University of California, Berkeley (University of California Museum of Paleontology)

University of California Museum of Paleontology will move, rehouse, and digitally catalog Pleistocene fossil vertebrates, plants and insects, and their ancillary data from its important McKittrick and Maricopa tarpit fossil collections to make them accessible for research, education, and outreach. This little known fossil collection spans a key climatic transition near the Pleistocene-Holocene boundary, the transition from the last glacial period to our current inter-glacial period, and also the time at which humans arrived in this part of North America. The museum will move, clean, catalogue, and transfer the collection to new storage cabinets. New images of the fossils and their records will be used to develop web content that will be of value for scientific research and teaching on and off campus, and for public education and outreach.