Integration and Enhancement of the Antarctic Collection at the Museum of Texas Tech University

德克萨斯理工大学博物馆南极藏品的整合和增强

• 批准号: 0126095
• 负责人: Sankar Chatterjee
• 金额: $ 12.5万
• 依托单位: Texas Tech University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2002
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2002-06-15 至 2006-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0126095&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Integration; Enhancement; Antarctic; Collection; Museum

This award, provided by the Antarctic Geology and Geophysics Program of the Office of Polar Programs, provides funds for the unification and upgrading of its Antarctic collection; its proper storage and curation; development of an electronic database; and network access. This award will support a collection manager for two years, installing modern, archival-quality steel cabinets, and rehousing, conserving, and barcoding the entire collection. These changes will vastly increase the availability and research potential of a significant and unique Antarctic collection, and they will help to preserve a rich cultural, historical, and scientific legacy. The Antarctic collection constitutes one of the best repositories of archival, geological and paleontological holdings in the nation. The archival collection was amassed over a fifty-year span and contains maps and rare books in addition to Antarctic research samples. The comprehensive igneous and metamorphic rock collection gathered from the orogenic belts of Queen Maud Range, Marie Byrd Land, and Ellsworth Land is important for understanding the paleotectonic evolution of the Transantarctic Mountains and West Antarctica. The paleontological collection includes exquisite plant fossils from the Allan Hills, which indicate a Gondwanian heritage for Antarctica. Several holotypes of Cretaceous vertebrates from Seymour Island, including Polarornis, the oldest known Antarctic bird, provide additional evidence for high latitude heterochroneity.

该奖项由《极地计划办公室》的南极地质与地球物理学计划提供，为统一和升级其南极收藏提供了资金；其适当的存储和策划；电子数据库的开发；和网络访问。该奖项将为两年的收藏经理提供支持，安装现代档案质量的钢柜，并重新设置，保护和对整个收藏品进行条形码。这些变化将大大提高重大和独特的南极收藏的可用性和研究潜力，它们将有助于保留丰富的文化，历史和科学遗产。南极藏品构成了全国档案，地质和古生物学持有的最佳存储库之一。该档案收藏在五十年的时间内积累了，除南极研究样品外，还包含地图和稀有书籍。从女王莫德山脉，玛丽·伯德（Marie Byrd Land）和埃尔斯沃思（Ellsworth Land）的造山带收集的全面的火成岩和变质岩石收集对于理解跨北极山脉和南极洲西部的古遗传演化非常重要。古生物学系列包括来自艾伦山（Allan Hills）的精美植物化石，这表明冈瓦尼亚（Gondwanian）的遗产是南极洲的遗产。来自西摩岛（Seymour Island）的白垩纪脊椎动物的几种整型，包括最古老的南极鸟类，提供了高纬度杂音性的其他证据。