UAM Mammal Collection (Arctos)

Occurrence
Latest version published by University of Alaska Museum of the North on Nov 29, 2024 University of Alaska Museum of the North

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Description

The University of Alaska Museum (UAM) houses one of the 10 largest mammal collections in North America, with over 115,000 catalogued specimens. Over 90% of these are from Alaska and include unparalleled series of small mammals, carnivores, and marine mammals. Over 70,000 include frozen tissue samples housed in UAM's Genomic Resources facility. An average of 1,000 specimens are loaned to researchers each year.

Data Records

The data in this occurrence resource has been published as a Darwin Core Archive (DwC-A), which is a standardized format for sharing biodiversity data as a set of one or more data tables. The core data table contains 144,810 records.

1 extension data tables also exist. An extension record supplies extra information about a core record. The number of records in each extension data table is illustrated below.

Occurrence (core)
144810
Multimedia 
34

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Versions

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How to cite

Researchers should cite this work as follows:

Mammal Collection, University of Alaska Museum (UAM)

Rights

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The publisher and rights holder of this work is University of Alaska Museum of the North. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC-BY-NC 4.0) License.

GBIF Registration

This resource has been registered with GBIF, and assigned the following GBIF UUID: 377be098-626f-4cc2-b4b5-35700050669a.  University of Alaska Museum of the North publishes this resource, and is itself registered in GBIF as a data publisher endorsed by GBIF-US.

Keywords

Occurrence; Specimen; Occurrence

Contacts

Link Olson
  • Metadata Provider
  • Originator
  • Point Of Contact
  • Curator of Mammals
University of Alaska Museum
  • 907 Yukon Drive
99775-6960 Fairbanks
AK
US
  • (907) 474-5998
Laura Russell
  • Programmer
  • VertNet Programmer
David Bloom
  • Programmer
  • VertNet Coordinator
John Wieczorek
  • Programmer
  • Information Architect
Museum of Vertebrate Zoology at UC Berkeley
Dusty McDonald
  • Point Of Contact
  • Arctos Database Programmer
University of Alaska Museum
Aren Gunderson
  • Point Of Contact
  • Mammals Collection Manager
University of Alaska Museum
  • 907 Yukon Drive
99775-6960 Fairbanks
AK
US
  • (907) 474-6947
Kyndall Hildebrandt
  • Point Of Contact
  • Genomic Resources Collection Manager
University of Alaska Museum
  • 907 Yukon Drive
99775-6960 Fairbanks
AK
US
  • (907) 474-6914

Geographic Coverage

The UAM mammal collection is global in scope, with strongest representation from Alaska.

Bounding Coordinates South West [-90, -180], North East [90, 180]

Taxonomic Coverage

The UAM mammal collection is taxonomically synoptic but includes especially strong holdings of Rodentia, Soricomorpha, Carnivora, and Cetacea.

Class Mammalia

Temporal Coverage

Living Time Period 1934 to present

Additional Metadata

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Alternative Identifiers 377be098-626f-4cc2-b4b5-35700050669a
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