NEW ORLEANS (AP) – Tulane University’s Museum of Natural History has received a $1.1 million grant from the National Science Foundation. The grand will be used to redesign a computer program that a museum manager designed six years ago.

The grant will update GEOLocate, which is used by about 800 researchers and institutions around the world to catalog natural-history collections.

The original program was designed by Nelson Rios, the museum’s manager of collections and informatics.

Informatics is the discipline that covers such activities as gathering, manipulating, storing, retrieving and classifying recorded information.

The money comes from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, the economic-stimulus package.

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