Grant for Collaborative Research: Shaping Evolutionary Biology in Berkeley's Museum of Vertebrate Zoology

合作研究资助：塑造伯克利脊椎动物博物馆的进化生物学

• 批准号: 0823401
• 负责人: Cathryn Carson
• 金额: $ 33.28万
• 依托单位: University of California-Berkeley
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2008-10-01 至 2012-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0823401&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Grant; Collaborative; Research; Shaping; Evolutionary; Grant; Collaborative; Research; Shaping; Evolutionary

This is a collaborative research project on the shaping of ecological and evolutionary biology at Berkeley's Museum of Vertebrate Zoology. The project examines the organizational structures and theoretical commitments guiding MVZ's development across the 20th century. It aims to show how MVZ's continuity in program provided a broad platform for technical and institutional change. Initiated by its first director, Joseph Grinnell, and guided by concerns about ongoing changes in native fauna and their environment, MVZ's research on vertebrates was integrated from the start with the practice of collecting specimens with diverse associated data. MVZ built on Grinnell's vision to achieve special strengths in biodiversity informatics and long-term comparative bio-geographical, ecological, and evolutionary studies, while bringing new concerns and techniques on board. The museum thus provides a window into the reconfiguration of natural history over a century of profound change. The project documents, analyzes, and makes public MVZ's history from the Grinnell era forward. It characterizes the museum as an organization initially built around a single research program. It then shows how its theories, descriptions, and procedures proved both robust and flexible as circumstances changed. The project treats the museum as a system of arrangements for studying the changing spatial distributions of populations, evolution at the species and subspecies level, and the relation of species to their varying environments.The project addresses cutting-edge themes in the history, philosophy, and sociology of science, as well as contemporary biology, integrating organizational considerations with theory construction with large-scale historical change. MVZ offers a window onto the simultaneous intellectual, organizational, and material transformations in twentieth-century American biology that are hard to grasp in the terms of a single discipline. It provides a way to track some of the complexities of evolutionary and ecological science with a high level of detail at a manageable scale. The research team's core consists of an historian, a philosopher, a biologist, and a sociologist with each having recognized expertise in the respective area of study of the biological sciences. The team also includes a research associate, the MVZ archivist, and graduate and undergraduate students, many of whom have worked on early stages of the project. The primary methodology is archival research in MVZ and other collections, with the MVZ's directors and curators forming the backbone of the account. Other sources will also be integrated. The project will produce a book, multiple scholarly articles, and a web exhibit.The team will disseminate its research results through print and web publication, and through conference presentations. It will also do so by effectively leveraging MVZ's centennial celebration. In addition to contributing to the research element of the project, the team members will promotes teaching, training, and learning at the graduate and undergraduate levels. Finally, the results of this project will serve to make MVZ into an unmatched site for reflection on the significance of the past for the present and future of university-based natural history museums. It will do so by showing MVZ to be a place where professionals and amateurs, researchers and students, and academic scientists and conservationists interacted. It will reveal connections among the vision of the museum's scientific personnel and the practices of MVZ students and staff, new ways of thinking in evolutionary biology, and concerns about disappearing native fauna shared among scientists, conservationists, hobbyists, policymakers, and other actors.Funds for this project were provided by a joint venture of the BIO and SBE directorates known as "Impacts of Biology on Society," which is administered via the STS program.

这是一项关于伯克利脊椎动物动物学博物馆生态和进化生物学塑造的合作研究项目。该项目探讨了组织结构和理论承诺指导MVZ在20世纪的发展。它旨在展示MVZ在计划中的连续性如何为技术和机构变革提供广泛的平台。由其第一任主任约瑟夫·格林内尔（Joseph Grinnell）发起，并在对本地动物群体及其环境中持续变化的担忧下进行了指导，MVZ对脊椎动物的研究从一开始就与收集具有不同相关数据的标本的实践相结合。 MVZ建立在Grinnell的愿景基础上，即在生物多样性信息学和长期比较生物地理，生态和进化研究中获得特殊优势，同时将新的关注和技术带入船上。因此，博物馆为重新建立自然历史的重新建立了一个世纪以来的深刻变化。该项目文件，分析并从Grinnell时代开始公开MVZ的历史。它将博物馆描述为最初围绕单个研究计划建立的组织。然后，它显示了它的理论，描述和程序如何随着环境的变化而证明既健壮又灵活。该项目将博物馆视为研究人群的空间分布，物种和亚种水平的进化以及物种与其不同环境之间的关系的变化系统。该项目涉及历史，哲学和社会学社会学中的尖端主题，与科学的社会学和社会学相关，并与大型的组织结构相结合。 MVZ为20世纪的美国生物学提供了一个同时智力，组织和物质转变的窗口，这些窗口很难以一门学科的方式掌握。它提供了一种方法，可以在可管理的规模上以高度细节来跟踪进化和生态科学的某些复杂性。研究小组的核心由一位历史学家，哲学家，一名生物学家和社会学家组成，每个人都在各个生物科学研究领域都认可了专业知识。该团队还包括一名研究助理，MVZ档案管理员以及研究生和本科生，其中许多人在项目的早期阶段工作。主要方法论是MVZ和其他收藏中的档案研究，MVZ的董事和策展人构成了帐户的骨干。其他来源也将集成。该项目将制作一本书，多个学术文章和网络展览。该团队将通过印刷和网络出版物以及会议演讲来传播其研究结果。它也将通过有效利用MVZ的百年庆典来做到这一点。除了为项目的研究元素做出贡献外，团队成员还将在研究生和本科阶段促进教学，培训和学习。最后，该项目的结果将使MVZ成为一个无与伦比的站点，以反思过去对基于大学自然历史博物馆的当前和未来的重要性。它将通过显示MVZ成为专业人士，业余爱好者，研究人员和学生以及学术科学家和保护主义者进行互动的地方来做到这一点。它将揭示博物馆科学人员的愿景与MVZ学生和教职员工的实践，进化生物学的新思维方式，以及对消失的本地动物群在科学家，保护主义者，保管主义者，业余爱好者，政策制定者和其他参与者中分享的本地动物的关注，这些项目是由众所周知的“ IS ISSISTRON”的“ IS ISSISTRON”的“ IS ISSIRDENT”所提供的。 程序。