMNH的免费互联网访问的收藏数据库的继续扩展，这有助于使其标本库可用于世界各地的研究，教育和保护活动。

This award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). This project involves the renovation of invertebrate research areas within the Field Museum of Natural History (FMNH). The renovated Invertebrate Research Facility will support invertebrate biodiversity, evolutionary, phylogenetic, and conservation research and research training conducted by individuals, groups and teams. The renovated facility will consist of an area designated the Collaborative Invertebrate Laboratories, an area designated the Insect Systematics and Training Unit, and an area that will be the Molluscan and Marine Invertebrate Units.The Field Museum is one of the largest natural history museums in the world. It is a not-for-profit independent research museum which accumulates and disseminates knowledge about the Earth's biological and cultural diversity. The research side of the museum supports investigations by a tenured/tenure-track faculty, resident graduate students and postdoctoral fellows, and national and international associated researchers. The Museum maintains world-renowned research collections in the fields of Anthropology, Zoology, Botany, and Geology. The Museum makes research specimens available on loan to any bona fide researcher associated with an academic institution in any country of the world. The proposed renovations will facilitate the use of several million invertebrate specimens in research and research training in invertebrate zoology, evolutionary biology, phylogenetic analysis, and conservation biology carried out by scientists from both the Field Museum and external institutions. The infrastructure improvements will increase the efficiency of research projects involving the project's senior personnel, their students, post-docs, and other collaborators. The shared, centralized facility will promote collaborations and the exchange of techniques and ideas across research groups. Trainees will be exposed to a variety of research as well as to state-of-the-art equipment and methods for morphological analysis. The renovations will improve the Museum's capacity to accommodate and train individuals with certain kinds of disabilities. The renovation will also facilitate the continuation of the expansion of FMNH's freely internet-accessible collection databases, which help to make its specimen holdings available for research, educational, and conservation activities around the world.