San Diego Natural History Museum

The San Diego Natural History Museum emphasizes the use of collections-based research to better understand the biodiversity of southern California and the peninsula of Baja California. The museum will use this grant to create a website for the Herpetology Atlas of Peninsular California for the purpose of delivering collections information in an integrated format centered on geospatial data. The Herpetology Atlas will integrate over 76,000 voucher specimens, representing over 19,000 geo-referenced localities. In addition, the Herpetology Atlas has over 20,000 digital photographs, over 12,000 scanned pages of historical field notes discussing the distribution of amphibians and reptiles, and 483 scanned historical publications (12,731 pages) from science publications.