University of Wyoming Museum of Vertebrates (UWYMV) Bird Collection (Arctos)

Matthew Carling; Elizabeth Wommack

doi:10.15468/4l5x9m

University of Wyoming Museum of Vertebrates (UWYMV) Bird Collection (Arctos)

Citation

Carling M, Wommack E (2024). University of Wyoming Museum of Vertebrates (UWYMV) Bird Collection (Arctos). Version 30.92. University of Wyoming Museum of Vertebrates. Occurrence dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/4l5x9m accessed via GBIF.org on 2024-12-14.

Description

The UWYMV Bird Collection is housed in the Robert and Carol Berry Biodiversity Conservation Center on the campus of the University of Wyoming. It is a part of the Department of Zoology and Physiology. The collection was started in 1894 and Wilbur C. Knight, the state geologist, was appointed as the first curator. The museum's mission was to document and describe Wyoming's avian biodiversity. There was a brief period of active collecting by Knight and Charles W. Gilmore in 1897 and 1898. This was followed by a period of inactivity until the arrival of Ernest Pilsbury Walker as an undergraduate. He collected specimens around the southeastern part of the state from 1910 through 1912. He also contributed his personal collection from Sheridan, Indiana. Beyond sporadic trading and salvaging, the collection has been mostly inactive for the past 100 years until Matt Carling was hired as curator and James Maley was hired as collections manager. The collection was moved into the Berry Center and organized, and it is now undergoing rapid expansion.

Purpose

The mission of the University of Wyoming Museum of Vertebrates is to document and understand regional and global biodiversity through the acquisition and investigation of collections made by museum faculty, staff, and students to advance academic knowledge and public appreciation of the natural world

Additional info

http://vertnet.org/resources/norms.html

Taxonomic Coverages

Taxonomic coverage of the UWYMV bird collection is historically focused on Nearctic families.

Aves
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Geographic Coverages

The UWYMV bird collection has global coverage but the majority of holdings are from Wyoming and the western and central United States.

Bibliographic Citations

Contacts

Matthew Carling
originator
position: Curator
University of Wyoming Museum of Vertebrates
Berry Biodiversity Conservation Center
Laramie
82071
WY
US
Telephone: (307) 766-6169
email: mcarling@uwyo.edu
homepage: http://www.uwyo.edu/carlinglab

Elizabeth Wommack
originator
position: Staff Curator
University of Wyoming Museum of Vertebrates
Berry Biodiversity Conservation Center, 1000 E. University Ave.
Laramie
82071
WY
US
Telephone: (307) 766-6227
email: ewommack@uwyo.edu
homepage: http://uwymv.org/
userId: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9172-0120

Matthew Carling
metadata author
position: Curator
University of Wyoming Museum of Vertebrates
Berry Biodiversity Conservation Center
Laramie
82071
WY
US
Telephone: (307) 766-6169
email: mcarling@uwyo.edu
homepage: http://www.uwyo.edu/carlinglab

Elizabeth Wommack
metadata author
position: Staff Curator
University of Wyoming Museum of Vertebrates
Berry Biodiversity Conservation Center, 1000 E. University Ave.
Laramie
82071
WY
US
Telephone: (307) 766-6227
email: ewommack@uwyo.edu
homepage: http://uwymv.org/
userId: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9172-0120

Laura Russell
programmer
position: VertNet Programmer
VertNet
email: larussell@vertnet.org

David Bloom
programmer
position: VertNet Coordinator
email: dbloom@vertnet.org

John Wieczorek
programmer
position: Information Architect
Museum of Vertebrate Zoology at UC Berkeley
email: tuco@berkeley.edu

Dusty McDonald
point of contact
position: Arctos Database Programmer
University of Alaska Museum
email: dlmcdonald@alaska.edu
homepage: http://arctos.database.museum

Elizabeth Wommack
content provider
position: Collections Manager
University of Wyoming Museum of Vertebrates
Berry Biodiversity Conservation Center, 1000 E. University Ave.
Laramie
82071
WY
US
Telephone: (307) 766-6227
email: ewommack@uwyo.edu
homepage: http://uwymv.org/
userId: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9172-0120

Matthew Carling
administrative point of contact
position: Curator
University of Wyoming Museum of Vertebrates
Berry Biodiversity Conservation Center
Laramie
82071
WY
US
Telephone: (307) 766-6169
email: mcarling@uwyo.edu
homepage: http://www.uwyo.edu/carlinglab

Elizabeth Wommack
administrative point of contact
position: Staff Curator
University of Wyoming Museum of Vertebrates
Berry Biodiversity Conservation Center, 1000 E. University Ave.
Laramie
82071
WY
US
Telephone: (307) 766-6227
email: ewommack@uwyo.edu
homepage: http://uwymv.org/
userId: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9172-0120