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Track: Natural Resources and Conservation
Tom Moritz
California Academy of Sciences
Golden Gate Park
San Francisco, CA 94118
Telephone: 415-759-7101
Fax: 415-750-7106
E-mail: TMoritz@CAS.CalAcademy.org
George Chaplin
Collating Multidisciplinary Museum Specimen Data Using ArcView: The Modoc County Project
By conservative estimate, the natural history museums of North America hold over 400 million biological specimens. These collections represent the largest raw data set depicting the world's biodiversity. The Modoc County project sought to test the potential utility of these data by selecting a relatively simple and manageable geographic region (Modoc County-northeastern California), acquiring a number of available map layers and then inputting specimen data for the County (derived from a variety of disciplinary and institutional sources). The results of this effort are presented and evaluated with implications for the general utility of museum specimen data.
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