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S c r i p p S i n S t i t u t i o n o f o c e a n o g r a p h y University of California, san Diego
The Scripps OceanOgraphic cOllecTiOnS
At a time when our planet’s biodiversity is increasingly threatened, documenting and understanding the diversity of marine life and our changing Earth is more important than ever.
The Scripps Oceanographic Collections, the largest and most comprehensive set of university-based oceanographic collections in the world, are invaluable tools to understand the changes taking place on our planet, to predict future changes, and to develop new approaches to address them.
The Scripps OceanOgraphic
cOllecTiOnSPrivate support is crucial for maintain-ing the integrity and accessibility of the Scripps Oceanographic Collections.
It would take more than $1 billion and tens of thousands of hours to replace the sheer volume of material in the Scripps Collections, but their value is far greater. They are, in fact, priceless, because they capture snapshots in time of the ocean’s history.
Friends oF the ColleCtionsFor an annual contribution of $1,000 or more, you can become a Friend of the Collections and help sustain collections operating costs. Benefits include opportunities for collections tours, unlimited admission to Birch Aquarium at Scripps, and invitations to behind-the-scenes events at Scripps.
sponsor the ColleCtionsAnnual sponsorships range from $25,000 to be a lead sponsor to $2,500 to sponsor specific categories of holdings such as California fish, mollusks, sediment cores, or deep-sea plankton. Benefits include prominent listing on a plaque within the collections, oppor tunities for collections tours, and membership in Friends of the Collections.
name a speCies Every year collections staff and researchers discover new species of marine creatures. The cost to name one of Scripps’s newly discovered creatures ranges from $5,000 to $50,000. Donors who name a species will receive a framed print of their named organism, as well as a copy of the scientific publication in which it is first described.
How You Can Help
For More Information:
ScrippS Development office
Phone: 858-822-1865
Email: [email protected]
Web: supportscripps.ucsd.edu/Collections
An Irreplaceable Record of Life
on Earth
You can make a difference
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The Scripps OCEANOGRAPHIC
COLLECTIONS
Students and scientists at Scripps
and researchers from around the
world use the extensive resources of
the Scripps Oceanographic Collections
to address critical questions in marine
biodiversity and ecology, fi sheries
biology, Earth history, ocean pollution,
and the effects of climate change.
The Scripps Oceanographic Collections
contain some of the world’s most
important “libraries” of marine life
specimens and rock and sediment
samples. Collectively, they tell a unique
and evolving story of life on Earth, and
help provide answers to questions
about our planet’s future.
MARINE VERTEBRATES
2 million fi shes Ocean creatures with a backbone; includes more than 5,500 species of fi sh including the world’s largest collection of deep-sea fi shes.
BENTHIC INVERTEBRATES
750,000 specimensMarine organisms with no backbone that live on the seafl oor; includes crabs, mussels, lobsters, clams, urchins, sponges, as well as the world’s fi nest barnacle collection.
CORED SEDIMENTS AND
MICROFOSSILS
6,600 cores spanning 75 million yearsSamples from the ocean fl oor; includes the organic and inorganic particles that form sediments and fossils.
DREDGED ROCKS
3 million pounds of oceanic rocksRocks gathered from the fl oor of the world’s oceans that document the formation and evolution of ocean basins, including rocks from the world’s
deepest dive.
What are they?THE SCRIPPS OCEANOGRAPHIC
COLLECTIONS INCLUDE MILLIONS
OF SPECIMENS DIVIDED INTO
THESE FIVE CATEGORIES:
PELAGIC INVERTEBRATES
100 million specimensOrganisms that live suspended in open ocean waters; primarily small zooplankton, plus squid, jellyfi sh, and krill; many collected from one of the longest on-going surveys of marine ecosystems in the world.
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Looking to the future, new
technologies such as digitization and
DNA analysis are making the Scripps
Oceanographic Collections even more
valuable. Already Scripps’s Digital Fish
Library enables scientists around the
world to perform virtual dissections
of specimens without damaging them.
Also, the Collections are employing
tools and methods that are helping to
revolutionize our understanding of
species diversity through
genetic analysis of
DNA samples.