CSBR: Natural History: Enhancing paleontology collections in coordination with a new Burke Museum facility

CSBR：自然历史：与新的伯克博物馆设施协调加强古生物学收藏

• 批准号: 1756218
• 负责人: Christian Sidor
• 金额: $ 22.6万
• 依托单位: University of Washington
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2019-10-15 至 2020-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1756218&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CSBR; Natural; History; Enhancing; paleontology

An award is made to the University of Washington to support the Burke Museum paleontology collection. The Burke's paleontology collection includes approximately 3 million objects, but a substantial number of these are not easily accessible to the public or even to researchers and scholars because they are currently housed offsite at a variety of locations. A primary goal of this project will be to bring together all of these offsite collections into a new facility. The new Burke Museum building will maximize accessibility to the collections, as well as to provide the best environment, with modern temperature and humidity controls (not available at some of the current offsite facilities). In addition, the design of the new building features labs and collections facilities visible to the public as well as two classrooms, which will further enhance the accessibility of the paleontology collections to the general public and students at the University of Washington.The Burke Museum consolidation of three collections form three offsite storage facilities will offer increased safety for the fossils and enhanced accessibility and potential for research and instructional use. As currently housed, the paleontology collections are severely compressed and the space available for research-related growth is limited. Recent 5-year growth rates for the three main collections (invertebrate paleontology 3%, paleobotany 46%, and vertebrate paleontology 20%) demonstrate remarkable productivity from the ongoing research of the PIs, their students, and other Burke-associated researchers. Funds from this award will be used for storage equipment, primarily cabinets and open-shelving units, to assure sufficient space for continued productivity. As a university-based natural history museum, the Burke places great importance on training future paleontologists in a museum environment. Undergraduate and graduate students will be employed throughout the proposed collections improvement project, giving them greater insight into how collections are created, maintained, and used.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

华盛顿大学获得了一项奖项，以支持伯克博物馆的古生物学收藏。 伯克博物馆的古生物学藏品包括大约 300 万件物品，但其中很大一部分对于公众甚至研究人员和学者来说都不容易接触到，因为它们目前存放在不同地点。 该项目的主要目标是将所有这些异地藏品汇集到一个新设施中。 新的伯克博物馆大楼将最大限度地提高藏品的可及性，并提供最佳的环境，具有现代化的温度和湿度控制（目前的一些场外设施不具备）。 此外，新建筑的设计还设有公众可见的实验室和收藏设施以及两间教室，这将进一步提高公众和华盛顿大学学生对古生物学藏品的了解。伯克博物馆整合三个场外储存设施的三个藏品中的三个将提高化石的安全性，并增强研究和教学用途的可及性和潜力。 目前的古生物学藏品严重压缩，可用于研究相关增长的空间有限。 三个主要馆藏（无脊椎动物古生物学 3%、古植物学 46% 和脊椎动物古生物学 20%）最近 5 年的增长率表明，PI、他们的学生和其他伯克相关研究人员正在进行的研究具有显着的生产力。 该奖项的资金将用于存储设备，主要是橱柜和开放式货架单元，以确保有足够的空间来持续生产力。 作为一所以大学为基础的自然历史博物馆，伯克博物馆非常重视在博物馆环境中培养未来的古生物学家。 本科生和研究生将参与拟议的馆藏改进项目，让他们更深入地了解馆藏的创建、维护和使用方式。该奖项反映了 NSF 的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和评估进行评估，被认为值得支持。更广泛的影响审查标准。