University of California, Santa Barbara (Cheadle Center for Biodiversity and Ecological Restoration, University of California, Santa Barbara)

The Cheadle Center for Biodiversity and Ecological Restoration (CCBER), part of the department of Ecology, Evolution, and Marine Biology at the University of California in Santa Barbara (UCSB), will complete the curation, documentation, cataloging, and database processing of its 24,875 herpetological, ornithological, and mammalian specimens. The “Vertebrate Collections Management Project” will provide UCSB faculty, students, and CCBER staff, environmental consultants, the general public in California’s central coast region, and the global scientific community with access to these valuable collections and their associated data.