RAPID: Cataloging and Returning to Alaska the NSF funded Tebenkof Bay Project.

Tebenkof湾项目是由美国国家科学基金会资助的，作为PI Herbert Maschner博士论文研究的一部分。这个项目导致了Maschner的博士论文（1992），直接促成了Ames和Maschner的书“西北海岸的人民（1999）”，并在（1991）出版了一个特别部分。这项研究的数据被用于16篇文章和章节，以及数十次会议演讲。作为该项目的一部分，收集了超过75箱米登遗骸，其中包括近10万根鱼骨。近年来，在古代DNA、稳定同位素、元素分析和渔业研究方面，许多新的科学研究计划都要求从这些收集品中提取样本。然而，为了充分利用这些新技术，馆藏需要有一个更新的目录和档案存储系统。该项目提供了对收集进行编目、创建元数据以方便访问、准备将收集返回阿拉斯加并存储在北方博物馆的支持，在那里科学家和感兴趣的阿拉斯加土著社区成员可以轻松访问数据。

The Tebenkof Bay Project was funded by the National Science Foundation as part of PI Herbert Maschner's dissertation research. The project resulted in Maschner's PhD dissertation (1992), contributed directly to Ames and Maschner's book "The Peoples of the Northwest Coast (1999)," and a special section published in (1991). Data from this research was used in 16 articles and chapters, and dozens of conference presentations. As part of this project, over 75 boxes of midden remains, including nearly 100,000 fish bones, were collected. In recent years a number of new science research initiatives in ancient DNA, stable isotopes, elemental analysis, and fisheries studies have requested samples from this collection. However, in order to be fully useful for these new techniques, the collection needs to have an updated catalog and archival storage system. This project provides support for cataloging the collection, creating the metadata to facilitate access, and preparing the collection to be returned to Alaska and stored at the Museum of the North where the data can be easily accessed by scientists and interested Alaska Native community members.