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S c r i p p S i n S t i t u t i o n o f o c e a n o g r a p h y University of California, san Diego

The Scripps OceanOgraphic cOllecTiOnS

At a time when our planet’s biodiversity is increasingly threatened, documenting and understanding the diversity of marine life and our changing Earth is more important than ever.

The Scripps Oceanographic Collections, the largest and most comprehensive set of university-based oceanographic collections in the world, are invaluable tools to understand the changes taking place on our planet, to predict future changes, and to develop new approaches to address them.

The Scripps OceanOgraphic

cOllecTiOnSPrivate support is crucial for maintain-ing the integrity and accessibility of the Scripps Oceanographic Collections.

It would take more than $1 billion and tens of thousands of hours to replace the sheer volume of material in the Scripps Collections, but their value is far greater. They are, in fact, priceless, because they capture snapshots in time of the ocean’s history.

Friends oF the ColleCtionsFor an annual contribution of $1,000 or more, you can become a Friend of the Collections and help sustain collections operating costs. Benefits include opportunities for collections tours, unlimited admission to Birch Aquarium at Scripps, and invitations to behind-the-scenes events at Scripps.

sponsor the ColleCtionsAnnual sponsorships range from $25,000 to be a lead sponsor to $2,500 to sponsor specific categories of holdings such as California fish, mollusks, sediment cores, or deep-sea plankton. Benefits include prominent listing on a plaque within the collections, oppor tunities for collections tours, and membership in Friends of the Collections.

name a speCies Every year collections staff and researchers discover new species of marine creatures. The cost to name one of Scripps’s newly discovered creatures ranges from $5,000 to $50,000. Donors who name a species will receive a framed print of their named organism, as well as a copy of the scientific publication in which it is first described.

How You Can Help

For More Information:

ScrippS Development office

Phone: 858-822-1865

Email: supportscripps@ucsd.edu

Web: supportscripps.ucsd.edu/Collections

An Irreplaceable Record of Life

on Earth

You can make a difference

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The Scripps OCEANOGRAPHIC

COLLECTIONS

Students and scientists at Scripps

and researchers from around the

world use the extensive resources of

the Scripps Oceanographic Collections

to address critical questions in marine

biodiversity and ecology, fi sheries

biology, Earth history, ocean pollution,

and the effects of climate change.

The Scripps Oceanographic Collections

contain some of the world’s most

important “libraries” of marine life

specimens and rock and sediment

samples. Collectively, they tell a unique

and evolving story of life on Earth, and

help provide answers to questions

about our planet’s future.

MARINE VERTEBRATES

2 million fi shes Ocean creatures with a backbone; includes more than 5,500 species of fi sh including the world’s largest collection of deep-sea fi shes.

BENTHIC INVERTEBRATES

750,000 specimensMarine organisms with no backbone that live on the seafl oor; includes crabs, mussels, lobsters, clams, urchins, sponges, as well as the world’s fi nest barnacle collection.

CORED SEDIMENTS AND

MICROFOSSILS

6,600 cores spanning 75 million yearsSamples from the ocean fl oor; includes the organic and inorganic particles that form sediments and fossils.

DREDGED ROCKS

3 million pounds of oceanic rocksRocks gathered from the fl oor of the world’s oceans that document the formation and evolution of ocean basins, including rocks from the world’s

deepest dive.

What are they?THE SCRIPPS OCEANOGRAPHIC

COLLECTIONS INCLUDE MILLIONS

OF SPECIMENS DIVIDED INTO

THESE FIVE CATEGORIES:

PELAGIC INVERTEBRATES

100 million specimensOrganisms that live suspended in open ocean waters; primarily small zooplankton, plus squid, jellyfi sh, and krill; many collected from one of the longest on-going surveys of marine ecosystems in the world.

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Looking to the future, new

technologies such as digitization and

DNA analysis are making the Scripps

Oceanographic Collections even more

valuable. Already Scripps’s Digital Fish

Library enables scientists around the

world to perform virtual dissections

of specimens without damaging them.

Also, the Collections are employing

tools and methods that are helping to

revolutionize our understanding of

species diversity through

genetic analysis of

DNA samples.