CSBR: Natural History Collections: Curatorial upgrade and database development of the former George Gray Museum

1994年，前乔治·m·格雷海洋生物实验室博物馆（伍兹霍尔，马萨诸塞州）的标本被转移到耶鲁大学皮博迪博物馆。这些资料包括由系统生态学计划（1962-1972）收集的大量新英格兰地区无脊椎动物。虽然安全地存放在博物馆的环境科学中心，但大部分藏品都没有编目，需要全面的策展升级。该材料包括20,000个流体保存的标本批次，并附有详细的收集数据。该项目的主要目标是对这些标本进行递归和电子编目，并将结果数据集通过互联网提供给全球科学家、教育工作者和学生。除了提升前格雷博物馆收藏的效用外，这个项目是一个机会，在完成策展任务时，向本科生助理介绍博物馆的最佳实践。此外，该项目的一个组成部分将是开发一个新英格兰无脊椎动物图片库；这些图像将补充该地区现有的识别手册。为了增进人们对博物馆藏品在研究生物多样性、生态学和进化方面的作用的了解，皮博迪博物馆将为科学教师举办一个讲习班；本次研讨会的主要标本资源将是本次拨款的主题。

In 1994 the specimens of the former George M. Gray Museum of the Marine Biological Laboratory (Woods Hole, MA) were transferred to the Yale Peabody Museum. Included in this material were the large collections of New England region invertebrates amassed by the Systematic Ecology Program (1962-1972). Although safely stored in the museum's Environmental Science Center, much of the collection is uncataloged and in need of complete curatorial upgrade. This material comprises 20,000 fluid-preserved specimen lots accompanied by detailed collection data. The primary goal of this project is to recurate and electronically catalog these specimens, with the resulting dataset made available via the internet to a global audience of scientists, educators, and students.In addition to upgrading the utility of the former Gray Museum collection, this project is an opportunity to introduce undergraduate student assistants to museum best practices as they complete the curatorial tasks. Furthermore, a component of this project will be to develop an image gallery of New England invertebrates; these images will supplement an existing identification manual for this region. To enhance understanding of the utility of museum collections for the study of biodiversity, ecology and evolution, a workshop for science teachers will be developed and hosted by the Peabody Museum; the primary specimen resource for this workshop will be the collections that are the subject of this grant.