CSBR: Ownership Transfer: Transfer of Orphaned Kettleman Hills Collection from San Francisco State University to the University of California Museum of Paleontology

CSBR：所有权转让：将孤儿凯特尔曼山收藏品从旧金山州立大学转让给加州大学古生物学博物馆

• 批准号: 1561759
• 负责人: Lisa White
• 金额: $ 10.83万
• 依托单位: University of California-Berkeley
• 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 2018-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1561759&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CSBR; Ownership; Transfer; Orphaned; Kettleman

Paleontology collections represent a rare, irreplaceable resource for understanding Earth history. The University of California Museum of Paleontology (UCMP) has one of the largest and most actively used fossil collections in the country. This project secures a unique and endangered collection of two to five million year old marine invertebrate and rare marine and land vertebrate fossils by transferring them from San Francisco State University (SFSU) to UCMP where the specimens will be curated and digitally cataloged, preserving the data for future generations. Students and faculty at San Francisco State University over the course of 40 years collected these fossils with precise, high quality geographic and geologic information from multiple geologic formations from the Kettleman Hills of Central California. The collection has been virtually unknown to the scientific community and it contains more than 100 genera and 200 species of bivalve and gastropod mollusks, and fewer varieties of echinoids, bryozoans, corals, and brachiopods, with rarer fish, reptiles, and marine and terrestrial mammals. In addition to providing web-accessible digital specimen records, the data and images of fossils from the collection will be incorporated into education modules and virtual field trips posted on UCMP websites and the project will provide important training opportunities for graduate and undergraduate students.The focus of the project is the physical transfer, rehousing, and digital cataloging of a unique, endangered collection of Pliocene-Pleistocene-aged fossils from the Etchegoin, San Joaquin, and Tulare formations in the Kettleman Hills of Central California. The Pliocene-Pleistocene marine fossil record in California records important global environmental and sea level changes and specific drivers operating over the last five million years include climate, glacial-interglacial cycles, and local plate tectonic movements. Fossils of this age and related faunas are the subject of ongoing study by researchers who actively use UCMP collections. The effort will, for the first time, enable researchers to make use of this irreplaceable collection by providing physical access to the fossils and electronic access to the accompanying locality data. Results of the project will be accessible online (www.ucmp.berkeley.edu) and digitized collections data and images will be shared via iDigBio (www.idigbio.org) and the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (www.gbif.org).

古生物学藏品是了解地球历史的稀有且不可替代的资源。加州大学古生物学博物馆 (UCMP) 拥有美国最大、使用最活跃的化石收藏之一。该项目将独特且濒临灭绝的 2 至 500 万年前的海洋无脊椎动物以及稀有的海洋和陆地脊椎动物化石从旧金山州立大学 (SFSU) 转移到 UCMP，在那里对标本进行整理和数字编目，保存数据为了子孙后代。旧金山州立大学的学生和教师在 40 年的时间里从加州中部凯特尔曼山的多个地质构造中收集了这些化石，并提供了精确、高质量的地理和地质信息。该收藏品实际上不为科学界所知，其中包含 100 多个属和 200 种双壳类和腹足类软体动物，以及少量的海胆类、苔藓虫类、珊瑚和腕足类动物，以及较稀有的鱼类、爬行动物以及海洋和陆地哺乳动物。 除了提供可通过网络访问的数字标本记录外，收集的化石数据和图像还将被纳入 UCMP 网站上发布的教育模块和虚拟实地考察中，该项目将为研究生和本科生提供重要的培训机会。该项目的主要内容是对来自 Kettleman 的 Etchegoin、San Joaquin 和 Tulare 地层的独特、濒临灭绝的上新世-更新世化石收藏进行物理转移、重新安置和数字编目加利福尼亚州中部的山丘。加利福尼亚州的上新世-更新世海洋化石记录记录了重要的全球环境和海平面变化以及过去五百万年的具体驱动因素，包括气候、冰川-间冰期循环和当地板块构造运动。这个时代的化石和相关动物群是积极使用 UCMP 收藏的研究人员持续研究的主题。这项工作将首次使研究人员能够通过提供对化石的物理访问和对随附的地点数据的电子访问来利用这一不可替代的收藏。该项目的结果将可在线获取（www.ucmp.berkeley.edu），数字化馆藏数据和图像将通过 iDigBio（www.idigbio.org）和全球生物多样性信息设施（www.gbif.org）共享。