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East London Museum - Mollusc Collection

Entry ID: elm_molluscs

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Summary

Abstract: The East London (EL) Museum's major natural history collections are molluscs and birds.They also have smaller collections of other marine invertebrates, mammals, skeletons (mammals), reptiles, palaeontology, geology. The mollusc collection was started by Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer, first curator of the museum in 1931. She brought her family collections, including of shells, to the museum and these ...

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Description: Sub-Saharan African OBIS (AfrOBIS)

Geographic Coverage

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Spatial coordinates

N: 58.18

S: -46.93

E: 179.52

W: -161.57

Data Set Citation

Dataset Originator/Creator: East London Museum, South Africa

Dataset Title: Mollusc Collection

Dataset Release Place: Cape Town, South Africa

Dataset Publisher: AfrOBIS, South Africa

Online Resource: http://www.iobis.org/

Temporal Coverage

Start Date: 1886-06-15

Stop Date: 2005-09-16

Location Keywords

OCEAN > ATLANTIC OCEAN

OCEAN > ATLANTIC OCEAN > NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN

Science Keywords

ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE > ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE MEASUREMENTS

ATMOSPHERE > ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE > AIR TEMPERATURE

ISO Topic Category

BIOTA

CLIMATOLOGY/METEOROLOGY/ATMOSPHERE

Platform

GROUND STATIONS

GROUND-BASED OBSERVATIONS

Instrument

PHOTOSYNTHESIS CHAMBER

SOIL TEMPERATURE PROBE

Project

ARCSS > Arctic System Science

ARCSS/LAII/ITEX > Arctic System Science/LAII/International Tundra Experiment

LTER > Long-Term Ecological Research

NSF/OPP > Office of Polar Programs, National Science Foundation

Ancillary Keywords

Alaska

Alaskan North Slope

Data Set Progress

COMPLETE

Originating Center

NSIDC_ARCSS

Data Center

National Snow and Ice Data Center

Data Center URL: http://nsidc.org

Data Center Personnel
Name: NSIDC USER SERVICES Phone: +1 (303) 492-6199 Fax: +1 (303) 492-2468 Email: nsidc at nsidc.org Contact Address: National Snow and Ice Data Center CIRES, 449 UCB University of Colorado City: Boulder Province or State: CO Postal Code: 80309-0449 Country: USA

Arctic System Science Data Coordination Center

Data Center URL: http://nsidc.org/arcss/
Dataset ID: ARCSS164

Data Center Personnel
Name: NSIDC ARCSS USER SERVICES Phone: +1 (303) 492-6199 Fax: +1 (303) 492-2468 Email: nsidc at nsidc.org Contact Address: National Snow and Ice Data Center CIRES, 449 UCB University of Colorado City: Boulder Province or State: CO Postal Code: 80309-0449 Country: USA

Publications/References

Kaltenborn, B. P., Nellemann, C., Vistnes, I. I. (Eds). 2010. High mountain glaciers and climate change – Challenges to human livelihoods and adaptation. United Nations Environment Programme, GRID-Arendal, http://www.grida.no/publications/high-mountain-glaciers/

Mool, P.K.; Bajracharya, S. R.; Joshi, S. P., 2001. Inventory of Glaciers, Glacial Lakes and Glacial Lake Outburst Floods: Monitoring and Early Warning Systems in the Hindu Kush-Himalayan Region - Nepal (2001). United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), http://books.icimod.org/index.php/search/publication/131

Creation and Review Dates

DIF Creation Date: 2011-03-18

Last DIF Revision Date: 2012-02-09

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