San Diego Natural History Museum

The San Diego Natural History Museum will continue work to revitalize its unique, but underutilized and imperiled marine invertebrates collection by improving the accessibility and integrity of its fluid-preserved collection of crustaceans, annelids and soft-bodied mollusks. A full-time entomology project manager will be hired to lead a team of volunteers through the project activities of collating and digitizing the various specimen catalogs into a central database for online collection access; inventorying the collection; and performing metadata-guided collection rehousing and reorganization. Upon completion of the project, the museum will have an accurate online database available for researchers, and the specimens will be safely housed in climate-controlled storage.