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UAM Mammal Collection (Arctos)

Specimen Records: 142,592
Media Records: 3,043
iDigBio Last Ingested Date: 2023-01-11

The University of Alaska Museum (UAM) houses one of the 10 largest mammal collections in North America, with over 115,000 catalogued specimens. Over 90% of these are from Alaska and include unparalleled series of small mammals, carnivores, and marine mammals. Over 70,000 include frozen tissue samples housed in UAM's Genomic Resources facility. An average of 1,000 specimens are loaned to researchers each year.

Contacts

Name Link Olson
RoleCurator of Mammals
Emailleolson@alaska.edu
Name Link Olson
RoleCurator of Mammals
Emailleolson@alaska.edu
Name Laura Russell
RoleVertNet Programmer
Emaillarussell@vertnet.org
Name David Bloom
RoleVertNet Coordinator
Emaildbloom@vertnet.org
Name John Wieczorek
RoleInformation Architect
Emailtuco@berkeley.edu
Name Dusty McDonald
RoleArctos Database Programmer
Emaildlmcdonald@alaska.edu
Name Aren Gunderson
RoleMammals Collection Manager
Emailamgunderson@alaska.edu
Name Kyndall Hildebrandt
RoleGenomic Resources Collection Manager
Emailkbhildebrandt@alaska.edu
Name Link Olson
RoleCurator of Mammals
Emailleolson@alaska.edu
  • Data Corrected
  • Data Use
  • Raw
This table shows any data corrections that were performed on this recordset to improve the capabilities of iDigBio Search. The first column represents the correction performed. The last two columns represent the number and percentage of records that were corrected. A complete list of the data quality flags and their descriptions can be found here. Clicking on a data flag name will take you to a search for all records with this flag in this recordset.
FlagRecords With This Flag(%) Percent With This Flag
dwc_datasetid_added  i142473
99.917
dwc_parentnameusageid_added  i142473
99.917
dwc_taxonid_added  i142473
99.917
dwc_taxonomicstatus_added  i142473
99.917
gbif_canonicalname_added  i142473
99.917
gbif_genericname_added  i142473
99.917
gbif_taxon_corrected  i142473
99.917
dwc_scientificnameauthorship_added  i142370
99.844
gbif_vernacularname_added  i142200
99.725
gbif_reference_added  i141908
99.52
dwc_multimedia_added  i139193
97.616
idigbio_isocountrycode_added  i133551
93.66
dwc_continent_added  i133330
93.505
geopoint_datum_error  i128598
90.186
dwc_taxonrank_replaced  i74415
52.187
dwc_originalnameusageid_added  i61549
43.164
rev_geocode_eez  i34990
24.539
geopoint_datum_missing  i10617
7.446
dwc_continent_replaced  i4643
3.256
taxon_match_failed  i1664
1.167
dwc_infraspecificepithet_added  i976
0.684
rev_geocode_mismatch  i475
0.333
dwc_specificepithet_replaced  i321
0.225
dwc_family_replaced  i171
0.12
rev_geocode_failure  i153
0.107
dwc_taxonremarks_added  i61
0.043
dwc_genus_replaced  i31
0.022
rev_geocode_corrected  i14
0.01
rev_geocode_lon_sign  i14
0.01
dwc_class_added  i4
0.003
rev_geocode_eez_corrected  i2
0.001
dwc_order_replaced  i1
0.001
dwc_specificepithet_added  i1
0.001
geopoint_0_coord  i1
0.001
geopoint_similar_coord  i1
0.001
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