American Museum of Natural History

The American Museum of Natural History will rehouse, conserve, image, and catalog their dry coral collection which includes 79 specimens from six protected species, including threatened elkhorn and staghorn corals. Project activities will include rehousing specimens in conservation-grade storage materials, preventing future deterioration; cleaning of specimens that are covered in dust, which can attract pests and abrade specimens and imaging and cataloging the collection in the museum's database with external search capability, allowing research access both online and by providing the means to monitor specimen loans. Progress and results will be disseminated widely at professional collection care and digitization conferences, and published in relevant journals.