Securing the collection of University of Montana's Zoological Museum

蒙大拿大学动物博物馆收藏的2万多件生物标本将被搬迁到一座新建的建筑中，博物馆级的金属橱柜将取代过去世纪积累的日益恶化的木材和金属橱柜。更大的空间，更有效的存储和更安全的橱柜将确保保存和未来的增长之一的历史和现代哺乳动物和鸟类在北方落基山脉的最大集合。此举将与更新数据库相结合，使其符合收集数据的国际标准。因此，博物馆所有标本的信息将广泛向公众开放。博物馆广泛的鸟类和哺乳动物区域收藏提供了一个独特的历史视角，现代物种分布和遗传对景观变化的反应。这一大量藏品的搬迁和数字化将为高中和本科生提供生物学和博物馆科学方面的培训和发现机会，包括蒙大拿州部落学院四名学生的暑期实习。该项目将为蒙大拿大学动物博物馆（UMZM）的20，000多件现代脊椎动物标本的收藏提供急需的策展升级。作为蒙大拿州最大的现代陆地脊椎动物标本收藏馆，以及北方落基山脉最大的脊椎动物收藏馆之一，UMZM为研究，正规教育和推广提供了重要的材料来源。目前蒙大拿大学的教师正在积极利用这些藏品来研究各种生物学问题，然而，目前的基础设施严重限制了更广泛的可访问性，持续的标本保存和未来增长的潜力。通过将所有研究标本转移到档案空间的新橱柜中来保护藏品。这一举措还将导致可用于处理标本的面积增加四倍。在UM将收藏品积极纳入本科教学和研究的基础上，该项目将通过以季节性主题为中心的UMZM收藏品的新展览增加对当地公众的宣传，培训K12教师以帮助将生物多样性科学纳入他们的课程，并指导来自区域部落学院的美洲原住民学生在UMZM实习。该项目的活动将记录在UMZM的新网站（hs.umt.edu/UMZM）。新的数据库将首次允许学术和其他研究人员通过VertNet和Arctos访问UMZM收藏的标本数据。 这些数据将与iDigBio（idigbio.org）共享并可供访问。

More than 20,000 biological specimens housed at the University of Montana Zoological Museum will be relocated to a newly constructed building where museum grade metal cabinetry will replace deteriorating wood-and-metal cabinets accumulated over the past century. The larger space, more efficient storage and more secure cabinetry will ensure the preservation and future growth of one of the largest collections of historical and modern mammals and birds in the Northern Rockies. The move will be combined with an update to the database, making it compatible with international standards for collections data. Thus, information from all specimens held by the Museum will become broadly accessible to the general public. The Museum's extensive regional collection of birds and mammals provides a unique historical perspective on modern species distributions and genetic responses to landscape changes. The relocation and digitization of this substantial collection will provide training and discovery opportunities in biology and museum science for high school and undergraduate students, including summer internships for four students from Montana tribal colleges.The project will provide urgently needed curatorial upgrades to the collection of more than 20,000 specimens of modern-day vertebrates at the University of Montana Zoological Museum (UMZM). As the largest collection of modern land vertebrate specimens from Montana, and among the largest such vertebrate collections in the northern Rocky Mountains, the UMZM provides an important source of materials for research, formal education, and outreach. Current University of Montana faculty are actively using the collections to study diverse questions biological questions, however, the potential for broader accessibility, ongoing specimen preservation, and future growth is severely limited by current infrastructure. Securing the collection will occur via transfer of all research specimens to new cabinets in an archival space. This move will also result in a fourfold increase of the area available to work with the specimens. Building on UM's active incorporation of the collections into undergraduate teaching and research, this project will increase outreach to the local public by new exhibits of UMZM collections centered on seasonal themes, training of K12 teachers to help incorporate biodiversity science into their curricula, and mentored internships at the UMZM of Native American students from regional tribal colleges. The project's activities will be documented at the UMZM's new website (hs.umt.edu/UMZM). The new database will, for the first time, allow web-based access to specimen data from the UMZM collections for academic and other researchers via VertNet and Arctos. These data will be shared with and made accessible with iDigBio (idigbio.org).