From rw at protectheritage.com Sun Jul 1 09:19:49 2018 From: rw at protectheritage.com (rw at protectheritage.com) Date: Sun, 1 Jul 2018 09:19:49 -0400 Subject: [Nhcoll-l] Seeking public comment on an Ethical Sampling Guidance document Message-ID: <04d401d4113e$3046fc30$90d4f490$@protectheritage.com> A practical and useful approach to ensuring sampling of museum collection items adds value to a collection and to society is being developed by the ICON Heritage Science Group. They are currently seeking public feedback at: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfcpv1T9N0eUnJqYk3GJ0TAQn9hylmStdQC AIAvKsQFw7nT5w/viewform?dm_i=6S6,5PXDA,FR9RLZ,MA024,1 SPNHC members are encouraged to review this and provide commentary from their perspectives. It may be that SPNHC will want to adopt this guidance document as an example of a best practice. Happy Canada Day! 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URL: From neumann at snsb.de Mon Jul 2 09:42:52 2018 From: neumann at snsb.de (Dirk Neumann) Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2018 15:42:52 +0200 Subject: [Nhcoll-l] New headache (solved) In-Reply-To: <263dfc04-93c5-ec36-01f0-d034dca50ac4@verizon.net> References: <06e66c05-7903-aee7-fa47-a27cefe30dbd@verizon.net> <263dfc04-93c5-ec36-01f0-d034dca50ac4@verizon.net> Message-ID: Hi all, it might be worth to add a second bit of clarification: IATA/ICAO A180 compliant packing says if non-infectious specimens, such as .... containing small quantities of UN1170 (ethanol, ethanol solution, ethyl alcohol or ethyl alcohol solution), UN1198 (formaldehyde solution, flammable), UN 1987 (alcohols, not otherwise specified) or UN1219 (isopropyl alcohol) *are not subject to these Regulations* providing the following packing and marking requirements are met ..." The words are /not subject to these Regulations/ are decisive: despite their identification as UN-rated hazardous materials, they are not classified as such, i.e. they are not considered dangerous goods at all. This exemption stands and falls with the correct packing. ICAO/IATA is an international UN agreement, excepted in all countries (ICAO), and by all airlines (IATA). If you are travelling and have such materials in your hand-carried or checked luggage, it is advisable to take copies of IATA/ICAO A180, and at least a copy of the limitations table (2.3A) from the IATA handbook with you. Respective sections in ICAO and IATA are interchangeable, the legally binding one is ICAO. All the best Dirk Am 02.07.2018 um 15:00 schrieb Ellen Paul: > > One call to EPA help line is all it took. Well, that and knowing what > questions to ask. > > So actually you need a certification for ethanol (I will look up SDS > later to see if it is on the TSCA inventory). But there is an express > exemption for R&D. > > https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/40/720.36 > > So you still need the certification: > > http://ftn.fedex.com/forms/TSCA_Certification.pdf > > But it is the "positive" certification. And they said for product > description, write, "R&D exemption." > > That easy. > > I would advise everyone to have this form with them for hand-carries > and in the FedEx pouch for shipping. It is one page, easy to complete, > and better to have it and not need it than need it and not have it. > > It is most likely going to keep coming up for anyone who has to have > an APHIS import permit and certificate of treatment, because ethanol > and SDS are probably the most commonly used of the approved treatment > methods. So the CBP agricultural specialist reads your certificate of > treatment and then sees that you have a TSCA-listed substance and > requires this form. But even if you don't need an APHIS import and > certificate of treatment, it makes sense to include this form with > your hand-carries and shipped imports. > > Are you sure you don't think the OC is worth $20 to you? > > Thanks. > > Ellen > > Ellen Paul > Ellen Paul > Executive Director > Ornithological Council > Phone (301) 986 8568 > Providing Scientific Information about Birds > > > > _______________________________________________ > Nhcoll-l mailing list > Nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu > https://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/nhcoll-l > > _______________________________________________ > NHCOLL-L is brought to you by the Society for the Preservation of > Natural History Collections (SPNHC), an international society whose > mission is to improve the preservation, conservation and management of > natural history collections to ensure their continuing value to > society. 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This day is dedicated to conservation and its role in advancing the care of specimens, objects and archives that form our natural science collections. We are inviting you to propose presentations and posters that focus on sharing projects, new techniques and ideas that will help further the field and inform the work of other attendees. To submit an abstract to speak or present a poster, please complete the abstract form and email to training at natsca.org . The deadline is the 8th July. Event details and the abstract form can be found on the website here https://www.natsca.org/event/2419. Booking will be open soon. Questions may be directed to myself or training at natsca.org Lucie Mascord ACR Conservation Officer. Natural History. Lancashire Conservation Studios Lancashire County Council T: 01772 530213 E: Lucie.Mascord at lancashire.gov.uk My working days are Mon-Wed. 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URL: From neumann at snsb.de Mon Jul 2 10:16:13 2018 From: neumann at snsb.de (Dirk Neumann) Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2018 16:16:13 +0200 Subject: [Nhcoll-l] New headache (solved) In-Reply-To: <6c4adde1-7c9d-061b-5d48-048ad0c1424c@verizon.net> References: <06e66c05-7903-aee7-fa47-a27cefe30dbd@verizon.net> <263dfc04-93c5-ec36-01f0-d034dca50ac4@verizon.net> <6c4adde1-7c9d-061b-5d48-048ad0c1424c@verizon.net> Message-ID: <3c22e933-a5c1-2925-bc09-dbfbc362ce54@snsb.de> ICAO is not airlines, but the internationally recognised UN body governing civil air aviation rules (Convention on International Civil Aviation). They stipulate dangerous good regulations on international/intergovernmental level. Some countries recently decided that they would discontinue with UN regs, but as long as this is not glued into national laws (i.e. the Internationally accepted ICAO rules no longer apply in a given state and this state discloses itself from international air traffic), this international agreement persists. https://www.icao.int/about-icao/History/Pages/icao-and-the-united-nations.aspx IATA is a rip-off of the UN-ICAO regs, and the a handy business model of the association of airlines to resell their expensive handbook on yearly basis. A180 allows you to sell-train to be compliant; so yes, you need to be (self-) trained, but you no longer must be IATA-certified (e.g. we offered such trainings repeatedly at SPNHC conferences). No longer are initial IATA certification and yearly IATA requalifications needed (as required under previous exempted quantities shipping). Training & requalifications are another excellent business model by the way: let others pay to re-qualify to your copied rules on yearly basis. We are happy to have escaped from this (thanks to Andy's enormous efforts!) Cheers Dirk Am 02.07.2018 um 15:52 schrieb Ellen Paul: > > Thanks, Dirk, but that is IATA (airline restrictions). Not TSCA, which > is a U.S. law - Toxic Substances Control Act and entirely separate > from IATA. > > That being said - I agree entirely that it is a good idea to carry a > copy of the IATA/ICAO standard with you. > > As I recall (and Andy can confirm) it is not just packaging and > labeling. Don't you also have to be trained and certified? In which > case, talk to the shipping dept at your institution because their > staff are generally trained and certified. > > Ellen > > Ellen Paul > Ellen Paul > Executive Director > Ornithological Council > Providing Scientific Information about Birds > > On 7/2/18 9:42 AM, Dirk Neumann wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> it might be worth to add a second bit of clarification: >> >> IATA/ICAO A180 compliant packing says if non-infectious specimens, >> such as .... containing small quantities of UN1170 (ethanol, ethanol >> solution, ethyl alcohol or ethyl alcohol solution), UN1198 >> (formaldehyde solution, flammable), UN 1987 (alcohols, not otherwise >> specified) or UN1219 (isopropyl alcohol) *are not subject to these >> Regulations* providing the following packing and marking requirements >> are met ..." >> >> The words are /not subject to these Regulations/ are decisive: >> despite their identification as UN-rated hazardous materials, they >> are not classified as such, i.e. they are not considered dangerous >> goods at all. This exemption stands and falls with the correct >> packing. ICAO/IATA is an international UN agreement, excepted in all >> countries (ICAO), and by all airlines (IATA). >> >> If you are travelling and have such materials in your hand-carried or >> checked luggage, it is advisable to take copies of IATA/ICAO A180, >> and at least a copy of the limitations table (2.3A) from the IATA >> handbook with you. Respective sections in ICAO and IATA are >> interchangeable, the legally binding one is ICAO. >> >> All the best >> Dirk >> >> Am 02.07.2018 um 15:00 schrieb Ellen Paul: >>> >>> One call to EPA help line is all it took. Well, that and knowing >>> what questions to ask. >>> >>> So actually you need a certification for ethanol (I will look up SDS >>> later to see if it is on the TSCA inventory). But there is an >>> express exemption for R&D. >>> >>> https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/40/720.36 >>> >>> So you still need the certification: >>> >>> http://ftn.fedex.com/forms/TSCA_Certification.pdf >>> >>> But it is the "positive" certification. And they said for product >>> description, write, "R&D exemption." >>> >>> That easy. >>> >>> I would advise everyone to have this form with them for hand-carries >>> and in the FedEx pouch for shipping. It is one page, easy to >>> complete, and better to have it and not need it than need it and not >>> have it. >>> >>> It is most likely going to keep coming up for anyone who has to have >>> an APHIS import permit and certificate of treatment, because ethanol >>> and SDS are probably the most commonly used of the approved >>> treatment methods. So the CBP agricultural specialist reads your >>> certificate of treatment and then sees that you have a TSCA-listed >>> substance and requires this form. But even if you don't need an >>> APHIS import and certificate of treatment, it makes sense to include >>> this form with your hand-carries and shipped imports. >>> >>> Are you sure you don't think the OC is worth $20 to you? >>> >>> Thanks. >>> >>> Ellen >>> >>> Ellen Paul >>> Ellen Paul >>> Executive Director >>> Ornithological Council >>> Phone (301) 986 8568 >>> Providing Scientific Information about Birds >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Nhcoll-l mailing list >>> Nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu >>> https://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/nhcoll-l >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> NHCOLL-L is brought to you by the Society for the Preservation of >>> Natural History Collections (SPNHC), an international society whose >>> mission is to improve the preservation, conservation and management of >>> natural history collections to ensure their continuing value to >>> society. Seehttp://www.spnhc.org for membership information. >>> Advertising on NH-COLL-L is inappropriate. >> >> >> -- >> Dirk Neumann >> >> Tel: 089 / 8107-111 >> Fax: 089 / 8107-300 >> *new email: neumann(a)snsb.de* >> >> Postanschrift: >> >> Staatliche Naturwissenschaftliche Sammlungen Bayerns >> Zoologische Staatssammlung M?nchen >> Dirk Neumann, Sektion Ichthyologie / DNA-Storage >> M?nchhausenstr. 21 >> 81247 M?nchen >> >> Besuchen Sie unsere Sammlung: >> http://www.zsm.mwn.de/ich/ >> >> --------- >> >> Dirk Neumann >> >> Tel: +49-89-8107-111 >> Fax: +49-89-8107-300 >> *new email: neumann(a)snsb.de* >> >> postal address: >> >> Bavarian Natural History Collections >> The Bavarian State Collection of Zoology >> Dirk Neumann, Section Ichthyology / DNA-Storage >> Muenchhausenstr. 21 >> 81247 Munich (Germany) >> >> Visit our section at: >> http://www.zsm.mwn.de/ich/ >> >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Nhcoll-l mailing list >> Nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu >> https://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/nhcoll-l >> >> _______________________________________________ >> NHCOLL-L is brought to you by the Society for the Preservation of >> Natural History Collections (SPNHC), an international society whose >> mission is to improve the preservation, conservation and management of >> natural history collections to ensure their continuing value to >> society. Seehttp://www.spnhc.org for membership information. >> Advertising on NH-COLL-L is inappropriate. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Nhcoll-l mailing list > Nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu > https://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/nhcoll-l > > _______________________________________________ > NHCOLL-L is brought to you by the Society for the Preservation of > Natural History Collections (SPNHC), an international society whose > mission is to improve the preservation, conservation and management of > natural history collections to ensure their continuing value to > society. See http://www.spnhc.org for membership information. > Advertising on NH-COLL-L is inappropriate. -- Dirk Neumann Tel: 089 / 8107-111 Fax: 089 / 8107-300 *new email: neumann(a)snsb.de* Postanschrift: Staatliche Naturwissenschaftliche Sammlungen Bayerns Zoologische Staatssammlung M?nchen Dirk Neumann, Sektion Ichthyologie / DNA-Storage M?nchhausenstr. 21 81247 M?nchen Besuchen Sie unsere Sammlung: http://www.zsm.mwn.de/ich/ --------- Dirk Neumann Tel: +49-89-8107-111 Fax: +49-89-8107-300 *new email: neumann(a)snsb.de* postal address: Bavarian Natural History Collections The Bavarian State Collection of Zoology Dirk Neumann, Section Ichthyology / DNA-Storage Muenchhausenstr. 21 81247 Munich (Germany) Visit our section at: http://www.zsm.mwn.de/ich/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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URL: From neumann at snsb.de Mon Jul 2 10:48:20 2018 From: neumann at snsb.de (Dirk Neumann) Date: Mon, 2 Jul 2018 16:48:20 +0200 Subject: [Nhcoll-l] New headache (solved) In-Reply-To: References: <06e66c05-7903-aee7-fa47-a27cefe30dbd@verizon.net> <263dfc04-93c5-ec36-01f0-d034dca50ac4@verizon.net> <6c4adde1-7c9d-061b-5d48-048ad0c1424c@verizon.net> <3c22e933-a5c1-2925-bc09-dbfbc362ce54@snsb.de> Message-ID: If I am not wrong with publication of the 52nd Ed. of the ICAO/IATA handbook, which got effective back on 1 Jan 2011 :-) Am 02.07.2018 um 16:24 schrieb Ellen Paul: > > That's excellent news (about the certification). When did that happen? > > Ellen > > Ellen Paul > Ellen Paul > Executive Director > Ornithological Council > Phone (301) 986 8568 > Providing Scientific Information about Birds > > On 7/2/18 10:16 AM, Dirk Neumann wrote: >> ICAO is not airlines, but the internationally recognised UN body >> governing civil air aviation rules (Convention on International Civil >> Aviation). They stipulate dangerous good regulations on >> international/intergovernmental level. Some countries recently >> decided that they would discontinue with UN regs, but as long as this >> is not glued into national laws (i.e. the Internationally accepted >> ICAO rules no longer apply in a given state and this state discloses >> itself from international air traffic), this international agreement >> persists. >> >> https://www.icao.int/about-icao/History/Pages/icao-and-the-united-nations.aspx >> >> IATA is a rip-off of the UN-ICAO regs, and the a handy business model >> of the association of airlines to resell their expensive handbook on >> yearly basis. >> >> A180 allows you to sell-train to be compliant; so yes, you need to be >> (self-) trained, but you no longer must be IATA-certified (e.g. we >> offered such trainings repeatedly at SPNHC conferences). >> >> No longer are initial IATA certification and yearly IATA >> requalifications needed (as required under previous exempted >> quantities shipping). Training & requalifications are another >> excellent business model by the way: let others pay to re-qualify to >> your copied rules on yearly basis. We are happy to have escaped from >> this (thanks to Andy's enormous efforts!) >> >> Cheers >> Dirk >> >> >> Am 02.07.2018 um 15:52 schrieb Ellen Paul: >>> >>> Thanks, Dirk, but that is IATA (airline restrictions). Not TSCA, >>> which is a U.S. law - Toxic Substances Control Act and entirely >>> separate from IATA. >>> >>> That being said - I agree entirely that it is a good idea to carry a >>> copy of the IATA/ICAO standard with you. >>> >>> As I recall (and Andy can confirm) it is not just packaging and >>> labeling. Don't you also have to be trained and certified? In which >>> case, talk to the shipping dept at your institution because their >>> staff are generally trained and certified. >>> >>> Ellen >>> >>> Ellen Paul >>> Ellen Paul >>> Executive Director >>> Ornithological Council >>> Providing Scientific Information about Birds >>> >>> On 7/2/18 9:42 AM, Dirk Neumann wrote: >>>> Hi all, >>>> >>>> it might be worth to add a second bit of clarification: >>>> >>>> IATA/ICAO A180 compliant packing says if non-infectious specimens, >>>> such as .... containing small quantities of UN1170 (ethanol, >>>> ethanol solution, ethyl alcohol or ethyl alcohol solution), UN1198 >>>> (formaldehyde solution, flammable), UN 1987 (alcohols, not >>>> otherwise specified) or UN1219 (isopropyl alcohol) *are not subject >>>> to these Regulations* providing the following packing and marking >>>> requirements are met ..." >>>> >>>> The words are /not subject to these Regulations/ are decisive: >>>> despite their identification as UN-rated hazardous materials, they >>>> are not classified as such, i.e. they are not considered dangerous >>>> goods at all. This exemption stands and falls with the correct >>>> packing. ICAO/IATA is an international UN agreement, excepted in >>>> all countries (ICAO), and by all airlines (IATA). >>>> >>>> If you are travelling and have such materials in your hand-carried >>>> or checked luggage, it is advisable to take copies of IATA/ICAO >>>> A180, and at least a copy of the limitations table (2.3A) from the >>>> IATA handbook with you. Respective sections in ICAO and IATA are >>>> interchangeable, the legally binding one is ICAO. >>>> >>>> All the best >>>> Dirk >>>> >>>> Am 02.07.2018 um 15:00 schrieb Ellen Paul: >>>>> >>>>> One call to EPA help line is all it took. Well, that and knowing >>>>> what questions to ask. >>>>> >>>>> So actually you need a certification for ethanol (I will look up >>>>> SDS later to see if it is on the TSCA inventory). But there is an >>>>> express exemption for R&D. >>>>> >>>>> https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/40/720.36 >>>>> >>>>> So you still need the certification: >>>>> >>>>> http://ftn.fedex.com/forms/TSCA_Certification.pdf >>>>> >>>>> But it is the "positive" certification. And they said for product >>>>> description, write, "R&D exemption." >>>>> >>>>> That easy. >>>>> >>>>> I would advise everyone to have this form with them for >>>>> hand-carries and in the FedEx pouch for shipping. It is one page, >>>>> easy to complete, and better to have it and not need it than need >>>>> it and not have it. >>>>> >>>>> It is most likely going to keep coming up for anyone who has to >>>>> have an APHIS import permit and certificate of treatment, because >>>>> ethanol and SDS are probably the most commonly used of the >>>>> approved treatment methods. So the CBP agricultural specialist >>>>> reads your certificate of treatment and then sees that you have a >>>>> TSCA-listed substance and requires this form. But even if you >>>>> don't need an APHIS import and certificate of treatment, it makes >>>>> sense to include this form with your hand-carries and shipped imports. >>>>> >>>>> Are you sure you don't think the OC is worth $20 to you? >>>>> >>>>> Thanks. >>>>> >>>>> Ellen >>>>> >>>>> Ellen Paul >>>>> Ellen Paul >>>>> Executive Director >>>>> Ornithological Council >>>>> Phone (301) 986 8568 >>>>> Providing Scientific Information about Birds >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> Nhcoll-l mailing list >>>>> Nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu >>>>> https://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/nhcoll-l >>>>> >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> NHCOLL-L is brought to you by the Society for the Preservation of >>>>> Natural History Collections (SPNHC), an international society whose >>>>> mission is to improve the preservation, conservation and management of >>>>> natural history collections to ensure their continuing value to >>>>> society. Seehttp://www.spnhc.org for membership information. >>>>> Advertising on NH-COLL-L is inappropriate. >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Dirk Neumann >>>> >>>> Tel: 089 / 8107-111 >>>> Fax: 089 / 8107-300 >>>> *new email: neumann(a)snsb.de* >>>> >>>> Postanschrift: >>>> >>>> Staatliche Naturwissenschaftliche Sammlungen Bayerns >>>> Zoologische Staatssammlung M?nchen >>>> Dirk Neumann, Sektion Ichthyologie / DNA-Storage >>>> M?nchhausenstr. 21 >>>> 81247 M?nchen >>>> >>>> Besuchen Sie unsere Sammlung: >>>> http://www.zsm.mwn.de/ich/ >>>> >>>> --------- >>>> >>>> Dirk Neumann >>>> >>>> Tel: +49-89-8107-111 >>>> Fax: +49-89-8107-300 >>>> *new email: neumann(a)snsb.de* >>>> >>>> postal address: >>>> >>>> Bavarian Natural History Collections >>>> The Bavarian State Collection of Zoology >>>> Dirk Neumann, Section Ichthyology / DNA-Storage >>>> Muenchhausenstr. 21 >>>> 81247 Munich (Germany) >>>> >>>> Visit our section at: >>>> http://www.zsm.mwn.de/ich/ >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Nhcoll-l mailing list >>>> Nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu >>>> https://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/nhcoll-l >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> NHCOLL-L is brought to you by the Society for the Preservation of >>>> Natural History Collections (SPNHC), an international society whose >>>> mission is to improve the preservation, conservation and management of >>>> natural history collections to ensure their continuing value to >>>> society. 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Aims of the course * Exploration of careers in museum-based research through student observation and immersion into the roles of collection personnel. * Prepare students for life after their undergraduate degrees (enriched with a deeper understanding of Natural History Museums). Interesting readings which got students to understand collections and the value of specimens came from * The Lost Species Kemp 2017 (For e.g. Introduction and Chp 23) * Inside the Lost Museum Lubar 2017 (For e.g. Chp 6 Into the Storm) I'd be happy to chat more with you about this if this is of interest to you. Regards, Adania Flemming Graduate Student Department of Biology Florida Museum of Natural History/iDigBio University of Florida Office Phone: 352-273-1951 Email: aflemming at ufl.edu [idigbio_logo_320][Florida Museum Fish Collection logo] From: Nhcoll-l [mailto:nhcoll-l-bounces at mailman.yale.edu] On Behalf Of Schultz, Eric Sent: Monday, July 2, 2018 3:51 PM To: nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu Subject: [Nhcoll-l] Who teaches courses focused on the subject of collections for undergraduates? With a colleague at the University of Connecticut's Benton Art Museum, I am preparing a multidisciplinary course for freshman Honors students on collections and museums. The topics covered will include the history of collecting, the taxonomy of collections (e.g. art, natural history), how collections promote knowledge production and discovery, the practice of collecting and its ethics. 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In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Hi Eric - There are two courses offered at UC Berkeley aimed at teaching students about collections and museums. One is a freshman seminar taught by Dr. Eileen Lacey and focused on the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology. The other is a higher level course (IB/ESPM 105, "Natural History Museums and Biodiversity Science") that is a broad collaboration between a number of faculty and staff affiliated with the different Berkeley Natural History Museums (co-led by Drs. Brent Mishler and Rosemary Gillespie). I am copying them all here in case you have more questions about the courses. In the MVZ, we also have an Undergraduate Program that engages students in museum science through the UC Berkeley Undergraduate Research Apprentice Program (URAP). Here is a paper that we published recently on that MVZ program (lead author is a former undergrad, now a grad student at LSU). Best, Carla On Mon, Jul 2, 2018 at 12:51 PM Schultz, Eric wrote: > With a colleague at the University of Connecticut's Benton Art Museum, I > am preparing a multidisciplinary course for freshman Honors students on > collections and museums. The topics covered will include the history of > collecting, the taxonomy of collections (e.g. art, natural history), how > collections promote knowledge production and discovery, the practice of > collecting and its ethics. I am interested in connecting with others who > teach courses focused on collections, be they similarly multidisciplinary > or confined to natural history collections--and especially if they are > undergraduate courses-- what readings on these topics have you found > engaging and informative? > > > Eric Schultz > Dept. of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology > University of Connecticut > _______________________________________________ > Nhcoll-l mailing list > Nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu > https://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/nhcoll-l > > _______________________________________________ > NHCOLL-L is brought to you by the Society for the Preservation of > Natural History Collections (SPNHC), an international society whose > mission is to improve the preservation, conservation and management of > natural history collections to ensure their continuing value to > society. See http://www.spnhc.org for membership information. > Advertising on NH-COLL-L is inappropriate. > -- Carla Cicero, Ph.D Staff Curator of Birds Museum of Vertebrate Zoology 3101 Valley Life Sciences Building University of California Berkeley, CA 94720-3160 TEL: (510) 642-7868 FAX: (510) 643-8238 http://mvz.berkeley.edu https://carlacicero.net http://vertnet.org https://arctosdb.org http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bird_collections http://americanornithology.org/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From eric.schultz at uconn.edu Tue Jul 3 09:46:51 2018 From: eric.schultz at uconn.edu (Schultz, Eric) Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2018 13:46:51 +0000 Subject: [Nhcoll-l] Who teaches courses focused on the subject of collections for undergraduates? In-Reply-To: <80ad36a566284bd7812a7eb26f290767@exmbxprd15.ad.ufl.edu> References: , <80ad36a566284bd7812a7eb26f290767@exmbxprd15.ad.ufl.edu> Message-ID: Thanks Adania, this sounds great. I have read The Lost Species but not Lubar, I'll check it out. Do you have a syllabus you would be willing to share? Eric Schultz Dept. of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology University of Connecticut ________________________________ From: Flemming,Adania Sent: Monday, July 2, 2018 4:25:54 PM To: Schultz, Eric; nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu Subject: RE: Who teaches courses focused on the subject of collections for undergraduates? Hi Eric, I created an undergraduate course entitled Introduction to Natural History Museums at the University of Florida. It was taught for the first time this spring 2018 and got really great reviews/feedback from students. In the future it will be given an actual course number versus being taught as a specialty course. Aims of the course ? Exploration of careers in museum-based research through student observation and immersion into the roles of collection personnel. ? Prepare students for life after their undergraduate degrees (enriched with a deeper understanding of Natural History Museums). Interesting readings which got students to understand collections and the value of specimens came from ? The Lost Species Kemp 2017 (For e.g. Introduction and Chp 23) ? Inside the Lost Museum Lubar 2017 (For e.g. Chp 6 Into the Storm) I?d be happy to chat more with you about this if this is of interest to you. Regards, Adania Flemming Graduate Student Department of Biology Florida Museum of Natural History/iDigBio University of Florida Office Phone: 352-273-1951 Email: aflemming at ufl.edu [idigbio_logo_320][Florida Museum Fish Collection logo] From: Nhcoll-l [mailto:nhcoll-l-bounces at mailman.yale.edu] On Behalf Of Schultz, Eric Sent: Monday, July 2, 2018 3:51 PM To: nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu Subject: [Nhcoll-l] Who teaches courses focused on the subject of collections for undergraduates? With a colleague at the University of Connecticut's Benton Art Museum, I am preparing a multidisciplinary course for freshman Honors students on collections and museums. The topics covered will include the history of collecting, the taxonomy of collections (e.g. art, natural history), how collections promote knowledge production and discovery, the practice of collecting and its ethics. I am interested in connecting with others who teach courses focused on collections, be they similarly multidisciplinary or confined to natural history collections--and especially if they are undergraduate courses-- what readings on these topics have you found engaging and informative? Eric Schultz Dept. of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology University of Connecticut -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Eric Schultz Dept. of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology University of Connecticut ________________________________ From: Carla Cicero Sent: Monday, July 2, 2018 10:34:35 PM To: Schultz, Eric Cc: nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu; Brent Mishler; Rosemary Gillespie; Eileen Lacey; Anna Hiller Subject: Re: [Nhcoll-l] Who teaches courses focused on the subject of collections for undergraduates? Hi Eric - There are two courses offered at UC Berkeley aimed at teaching students about collections and museums. One is a freshman seminar taught by Dr. Eileen Lacey and focused on the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology. The other is a higher level course (IB/ESPM 105, "Natural History Museums and Biodiversity Science") that is a broad collaboration between a number of faculty and staff affiliated with the different Berkeley Natural History Museums (co-led by Drs. Brent Mishler and Rosemary Gillespie). I am copying them all here in case you have more questions about the courses. In the MVZ, we also have an Undergraduate Program that engages students in museum science through the UC Berkeley Undergraduate Research Apprentice Program (URAP). Here is a paper that we published recently on that MVZ program (lead author is a former undergrad, now a grad student at LSU). Best, Carla On Mon, Jul 2, 2018 at 12:51 PM Schultz, Eric > wrote: With a colleague at the University of Connecticut's Benton Art Museum, I am preparing a multidisciplinary course for freshman Honors students on collections and museums. The topics covered will include the history of collecting, the taxonomy of collections (e.g. art, natural history), how collections promote knowledge production and discovery, the practice of collecting and its ethics. I am interested in connecting with others who teach courses focused on collections, be they similarly multidisciplinary or confined to natural history collections--and especially if they are undergraduate courses-- what readings on these topics have you found engaging and informative? Eric Schultz Dept. of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology University of Connecticut _______________________________________________ Nhcoll-l mailing list Nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu https://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/nhcoll-l _______________________________________________ NHCOLL-L is brought to you by the Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections (SPNHC), an international society whose mission is to improve the preservation, conservation and management of natural history collections to ensure their continuing value to society. See http://www.spnhc.org for membership information. 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If the test is Schiff negative (no colour change) thenI regret to say you?re back to stage 1. If you wish to rehydrate the lizard then some Decon-90 diluted to 5% in warm water works well but beware as this process can harm DNA. However, if the specimen has been in formalin for that long then the DNA sequence will have altered in the long immersion in formalin. Always use gloves but never when handling wet jars (slippery) and extract the specimen under water if it?s a tight-ish squeeze, through the neck of the jar. Hope that this helps. With all good wishes, Simon. Simon Moore MIScT, RSci, FLS, ACR Conservator of Natural Sciences and Cutlery Historian, www.natural-history-conservation.com > On 6 Jul 2018, at 00:15, Joanna Chu wrote: > > I came across a horned lizard specimen while going through jars from an old donated collection. Its holding fluid has totally evaporated and there has been a lot of large crystal formation (see photos). I do not have any information on how this specimen was fixed or what was in the holding fluid. I'm concerned about potential hazards with handling this specimen due to the crystallization (reactivity, explosive, etc.). Any information on what these crystals might be and how to safely handle the specimen would be greatly appreciated. > > Thanks, > _______________________________________________ > Nhcoll-l mailing list > Nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu > https://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/nhcoll-l > > _______________________________________________ > NHCOLL-L is brought to you by the Society for the Preservation of > Natural History Collections (SPNHC), an international society whose > mission is to improve the preservation, conservation and management of > natural history collections to ensure their continuing value to > society. 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The meeting will bring together researchers, librarians, curators, faculty, and other professionals from the United States and abroad to continue work toward development of interdisciplinary, community developed standards for 3D data preservation. This event will include presentations and discussions on best practices, management/storage, metadata, rights/ownership, and access/discoverability of 3D data, as well as the organization of future efforts. We are pleased to announce that Todd Swanson has agreed to give a plenary presentation on exciting 3D projects at The Walt Disney Archives. The registration fee is $50 for professionals and $20 for students. Additional information about the event can be found on the event website and on the project wiki . Scholarships are available for students and those with financial need. Scholarship applicants should use this form to apply . 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This initiative helps to put a face on science and to remind lawmakers that science is happening in their district and state. The Biological Sciences Congressional District Visits event enables scientists, graduate students, representatives of research facilities, and people affiliated with scientific collections to meet with their federal or state elected officials without traveling to Washington, DC. *Participants may either invite their elected officials to visit their research facility or can meet at the policymaker's local office.* AIBS will schedule meetings for participants with lawmakers and will prepare participants through online training and one-on-one support. Meetings will take place mid-July through October, depending on the participant?s schedule. 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AIBS Public Policy Report AIBS Public Policy Report, Volume 19, Issue 14, July 9, 2018 * EPA Science Advisory Board Seeks to Comment on ?Secret Science? Proposal * Puerto Rico?s Legislature Rejects Plan to Dismantle Statistical Agency * Nominations Sought for EPA Science Advisory Board * Help Inform AIBS Programming * Prepare Your Resume, Hone Your Interview Skills * Meet with Your Lawmakers to Inform Science Policy this Summer * Expand Your Broader Impact Skills: AIBS Communications Boot Camp for Scientists * Short Takes * OSTP and NSF Announce Teaching and Mentorship Awards * Three New House Bills on Coastal Resiliency and Ocean Acidification * From the Federal Register * Become an Advocate for Science: Join the AIBS Legislative Action Center ________________________________ The AIBS Public Policy Report is distributed broadly by email every two weeks to the AIBS membership. 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Cheers, Paolo [image: image.png] [image: image.png] On Mon, 9 Jul 2018 at 22:04, Dahlberg, Elisa wrote: > Hello all, > > We are looking for a way to hang several taxidermy head/shoulder mounts > (big cat, moose, elk, rhino...) on a wall to free up some space in our > collection. Does anyone have any suggestions/ideas on the best and most > cost effective way to do this? > > We have seen several examples in collection spaces ranging from Delta > brand mounts to simple chain link type fencing (for example...something > like the picture attached from the Yale folks - how you have the big cat > mounts in the back of the picture). > > We would love any suggestions on what has worked for your collections! > > Best, > Elisa > _______________________________________________ > Nhcoll-l mailing list > Nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu > https://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/nhcoll-l > > _______________________________________________ > NHCOLL-L is brought to you by the Society for the Preservation of > Natural History Collections (SPNHC), an international society whose > mission is to improve the preservation, conservation and management of > natural history collections to ensure their continuing value to > society. 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Simon Moore MIScT, RSci, FLS, ACR Conservator of Natural Sciences and Cutlery Historian, www.natural-history-conservation.com > On 10 Jul 2018, at 09:04, Paolo Viscardi wrote: > > Hi Elisa, > > My preference is for using S-hooks and cotton tape to hang and secure the heads from a steel wire mesh (see images from my previous collection's space at the Horniman). > > The S-hook provides a simple mechanism for hanging, the cotton tape allows the load on the specimen to be better distributed and I would normally use a pad of plastazote between the specimen and the mesh to prevent point loading. Damaged specimens can be 'stitched' with cotton tape onto something stiffer, like corex, and tied to the mesh. > > Cheers, > > Paolo > > > > > > > On Mon, 9 Jul 2018 at 22:04, Dahlberg, Elisa > wrote: > Hello all, > > We are looking for a way to hang several taxidermy head/shoulder mounts (big cat, moose, elk, rhino...) on a wall to free up some space in our collection. Does anyone have any suggestions/ideas on the best and most cost effective way to do this? > > We have seen several examples in collection spaces ranging from Delta brand mounts to simple chain link type fencing (for example...something like the picture attached from the Yale folks - how you have the big cat mounts in the back of the picture). > > We would love any suggestions on what has worked for your collections! > > Best, > Elisa > _______________________________________________ > Nhcoll-l mailing list > Nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu > https://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/nhcoll-l > > _______________________________________________ > NHCOLL-L is brought to you by the Society for the Preservation of > Natural History Collections (SPNHC), an international society whose > mission is to improve the preservation, conservation and management of > natural history collections to ensure their continuing value to > society. 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The chrome shelf is lined with ethafoam and heads, etc. sit on the foam. The room has a 12? ceiling so the top shelf can hold large specimens. If nothing extends beyond the boundary of the shelf unit the units can be rolled into a compact formation similar to a compactor unit. This allows me to hold more specimens in the room than if they were hanging on the walls and have easier access to them for work. The commercial shelving was not overly expensive and available locally. Just an idea that might help with some of your specimens. Thomas Labedz, Collections Manager Division of Botany and Division of Zoology University of Nebraska State Museum Lincoln, Nebraska, U.S.A. From: Nhcoll-l On Behalf Of Dahlberg, Elisa Sent: Monday, July 9, 2018 4:04 PM To: Nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu Subject: [Nhcoll-l] Wall Mount ideas Hello all, We are looking for a way to hang several taxidermy head/shoulder mounts (big cat, moose, elk, rhino...) on a wall to free up some space in our collection. Does anyone have any suggestions/ideas on the best and most cost effective way to do this? We have seen several examples in collection spaces ranging from Delta brand mounts to simple chain link type fencing (for example...something like the picture attached from the Yale folks - how you have the big cat mounts in the back of the picture). We would love any suggestions on what has worked for your collections! Best, Elisa -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: 20180709_161905sml.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 540545 bytes Desc: 20180709_161905sml.jpg URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: 20180709_161931sml.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 567224 bytes Desc: 20180709_161931sml.jpg URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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We are in the midst of a redesign for the space which will be small steps over time so we are trying to be smart about how we do this so we don't cause more work for ourselves in the future. Honestly, I am the first person to work here with a museum collections background and it's A LOT to work with. We have two spaces in mind for this set up - one is a simple drywall area which I am not sure if it will be load bearing enough. Actually, I am pretty sure it won't be. The other is a concrete block wall, which will more likely be the spot being it can support much more weight. Right now it stores a lot of shipping material we use for the other program at our facility (The National Eagle Repository), however we are moving to different shipping materials that won't take up as much space, freeing up this wall for mounts/display. I attached pictures of each space below to give you all an idea. Best, Elisa On Tue, Jul 10, 2018 at 7:46 AM, Thomas Labedz wrote: > Elisa > > At Nebraska we had the same sort of situation. In the long past the > shoulder mounts, etc. were neatly piled where ever they fit. Later a room > was remodeled with metal mesh on the walls and mounts were hung with ?S? > hooks. I found this very difficult when wanting to move a specimen or get > one down for examination, etc. And I was noticing some pretty severe damage > to the skull specimens hanging that way. After the most recent remodel > about 10 year ago I used commercial kitchen rolling shelves (see four > attached photos). These are chrome steel with adjustable shelves. Each > shelf is 2? x 6? but I?ve linked them to be 4? x 6? units. Each is 7?8? > high. The chrome shelf is lined with ethafoam and heads, etc. sit on the > foam. The room has a 12? ceiling so the top shelf can hold large specimens. > If nothing extends beyond the boundary of the shelf unit the units can be > rolled into a compact formation similar to a compactor unit. This allows me > to hold more specimens in the room than if they were hanging on the walls > and have easier access to them for work. The commercial shelving was not > overly expensive and available locally. Just an idea that might help with > some of your specimens. > > Thomas Labedz, Collections Manager > > Division of Botany and Division of Zoology > > University of Nebraska State Museum > > Lincoln, Nebraska, U.S.A. > > > > *From:* Nhcoll-l *On Behalf Of *Dahlberg, > Elisa > *Sent:* Monday, July 9, 2018 4:04 PM > *To:* Nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu > *Subject:* [Nhcoll-l] Wall Mount ideas > > > > Hello all, > > > > We are looking for a way to hang several taxidermy head/shoulder mounts > (big cat, moose, elk, rhino...) on a wall to free up some space in our > collection. Does anyone have any suggestions/ideas on the best and most > cost effective way to do this? > > > > We have seen several examples in collection spaces ranging from Delta > brand mounts to simple chain link type fencing (for example...something > like the picture attached from the Yale folks - how you have the big cat > mounts in the back of the picture). > > > > We would love any suggestions on what has worked for your collections! > > > > Best, > > Elisa > -- *Elisa L. Dahlberg* *Wildlife Repository Specialist* *U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service / **Office of Law Enforcement* *National Eagle & Wildlife Property Repository* *6550 Gateway Rd. Bldg 128 / **Commerce City, CO 80022* *303-287-2110 ex. 229 / elisa_dahlberg at fws.gov * -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Our space was limited?no compacters and no room for rolling shelves. Wall space was the only viable option for storing large mounts. Once the change was made, nothing fell off the wall during my tenure! Mary Beth Prondzinski From: Nhcoll-l [mailto:nhcoll-l-bounces at mailman.yale.edu] On Behalf Of Dahlberg, Elisa Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2018 9:38 AM To: Thomas Labedz Cc: Nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu Subject: Re: [Nhcoll-l] [EXTERNAL] RE: Wall Mount ideas Hi all, these are all great ideas! We appreciate all of your solutions to this. Our facility (The National Wildlife Property Repository) is a unique one in the fact that we are a facility for abandoned/seized wildlife products. Originally we were a salvage facility and things weren't' meant to be kept for long term. However, as our mission continues to evolve more towards an educational/outreach, the need for long(er) term preservation storage is becoming more of an issue. We are in the midst of a redesign for the space which will be small steps over time so we are trying to be smart about how we do this so we don't cause more work for ourselves in the future. Honestly, I am the first person to work here with a museum collections background and it's A LOT to work with. We have two spaces in mind for this set up - one is a simple drywall area which I am not sure if it will be load bearing enough. Actually, I am pretty sure it won't be. The other is a concrete block wall, which will more likely be the spot being it can support much more weight. Right now it stores a lot of shipping material we use for the other program at our facility (The National Eagle Repository), however we are moving to different shipping materials that won't take up as much space, freeing up this wall for mounts/display. I attached pictures of each space below to give you all an idea. Best, Elisa On Tue, Jul 10, 2018 at 7:46 AM, Thomas Labedz > wrote: Elisa At Nebraska we had the same sort of situation. In the long past the shoulder mounts, etc. were neatly piled where ever they fit. Later a room was remodeled with metal mesh on the walls and mounts were hung with ?S? hooks. I found this very difficult when wanting to move a specimen or get one down for examination, etc. And I was noticing some pretty severe damage to the skull specimens hanging that way. After the most recent remodel about 10 year ago I used commercial kitchen rolling shelves (see four attached photos). These are chrome steel with adjustable shelves. Each shelf is 2? x 6? but I?ve linked them to be 4? x 6? units. Each is 7?8? high. The chrome shelf is lined with ethafoam and heads, etc. sit on the foam. The room has a 12? ceiling so the top shelf can hold large specimens. If nothing extends beyond the boundary of the shelf unit the units can be rolled into a compact formation similar to a compactor unit. This allows me to hold more specimens in the room than if they were hanging on the walls and have easier access to them for work. The commercial shelving was not overly expensive and available locally. Just an idea that might help with some of your specimens. Thomas Labedz, Collections Manager Division of Botany and Division of Zoology University of Nebraska State Museum Lincoln, Nebraska, U.S.A. From: Nhcoll-l > On Behalf Of Dahlberg, Elisa Sent: Monday, July 9, 2018 4:04 PM To: Nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu Subject: [Nhcoll-l] Wall Mount ideas Hello all, We are looking for a way to hang several taxidermy head/shoulder mounts (big cat, moose, elk, rhino...) on a wall to free up some space in our collection. Does anyone have any suggestions/ideas on the best and most cost effective way to do this? We have seen several examples in collection spaces ranging from Delta brand mounts to simple chain link type fencing (for example...something like the picture attached from the Yale folks - how you have the big cat mounts in the back of the picture). We would love any suggestions on what has worked for your collections! Best, Elisa -- Elisa L. Dahlberg Wildlife Repository Specialist U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service / Office of Law Enforcement National Eagle & Wildlife Property Repository 6550 Gateway Rd. Bldg 128 / Commerce City, CO 80022 303-287-2110 ex. 229 / elisa_dahlberg at fws.gov -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From w.shepherd at swiftcurrent.ca Tue Jul 10 11:03:01 2018 From: w.shepherd at swiftcurrent.ca (William Shepherd) Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2018 15:03:01 +0000 Subject: [Nhcoll-l] [EXTERNAL] RE: Wall Mount ideas In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Hello Elisa, Mary has presented an interesting solution. The only thing I wanted to add is PVC wouldn?t be the best option for storage as it isn?t the most stable and does not interact well with collections. PP or PE would be a more suitable material. I would also stay away from wood based materials as well unless they are well sealed with a water based, not oil, coating. Best of luck, you seem to have been getting lots of suggestions to think of. William Shepherd Collections Officer Swift Current Museum 44 Robert Street West Swift Current, Saskatchewan S9H 4M9 Phone: 306-778-4815 Fax: 306-778-4818 Archives: http://sain.scaa.sk.ca/collections/swift-current-museum Library: https://www.librarything.com/profile/SwiftCurrentMuseum Website: http://www.swiftcurrent.ca From: Nhcoll-l On Behalf Of Prondzinski, Mary Beth Sent: July 10, 2018 8:49 AM To: Dahlberg, Elisa Cc: Nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu Subject: Re: [Nhcoll-l] [EXTERNAL] RE: Wall Mount ideas Hi Elisa, Another idea would be slat board, which comes with a variety of hooks and devices to accommodate almost any scenario. It comes in PVC for museum quality storage. We used slat board in the storage area of the Fairbanks Museum in Vermont to hang our taxidermy, which routinely fell off the S hooks and peg board they initially hung from (!) Our space was limited?no compacters and no room for rolling shelves. Wall space was the only viable option for storing large mounts. Once the change was made, nothing fell off the wall during my tenure! Mary Beth Prondzinski From: Nhcoll-l [mailto:nhcoll-l-bounces at mailman.yale.edu] On Behalf Of Dahlberg, Elisa Sent: Tuesday, July 10, 2018 9:38 AM To: Thomas Labedz Cc: Nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu Subject: Re: [Nhcoll-l] [EXTERNAL] RE: Wall Mount ideas Hi all, these are all great ideas! We appreciate all of your solutions to this. Our facility (The National Wildlife Property Repository) is a unique one in the fact that we are a facility for abandoned/seized wildlife products. Originally we were a salvage facility and things weren't' meant to be kept for long term. However, as our mission continues to evolve more towards an educational/outreach, the need for long(er) term preservation storage is becoming more of an issue. We are in the midst of a redesign for the space which will be small steps over time so we are trying to be smart about how we do this so we don't cause more work for ourselves in the future. Honestly, I am the first person to work here with a museum collections background and it's A LOT to work with. We have two spaces in mind for this set up - one is a simple drywall area which I am not sure if it will be load bearing enough. Actually, I am pretty sure it won't be. The other is a concrete block wall, which will more likely be the spot being it can support much more weight. Right now it stores a lot of shipping material we use for the other program at our facility (The National Eagle Repository), however we are moving to different shipping materials that won't take up as much space, freeing up this wall for mounts/display. I attached pictures of each space below to give you all an idea. Best, Elisa On Tue, Jul 10, 2018 at 7:46 AM, Thomas Labedz > wrote: Elisa At Nebraska we had the same sort of situation. In the long past the shoulder mounts, etc. were neatly piled where ever they fit. Later a room was remodeled with metal mesh on the walls and mounts were hung with ?S? hooks. I found this very difficult when wanting to move a specimen or get one down for examination, etc. And I was noticing some pretty severe damage to the skull specimens hanging that way. After the most recent remodel about 10 year ago I used commercial kitchen rolling shelves (see four attached photos). These are chrome steel with adjustable shelves. Each shelf is 2? x 6? but I?ve linked them to be 4? x 6? units. Each is 7?8? high. The chrome shelf is lined with ethafoam and heads, etc. sit on the foam. The room has a 12? ceiling so the top shelf can hold large specimens. If nothing extends beyond the boundary of the shelf unit the units can be rolled into a compact formation similar to a compactor unit. This allows me to hold more specimens in the room than if they were hanging on the walls and have easier access to them for work. The commercial shelving was not overly expensive and available locally. Just an idea that might help with some of your specimens. Thomas Labedz, Collections Manager Division of Botany and Division of Zoology University of Nebraska State Museum Lincoln, Nebraska, U.S.A. From: Nhcoll-l > On Behalf Of Dahlberg, Elisa Sent: Monday, July 9, 2018 4:04 PM To: Nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu Subject: [Nhcoll-l] Wall Mount ideas Hello all, We are looking for a way to hang several taxidermy head/shoulder mounts (big cat, moose, elk, rhino...) on a wall to free up some space in our collection. Does anyone have any suggestions/ideas on the best and most cost effective way to do this? We have seen several examples in collection spaces ranging from Delta brand mounts to simple chain link type fencing (for example...something like the picture attached from the Yale folks - how you have the big cat mounts in the back of the picture). We would love any suggestions on what has worked for your collections! Best, Elisa -- Elisa L. Dahlberg Wildlife Repository Specialist U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service / Office of Law Enforcement National Eagle & Wildlife Property Repository 6550 Gateway Rd. Bldg 128 / Commerce City, CO 80022 303-287-2110 ex. 229 / elisa_dahlberg at fws.gov -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From lschlenk at ku.edu Thu Jul 12 09:47:10 2018 From: lschlenk at ku.edu (Schlenker, Lori Bryn) Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2018 13:47:10 +0000 Subject: [Nhcoll-l] Position Announcement - Vert Paleo Collection Manager Message-ID: POSITION ANNOUNCEMENT COLLECTION MANAGER - Vertebrate Paleontology The University of Kansas Biodiversity Institute seeks a collection manager to oversee its world-class research collections in vertebrate paleontology. The collections consist of extensive fossil vertebrate specimens, along with archives and library holdings. The collections have particular strengths in Paleozoic and Mesozoic fishes and Paleozoic tetrapods; fishes, plesiosaurs, mosasaurs, ichthyosaurs, pterosaurs and toothed birds from the Niobrara Chalk; Jurassic and Cretaceous dinosaurs from the Western Interior; Cenozoic mammals from the central and western parts of the USA; and a remarkable late Pleistocene fauna from Natural Trap Cave, Wyoming. KU faculty, staff and students, as well as national and international scholars use the collections extensively for research and education. The collection manager is responsible for day-to-day activities in the collection and reports to the curator-in-charge. This is a full-time (12-month appointment), non-tenure track position. Duties include: * Collection management and conservation of the various collections. * Acquisition and collection development in conjunction with curators and students. * Museum operational service including day-to-day care and use of the collections. * Continue development and enhancement of collection database. * Supervision and training of graduate and undergraduate research assistants and students, and volunteers. * Professional development to maintain currency in and advance the field. * Other duties as appropriate. Required qualifications: * Master's degree or Ph.D. in museum studies, geology, evolutionary biology, or paleontology from an accredited university plus experience working with museum collections in a position with similar responsibilities. * Working knowledge of the taxonomy and identification of fossil vertebrates as evidence by previous experience and/or education. * Demonstrable knowledge of care and management of natural history collections, with a special emphasis on preventative conservation, collection-storage environments, and techniques pertaining uniquely to fossil vertebrate collections as evidenced by previous experience. * Familiarity with biodiversity informatics, including relational databases (e.g., Specify), web-based applications, and distributed networks as evidenced by previous experience and/or education. And preference will be given to applicants with: * Previous collection-management experience. * Expertise in one or more taxa that constitute divisional strengths and programmatic priorities. * Field experience collecting fossil vertebrate specimens. * Experience preparing fossil vertebrate specimens. A complete application will include (1) a letter of application addressing qualifications, (2) CV, (3) statement of collection management philosophy, (4) names and email address of three individuals who can write a letter of recommendation, and (5) representative publications (the latter is optional). More information and a complete position description may be obtained by contacting: * K. Christopher Beard, Biodiversity Institute, Division of Vertebrate Paleontology, Senior Curator, chris.beard at ku.edu * Jaime Keeler, Biodiversity Institute Business Coordinator, jrkeeler at ku.edu The workplace is located in Dyche Hall and PSB on the university campus. The Biodiversity Institute is a healthy, dynamic, nourishing intellectual environment that values creativity, professional growth and collaborative interaction. The University of Kansas offers a fine benefits package for this permanent full-time position. Application review begins 7 September 2018. EO/AA. We celebrate diversity in all life forms. To apply go to: https://employment.ku.edu/staff/12247BR Lori Schlenker KU Biodiversity Institute & Natural History Museum Dyche Hall 1345 Jayhawk Blvd. Lawrence, KS 66045 lschlenk at ku.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Melissa.Roberts at humboldt.edu Thu Jul 12 10:20:57 2018 From: Melissa.Roberts at humboldt.edu (Melissa T Hawkins) Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2018 07:20:57 -0700 Subject: [Nhcoll-l] Part time collections manager Message-ID: Please see the attachment detailing a part time collection manager in the Vertebrate Museum at Humboldt State University. This is a half-time, temporary position with the possibility of renewal. Feel free to email me off list at melissa.hawkins at humboldt.edu with questions. -Melissa Hawkins Melissa TR Hawkins, PhD *Assistant Professor and Curator of the Vertebrate Museum* Humboldt State University Arcata, CA 95521 http://melissa-hawkins.weebly.com (707) 826-5559 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: 18-27 Vacancy Announcement.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 1386508 bytes Desc: not available URL: From Melissa.Roberts at humboldt.edu Thu Jul 12 10:20:57 2018 From: Melissa.Roberts at humboldt.edu (Melissa T Hawkins) Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2018 07:20:57 -0700 Subject: [Nhcoll-l] Part time collections manager Message-ID: Please see the attachment detailing a part time collection manager in the Vertebrate Museum at Humboldt State University. This is a half-time, temporary position with the possibility of renewal. Feel free to email me off list at melissa.hawkins at humboldt.edu with questions. -Melissa Hawkins Melissa TR Hawkins, PhD *Assistant Professor and Curator of the Vertebrate Museum* Humboldt State University Arcata, CA 95521 http://melissa-hawkins.weebly.com (707) 826-5559 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: 18-27 Vacancy Announcement.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 1386508 bytes Desc: not available URL: From jchu at csumb.edu Thu Jul 12 19:28:13 2018 From: jchu at csumb.edu (Joanna Chu) Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2018 16:28:13 -0700 Subject: [Nhcoll-l] Riker Mount Heat Treatment for Pests Message-ID: We recently received a donation of several boxes of insect Riker mounts and at least some have active pest infestations, so we need to either heat treat or freeze them all. We are fairly limited on freezer space so I was wondering if anyone has heat treated Riker mount specimens before and has any info on protocols or contraindications for this method. Thanks, *Joanna Chu* Organismal Biology Lab Support Technician School of Natural Sciences California State University, Monterey Bay 100 Campus Center, Seaside CA 93955-8001 831.582.4016 jchu at csumb.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dyanega at ucr.edu Thu Jul 12 20:07:38 2018 From: dyanega at ucr.edu (Doug Yanega) Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2018 17:07:38 -0700 Subject: [Nhcoll-l] Riker Mount Heat Treatment for Pests In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <6a000a0a-6a57-47a6-2b8d-e7cfbefc6f9e@ucr.edu> On 7/12/18 4:28 PM, Joanna Chu wrote: > We recently received a donation of several boxes of insect Riker > mounts and at least some have active pest infestations, so we need to > either heat treat or freeze them all. We are fairly limited on freezer > space so I was wondering if anyone has heat treated Riker mount > specimens before and has any info on protocols or contraindications > for this method. Heat treating is much more likely to damage insect specimens than freezing; all major entomology collections I know of use freezing for dermestid control. Assuming that the freezer is cold enough, the usual protocol is to put the units/mounts in plastic bags, then 48-72 hours in the freezer, 24 hour thaw, and then 24 more hours in the freezer, then let them come back to room temperature before opening the bags again. If your freezer space is limited, that's par for the course. We just rotate units in and out until everything has cycled through; it can take weeks or even months. Bear in mind also that it's a situation calling for triage; any Riker mount that has sufficient damage already is generally not worth attempting to salvage, so they can be disposed of, rather than wasting time and energy on them. Hope this helps, -- Doug Yanega Dept. of Entomology Entomology Research Museum Univ. of California, Riverside, CA 92521-0314 skype: dyanega phone: (951) 827-4315 (disclaimer: opinions are mine, not UCR's) http://cache.ucr.edu/~heraty/yanega.html "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method" - Herman Melville, Moby Dick, Chap. 82 From AndersonG at CarnegieMNH.Org Fri Jul 13 06:04:50 2018 From: AndersonG at CarnegieMNH.Org (Anderson, Gretchen) Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2018 10:04:50 +0000 Subject: [Nhcoll-l] Riker Mount Heat Treatment for Pests In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Hello Joanna, I suggest that you run a test on an empty Riker mount or one that has an expendable specimen. Follow the procedures described on museumpest.net. This will inform you of it is safe, which I suspect it is. Sent from my iPhone On Jul 12, 2018, at 7:28 PM, Joanna Chu > wrote: We recently received a donation of several boxes of insect Riker mounts and at least some have active pest infestations, so we need to either heat treat or freeze them all. We are fairly limited on freezer space so I was wondering if anyone has heat treated Riker mount specimens before and has any info on protocols or contraindications for this method. 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We are fairly limited on freezer space so I was wondering if anyone has heat treated Riker mount specimens before and has any info on protocols or contraindications for this method. Thanks, Joanna Chu Organismal Biology Lab Support Technician School of Natural Sciences California State University, Monterey Bay 100 Campus Center, Seaside CA 93955-8001 831.582.4016 jchu at csumb.edu _______________________________________________ Nhcoll-l mailing list Nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu https://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/nhcoll-l _______________________________________________ NHCOLL-L is brought to you by the Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections (SPNHC), an international society whose mission is to improve the preservation, conservation and management of natural history collections to ensure their continuing value to society. See http://www.spnhc.org for membership information. Advertising on NH-COLL-L is inappropriate. 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Woller, Ph.D. Entomologist, Rangeland Grasshopper and Mormon Cricket Management Team, USDA: APHIS, PPQ, CPHST - Phoenix Lab 3645 East Wier Ave., Phoenix, AZ, 85040 Office: 602-431-3246 Cell: 480-490-6454 Fax: 602-431-3258 Derek.A.Woller at aphis.usda.gov https://www.aphis.usda.gov/aphis/ourfocus/planthealth/ppq-program-overview/cphst/ct_dspmsl http://www.aphis.usda.gov/plant-health/grasshopper Proud to be an explorer of the final biological frontier: entomology. On Fri, Jul 13, 2018, 6:36 AM Nancy Glover McCartney wrote: > Msuter at uark.edu > > Get Outlook for iOS > > ------------------------------ > *From:* 1677725440n behalf of > *Sent:* Friday, July 13, 2018 5:05 AM > *To:* Joanna Chu > *Cc:* nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu > *Subject:* Re: [Nhcoll-l] Riker Mount Heat Treatment for Pests > > Hello Joanna, > > I suggest that you run a test on an empty Riker mount or one that has an > expendable specimen. Follow the procedures described on museumpest.net > . > This will inform you of it is safe, which I suspect it is. > > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Jul 12, 2018, at 7:28 PM, Joanna Chu wrote: > > We recently received a donation of several boxes of insect Riker mounts > and at least some have active pest infestations, so we need to either heat > treat or freeze them all. We are fairly limited on freezer space so I was > wondering if anyone has heat treated Riker mount specimens before and has > any info on protocols or contraindications for this method. > > Thanks, > > *Joanna Chu* > > Organismal Biology Lab Support Technician > School of Natural Sciences > California State University, Monterey Bay > 100 Campus Center, Seaside CA 93955-8001 > > 831.582.4016 > jchu at csumb.edu > > _______________________________________________ > Nhcoll-l mailing list > Nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu > https://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/nhcoll-l > > > _______________________________________________ > NHCOLL-L is brought to you by the Society for the Preservation of > Natural History Collections (SPNHC), an international society whose > mission is to improve the preservation, conservation and management of > natural history collections to ensure their continuing value to > society. 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URL: From Nicole.Fisher at csiro.au Tue Jul 17 03:55:41 2018 From: Nicole.Fisher at csiro.au (Nicole.Fisher at csiro.au) Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2018 07:55:41 +0000 Subject: [Nhcoll-l] Questionnaire : Integrating Changes into Collections Databases: Challenges and Opportunities Message-ID: <57170e0ae2b846c9b4a4684d4a4f3acf@exch3-cdc.nexus.csiro.au> Questionnaire : Integrating Changes into Collections Databases: Challenges and Opportunities The purpose of this questionnaire is to gather information from the collections community regarding your experience incorporating changes into your local collections databases. Our goals are to compile and share findings at SPNHC-TDWG 2018 as part of the SPNHC symposium: Challenges for Implementing Collections Data Quality Feedback: synthesizing the community experience. Our interests are in the skills, processes, and resources needed (or missing) when collections staff work to integrate data from aggregators and/or crowd-sourced transcriptions back into their local databases. We plan to share the critical information collected in these surveys to help current and future programs design and implement improved data integration and data quality efforts. Many changes might need to be integrated into collection databases. These two surveys focus on : * data quality feedback suggestions from aggregators, and * information provided by crowdsourcing efforts (e.g., online transcription platforms), Please take either questionnaire, or both, as is appropriate. Each survey is estimated to take a maximum of 5 to 10 minutes. Results will be shared at SPNHC-TDWG 2018 and with you as well if you provide contact information. Survey 1: Integrating Data Quality Feedback from Aggregators into Collection Databases http://bit.ly/integrateDQ Survey 2: Integrating Crowdsourced Data into Collection Databases http://bit.ly/integrateCrowdData Thanks very much. In anticipation, Deb Paul (iDigBio) & Nicole Fisher (CSIRO) Nicole Fisher Digital Collections and Informatics National Research Collections Australia (NRCA) CSIRO E nicole.fisher at csiro.au T +61 2 6246 4261 M +61 (0) 475 972 827 Address : GPO Box 1700, Canberra ACT 2601, Australia www.csiro.au/en/Research/Collections -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From secretary at spnhc.org Tue Jul 17 17:21:40 2018 From: secretary at spnhc.org (secretary at spnhc.org) Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2018 16:21:40 -0500 Subject: [Nhcoll-l] HOUSE TO VOTE ON NEA & NEH BUDGET CUTS - CALL YOUR REPRESENTATIVE TODAY! Message-ID: <1531862500.082511495@apps.rackspace.com> From: Alliance Museums Advocacy [mailto:advocacy at aam-us.org] Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2018 1:27 PM To: SPNHC President Subject: HOUSE TO VOTE ON NEA & NEH BUDGET CUTS - CALL YOUR REPRESENTATIVE TODAY! Are you having trouble viewing this message? [ Click here ]( https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__t.congressweb.com_w_-3FJMUKWMQDXK&d=DwMFAw&c=WO-RGvefibhHBZq3fL85hQ&r=_EekXyDnqyDJbjUVvAb_UJolU-631fxKk78iqckD60k&m=InV-7b-yBUKLmezTn1glis4bLVvi7TD8v8r7l9-S6SE&s=abEe29sq8bCPjzjdZqh8pV-7IffyjK41Kt5Fx8yQ3Rc&e= ) Advocacy Alert - July 17, 2018 HOUSE TO VOTE ON NEA & NEH BUDGET CUTS - CALL YOUR REPRESENTATIVE TODAY! The U.S. House of Representatives today will begin consideration of spending measures on the House floor, including the Interior, Environment & Related Agencies Fiscal Year (FY) 2019 appropriations bill, which contains funding for the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA). During debate on the bill, Representative Glenn Grothman (R-WI-06) is expected to offer an amendment to cut $23,250,000 from each agency. Currently, the bill contains $155 million in Fiscal Year FY 2019 funding for each agency which would be a $2 million increase for both compared with FY 2018. We need immediate help from museum advocates to prevent approval of this harmful proposed amendment. 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The nonprofit arts industry produces $166 billion annually in economic activity, supports 4.6 million full-time equivalent jobs in the arts and related industries, and generates $27.5 billion in revenue to local, state, and federal governments. In partnership with the [ NEA ]( https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__t.congressweb.com_l_-3FJMUKWMQDXKEYNSG&d=DwMFAw&c=WO-RGvefibhHBZq3fL85hQ&r=_EekXyDnqyDJbjUVvAb_UJolU-631fxKk78iqckD60k&m=InV-7b-yBUKLmezTn1glis4bLVvi7TD8v8r7l9-S6SE&s=Coyf6A96EN_My6UOTAKUcCj6iOxacREqSuNxTj-Sz0I&e= ), state arts agencies annually award more than 20,000 grants to organizations, schools, and artists in more than 4,400 communities across the United States. On average, each dollar awarded by the NEA leverages at least nine dollars from other state, local, and private sources. Private support cannot match the leveraging role of government cultural funding. Again I urge you to vote "no" on the Grothman amendment and support funding of at least $155 million each for NEA and NEH in order to bolster museums' vital work in our community. If you would like to send a letter to your Representative supporting the NEH and NEA in addition to your call please feel free to use [ our template ]( https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__t.congressweb.com_l_-3FJMUKWMQDXKINJAT&d=DwMFAw&c=WO-RGvefibhHBZq3fL85hQ&r=_EekXyDnqyDJbjUVvAb_UJolU-631fxKk78iqckD60k&m=InV-7b-yBUKLmezTn1glis4bLVvi7TD8v8r7l9-S6SE&s=xnjb7xy6I5vxaXM2UqTlr_o_91VIwazNQOd7zPEjQoI&e= ). Thank you for your advocacy for museums! 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URL: From jpandey at aibs.org Wed Jul 18 10:55:12 2018 From: jpandey at aibs.org (Jyotsna Pandey) Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2018 10:55:12 -0400 Subject: [Nhcoll-l] Meet with Your Lawmakers This Summer and Help Inform Science Policy Message-ID: *Meet with Your Lawmakers This Summer and Help Inform Science Policy* The American Institute of Biological Sciences is pleased to announce that registration is now open for the 10th annual Biological Sciences Congressional District Visits event. This national initiative is an opportunity for biologists across the country to meet with their federal or state elected officials to showcase the people, facilities, and equipment that are required to support and conduct scientific research. This initiative helps to put a face on science and to remind lawmakers that science is happening in their district and state. The Biological Sciences Congressional District Visits event enables scientists, graduate students, representatives of research facilities, and people affiliated with scientific collections to meet with their federal or state elected officials without traveling to Washington, DC. *Participants may either invite their elected officials to visit their research facility or can meet at the policymaker's local office.* AIBS will schedule meetings for participants with lawmakers and will prepare participants through online training and one-on-one support. Meetings will take place mid-July through October, depending on the participant?s schedule. The event is made possible by the American Institute of Biological Sciences, with the support of event sponsors American Society of Naturalists, Botanical Society of America, Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology, Helminthological Society of Washington, Natural Science Collections Alliance, Paleontological Society, Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections, and Society for the Study of Evolution. Individual registration for participation is free, but required. Registration closes on July 19, 2018. To register, visit https://www.aibs.org/ public-policy/congressional_district_visits.html. Please share this announcement with interested colleagues and graduate students. 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URL: From libby.beckman at gmail.com Wed Jul 18 17:27:56 2018 From: libby.beckman at gmail.com (Libby Beckman) Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2018 21:27:56 +0000 Subject: [Nhcoll-l] Vertebrate Curator position at University of Montana In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Dear all, I am excited to announce the *University of Montana Zoological Museum (UMZM)* is looking for an enthusiastic and knowledgeable *Curator* to start in Fall 2018! UMZM includes over 22,000 specimens (primarily birds and mammals), most of which are housed in a newly-constructed conservation collection space. The collection is fully inventoried as of 2018 and will be accessible nationally by the online museum database Arctos. The curator will curate all biological collections at UMZM including research and teaching collections. The University of Montana has strong undergraduate and graduate programs in Wildlife and Organismal Biology and Ecology, so there will be many opportunities for the Curator to support enthusiastic students in the museum and collaborate with faculty on research and outreach. Please share this announcement with promising candidates in your programs! To read the job posting, go to: https://university-montana-hr.silkroad.com/epostings/index.cfm?fuseaction=app.jobinfo&jobid=2027&company_id=16254&version=1&source=ONLINE&jobOwner=992274&aid=1 For full consideration, applications should be submitted by August 6, 2018. Feel free to direct any informal inquiries about the job to me. Thanks, Libby Beckman -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dtrock at calacademy.org Fri Jul 20 19:02:14 2018 From: dtrock at calacademy.org (Debra Trock) Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2018 16:02:14 -0700 Subject: [Nhcoll-l] Herpetology Student Collection Grant Available Message-ID: The Department of Herpetology at the California Academy of Sciences is pleased to announce the Michele L. Aldridge Collections Research Grant. The grant is awarded to graduate students who wish to conduct collections-based research in the Department of Herpetology. Please the link below for more information about the grant and what expenses it will cover. Feel free to contact Lauren Scheinberg ( lscheinberg at calacademy.org) with any additional questions. https://www.calacademy.org/aldridge-grant Dr. Debra Trock *Director of Science Collections &* *Senior Collections Manager, Botany* California Academy of Sciences 55 Music Concourse Drive San Francisco, CA 94118 dtrock at calacademy.org PH: 415-379-5363 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From mphillips at flmnh.ufl.edu Mon Jul 23 11:25:52 2018 From: mphillips at flmnh.ufl.edu (Phillips,Molly) Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2018 15:25:52 +0000 Subject: [Nhcoll-l] SPNHC/TDWG 2018 Educational Share Fair Announcement and Sign-up Message-ID: The Biodiversity Literacy in Undergraduate Education Network (BLUE), Ecological Society of America (ESA), and iDigBio are co-sponsoring a new session at the 2018 SPNHC/TDWG meeting entitled the Educational Materials Share Fair to be held on Thursday, August 30, 2018, from 11:00-12:30 NZST in Castle D (40). This is an opportunity for colleagues to share and get feedback on education or outreach materials. Materials can be at any stage of development from fledgling ideas to fully vetted materials. All are welcome to either share as developers or participate as potential adopters. This Share Fair differs from the normal SPNHC DemoCamp in both format and focus. During the one hour time period, we will offer two rounds of up to ten developer presentations simultaneously. Each developer will be set up at a round table and be given 20 minutes to present their materials and ideas, collect feedback, and generate discussion with potential adopters and interested colleagues that join their table discussion. These are intended as informal sessions so no AV will be provided, but developers can bring a laptop and copies of any of their materials they wish to share. Depending on the number of proposals to present, we will offer up to 20 unique presentations or repeat the 10 presentations. Participants will be able to give feedback to two developers. Each table may have up to nine participants depending on the number of attendees. The goals are to build the education and outreach community within SPNHC, facilitate development and implementation of collections-based education and outreach materials, and increase awareness and use of collections-based science. Finally, the session will provide an overview of the opportunity to publish collections-based educational materials in a special issue of ESA's Teaching Issues and Experiments in Ecology (TIEE). If you are interested in presenting your material please go here (https://goo.gl/forms/rwzCEsvv2fW7o6Hx2) to sign up where you will be asked the title of your activity, an abstract that includes a description and designation of where you are at in development, and your name and institution. Registration closes at the end of business on August 13, 2018. Announcement: https://www.idigbio.org/content/spnhc-2018-educational-materials-share-fair Molly Phillips iDigBio Education and Outreach Coordinator Florida Museum of Natural History Office: 352-273-1530 Fax: 352-294-1921 mphillips at flmnh.ufl.edu https://www.idigbio.org/ http://www.biodiversityliteracy.com/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From abentley at ku.edu Tue Jul 24 07:33:29 2018 From: abentley at ku.edu (Bentley, Andrew Charles) Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2018 11:33:29 +0000 Subject: [Nhcoll-l] FW: Science Policy News from AIBS In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <6DA00203-4450-43C4-A66F-8D4ED5C9C96D@ku.edu> From: AIBS Public Policy Office on behalf of AIBS Public Policy Office Reply-To: AIBS Public Policy Office Date: Monday, July 23, 2018 at 7:31 PM To: Andrew Bentley Subject: Science Policy News from AIBS Email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser. AIBS Public Policy Report AIBS Public Policy Report, Volume 19, Issue 15, July 23, 2018 * AIBS, Community Ask EPA to Rescind Proposed ?Secret Science? Rule * White House Nominates Entomologist to Lead USDA Research * Revisions Proposed to Revamp Endangered Species Regulations * NSF To Launch ?2026 Idea Machine? Contest * Lawmakers Introduce Legislation Regulating Invasive Species * NSF Announces STEM Education Advisory Panel * Prepare Your Resume, Hone Your Interview Skills * Meet with Your Lawmakers to Inform Science Policy this Summer * Expand Your Broader Impact Skills: AIBS Communications Boot Camp for Scientists * Short Takes * NASEM Report on Indoor Microbiomes and Human Health * From the Federal Register * Become an Advocate for Science: Join the AIBS Legislative Action Center ________________________________ The AIBS Public Policy Report is distributed broadly by email every two weeks to the AIBS membership. Any interested party may self-subscribe to receive these free reports by email or RSS news feed, by going to www.aibs.org/public-policy-reports. With proper attribution to AIBS, all material from these reports may be reproduced or forwarded. AIBS staff appreciates receiving copies of materials used. If you have questions, comments, or suggestions, please contact the AIBS Director of Public Policy, Robert Gropp, at 202-628-1500 x 250. ________________________________ AIBS, Community Ask EPA to Rescind Proposed ?Secret Science? Rule The American Institute of Biological Sciences (AIBS) has officially requested that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) rescind its proposed rule ?Strengthening Transparency in Regulatory Science.? The proposed rule, which would bar the use of scientific studies in drafting new regulations unless the underlying data ?are publicly available in a manner sufficient for independent validation.? ?We support the objective of increased transparency in the rulemaking process, but the proposed rule is inadequately defined and thus itself lacks transparency and appropriate public protections,? according to AIBS. AIBS urged EPA to ?initiate a new, transparent, and interactive process with the scientific, public health, and environmental management communities, as well as other appropriate stakeholders to identify responsible and viable approaches for promoting greater understanding of the science and data used to inform EPA decision-making.? Read AIBS? comments here: https://www.aibs.org/position-statements/20180713_aibs_comments_o_9.html AIBS was also among 69 academic, scientific, and health organizations - including several AIBS Member Societies - to release a public statement calling for EPA to withdraw its proposal. Read the press release here: https://www.michaeljfox.org/files/EPA_Transparency_Rule.pdf On July 17, 2018, EPA held a public hearing, where over a hundred speakers, including AIBS, provided oral testimony on the draft rule. A majority of the speakers, lawmakers included, criticized the proposal. Representative Suzanne Bonamici (D-OR) warned that the draft rule would ?impede, if not eradicate, the EPA's ability to protect Americans from significant risks to human health and to the environment? and Representative Paul Tonko (D-NY) said that the proposal was ?ill-conceived.? White House Nominates Entomologist to Lead USDA Research President Trump has nominated Dr. Scott Hutchins, the Global Head of Integrated Field Sciences for Corteva Agriscience, the agriculture division of DowDuPont, for the top science role at the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). Hutchins is an entomologist with a background in insect management and crop protection. If confirmed by the Senate, he will oversee the Agricultural Research Service as the Undersecretary of Agriculture for Research, Education, and Economics. Hutchins has a Ph.D. in entomology from Iowa State University, where he studied the effect of insect-induced injury on alfalfa. Presently, he works on pest management chemicals at Corteva and is an adjunct professor at the University of Nebraska. He has served as President of the Entomological Society of America, an AIBS Member Society. Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue commented, ?His extensive background in research and commitment to sound science and data make him exceptionally qualified for this post, and I am eager to have Dr. Hutchins join the team.? Michael Parrella, President of the Entomological Society of America, said in a statement, ?Dr. Scott Hutchins is an ideal candidate for the role of USDA undersecretary? His credentials in both science and leadership are hard to match, and he knows first-hand the value of research, government, and industry working together to support agriculture and serve society.? President Trump?s previous nominee for this position, Sam Clovis, withdrew his nomination after drawing widespread criticism for his lack of qualifications and controversial comments on race. Revisions Proposed to Revamp Endangered Species Regulations The United States Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) have released a joint proposal to make significant revisions to regulations that implement the Endangered Species Act (ESA). ESA was enacted in 1973 with the goal of preventing plants and animals from becoming extinct. The Administration has proposed changes to the enforcement of ESA that would make it harder to provide protections for certain species. The inter-agency proposal tightens the definition of ?foreseeable future? for making crucial ESA decisions. This is in reference to the ESA requirement that USFWS or the National Marine Fisheries Service must determine whether a species is ?in danger of extinction, or likely to become so within the foreseeable future? when making a listing decision. Under the new proposal, foreseeable future only extends so far as officials ?can reasonably determine that the conditions posing the potential danger of extinction are probable.? The proposal would also eliminate the ?blanket 4(d)? rule, which allows the same broad protections for threatened species that are received by endangered species. This move, which would only cover future listings, would result in narrower protections, made on a case-by-case basis, for threatened species. The Administration has also proposed removing language that guides officials to ignore economic burdens when determining how species should be protected. ?We propose to remove the phrase, ?without reference to possible economic or other impacts of such determination,?? to more closely align with the statutory language,? the proposed rule reads. ?The act requires the secretary to make determinations based ?solely on the basis of the best scientific and commercial data.?? The proposal makes a key change to the designation of ?critical habitats?, which are areas essential for recovery of a species. These areas are sometimes still considered ?critical? when it is not occupied by the species in question. The new rules would allow USFWS and NOAA Fisheries to designate unoccupied areas ?critical habitat? only when the occupied areas are inadequate for the conservation of the species or if inclusion of unoccupied areas would yield other specified advantages. This could potentially shrink critical habitat. The proposal has raised concerns in the conservation community. Jamie Rappaport Clark, President and CEO of the Defenders of Wildlife and former Director of USFWS said, ?These regulations are the heart of how the Endangered Species Act is implemented. Imperiled species depend on them for their very lives.? Clark expressed concerns that the changes ?would undercut the effectiveness of the ESA and put species at risk of extinction.? ?These proposals would slam a wrecking ball into the most crucial protections for our most endangered wildlife,? said Brett Hartl, Government Affairs Director at the Center for Biological Diversity. ?If these regulations had been in place in the 1970s, the bald eagle and the gray whale would be extinct today.? It is anticipated that the proposal will be published in the Federal Register on July 25, 2018 and will invite public comment for 60 days. NSF To Launch ?2026 Idea Machine? Contest The National Science Foundation (NSF) will launch a contest in August 2018 that will provide the public a chance to suggest ?pressing research questions? that need to be addressed in the next decade. The NSF 2026 Idea Machine competition aims to identify the next set of ?Big Ideas? for future NSF investments and will ?help set the U.S. agenda for fundamental research in science and engineering.? The competition will give researchers, the public, and other interested stakeholders the opportunity to submit online entries, starting August 31, proposing transformational research ideas that fit within the mission of the agency. ?We don?t want [the idea] to be something NSF is already doing,? says Suzi Iacono, Head of NSF?s Office of Integrative Activities. ?We want it to be exciting, and original, and important in terms of the potential benefits to science and to society.? NSF staff will first review the submitted ideas and then the authors of the 30 most promising ideas will be asked to submit videos for public comment. An advisory panel will review this feedback, interview the top candidates, and propose finalists. NSF will make the final decision and announce the winners in the summer of 2019. Winners will receive ?public recognition, cash prizes, and other awards.? Lawmakers Introduce Legislation Regulating Invasive Species Senator Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) and Representative Elise Stefanik (R-NY) have introduced bicameral legislation, the Invasive Fish and Wildlife Prevention Act of 2018, that would give the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) greater authority to ?regulate nonnative species and prohibit them from being imported or sold in the United States.? Presently, more than 200 species have been listed as ?injurious wildlife,? a designation given by the USFWS to species considered harmful to wildlife and natural resources in the United States. These species cannot be imported into the country or sold without a USFWS permit. However, under the current system, the designation is given only after a species has already been introduced. The bipartisan legislation would address the invasive species threat before they are imported by establishing a new injurious species listing process based on scientific risk analysis. The bill would also give USFWS the power to make emergency designations for species that pose an ?imminent threat.? The bill does not impose restrictions on the import of dead natural history museum specimens or scientific collections as long as the specimen is adequately preserved to minimize the risk of exposure from any harmful pathogens or parasites. ?Whether it?s Asian Carp in our lakes or the Emerald Ash Borer in our forests, invasive species threaten our environment and our economy, and we have to do everything we can to block them from coming into our state,? said Senator Gillibrand. ?The Invasive Fish and Wildlife Prevention Act would help better protect our precious natural resources, strengthen our economy, draw tourism to our state, and provide clean drinking water to New Yorkers.? Asian Carp is a prominent threat to the Great Lakes, which provide drinking water to over 30 million people and support a $7 billion fishing industry and a $15.5 billion boating industry. Ash trees across 31 states have been infested by the Emerald Ash Borer beetle resulting in negative ecological impacts. Representative Stefanik said, ?This important bill will give the Fish and Wildlife Service needed flexibility to regulate and combat invasive pests that threaten our region, and I urge my colleagues in the House to support it.? NSF Announces STEM Education Advisory Panel The National Science Foundation (NSF) has appointed eighteen members to a new advisory panel to promote science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education. NSF consulted with the Department of Education, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) in making the appointments. The new STEM Education Advisory Panel, composed of individuals from nonprofit, business, academic, and informal education organizations, will be chaired by Gabriela Gonzalez, Deputy Director of the Intel Foundation, Intel Corporation. David Evans, Executive Director of the National Science Teachers Association, will serve as Vice Chair. The advisory panel was authorized by Congress to advise the Committee on Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Education (CoSTEM) on STEM education related issues. The panel will advise CoSTEM on updating the 2013-2018 Federal STEM Education 5-Year Strategic Plan to improve the efficiency and impact of federal STEM education investments. The panel will also be responsible for assessing CoSTEM's activities mandated by the America COMPETES Reauthorization Act. ?This new panel has an opportunity to bring fresh eyes and novel approaches to CoSTEM's next five-year strategic plan, which will help enhance the nation's entire STEM ecosystem,? said NSF Director and CoSTEM Co-Chair France C?rdova. ?NSF continues to generate benefits for society through STEM research. To fulfill that mission, we and our federal partners need to make strategic investments to create new generations of discoverers.? See the complete list of STEM Education Advisory Panel members here: https://nsf.gov/ehr/panel_members.jsp Prepare Your Resume, Hone Your Interview Skills Registration is now open for the Employment Acquisition Skills Boot Camp for Scientists, a new professional development program by the American Institute of Biological Sciences (AIBS). Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) graduate programs in the United States do an excellent job of preparing students for careers in academia. As students and a growing number of reports note, however, many STEM graduate students are interested in employment in a variety of sectors by the time they complete their degree. Students continue to report that they feel ill-prepared and ill-equipped to pursue employment in these settings. In response to this frustration heard from many graduate students, AIBS has developed a program to help scientists hone and practice the skills needed to secure employment. AIBS' Employment Acquisition Skills Boot Camp for Scientists is an intensive, two-day program that is a blend of lecture and hands-on exercises. 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You received this message because you or your organization have interacted with one of our programs or initiatives. Our mailing address is: American Institute of Biological Science 1201 New York Ave., NW, Ste. 420 Washington, DC 20005 Copyright (C) 2018 American Institute of Biological Sciences All rights reserved. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dtrock at calacademy.org Tue Jul 24 17:14:01 2018 From: dtrock at calacademy.org (Debra Trock) Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2018 14:14:01 -0700 Subject: [Nhcoll-l] drastic museum cuts at the National Museum of New Zealand Message-ID: Folks, this information originally came to me from a colleague in Canada. I don't have any further information: Despite many well-argued protests, the NZ government will not instruct the Board & CEO of the National Museum of NZ to maintain the existing staff who care for the national collections, although this is required by NZ Law. The Minister of Culture & Heritage, *Grant Robertson*, who knows nothing about museums, is unable to grasp the basic idea that collection care, access & maintenance is an activity that requires specialist staff. It appears likely, although the museum is very secretive on the topic, that the 1.5 million natural history specimens plus about 0.2 million cultural items will be shifted from their current safe storage, which will be sold for profit, to a warehouse surrounded by volcanos, 500 miles to the north. Servicing of the 1.7 m objects+ is planned to be done by just 2 generalist staff. Normal access will be impossible, a breach of the International Code on Zoological Nomenclature. None of the present museum managers or board members have had any direct experience in managing collections. The NZ government meanwhile deems this mass redundancy of 25 staff to be merely an ?operational matter?. According to the Chairman of the Board, there is no shortage of funds. This is a change in direction by the museum towards being merely an entertainment centre. Final decisions will be made this week without any expert consultation. The accountancy firm, *PriceWaterhouse*, is providing ?advice? to the museum. If you care about unique collections of seabirds as a research resource, please email Minister *Grant Robertson * g.robertson at ministers.govt.nz today, indicating that this is internationally unacceptable practice. This is the third major restructuring that the National Museum has suffered in recent years, each leading to many so-called ?redundancies?, always in natural history. Attached is an article which appeared in NZ?s main newspaper on the topic today: https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12094495 Sadly it isn?t very strong, as the reporter who wrote it wasn?t well-informed. Staff at the museum are forbidden from speaking out publicly on the topic and their phones and email are constantly monitored. Fear prevents them from speaking out. Please send a SHORT email to Grant Robertson! Make sure you add your qualifications to any message. Please copy your message to me. Thank you.! Contact me if you want more detailed information, Sandy Bartle Curator of Birds Museum of NZ 1976-2009 Sandy.bartle at inspire.net.nz Dr. Debra Trock *Director of Science Collections &* *Senior Collections Manager, Botany* California Academy of Sciences 55 Music Concourse Drive San Francisco, CA 94118 dtrock at calacademy.org PH: 415-379-5363 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From paleomail at gmail.com Thu Jul 26 03:20:05 2018 From: paleomail at gmail.com (Pedro A. Viegas) Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2018 09:20:05 +0200 Subject: [Nhcoll-l] drastic museum cuts at the National Museum of New Zealand In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Dear Debra These are awful news, having worked in NZ and with NZ natural history collections I know first hand how important and unique these collections are. Email sent, I hope many others join Pedro A Viegas Natural History Curator & Conservator paleomail at gmail.com +61 0 435 637 474 Follow me on Twitter - @PedroAViegas On Tue, Jul 24, 2018 at 11:14 PM, Debra Trock wrote: > Folks, this information originally came to me from a colleague in Canada. > I don't have any further information: > > > > Despite many well-argued protests, the NZ government will not instruct the > Board & CEO of the National Museum of NZ to maintain the existing staff who > care for the national collections, although this is required by NZ > Law. The Minister of Culture & Heritage, *Grant Robertson*, who knows > nothing about museums, is unable to grasp the basic idea that collection > care, access & maintenance is an activity that requires specialist staff. > It appears likely, although the museum is very secretive on the topic, that > the 1.5 million natural history specimens plus about 0.2 million cultural > items will be shifted from their current safe storage, which will be sold > for profit, to a warehouse surrounded by volcanos, 500 miles to the north. > Servicing of the 1.7 m objects+ is planned to be done by just 2 generalist > staff. > > > Normal access will be impossible, a breach of the International Code on > Zoological Nomenclature. > > None of the present museum managers or board members have had any direct > experience in managing collections. The NZ government meanwhile deems this > mass redundancy of 25 staff to be merely an ?operational matter?. According > to the Chairman of the Board, there is no shortage of funds. This is a > change in direction by the museum towards being merely an entertainment > centre. > > Final decisions will be made this week without any expert consultation. > The accountancy firm, *PriceWaterhouse*, is providing ?advice? to the > museum. > > > > If you care about unique collections of seabirds as a research resource, > please email Minister *Grant Robertson > * g.robertson at ministers.govt.n > z today, indicating that this is internationally unacceptable practice. > > > > This is the third major restructuring that the National Museum has > suffered in recent years, each leading to many so-called ?redundancies?, > always in natural history. > > Attached is an article which appeared in NZ?s main newspaper on the topic > today: > > https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12094495 > > Sadly it isn?t very strong, as the reporter who wrote it wasn?t > well-informed. > > Staff at the museum are forbidden from speaking out publicly on the topic > and their phones and email are constantly monitored. > > Fear prevents them from speaking out. > > Please send a SHORT email to Grant Robertson! Make sure you add your > qualifications to any message. Please copy your message to me. Thank you.! > > Contact me if you want more detailed information, > > Sandy Bartle > > Curator of Birds Museum of NZ 1976-2009 > > Sandy.bartle at inspire.net.nz > > > > Dr. Debra Trock > *Director of Science Collections &* > *Senior Collections Manager, Botany* > California Academy of Sciences > 55 Music Concourse Drive > San Francisco, CA 94118 > dtrock at calacademy.org > PH: 415-379-5363 > > _______________________________________________ > Nhcoll-l mailing list > Nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu > https://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/nhcoll-l > > _______________________________________________ > NHCOLL-L is brought to you by the Society for the Preservation of > Natural History Collections (SPNHC), an international society whose > mission is to improve the preservation, conservation and management of > natural history collections to ensure their continuing value to > society. See http://www.spnhc.org for membership information. > Advertising on NH-COLL-L is inappropriate. > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From cdr.stephen at gmail.com Thu Jul 26 09:19:24 2018 From: cdr.stephen at gmail.com (Charles Stephen) Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2018 08:19:24 -0500 Subject: [Nhcoll-l] drastic museum cuts at the National Museum of New Zealand In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Dear Debra, Thank you for letting us know. I have emailed the Minister asking him to reconsider. Hopefully enough will speak out to have an impact! Cheers, Charles ---- Charles D.R. Stephen Ph.D. candidate, Auburn University Museum of Natural History czs0021 at auburn.edu cdr.stephen at gmail.com On Tue, Jul 24, 2018 at 4:14 PM, Debra Trock wrote: > Folks, this information originally came to me from a colleague in Canada. > I don't have any further information: > > > > Despite many well-argued protests, the NZ government will not instruct the > Board & CEO of the National Museum of NZ to maintain the existing staff who > care for the national collections, although this is required by NZ > Law. The Minister of Culture & Heritage, *Grant Robertson*, who knows > nothing about museums, is unable to grasp the basic idea that collection > care, access & maintenance is an activity that requires specialist staff. > It appears likely, although the museum is very secretive on the topic, that > the 1.5 million natural history specimens plus about 0.2 million cultural > items will be shifted from their current safe storage, which will be sold > for profit, to a warehouse surrounded by volcanos, 500 miles to the north. > Servicing of the 1.7 m objects+ is planned to be done by just 2 generalist > staff. > > > Normal access will be impossible, a breach of the International Code on > Zoological Nomenclature. > > None of the present museum managers or board members have had any direct > experience in managing collections. The NZ government meanwhile deems this > mass redundancy of 25 staff to be merely an ?operational matter?. According > to the Chairman of the Board, there is no shortage of funds. This is a > change in direction by the museum towards being merely an entertainment > centre. > > Final decisions will be made this week without any expert consultation. > The accountancy firm, *PriceWaterhouse*, is providing ?advice? to the > museum. > > > > If you care about unique collections of seabirds as a research resource, > please email Minister *Grant Robertson > * g.robertson at ministers.govt.n > z today, indicating that this is internationally unacceptable practice. > > > > This is the third major restructuring that the National Museum has > suffered in recent years, each leading to many so-called ?redundancies?, > always in natural history. > > Attached is an article which appeared in NZ?s main newspaper on the topic > today: > > https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=12094495 > > Sadly it isn?t very strong, as the reporter who wrote it wasn?t > well-informed. > > Staff at the museum are forbidden from speaking out publicly on the topic > and their phones and email are constantly monitored. > > Fear prevents them from speaking out. > > Please send a SHORT email to Grant Robertson! Make sure you add your > qualifications to any message. Please copy your message to me. Thank you.! > > Contact me if you want more detailed information, > > Sandy Bartle > > Curator of Birds Museum of NZ 1976-2009 > > Sandy.bartle at inspire.net.nz > > > > Dr. Debra Trock > *Director of Science Collections &* > *Senior Collections Manager, Botany* > California Academy of Sciences > 55 Music Concourse Drive > San Francisco, CA 94118 > dtrock at calacademy.org > PH: 415-379-5363 > > _______________________________________________ > Nhcoll-l mailing list > Nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu > https://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/nhcoll-l > > _______________________________________________ > NHCOLL-L is brought to you by the Society for the Preservation of > Natural History Collections (SPNHC), an international society whose > mission is to improve the preservation, conservation and management of > natural history collections to ensure their continuing value to > society. See http://www.spnhc.org for membership information. > Advertising on NH-COLL-L is inappropriate. > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ellen.paul at verizon.net Thu Jul 26 12:55:27 2018 From: ellen.paul at verizon.net (Ellen Paul) Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2018 12:55:27 -0400 Subject: [Nhcoll-l] Interesting snippet of good news re: APHIS permits Message-ID: <751922f6-9db0-23a9-6c0d-f0b479d6999a@verizon.net> An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: RegBurdenPermitDuration2018.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 567371 bytes Desc: not available URL: From ellen.paul at verizon.net Thu Jul 26 13:19:46 2018 From: ellen.paul at verizon.net (Ellen Paul) Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2018 13:19:46 -0400 Subject: [Nhcoll-l] Shipment held up at import? Here's who you call... Message-ID: <54f9209e-c872-cd4e-c176-fb79e6b28ab7@verizon.net> If your shipment gets held up for reasons related to the APHIS requirements (as opposed to USFWS or CBP, here's who you contact and here's what you do: (Note that there is a broken link for the contacts - I will notify APHIS) https://www.aphis.usda.gov/aphis/ourfocus/animalhealth/animal-and-animal-product-import-information/animal-health-permits/ct_ah_permits_onhold (Note - ornithologists can also contact the Ornithological Council for assistance). If you do have a USFWS problem, don't bother calling the number on that website. It is a general agency number. Here are the port contacts: https://www.fws.gov/le/ports-contact-information.html Ellen (Are you sure the efforts of the OC to make your scientific life easier aren't worth $20 ?) -- Ellen Paul Ellen Paul Executive Director Ornithological Council Providing Scientific Information about Birds From carrie at geology.wisc.edu Fri Jul 27 11:50:53 2018 From: carrie at geology.wisc.edu (Carrie A. Eaton) Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2018 15:50:53 +0000 Subject: [Nhcoll-l] the shipping of wee tiny microfossils Message-ID: Hi all, Does anyone have a good protocol or a standard policy (part of your CMP) regarding the shipping of very tiny microfossil mounts? Think small things mounted to SEM plugs, conodont slides, little bits that could decide to make a break for it while being shipped via FedEx, etc. Feel free to email me off list - I'm all ears for suggestions, standard policies/stances on this, etc. Many thanks! Carrie Carrie Eaton, Museum Curator UW Geology Museum 1215 West Dayton Street Madison, WI 53706 608.262.4912 twitter @uwgeologymuseum facebook.com/uwgeologymuseum -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dyanega at ucr.edu Fri Jul 27 12:50:46 2018 From: dyanega at ucr.edu (Doug Yanega) Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2018 09:50:46 -0700 Subject: [Nhcoll-l] the shipping of wee tiny microfossils In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On 7/27/18 8:50 AM, Carrie A. Eaton wrote: > > Hi all, > > Does anyone have a good protocol or a standard policy (part of your > CMP) regarding the shipping of very tiny microfossil mounts? Think > small things mounted to SEM plugs, conodont slides, little bits that > could decide to make a break for it while being shipped via FedEx, > etc. Feel free to email me off list ? I?m all ears for suggestions, > standard policies/stances on this, etc. > > Entomological specimens are - arguably, at least - among the most fragile objects one can ship, and we do it all the time. Think about shipping a 100-year old mosquito back and forth in the mail without losing any legs. It mostly comes down to shock absorption. A box with pinned specimens will normally have about 6 inches of packing material on all sides, like packing peanuts and/or bubble wrap. We use enormous outer boxes, but they weigh next to nothing. The inner packaging details are dependent upon the weight of the specimens; a box of mosquitoes is just specimens on pins, but a box of grasshoppers or scarab beetles will involve using numerous extra pins to "brace" each specimen from rotating or having their pins pop out of the foam substrate. One loose specimen becomes a miniature wrecking ball, so there needs to be *no possibility of anything moving around freely*. A really secure box won't even have more than a few mm of clearance between the heads of the pins and the inner closure, to prevent pins coming out of the substrate. Parts or whole specimens are often mounted in small glass vials, or on microscope slides, and the same basic rules apply; each vial or slide is in its own compartment in an inner package, with a lot of outer packing material. For SEM stubs, if you can't contain each stub separately (which is what I'd be tempted to do, myself), then you'd need some way to prevent the stubs from popping free; from what I recall of the plastic holders for SEM stubs, there's a significant gap between the stubs and the lid, and you'd need to put something resilient into that gap, like a small piece of thin bubble wrap, to restrain the stubs. It may not be so much a matter of established protocol, but improvisation. Hope this helps, -- Doug Yanega Dept. of Entomology Entomology Research Museum Univ. of California, Riverside, CA 92521-0314 skype: dyanega phone: (951) 827-4315 (disclaimer: opinions are mine, not UCR's) http://cache.ucr.edu/~heraty/yanega.html "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method" - Herman Melville, Moby Dick, Chap. 82 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From sam at qty.com Fri Jul 27 13:21:36 2018 From: sam at qty.com (sam) Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2018 10:21:36 -0700 Subject: [Nhcoll-l] shock absorber Message-ID: Hi all- Long ago, when double-boxing specimens, usually avian eggshells, for shipping, I chose an outer box quite a bit larger than the inner box. I filled the space loosely with squishy soft foam rubber chips measuring maybe 3/4" x 3/4" x 3/4". I didn't stuff them in tightly, just enough to let the inner box to move a little to absorb any physical impact the package may be subjected to. There are, or at least there were, brick and mortar foam rubber stores.? They sell thick foam pads for mattresses, and soft foam rubber chips for pillows. Best, Sam Sumida --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From sam at qty.com Fri Jul 27 14:02:37 2018 From: sam at qty.com (sam) Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2018 11:02:37 -0700 Subject: [Nhcoll-l] more on shock absorbing Message-ID: <060cab08-76c7-4761-2549-23505c2f6998@qty.com> . I forget who suggested this to me. He was well known around LACMNH many years ago. Anyway for inner box packing material for suitable specimens he suggested using loosely wadded dry cleaner bags. He used these bags for shipping delicate crystals/minerals. Experiment with ways of packing these bags around an item so that it can't escape. Best, Sam Sumida --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From carrie at geology.wisc.edu Fri Jul 27 14:13:29 2018 From: carrie at geology.wisc.edu (Carrie A. Eaton) Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2018 18:13:29 +0000 Subject: [Nhcoll-l] the shipping of wee tiny microfossils In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Thank you, Doug! It's absolutely the SEM plugs that I'm imagining popping loose (while squealing "freedom!") in shipment. But I really like the idea of using a small piece of ethafoam or maybe even something like Teflon tape to get them to stick in their cases a bit better. Your 100 year old mosquito analogy gave me brow sweats just thinking about it - clearly we fossil folks are spoiled by durability. ;) Cheers, C Carrie Eaton, Museum Curator UW Geology Museum 1215 West Dayton Street Madison, WI 53706 608.262.4912 twitter @uwgeologymuseum facebook.com/uwgeologymuseum From: Nhcoll-l [mailto:nhcoll-l-bounces at mailman.yale.edu] On Behalf Of Doug Yanega Sent: Friday, July 27, 2018 11:51 AM To: nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu Subject: Re: [Nhcoll-l] the shipping of wee tiny microfossils On 7/27/18 8:50 AM, Carrie A. Eaton wrote: Hi all, Does anyone have a good protocol or a standard policy (part of your CMP) regarding the shipping of very tiny microfossil mounts? Think small things mounted to SEM plugs, conodont slides, little bits that could decide to make a break for it while being shipped via FedEx, etc. Feel free to email me off list - I'm all ears for suggestions, standard policies/stances on this, etc. Entomological specimens are - arguably, at least - among the most fragile objects one can ship, and we do it all the time. Think about shipping a 100-year old mosquito back and forth in the mail without losing any legs. It mostly comes down to shock absorption. A box with pinned specimens will normally have about 6 inches of packing material on all sides, like packing peanuts and/or bubble wrap. We use enormous outer boxes, but they weigh next to nothing. The inner packaging details are dependent upon the weight of the specimens; a box of mosquitoes is just specimens on pins, but a box of grasshoppers or scarab beetles will involve using numerous extra pins to "brace" each specimen from rotating or having their pins pop out of the foam substrate. One loose specimen becomes a miniature wrecking ball, so there needs to be no possibility of anything moving around freely. A really secure box won't even have more than a few mm of clearance between the heads of the pins and the inner closure, to prevent pins coming out of the substrate. Parts or whole specimens are often mounted in small glass vials, or on microscope slides, and the same basic rules apply; each vial or slide is in its own compartment in an inner package, with a lot of outer packing material. For SEM stubs, if you can't contain each stub separately (which is what I'd be tempted to do, myself), then you'd need some way to prevent the stubs from popping free; from what I recall of the plastic holders for SEM stubs, there's a significant gap between the stubs and the lid, and you'd need to put something resilient into that gap, like a small piece of thin bubble wrap, to restrain the stubs. It may not be so much a matter of established protocol, but improvisation. Hope this helps, -- Doug Yanega Dept. of Entomology Entomology Research Museum Univ. of California, Riverside, CA 92521-0314 skype: dyanega phone: (951) 827-4315 (disclaimer: opinions are mine, not UCR's) http://cache.ucr.edu/~heraty/yanega.html "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method" - Herman Melville, Moby Dick, Chap. 82 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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URL: From maru.digi at gmail.com Fri Jul 27 14:31:39 2018 From: maru.digi at gmail.com (Mariana Di Giacomo) Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2018 14:31:39 -0400 Subject: [Nhcoll-l] the shipping of wee tiny microfossils In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Hi Carrie, I shipped SEM stubs to Italy and they arrived fine. There are a couple of things you can do to make sure things are safe: - use better stub boxes. If your stubs come off easily, then look for better boxes in which they're more snug (we had to do this). You can also get individual stub holders. - if you don't have dissociation issues (meaning the box says outside what it contains), you can remove some stubs and ship each box with less stubs in it, and carve ethafoam circles out, so each stub is further contained. This is harder to do when all the stubs are there because carving the ethafoam can be too hard - do not put anything on top of the stubs, because the material may rub against them and detach the fossil/sample from the stub. If you're worried about detachment, the ethafoam carvings are a good idea, because they should be as tall as the lid, and prevent anything from getting mixed with the rest (this doesn't prevent detachment, but dissociation in case detachment occurs). -finally, we did cavity mounts on thick ethafoam for the stub boxes, so they couldn't move around in the box. If you want to discuss this further, we can talk and I can ever show you some of the photos I took. Let me know. Best, Mariana *MSc. Mariana Di Giacomo* PhD candidate University of Delaware SI Conservation Fellow - Smithsonian NMNH El vie., 27 jul. 2018 a las 14:13, Carrie A. Eaton () escribi?: > Thank you, Doug! It?s absolutely the SEM plugs that I?m imagining popping > loose (while squealing ?freedom!?) in shipment. But I really like the idea > of using a small piece of ethafoam or maybe even something like Teflon tape > to get them to stick in their cases a bit better. Your 100 year old > mosquito analogy gave me brow sweats just thinking about it ? clearly we > fossil folks are spoiled by durability. ;) > > Cheers, > > C > > > > Carrie Eaton, Museum Curator > > UW Geology Museum > > 1215 West Dayton Street > > Madison, WI 53706 > > 608.262.4912 > > *twitter @uwgeologymuseum facebook.com/uwgeologymuseum > * > > > > *From:* Nhcoll-l [mailto:nhcoll-l-bounces at mailman.yale.edu] *On Behalf Of > *Doug Yanega > *Sent:* Friday, July 27, 2018 11:51 AM > *To:* nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu > *Subject:* Re: [Nhcoll-l] the shipping of wee tiny microfossils > > > > On 7/27/18 8:50 AM, Carrie A. Eaton wrote: > > Hi all, > > Does anyone have a good protocol or a standard policy (part of your CMP) > regarding the shipping of very tiny microfossil mounts? Think small things > mounted to SEM plugs, conodont slides, little bits that could decide to > make a break for it while being shipped via FedEx, etc. Feel free to email > me off list ? I?m all ears for suggestions, standard policies/stances on > this, etc. > > > > Entomological specimens are - arguably, at least - among the most fragile > objects one can ship, and we do it all the time. Think about shipping a > 100-year old mosquito back and forth in the mail without losing any legs. > It mostly comes down to shock absorption. A box with pinned specimens will > normally have about 6 inches of packing material on all sides, like packing > peanuts and/or bubble wrap. We use enormous outer boxes, but they weigh > next to nothing. The inner packaging details are dependent upon the weight > of the specimens; a box of mosquitoes is just specimens on pins, but a box > of grasshoppers or scarab beetles will involve using numerous extra pins to > "brace" each specimen from rotating or having their pins pop out of the > foam substrate. One loose specimen becomes a miniature wrecking ball, so > there needs to be *no possibility of anything moving around freely*. A > really secure box won't even have more than a few mm of clearance between > the heads of the pins and the inner closure, to prevent pins coming out of > the substrate. Parts or whole specimens are often mounted in small glass > vials, or on microscope slides, and the same basic rules apply; each vial > or slide is in its own compartment in an inner package, with a lot of outer > packing material. > > For SEM stubs, if you can't contain each stub separately (which is what > I'd be tempted to do, myself), then you'd need some way to prevent the > stubs from popping free; from what I recall of the plastic holders for SEM > stubs, there's a significant gap between the stubs and the lid, and you'd > need to put something resilient into that gap, like a small piece of thin > bubble wrap, to restrain the stubs. It may not be so much a matter of > established protocol, but improvisation. > > Hope this helps, > > -- > > Doug Yanega Dept. of Entomology Entomology Research Museum > > Univ. of California, Riverside, CA 92521-0314 skype: dyanega > > phone: (951) 827-4315 (disclaimer: opinions are mine, not UCR's) > > http://cache.ucr.edu/~heraty/yanega.html > > "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness > > is the true method" - Herman Melville, Moby Dick, Chap. 82 > > _______________________________________________ > Nhcoll-l mailing list > Nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu > https://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/nhcoll-l > > _______________________________________________ > NHCOLL-L is brought to you by the Society for the Preservation of > Natural History Collections (SPNHC), an international society whose > mission is to improve the preservation, conservation and management of > natural history collections to ensure their continuing value to > society. 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I filled the space loosely with squishy soft foam rubber chips measuring maybe 3/4" x 3/4" x 3/4". I didn't stuff them in tightly, just enough to let the inner box to move a little to absorb any physical impact the package may be subjected to. There are, or at least there were, brick and mortar foam rubber stores. They sell thick foam pads for mattresses, and soft foam rubber chips for pillows. Best, Sam Sumida [https://ipmcdn.avast.com/images/icons/icon-envelope-tick-round-orange-animated-no-repeat-v1.gif] Virus-free. www.avast.com The information contained in this message and/or attachments is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of, or taking of any action in reliance upon, this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. 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Please contact the course providers or instructors for more information or questions. We have included some other course opportunities here as well. Thank you >From Museum Study, LLC Grants for Museums and Historic Sites course begins Aug 6 on MuseumStudy.com Identifying and winning grants from foundations and governments is a mix of art and science. Join Instructor Sarah Sutton author of Is Your Museum Grant-Ready? for this 4 week long online course, which is designed for professionals either learning or reviewing their skills in raising money through grants. Philanthropy keeps changing, and so does grantmaking. Everyone on the team must contribute to raising money to do good work; those with grant-preparation skills are very valuable to the institution. For more information visit our website: http://www.museumstudy.com/courses/course-list/grants-for-museums-and-historic-sites/ Laws and Collections Management 4 week online course begins Aug 6 on MuseumStudy.com Join instructor John Simmons for the professional development course Laws and Collection Management. The 4 week online course provides an accessible introduction to the ethical principles and legal aspects of managing museum collections by presenting the scope and significance of museum ethics and an introduction to national and international laws and regulations affecting museums. For more information visit our website: http://www.museumstudy.com/courses/course-list/laws-collections-management/ Creating Exhibitions Through the Collective course begins Aug 20 on MuseumStudy.com Do you want to create an exhibit that utilizes your community? If so, Creating Exhibitions through the Collective is for you. This class will be focused on community co-curation. We will investigate how community involvement during all stages of the exhibit development process can lead to more interpretation that is credible, community empowerment, and advocacy. Tips and strategies will be provided to build sustainable frameworks for this type of engagement. Join Instructor Saul Sopoci Drake for this 4 week online professional development course. For more information visit our website and view the instructor's video introduction: http://www.museumstudy.com/courses/course-list/creating-exhibitions-through-the-collective/ Moving Museum Collections course begins Sept 3 on MuseumStudy.com Join Instructor Lori Benson, veteran of three large scale museum collection moves, for the 4 week online course Moving Museum Collections. This course provides an overview of how to plan and manage a move to avoid the many pitfalls. The course will help you define the scope of your project, develop a work plan and schedule, prepare a communication scheme, define proposals for vendors, choose equipment, estimate costs, identify hazards, organize staffing and establish packing techniques and standards. Whether you are moving across the hall or across town, Moving Museum Collections will provide a guide for a successful move. Visit our website for more information. http://www.museumstudy.com/courses/course-list/moving-museum-collections/ Writing K-12 Lesson Plans for Museums course begins Sept 3 on MuseumStudy.com This course is designed to teach museum educators how to develop and write formal lesson plans for K-12 programming. Each week's lecture, chat, and assignment will be iterative, and students will end the course with a finished lesson plan that they can put into use at their museums. Join Instructor Tara Young for this 4 week online professional development course. 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If you've not tried this before, it can be a very worthwhile experience, both for your mentee and for yourself. Mentors are asked to contact the awardees prior to the conference, help with presentations, spend time with the awardees, introduce them to their colleagues, and floow the progress of the awardees through follow-ups on articles and future work. We may also ask for other mentors willing to help addition new attendees, so please reply if you can. Thank you very much! Jeff JEFF STEPHENSON COLLECTIONS MANAGER, ZOOLOGY DEPARTMENT [DMNS 2 Line RGB small.jpg] jeff.stephenson at dmns.org W 303.370.8319 F 303.331.6492 2001 Colorado Blvd., Denver CO 80205 preserve, present, inspire, explore www.dmns.org The Denver Museum of Nature & Science salutes the citizens of metro Denver for helping fund arts, culture and science through their support of the Scientific and Cultural Facilities District (SCFD). -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Thanks in advance, Jeff -- Jeff Gerbracht Lead Application Developer Neotropical Birds, eBird, Birds of North America Cornell Lab of Ornithology 607-254-2117 ________________________________ From: Jeff A. Gerbracht Sent: Friday, March 16, 2018 4:24:06 PM To: nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu Subject: SPNHC+TDWG Conference: Symposium on archives and disaster recovery of digital data. This years joint meeting in late August promises to be a great meeting for both the Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections and Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG). Several of us in TDWG are hosting a symposium at the meeting entitled "Digital Collection Data: storage, archive and disaster recovery." https://tdwg.github.io/conferences/2018/sessions/S10 and I'd really like this symposium to include experiences from both groups. To that end, I'm reaching out to this list in hopes that a few of you are attending and will have a story to tell about your own experiences and how you manage the digital components of Natural History collections. In the symposium, we'd like these talks to 'dive deep' into how different groups and projects are managing digital data from an archival perspective. There will be many participants at the meeting who manage digital data and who don't have expertise or fully understand the importance of archiving their data in a robust manner. This symposium will cover best practices and show how different groups are managing their data for long term archival and disaster recovery. Note that the deadline from abstract submissions has been extended until March 26, and here's the link to the Call for Abstracts page. https://tdwg.github.io/conferences/2018/call-for-abstracts I'm also interested in any of those disaster stories, as I put together the symposium, I think it's good to also openly discuss what happens when that archival system isn't in place. Please feel free to contact me with any questions, Jeff -- Jeff Gerbracht jag73 at cornell.edu Neotropical Birds, eBird, Birds of North America Cornell Lab of Ornithology 607-254-2117 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From rabeler at umich.edu Tue Jul 31 11:46:32 2018 From: rabeler at umich.edu (Richard Rabeler) Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2018 11:46:32 -0400 Subject: [Nhcoll-l] JOB OPENING: MICH Collection Manager Message-ID: Colleagues: The University of Michigan has just posted a job announcement for a Collection Manager of Vascular Plants at the UM Herbarium (MICH). 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