Securing the collection of University of Montana's Zoological Museum

确保蒙大拿大学动物博物馆藏品的安全

• 批准号: 1561748
• 负责人: Jeffrey Good
• 金额: $ 49.99万
• 依托单位: University of Montana
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2016
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2016-09-01 至 2020-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1561748&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Securing; collection; University; Montana; Zoological

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).

在蒙大拿大学动物博物馆中安装的20,000多个生物标本将搬迁到新建的建筑物，博物馆级金属橱柜将取代过去一个世纪内积累的恶劣木材和金属橱柜。较大的空间，更有效的存储空间和更安全的橱柜将确保北部落基山脉最大的历史和现代哺乳动物和鸟类收藏之一的保存和未来增长。此举将与数据库的更新结合使用，使其与收集数据的国际标准兼容。因此，博物馆持有的所有标本的信息将被公众广泛获取。博物馆广泛的鸟类和哺乳动物的区域收藏提供了关于现代物种分布以及对景观变化的遗传反应的独特历史观点。这个实质性收藏的重新定位和数字化将为高中和本科生的生物学和博物馆科学提供培训和发现机会，包括针对来自蒙大拿州部落学院的四个学生的暑期实习。该项目将急需策展升级，以收集超过20,000多个现代天数的标本，该标本是Montana Zoological Memeum（Ummontana Zoological Memerum）（Ummontana Zoologial Memeum）（Ummontana Zoologial Memeum）的。作为来自蒙大拿州的现代脊椎动物标本，以及北部落基山脉北部最大的脊椎动物收藏中的最大收藏品，UMZM为研究，正规教育和外展提供了重要的材料来源。现任蒙大拿大学的教职员工正在积极利用这些收藏来研究各种问题生物学问题，但是，更广泛的可访问性，持续的标本保存以及未来的增长受到当前基础设施的严重限制。确保收集将通过将所有研究标本转移到档案空间中的新机柜中。这一举动还将导致可与样品一起使用的区域增加四倍。基于UM将收藏品积极地纳入本科教学和研究的基础，该项目将通过以季节性主题为中心的UMZM收藏品，培训K12教师的新展览，以帮助将生物多样性科学融入其课程中，并在其企业的课程中融入了来自地区部落学院的美国本土学生的UMZM实习。该项目的活动将在UMZM的新网站（HS.UMT.EDU/UMZM）上进行记录。新数据库将首次通过Vertnet和Arctos从UMZM收集中基于Web的umzm收集标本数据访问。 这些数据将与Idigbio（idigbio.org）共享并可以访问。