[NHCOLL-L:2908] SPNHC and NSCA 2006 joint annual meeting

[Cindy A Ramotnik]

“The Road to Productive Partnerships”
SPNHC-NSCA 2006 Joint Annual Meeting
May 23-27, 2006
Hotel Albuquerque at Old Town, Albuquerque, New Mexico
http://www.msb.unm.edu/meetings/SPNHC-NSCA2006

The Society for the Preservation of Natural History 
Collections and the Natural Science Collections Alliance 
will hold a joint annual meeting in Albuquerque, New 
Mexico, May 23-27, 2006 at the Hotel Albuquerque at Old 
Town, in the heart of Albuquerque’s historical district 
and just off Route 66.  “The Road to Productive 
Partnerships” theme will focus on collaborations of 
scientific collections with partners such as government 
agencies, local and international agencies, and non-profit 
groups.  Your co-hosts will be the University of New 
Mexico Museum of Southwestern Biology and the U.S. 
Geological Survey Arid Lands Field Station.

In addition to invited speakers and oral and poster 
presentations, our program will feature a series of 
special sessions with relevant and wide-ranging topics of 
interest for today’s museum professional. A series of 
workshops will be offered on May 27 and will highlight 
recent advances in georeferencing, digital imaging, data 
sharing, and bioinformatics. Several pre-meeting full-day 
and half-day field trips will be available, as well as 
museum tours on the University of New Mexico campus, a 
reception and banquet with live music, Trade Show, and 
unsurpassed networking opportunities.

Meeting registration will open in January, but you can 
begin making your hotel reservations now. See the "hotel 
information" link at the web site for details about the 
Hotel Albuquerque at Old Town.

Deadlines to remember:

     Abstract submission: March 15, 2006
     Early Registration: March 24, 2006
     Hotel reservation: April 23, 2006

Information on abstract submission, registration, and 
housing is available on the meeting website at 
http://www.msb.unm.edu/meetings/SPNHC-NSCA2006

Please join us in Albuquerque next May. You won't want to 
miss this meeting that combines the best of both 
organizations’ meeting styles!

Cindy Ramotnik
U.S. Geological Survey
Department of Biology
MSC03 2020
1 University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, NM 87131-0001
505-277-5369