From jpandey at aibs.org Thu Nov 1 10:56:27 2018 From: jpandey at aibs.org (Jyotsna Pandey) Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2018 10:56:27 -0400 Subject: [Nhcoll-l] Deadline Approaching: Develop the Skills Required to Secure Employment In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: 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. 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We have recently had a noticeable bump in spider populations in our storage. no signs of collections pests in the traps, except booklice. Should we be worried? Would it mean we may have a bump in spider prey? I am glad they are around to eat insects, but they seem to be getting much more numerous and physically large.... Fiona Hernandez Conservator Museum of Vancouver 1100 Chestnut Street Vancouver, British Columbia V6J 3J9 T. 604.730.5315 www.museumofvancouver.ca [1490200083860_untitled.png] Featured Exhibitions: Wild Things: The Power of Nature in our Lives. In partnership with Nature Vancouver this exhibition delves into the life stories of local animals and plants - how they connect with each other and how people connect with nature in the city. Now on view! Haida Now: A Visual Feast of Innovation and Tradition. In partnership with the Haida Gwaii Museum in Skidegate, this exhibition features more than 450 works by carvers, weavers, photographers and print makers. Now on view! We acknowledge that the city of Vancouver is on the shared, unceded traditional territories of the Musqueam, Skwxw?7mesh and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: image001.png Type: image/png Size: 11836 bytes Desc: image001.png URL: From Christian.Baars at museumwales.ac.uk Thu Nov 1 18:40:10 2018 From: Christian.Baars at museumwales.ac.uk (Christian Baars) Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2018 22:40:10 +0000 Subject: [Nhcoll-l] spiders In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <8ecb49d38f5144a4b245f30d3648ba15@EXCH2013-01.nmgw.ac.uk> Hi Fiona, Many spider species wander far and wide in search of prey, and especially so during the autumn when they look for somewhere to spend the winter. I would be less worried about potential pest populations (you would pick most of them up in your pest monitors) but building defects: the spiders are entering the building through cracks, gaps, broken window panes and gaps underneath exterior doors. These, in turn, can cause other problems: damp and cold spots, leading to localised mould problems; the fact that you have booklice hints that there may be a mould problem somewhere, because booklice feed on mould. Besides, whilst spiders may appear to be welcome because they could prey on pests, eventually the spiders themselves will die somewhere in a corner and then provide a lovely snack for something else - perhaps a little stop over for a woolly bear to give it enough energy to make it into your taxidermy collection. Anthrenus and Reesa larvae love the abdomens of large spiders. I would check the integrity of the building envelope if I had large numbers of spiders entering the building. Best wishes Christian Dr Christian Baars ACR Senior Preventive Conservator National Museum Cardiff From: Nhcoll-l On Behalf Of Fiona Hernandez Sent: 01 November 2018 20:59 To: nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu Subject: [Nhcoll-l] spiders Is there such a thing as too many spiders in collections storage areas? We have recently had a noticeable bump in spider populations in our storage. no signs of collections pests in the traps, except booklice. Should we be worried? Would it mean we may have a bump in spider prey? I am glad they are around to eat insects, but they seem to be getting much more numerous and physically large.... Fiona Hernandez Conservator Museum of Vancouver 1100 Chestnut Street Vancouver, British Columbia V6J 3J9 T. 604.730.5315 www.museumofvancouver.ca [1490200083860_untitled.png] Featured Exhibitions: Wild Things: The Power of Nature in our Lives. In partnership with Nature Vancouver this exhibition delves into the life stories of local animals and plants - how they connect with each other and how people connect with nature in the city. Now on view! Haida Now: A Visual Feast of Innovation and Tradition. In partnership with the Haida Gwaii Museum in Skidegate, this exhibition features more than 450 works by carvers, weavers, photographers and print makers. Now on view! We acknowledge that the city of Vancouver is on the shared, unceded traditional territories of the Musqueam, Skwxw?7mesh and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations. YMWADIAD Rydym yn croesawu gohebiaeth yn Gymraeg a Saesneg, ac yn sicrhau y byddwn yn cyfathrebu ? chi yn eich iaith ddewisol, boed yn Gymraeg, Saesneg neu?r ddwy, dim ond i chi ein hysbysu. Ni fydd gohebu yn Gymraeg yn peri oedi. Mae pob neges e-bost a anfonir at neu gan Amgueddfa Cymru yn cael ei sganio gan systemau diogelwch awtomatig. Sganiwyd y neges hon am firysau cyn ei hanfon, ond dylech hefyd wirio bod y neges, a phob atodiad ynddi, yn rhydd o firysau cyn ei defnyddio. Nid ydym yn derbyn cyfrifoldeb am unrhyw golled neu ddifrod o ganlyniad i agor y neges neu unrhyw atodiadau. Gall y neges hon ac unrhyw ffeiliau a atodir ynddi gynnwys gwybodaeth gyfrinachol a fwriadwyd ar gyfer y derbynnydd yn unig. Os ydych chi wedi derbyn y neges trwy gamgymeriad, hysbyswch ni a dileu?r neges. Safbwyntiau personol yr awdur a fynegir yn y neges hon, ac nid ydynt o reidrwydd yn cynrychioli safbwyntiau Amgueddfa Cymru. Nid ydym yn derbyn cyfrifoldeb am unrhyw wallau, llygredd neu esgeulustod a allai godi wrth drosglwyddo'r neges hon. DISCLAIMER We welcome correspondence in Welsh and English, and we will ensure that we communicate with you in the language of your choice, whether that?s English, Welsh or both if you let us know which you prefer. Corresponding in Welsh will not lead to any delay. 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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 Fiona Hernandez Sent: November 1, 2018 2:59 PM To: nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu Subject: [Nhcoll-l] spiders Is there such a thing as too many spiders in collections storage areas? We have recently had a noticeable bump in spider populations in our storage. no signs of collections pests in the traps, except booklice. Should we be worried? Would it mean we may have a bump in spider prey? I am glad they are around to eat insects, but they seem to be getting much more numerous and physically large.... Fiona Hernandez Conservator Museum of Vancouver 1100 Chestnut Street Vancouver, British Columbia V6J 3J9 T. 604.730.5315 www.museumofvancouver.ca [1490200083860_untitled.png] Featured Exhibitions: Wild Things: The Power of Nature in our Lives. In partnership with Nature Vancouver this exhibition delves into the life stories of local animals and plants - how they connect with each other and how people connect with nature in the city. Now on view! Haida Now: A Visual Feast of Innovation and Tradition. In partnership with the Haida Gwaii Museum in Skidegate, this exhibition features more than 450 works by carvers, weavers, photographers and print makers. Now on view! We acknowledge that the city of Vancouver is on the shared, unceded traditional territories of the Musqueam, Skwxw?7mesh and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Yale's collecting organizations complement physical collections with born-digital materials and through transformative digital systems to improve and expand access, streamline academic work, incorporate resources worldwide from other institutions, and provide a platform for developing new ways to conduct research, teach, learn and publish. Information Technology Services (ITS) seeks a Senior Software Engineer to be a hands-on developer who will provide technical leadership to other software engineers in developing innovative web applications that support shared practices across Yale's collecting organizations as well as the global cultural and natural heritage community. This person keeps current with existing and emerging cultural and natural heritage technologies, standards, and best practices; and, participates in higher-education cultural and natural heritage conferences, projects, and standards groups to stay apprised of industry direction and opportunities for collaboration. Through close collaboration with the library, galleries and museums, this person provides vision, planning, guidance, consultation, mentoring and coordination of cultural and natural heritage multi-departmental software development projects. This person ensures that applications are designed and deployed to provide ample performance to process large volumes of information in a variety of formats including but not limited to text, images, audio, video, metadata, structured data, and unstructured data managed by Yale's libraries, galleries, and museums. The person will participate in the implementation of programming standards and methodologies to improve overall efficiency in developing, deploying and operating reliable software applications. Senior Software Engineer actively engages in all aspects of the software application lifecycle from user input through design, code development, quality assurance, operations, continuous improvement, and decommissioning. 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Apparently there is a type of spider that does a very nice job of eating these pests... she tested various spiders that she collected herself. The woman is strong. Maybe the spiders are doing you a favour. Liz Elisabeth Czerwinski Conservator Burnaby Village Museum 6501 Deer Lake Ave, Burnaby, B.C. 604 297 4553 From: Nhcoll-l [mailto:nhcoll-l-bounces at mailman.yale.edu] On Behalf Of Christian Baars Sent: November-01-18 3:40 PM To: Fiona Hernandez; nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu Subject: Re: [Nhcoll-l] spiders Hi Fiona, Many spider species wander far and wide in search of prey, and especially so during the autumn when they look for somewhere to spend the winter. I would be less worried about potential pest populations (you would pick most of them up in your pest monitors) but building defects: the spiders are entering the building through cracks, gaps, broken window panes and gaps underneath exterior doors. These, in turn, can cause other problems: damp and cold spots, leading to localised mould problems; the fact that you have booklice hints that there may be a mould problem somewhere, because booklice feed on mould. Besides, whilst spiders may appear to be welcome because they could prey on pests, eventually the spiders themselves will die somewhere in a corner and then provide a lovely snack for something else - perhaps a little stop over for a woolly bear to give it enough energy to make it into your taxidermy collection. Anthrenus and Reesa larvae love the abdomens of large spiders. I would check the integrity of the building envelope if I had large numbers of spiders entering the building. Best wishes Christian Dr Christian Baars ACR Senior Preventive Conservator National Museum Cardiff From: Nhcoll-l On Behalf Of Fiona Hernandez Sent: 01 November 2018 20:59 To: nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu Subject: [Nhcoll-l] spiders Is there such a thing as too many spiders in collections storage areas? We have recently had a noticeable bump in spider populations in our storage. no signs of collections pests in the traps, except booklice. Should we be worried? Would it mean we may have a bump in spider prey? I am glad they are around to eat insects, but they seem to be getting much more numerous and physically large.... Fiona Hernandez Conservator Museum of Vancouver 1100 Chestnut Street Vancouver, British Columbia V6J 3J9 T. 604.730.5315 www.museumofvancouver.ca [1490200083860_untitled.png] Featured Exhibitions: Wild Things: The Power of Nature in our Lives. In partnership with Nature Vancouver this exhibition delves into the life stories of local animals and plants - how they connect with each other and how people connect with nature in the city. Now on view! Haida Now: A Visual Feast of Innovation and Tradition. In partnership with the Haida Gwaii Museum in Skidegate, this exhibition features more than 450 works by carvers, weavers, photographers and print makers. Now on view! We acknowledge that the city of Vancouver is on the shared, unceded traditional territories of the Musqueam, Skwxw?7mesh and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations. YMWADIAD Rydym yn croesawu gohebiaeth yn Gymraeg a Saesneg, ac yn sicrhau y byddwn yn cyfathrebu ? chi yn eich iaith ddewisol, boed yn Gymraeg, Saesneg neu'r ddwy, dim ond i chi ein hysbysu. Ni fydd gohebu yn Gymraeg yn peri oedi. Mae pob neges e-bost a anfonir at neu gan Amgueddfa Cymru yn cael ei sganio gan systemau diogelwch awtomatig. Sganiwyd y neges hon am firysau cyn ei hanfon, ond dylech hefyd wirio bod y neges, a phob atodiad ynddi, yn rhydd o firysau cyn ei defnyddio. Nid ydym yn derbyn cyfrifoldeb am unrhyw golled neu ddifrod o ganlyniad i agor y neges neu unrhyw atodiadau. Gall y neges hon ac unrhyw ffeiliau a atodir ynddi gynnwys gwybodaeth gyfrinachol a fwriadwyd ar gyfer y derbynnydd yn unig. Os ydych chi wedi derbyn y neges trwy gamgymeriad, hysbyswch ni a dileu'r neges. Safbwyntiau personol yr awdur a fynegir yn y neges hon, ac nid ydynt o reidrwydd yn cynrychioli safbwyntiau Amgueddfa Cymru. Nid ydym yn derbyn cyfrifoldeb am unrhyw wallau, llygredd neu esgeulustod a allai godi wrth drosglwyddo'r neges hon. DISCLAIMER We welcome correspondence in Welsh and English, and we will ensure that we communicate with you in the language of your choice, whether that's English, Welsh or both if you let us know which you prefer. Corresponding in Welsh will not lead to any delay. 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Name: image001.png Type: image/png Size: 11836 bytes Desc: image001.png URL: From couteaufin at btinternet.com Sat Nov 3 08:02:12 2018 From: couteaufin at btinternet.com (Simon Moore) Date: Sat, 3 Nov 2018 12:02:12 +0000 Subject: [Nhcoll-l] spiders In-Reply-To: <5972da347ced4cd6900a5f6b42d0dc9d@exchprod1.city.burnaby.bc.ca.proxy> References: <8ecb49d38f5144a4b245f30d3648ba15@EXCH2013-01.nmgw.ac.uk> <5972da347ced4cd6900a5f6b42d0dc9d@exchprod1.city.burnaby.bc.ca.proxy> Message-ID: <8126D504-57AB-433C-81AD-79FCF658F4A1@btinternet.com> Certainly we get many spiders coming indoors at the time of the year in the UK. Most of them are males and it could be that they feel the first nip of winter and know that their end is near (males don?t live beyond one adult season and then nature kills them off!) so they come indoors seeking warmer (but drier) solace! Just a theory. With all good wishes, Simon. Simon Moore MIScT, RSci, FLS, ACR Conservator of Natural Sciences and Cutlery Historian, www.natural-history-conservation.com > On 2 Nov 2018, at 19:33, Czerwinski, Elisabeth wrote: > > Hi Fiona, > > Could it be that there are just more spiders here (or visibly here) in the Fall? > > Also and more importantly, at the PCG last week, Simone Vogel-Horridge gave a talk about terrible paperfish (like the well-known silverfish, but bigger and harder to kill and able to live nicely at lower levels of RH). Apparently there is a type of spider that does a very nice job of eating these pests? she tested various spiders that she collected herself. The woman is strong. Maybe the spiders are doing you a favour. > > Liz > Elisabeth Czerwinski > Conservator > > Burnaby Village Museum > 6501 Deer Lake Ave, > Burnaby, B.C. > > 604 297 4553 > > > > > From: Nhcoll-l [mailto:nhcoll-l-bounces at mailman.yale.edu ] On Behalf Of Christian Baars > Sent: November-01-18 3:40 PM > To: Fiona Hernandez; nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu > Subject: Re: [Nhcoll-l] spiders > > Hi Fiona, > > Many spider species wander far and wide in search of prey, and especially so during the autumn when they look for somewhere to spend the winter. I would be less worried about potential pest populations (you would pick most of them up in your pest monitors) but building defects: the spiders are entering the building through cracks, gaps, broken window panes and gaps underneath exterior doors. These, in turn, can cause other problems: damp and cold spots, leading to localised mould problems; the fact that you have booklice hints that there may be a mould problem somewhere, because booklice feed on mould. > > Besides, whilst spiders may appear to be welcome because they could prey on pests, eventually the spiders themselves will die somewhere in a corner and then provide a lovely snack for something else ? perhaps a little stop over for a woolly bear to give it enough energy to make it into your taxidermy collection. Anthrenus and Reesa larvae love the abdomens of large spiders. > > I would check the integrity of the building envelope if I had large numbers of spiders entering the building. > > Best wishes > Christian > > > Dr Christian Baars ACR > Senior Preventive Conservator > National Museum Cardiff > > > > > From: Nhcoll-l > On Behalf Of Fiona Hernandez > Sent: 01 November 2018 20:59 > To: nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu > Subject: [Nhcoll-l] spiders > > Is there such a thing as too many spiders in collections storage areas? We have recently had a noticeable bump in spider populations in our storage. no signs of collections pests in the traps, except booklice. Should we be worried? Would it mean we may have a bump in spider prey? I am glad they are around to eat insects, but they seem to be getting much more numerous and physically large?. > > Fiona Hernandez > Conservator > Museum of Vancouver > 1100 Chestnut Street > Vancouver, British Columbia V6J 3J9 > T. 604.730.5315 > www.museumofvancouver.ca > > > > Featured Exhibitions: > > Wild Things : The Power of Nature in our Lives. In partnership with Nature Vancouver this exhibition delves into the life stories of local animals and plants ? how they connect with each other and how people connect with nature in the city. Now on view! > > Haida Now : A Visual Feast of Innovation and Tradition. In partnership with the Haida Gwaii Museum in Skidegate, this exhibition features more than 450 works by carvers, weavers, photographers and print makers. Now on view! > > We acknowledge that the city of Vancouver is on the shared, unceded traditional territories of the Musqueam, Skwxw?7mesh and Tsleil-Waututh First Nations. > > > > > > YMWADIAD > Rydym yn croesawu gohebiaeth yn Gymraeg a Saesneg, ac yn sicrhau y byddwn yn cyfathrebu ? chi yn eich iaith ddewisol, boed yn Gymraeg, Saesneg neu?r ddwy, dim ond i chi ein hysbysu. Ni fydd gohebu yn Gymraeg yn peri oedi. > > > > <>Mae pob neges e-bost a anfonir at neu gan Amgueddfa Cymru yn cael ei > sganio gan systemau diogelwch awtomatig. Sganiwyd y neges hon am firysau cyn ei hanfon, ond dylech hefyd wirio bod y neges, a phob atodiad ynddi, yn rhydd o firysau cyn ei defnyddio. Nid ydym yn derbyn cyfrifoldeb am unrhyw golled neu ddifrod o ganlyniad i agor y neges neu unrhyw atodiadau. Gall y neges hon ac unrhyw ffeiliau a atodir ynddi gynnwys gwybodaeth gyfrinachol a fwriadwyd ar gyfer y derbynnydd yn unig. Os ydych chi wedi derbyn y neges trwy gamgymeriad, hysbyswch ni a dileu?r neges. Safbwyntiau personol yr awdur a fynegir yn y neges hon, ac nid ydynt o reidrwydd yn cynrychioli safbwyntiau Amgueddfa Cymru. Nid ydym yn derbyn cyfrifoldeb am unrhyw wallau, llygredd neu esgeulustod a allai godi wrth drosglwyddo'r neges hon. > > > > > > > > DISCLAIMER > > > > We welcome correspondence in Welsh and English, and we will ensure that we communicate with you in the language of your choice, whether that?s English, Welsh or both if you let us know which you prefer. Corresponding in Welsh will not lead to any delay. > > > > E-mail to and from Amgueddfa Cymru is scanned by automated security systems. This message was scanned for viruses before transmission, but you should also satisfy yourself that the message, and all attachments, are virus-free before use. We can accept no responsibility for any loss or damage that might arise from opening the message or any attachments. 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Arctos uses four interconnected tables to create a spatial stack of geography for every specimen. We review these tables, which were discussed in Part 1, and show how to improve locality information by standardizing and georeferencing. Specifically, we demonstrate Geolocate, one of the embedded georeferencing tools that translates locality descriptions into coordinates. We also show how that data is saved directly in Arctos, and how to edit localities, specimen events, and collecting events. Each collection has its own set of procedures for managing data and we attempt to show a broad set of use-cases as well as discuss any scenarios that participants wish to bring up. Presenters: Michelle Koo (GIS & Biodiversity Informatics Curator, Museum of Vertebrate Zoology), Tom Giermakowski (Sr. Collection Manager, Division of Amphibians and Reptiles, Museum of Southwestern Biology), and Andrew Doll (Assistant Collection Manager, Zoology Collections, Denver Museum of Nature and Science). When: Tuesday November 13, 2018, at 3:00 pm ET Where: https://idigbio.adobeconnect.com/room Can't make it? View archived recordings and Part I of the geographical data series here: https://arctosdb.org/learn/webinars/ This is the 12th in a series of webinars on Arctos brought to you by the Arctos Working Group and kindly hosted by iDigBio. Emily Braker Vertebrate Collections Manager, Zoology Section University of Colorado Museum of Natural History 265 UCB, Bruce Curtis Building Boulder, CO 80309-0218 Phone: 303-492-8466 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From gameier at d.umn.edu Tue Nov 6 12:02:40 2018 From: gameier at d.umn.edu (Gretchen Meier) Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2018 11:02:40 -0600 Subject: [Nhcoll-l] Out of State specimens Message-ID: Hello, I am wondering how Herbaria mark folders containing out-of-state and out-of-the-country specimens. Do you use colored folders? Thank you for your time Gretchen Meier -- Gretchen Meier, Curator Olga Lakela Herbarium University of Minnesota Duluth gameier at d.umn.edu *Naturum expellas furca, tamen usque recurret - Homer * 'you may drive nature out with a pitchfork but she will come hurrying back' -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From roxali.bijmoer at naturalis.nl Tue Nov 6 12:38:13 2018 From: roxali.bijmoer at naturalis.nl (Roxali Bijmoer) Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2018 18:38:13 +0100 Subject: [Nhcoll-l] Out of State specimens In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Hello Gretchen, At the Leiden herbarium we use colors on the species folders for the different regions of the world, not for countries. (Eurasia is yellow, southeast asia is green etc). Because we are the National Herbarium of the Netherlands, we have a separate collection of Dutch flora, also indicated with a label on the species folders with its own color. We keep it physically separate from collections from te rest of the world. All the best, Roxali Bijmoer Senior Collections Manager Herbarium Naturalis Biodiversity Center Op dinsdag 6 november 2018 heeft Gretchen Meier het volgende geschreven: > Hello, I am wondering how Herbaria mark folders containing out-of-state > and out-of-the-country specimens. Do you use colored folders? > Thank you for your time > Gretchen Meier > -- > Gretchen Meier, Curator > Olga Lakela Herbarium > University of Minnesota Duluth > gameier at d.umn.edu > > *Naturum expellas furca, tamen usque recurret - Homer * > 'you may drive nature out with a pitchfork but she will come hurrying back' > > -- Met vriendelijke groet, Roxali Bijmoer Senior collectiebeheerder 071-751 9234 - roxali.bijmoer at naturalis.nl - www.naturalis.nl Vondellaan 55, 2332 AA Leiden Postbus 9517, 2300 RA Leiden *Due to the construction of new public museum facilities, depots, labs and offices, the botanical, zoological, geological and paleontological collections of Naturalis Biodiversity Center in Leiden will be closed to all visitors, including Synthesys Access applicants, as well as for all loan requests for a period from May 1 2018 till medio 2019. In case of logistic questions and updates on planning and progress, please check www.naturalis.nl or contact botaniecollectie at naturalis.nl . We apologise for this inconvenience.For access to digital collection data, see: bioportal.naturalis.nl & herbarium.naturalis.nl * -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From GSvenson at cmnh.org Wed Nov 7 09:07:30 2018 From: GSvenson at cmnh.org (Gavin Svenson) Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2018 14:07:30 +0000 Subject: [Nhcoll-l] New Job posting Message-ID: Assistant Collections Manager of Cultural Anthropology * OPPORTUNITY TYPE2 year, full-time appointment The Cleveland Museum of Natural History (CMNH), founded in 1920, is located in the heart of University Circle, five miles east of downtown Cleveland, Ohio. Considered among the top 10 institutions of its kind in North America, the Museum offers an incredible visitor experience, attracting roughly 275,000 visitors a year. There are more than 140 public education programs and over 80,000 students served annually. The Museum employs approximately 160 people. Building on its strong foundation of excellence in education and research, the Museum is poised to transform itself. CMNH will invite and engage a broader audience in the exploration of science and the natural world by revolutionizing the way it presents natural history. The Museum has currently launched a comprehensive campaign to support a dramatic renovation and expansion of its facilities and exhibits. This ambitious plan will position the Museum to play a leading role in regional and national efforts to improve science education and increase scientific literacy. SUMMARY The Museum is searching for a highly-motivated individual to work within the Museum?s Department of Cultural Anthropology as a project-based assistant collections manager to prepare the collection for upcoming Museum renovations and expansion. The Museum supports a large collection of more than 14,000 items of material culture from historic and contemporary societies around the world including North, Central, and South Americas, Africa, and Asia. The successful candidate will work to conserve these collections, secure at risk artifacts, and develop a curation strategy that will enhance access, records management, and digitization efforts currently underway at the Museum. The successful candidate will also serve as liaison to Native American tribal groups in regard to NAGPRA compliance. The Assistant Collections Manager will report directly to the Museum?s Director of Research and Collections. The position is a two year, full-time appointment. QUALIFICATIONS Candidates must have a Master?s degree in cultural anthropology or related field and experience with the curation, cataloging, and conservation of cultural materials, preferably in a museum setting. Experience with NAGPRA implementation and compliance preferred. ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES * Responsible for the management and proper curation of existing research and archival artifacts retained within the department, including evaluation and identification of artifacts for deaccessioning. * Responsible for the management of the systematic arrangement and proper storage of artifacts. * Responsible for computer database development of new and existing material and entering the data into the database. * Responsible for ordering supplies and equipment in support of collection operations. * Responsible for ensuring the Museum is up to date with all NAGPRA compliance * Responsible for updating all loan records * Responsible for rehousing and reorganizing artifacts to create room for objects to be removed from exhibit. * Responsible for arranging for conservation work on artifacts as needed * Performs all duties according to established museum operating, safety, and environmental and quality policies. * Responsible to oversee collections assistant staff members and volunteer activities as they pertain to collection activities. * Responsible for offering departmental services to museum members, the general public, and businesses based on current departmental and division policies. * Performs other duties as assigned by Director of Research and Collections or management as required. KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, ABILITIES * Candidates must have a Master?s degree in cultural anthropology or related field and experience with the curation, cataloging, and conservation of cultural materials, preferably in a museum setting. Experience with NAGPRA implementation and compliance required. * Knowledge of collections management methods and current best practices. * The ability to plan, direct, and report on collections activities. * Ability to research scientific information, ideas and methods. * Excellent organizational and attention to detail skills. * The ability to deal effectively with public and private agencies and individuals in matters relating to collections objects at the Museum. * Strong computer operating system and database management experience. Proficient knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite products to include Word, Excel, Power Point. * Ability to communicate effectively both written and orally. * Ability to work successfully with Museum members, employees and the general public. * Strong problem solving and listening skills. * Ability to manage staff assistants and volunteers. * Ability to function in a fast pace environment with time constraints, and within established deadlines. TO APPLY Create an account and apply at: https://workforcenow.adp.com/mdf/recruitment/recruitment.html?cid=49c26a0f-b438-4d50-910e-e2fca33d6a29&jobId=261546&lang=en_US&source=CC4. No phone calls, please. The Cleveland Museum of Natural History is an EQUAL OPPORTUNITY, ADA EMPLOYER and a SUBSTANCE-FREE WORKPLACE. Gavin J Svenson, Ph.D. Director of Research & Collections Curator and Head of Invertebrate Zoology Cleveland Museum of Natural History 1 Wade Oval Drive Cleveland, OH 44106 216.231.4600 x. 3315 gsvenson at cmnh.org mantodearesearch.com [cid:dcaf3951-229a-47ee-a5fc-920f390a43ee] -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: Outlook-uhhbpow3.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 18368 bytes Desc: Outlook-uhhbpow3.jpg URL: From president at spnhc.org Wed Nov 7 12:10:09 2018 From: president at spnhc.org (president at spnhc.org) Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2018 12:10:09 -0500 Subject: [Nhcoll-l] SPNHC needs an Elections Committee Member! Message-ID: <1541610609.593115448@apps.rackspace.com> The Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections is looking for a SPNHC member to join Bethany Palumbo on the Elections Committee. The Elections Committee is responsible for coordinating and carrying out the procedural steps involved in the nomination and election of officers. You can read more about the Elections Committee on the SPNHC website -- click on the Elections Committee link under Standing Committees on this page: [ http://www.spnhc.org/7 ]( http://www.spnhc.org/7 ) If you are interested in the position, or in more information about it, please contact me: president at spnhc.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From gnelson at bio.fsu.edu Wed Nov 7 19:41:50 2018 From: gnelson at bio.fsu.edu (Gil Nelson) Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2018 19:41:50 -0500 Subject: [Nhcoll-l] Third Digital Data in Biodiversity Research Conference: Yale University, 10-12 June 2019 Message-ID: <0a6e15cc-c907-4687-51c2-820b1f7f2b56@bio.fsu.edu> We are pleased to announce the third Digital Data in Biodiversity Research Conference, 10-12 June 2019, to be held at Yale University in collaboration with Yale Peabody Museum. Please mark your calendars. Registration and the call for presentations will open mid January. The following announcement page will be updated regularly as plans progress. *https://www.idigbio.org/content/save-date-methods-protocols-and-analytical-tools-specimen-based-research-biological-sciences#overlay-context=*. 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Watkins-Colwell Collection Manager, Herpetology and Ichthyology Division of Vertebrate Zoology Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History 170 Whitney Avenue, Box 208118 New Haven, CT 06520 USA Main Office: 203-432-3791; West Campus: 203-737-7568; Fax 203-432-9277 ****************** -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From gregory.watkins-colwell at yale.edu Thu Nov 8 10:41:06 2018 From: gregory.watkins-colwell at yale.edu (Watkins-Colwell, Gregory) Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2018 15:41:06 +0000 Subject: [Nhcoll-l] skeletal compost In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Thanks everybody. I got it now. Greg **************** Gregory J. Watkins-Colwell Collection Manager, Herpetology and Ichthyology Division of Vertebrate Zoology Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History 170 Whitney Avenue, Box 208118 New Haven, CT 06520 USA Main Office: 203-432-3791; West Campus: 203-737-7568; Fax 203-432-9277 ****************** From: Nhcoll-l On Behalf Of Watkins-Colwell, Gregory Sent: 08 November, 2018 9:58 AM To: nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu Subject: [Nhcoll-l] skeletal compost Somebody at SPNHC in New Zealand gave a wonderful talk on using compost to prepare marine mammal skeletons involving a "layer cake" approach of straw and mushroom compost. Who gave that talk? I have questions. Thanks Greg **************** Gregory J. Watkins-Colwell Collection Manager, Herpetology and Ichthyology Division of Vertebrate Zoology Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History 170 Whitney Avenue, Box 208118 New Haven, CT 06520 USA Main Office: 203-432-3791; West Campus: 203-737-7568; Fax 203-432-9277 ****************** -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From gregory.watkins-colwell at yale.edu Thu Nov 8 10:50:44 2018 From: gregory.watkins-colwell at yale.edu (Watkins-Colwell, Gregory) Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2018 15:50:44 +0000 Subject: [Nhcoll-l] skeletal compost In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: https://biss.pensoft.net/article/26340/ **************** Gregory J. Watkins-Colwell Collection Manager, Herpetology and Ichthyology Division of Vertebrate Zoology Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History 170 Whitney Avenue, Box 208118 New Haven, CT 06520 USA Main Office: 203-432-3791; West Campus: 203-737-7568; Fax 203-432-9277 ****************** From: Jill Barlow-Kelley Sent: 08 November, 2018 10:44 AM To: Watkins-Colwell, Gregory Subject: Re: [Nhcoll-l] skeletal compost I didn't, can you share it? Thank you, Jill On Thu, Nov 8, 2018 at 10:41 AM, Watkins-Colwell, Gregory > wrote: Thanks everybody. I got it now. Greg **************** Gregory J. Watkins-Colwell Collection Manager, Herpetology and Ichthyology Division of Vertebrate Zoology Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History 170 Whitney Avenue, Box 208118 New Haven, CT 06520 USA Main Office: 203-432-3791; West Campus: 203-737-7568; Fax 203-432-9277 ****************** From: Nhcoll-l > On Behalf Of Watkins-Colwell, Gregory Sent: 08 November, 2018 9:58 AM To: nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu Subject: [Nhcoll-l] skeletal compost Somebody at SPNHC in New Zealand gave a wonderful talk on using compost to prepare marine mammal skeletons involving a ?layer cake? approach of straw and mushroom compost. Who gave that talk? I have questions. Thanks Greg **************** Gregory J. Watkins-Colwell Collection Manager, Herpetology and Ichthyology Division of Vertebrate Zoology Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History 170 Whitney Avenue, Box 208118 New Haven, CT 06520 USA Main Office: 203-432-3791; West Campus: 203-737-7568; Fax 203-432-9277 ****************** _______________________________________________ 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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The EMS museum possesses a world-class collection of mineral and rock specimens, original artwork of historic significance (including the noteworthy Steidle Collection of American Industrial Art), and significant collections of fossils, ceramics, glass, and artifacts of science and industry. The museum is currently in the process of applying for accreditation from the American Alliance of Museums. The responsibilities for this position include: oversight of the collections; development of exhibits that reflect the expertise and research innovations of the College?s five departments and three institutes; writing and managing successful grant proposals to develop and care for the collections, exhibits, and technical projects; partnering with the Office of Development to coordinate development and revenue-generating activities to foster the museum?s growth; supervision of museum staff and volunteers; maintaining up-to-date web content; participation in the teaching and research mission of the College; creation of K-12 educational materials and programs; and community outreach. The directorship is a fixed-term multiyear academic position open to all ranks, with excellent prospects for renewal beyond the initial appointment. The Director is expected to hold a terminal degree appropriate for their field of expertise at the time of appointment. Faculty appointment in one of the College?s academic departments (Geosciences, Geography, Meteorology and Atmospheric Science, Materials Science and Engineering, Energy and Mineral Engineering) is possible. To apply, please upload a cover letter and concise vision statement for the EMS Museum and Gallery, a curriculum vitae, and the names and contact information of at least three referees. We will begin reviewing applications December 1, 2018 and will continue to receive and review applications until the position is filled. For additional information on the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences go to www.ems.psu.edu. Applicants should provide evidence, either woven through their application materials or as a separate diversity statement, of a commitment to fostering excellence in diversity and equity as well as engagement in creating an inclusive workplace environment. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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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?s Employment Acquisition Skills Boot Camp for Scientists is an intensive, two-day program that is a blend of lecture and hands-on exercises. Designed by scientists and a career coach, this program provides graduate students to senior scientists with the information, tools, and resources required to successfully identify and secure employment in a diversity of career pathways, including science policy, communications, program management, government, non-governmental organizations, international development, and others. Course participants will: - Identify career interests and opportunities; - Learn to communicate their knowledge and skills to employers; - Develop strategies for finding employment; - Develop application materials; - Prepare for and practice different interview styles and scenarios; - Talk to scientists working in diverse employment settings and individuals responsible for making hiring decisions. Current graduate students, post-doctoral fellows, and scientists interested in transitioning to a new employment sector should consider signing up. The program will be held in Washington, DC on December 17-18, 2018. The deadline to register is November 13, 2018. For more information and to register, visit https://www.aibs.org/events/employmentbootcamp.html. ___________________________________________ Jyotsna Pandey, Ph.D. Public Policy Manager American Institute of Biological Sciences 1201 New York Avenue, NW Suite 420 Washington, DC 20005 Phone: 202-628-1500 x 225 www.aibs.org Follow us on Twitter! @AIBS_Policy -- This message is confidential and should only be read by its intended recipients.? If you have received it in error, please notify the sender and delete all copies. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jshannon at colorado.edu Fri Nov 9 16:41:25 2018 From: jshannon at colorado.edu (Jen Shannon) Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2018 21:41:25 +0000 Subject: [Nhcoll-l] Job posting: Curator of Archaeology & Assistant Professor, Univ. of Colorado - Boulder (Nov 25 close) In-Reply-To: References: , Message-ID: Subject: Job posting: Curator of Archaeology & Assistant Professor, Univ. of Colorado - Boulder (Nov 25 close) Please share -- thank you! The University of Colorado Museum of Natural History and the Department of Anthropology invite applications for a tenure-track, joint position as Curator of Archaeology and Assistant Professor. Applicants should have a PhD with specialization in Archaeology, and museum experience. The position includes research, curating collections, and teaching archaeology and museum studies courses. The museum houses outstanding Southwest and Plains archaeological collections. Our strengths are in Southwestern material culture research and publication, NAGPRA implementation, collaborative research with Native North American communities, and advances in contemporary archaeological and museological theory. More information and how to apply here: https://jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDetail/?jobId=13320 Curator of Archaeology and Assistant Professor in Anthropology jobs.colorado.edu The University of Colorado Museum of Natural History and the Department of Anthropology invite applications for a tenure-track, joint position as Curator of Archaeology and Assistant Professor.... --- Jen Shannon Curator and Associate Professor of Cultural Anthropology University of Colorado Museum of Natural History and The Department of Anthropology UCB 218 Boulder, CO 80305-0218 Traditional Territories of the Arapaho, Cheyenne, and Ute Nations Cell Phone: (303) 919-5022 Email: jshannon at colorado.edu Faculty webpage: http://spot.colorado.edu/~jshannon -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From emily.braker at colorado.edu Mon Nov 12 11:17:57 2018 From: emily.braker at colorado.edu (Emily M. Braker) Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2018 16:17:57 +0000 Subject: [Nhcoll-l] TOMORROW (Nov 13) - Arctos webinar - Georeferencing and Managing Geography in Arctos Message-ID: Please join us Tuesday, November 13 for the second webinar in a two-part series on Arctos geographical data - Part II: georeferencing and managing geography in Arctos. Abstract: In Part 2 of ARCTOS Geography webinars, we focus on how to manage and improve geographic data in Arctos, as well as best practices with specific use-cases. Arctos uses four interconnected tables to create a spatial stack of geography for every specimen. We review these tables, which were discussed in Part 1, and show how to improve locality information by standardizing and georeferencing. Specifically, we demonstrate Geolocate, one of the embedded georeferencing tools that translates locality descriptions into coordinates. We also show how that data is saved directly in Arctos, and how to edit localities, specimen events, and collecting events. Each collection has its own set of procedures for managing data and we attempt to show a broad set of use-cases as well as discuss any scenarios that participants wish to bring up. Presenters: Michelle Koo (GIS & Biodiversity Informatics Curator, Museum of Vertebrate Zoology), Tom Giermakowski (Sr. Collection Manager, Division of Amphibians and Reptiles, Museum of Southwestern Biology), and Andrew Doll (Assistant Collection Manager, Zoology Collections, Denver Museum of Nature and Science). When: Tuesday November 13, 2018, at 3:00 pm ET Where: https://idigbio.adobeconnect.com/room Can't make it? View archived recordings and Part I of the geographical data series here: https://arctosdb.org/learn/webinars/ This is the 12th in a series of webinars on Arctos brought to you by the Arctos Working Group and kindly hosted by iDigBio. 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AIBS Public Policy Report AIBS Public Policy Report, Volume 19, Issue 23, November 12, 2018 * Congress Divided as Democrats Take House, Republicans Tighten Control of Senate * Biologists to HHS: No Scientific Basis to Define Gender as Binary Trait * NIH to Allow Unrestricted Access to Genomic Summary Results * Researchers to Sequence 66,000 Known Species in U.K. * Deadline Approaching: Employment Acquisition Skills Boot Camp for Scientists * Enhance your Interdisciplinary and Team Science Skills * Short Takes * NASEM Calls for Diversity in Citizen Science * House Lawmakers Plan to Revive Climate Change Panel * NSF Reviewing Future of its Study Abroad Program * 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. ________________________________ Congress Divided as Democrats Take House, Republicans Tighten Control of Senate The 2018 midterm elections have generated significant changes in Washington, DC, with Democrats seizing control of the House of Representatives, and the retirements or election loses of some members who have played significant roles in science policy. At the same time, Republicans have retained control of the Senate. As of November 12, Democrats hold 227 seats in the House while Republicans have 198, with the results of 10 races being too close to call. In the Senate, the GOP has a 51-seat majority and Democrats hold 46 seats, which includes two Independents who caucus with the Democrats. The Senate seats for Arizona and Florida have yet to be declared. Although it is anticipated that Representative Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) will be elected as Speaker of the House, leadership of the House, and Democratic and Republican caucuses in the House has yet to be determined. Democratic lawmakers, who have gained control of the House for the first time in 8 years, have expressed an intent to provide oversight of the Trump Administration. Representative Eddie Bernice Johnson (D-TX) will likely be the next Chairwoman of the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology. Johnson, who is currently the Ranking Member on the panel, released a statement on the day of the election highlighting three of her priorities for the committee if she is elected to the leadership role. One goal would be ensuring ?that the United States remains the global leader in innovation, which will require attention to a wide range of activities,? including supporting ?a robust federally funded R&D enterprise,? and ?defending the scientific enterprise from political and ideological attacks.? Her second priority would be addressing the ?challenge of climate change, starting with acknowledging it is real,? and her third priority would be restoring ?the credibility of the science committee as a place where science is respected and recognized as a crucial input to good policymaking.? Several Republican members of the House Science Committee have lost or are expected to lose their re-election. * Representative Barbara Comstock (R-VA), who chaired the Research Subcommittee has lost her reelection. * Representative Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA), who has served on the Science Committee for three decades, has lost his seat. * Representatives Randy Hultgren (R-IL) and Steve Knight (R-CA) have also lost their reelections. Representative Frank Lucas (R-OK) has announced his intent to pursue the position of Ranking Member on the House Science Committee. Lucas is a mainstream conservative who is likely to follow in the footsteps of retiring Chairman Lamar Smith (R-TX) on climate issues. In the past, Lucas has supported Department of Energy?s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E), which the Administration wanted to terminate. Representative Randy Weber (R-TX), who ranks lower in seniority to Lucas, has also announced his interest in serving as the top Republican on the panel. Weber, a member of the Freedom Caucus, supports ?sane energy policies? to stimulate economic growth, while maintaining ?fiscal conservatism.? Representative Nita Lowey (D-NY) is the top Democrat on the House Appropriations Committee and is expected to take the Chair of the panel. Exiting Chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, Representative Rodney Frelinghuysen (R-NJ), had announced his retirement earlier this year. Frelinghuysen?s seat went to former navy pilot and Democratic candidate Mikie Sherrill (D-NJ). Representative John Culberson (R-TX), who has been serving as the Chairman of the Appropriations Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, and Science (CJS), lost his bid for reelection. The CJS subcommittee decides funding for the National Science Foundation (NSF), the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). During his chairmanship, Culberson had advocated for increased funding for NASA. Representative Jos? Serrano (D-NY) had been serving as the Ranking Member of the CJS subcommittee, and may be the next Chairman. Congress has yet to approve the CJS appropriations bill for fiscal year (FY) 2019, with the above-mentioned science agencies functioning under FY 2018 funding levels under a continuing resolution that is set to expire on December 7, 2018. The House Natural Resources Committee will likely be chaired by Representative Raul Grijalva (D-AZ), who is now the Ranking Member. Representative Rob Bishop (R-UT), who currently chairs the panel, has won his reelection bid and will retain leadership of the panel until next year during the current lame-duck session. Representative Frank Pallone (D-NJ) is expected to be the next leader of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce. Pallone has been the top Democrat on the committee since 2014. Exiting Chairman Representative Greg Walden (R-OR) will continue to lead the panel during the lame-duck session. Also, of note, is the defeat of Representative Carlos Curbelo (R-FL), who led the bipartisan House Climate Solutions Caucus. More than half of the 45 Republican members of the caucus have lost or are at risk of losing their reelection creating doubts about the future of the group. In January, more than 80 freshman lawmakers will be sworn in when the new Congress convenes. According to Science Insider, seven of these newly elected lawmakers have backgrounds in science, engineering, and medicine, including Joe Cunningham (D-SC), a former ocean engineer; Elaine Luria (D-VA), a former nuclear engineer; Chrissy Houlahan (D-PA), an engineer and former science teacher; Jeff van Drew (D-NJ), a dentist; Lauren Underwood (D-IL), a former registered nurse, health policy expert, and former adviser at the Department of Health and Human Services under President Obama; Sean Casten (D-IL), a biochemical engineer; and Kim Schrier (D-WA), a pediatrician. Biologists to HHS: No Scientific Basis to Define Gender as Binary Trait The Society for the Study of Evolution (SSE), the American Society of Naturalists (ASN), and the Society of Systematic Biologists (SSB) have sent a letter to the Secretary of Health and Human Services Alex Azar expressing concerns about the Department?s attempt to claim that there is a biological basis to defining gender as a strictly binary trait determined by genitalia at birth. SSE, ASN, and SSB are member societies of the American Institute of Biological Sciences (AIBS). The letter is in response to a recent Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) memo obtained by the New York Times. The memo proposes that the federal government legally define both gender and sex as ?either male or female, unchangeable, and determined by the genitals that a person is born with.? HHS argues that government agencies need to adopt a uniform definition of gender as determined ?on a biological basis that is clear, grounded in science, objective and administrable.? The letter from the biological societies reads in part, ?Variation in biological sex and in gendered expression has been well documented in many species, including humans, through hundreds of scientific articles. Such variation is observed at both the genetic level and at the individual level (including hormone levels, secondary sexual characteristics, as well as genital morphology). Moreover, models predict that variation should exist within the categories that HHS proposes as ?male? and ?female?, indicating that sex should be more accurately viewed as a continuum.? Read the letter here: http://www.evolutionsociety.org/news/display/2018/10/30/letter-re-scientific-understanding-of-sex-and-gender/ NIH to Allow Unrestricted Access to Genomic Summary Results The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has announced that it will allow unrestricted access to genomic summary results from most NIH-funded studies for health or research purposes. However, access to summary results from research studies that have privacy concerns will continue to be restricted. This update to the data management procedures related to the NIH Genomic Data Sharing (GDS) Policy is based upon input from stakeholders as well as feedback from the public as requested by the Agency in September 2017. Read more about the update here: https://osp.od.nih.gov/scientific-sharing/genomic-data-sharing/ Researchers to Sequence 66,000 Known Species in U.K. Researchers have launched a project to sequence the genomes of all known species of eukaryotic organisms in the United Kingdom (U.K.). The U.K. effort to sequence all 66,000 species of its animals, plants, fungi, and protozoa has been named the Darwin Tree of Life project. This project will be part of the larger international effort, the Earth BioGenome Project (EBP), which aims to sequence, catalog, and characterize the genomes of all of Earth?s known 1.5 million species of eukaryotes over a period of ten years. EBP includes a working group of 25 scientists, who have developed a strategy to coordinate genome sequencing efforts around the world, including those focused on taxonomic groups, such as vertebrates or plants, and those focused on geographical boundaries, such as the U.K. effort. ?We feel it is the next moonshot for biology,? says EBP Chair Harris Lewin, a genomicist at the University of California, Davis. The project is intended to serve many purposes, including providing new insights into evolution, assisting in biodiversity conservation, and informing improvements to agriculture and medicine. The U.K project was announced on November 1, 2018 during the official launch of the $4.7 billion EBP project. It was also announced that a Memorandum of Understanding to work towards the common goals of the EBP has been signed by 17 participating institutions, including the Beijing Genomics Institute in Shenzhen, China; the Royal Botanic Gardens in Kew, U.K.; University of California, Davis; Max-Planck Society; and the Wellcome Sanger Institute in Hinxton, U.K. Additionally, 15 other regional and national projects, including the 10,000 Plant Genomes Project and the Darwin Tree of Life Project, are affiliated with the EBP. Deadline Approaching: Employment Acquisition Skills Boot Camp for Scientists Registration is closing soon 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's Employment Acquisition Skills Boot Camp for Scientists is an intensive, two-day program that is a blend of lecture and hands-on exercises. Designed by scientists and a career coach, this program provides graduate students to senior scientists with the information, tools, and resources required to successfully identify and secure employment in a diversity of career pathways, including science policy, communications, program management, government, non-governmental organizations, international development, and others. Course participants will: * Identify career interests and opportunities; * Learn to communicate their knowledge and skills to employers; * Develop strategies for finding employment; * Develop application materials; * Prepare for and practice different interview styles and scenarios; * Talk to scientists working in diverse employment settings and individuals responsible for making hiring decisions. Current graduate students, post-doctoral fellows, and scientists interested in transitioning to a new employment sector should consider signing up. The program will be held in Washington, DC on December 17-18, 2018. The deadline to register is November 13, 2018. For more information and to register, visit https://www.aibs.org/events/employmentbootcamp.html. Enhance your Interdisciplinary and Team Science Skills Reports abound from professional societies, the Academies, government agencies, and researchers calling attention to the fact that science is increasingly an interdisciplinary, transdisciplinary, inter-institutional, and international endeavor. In short, science has become a ?team sport.? There is a real and present need to better prepare scientists for success in this new collaborative environment. The American Institute of Biological Sciences is responding to this call with a new program for scientists, educators, and individuals who work with or participate in scientific teams. Team science is increasingly common in 21st century biological, life, and environmental sciences. Collaboration is no longer limited to sharing ideas with the biologist in the lab next door. The questions confronting science often require teams that may include a mix of computer and information scientists, physical and social scientists, mathematicians, ethicists, policy and management experts, as well as community stakeholders and citizen scientists. Adding to this complexity, teams span programs within organizations, cross organization boundaries to form institutional consortia, and often include international partners. This intensive, two-day, interactive, professional development course was designed by scientists and experts on collaboration and teamwork to provide participants with the knowledge and skills required to become productive and effective members of scientific teams. From its first offering the course has evolved to include a greater focus on team planning and teamwork, and less time allocated to university administration of interdisciplinary teams. Nothing teaches collaboration like practicing collaboration. This is not a course that asks you to learn in isolation. It is a microcosm of scientific collaboration, with extensive hands-on learning as part of a scientific team, with scientific case studies and examples. This course is designed for anyone involved in collaborative scientific endeavors. Team leaders will find the course especially helpful. Because participants will work on ?real-world? team science concerns, we encourage multiple members of a team to attend together. We can also customize the course and bring it to your university, department, lab, or research team. This course provides the right foundation from which your team can successfully accomplish your goals. The program will be held on January 14-15, 2019 in Washington DC. Learn more at https://www.aibs.org/events/team_science_event.html. Short Takes * A new report by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM), entitled Learning through Citizen Science, has called for diversity in citizen science. ?Citizen science project designers must grapple with issues of equity, diversity, power, and inclusion?They face these issues even if they do not set out to address diversity in their project and even when they are not consciously aware that these factors are at play in their project.? The report recommends addressing inequities in education, opportunities, and resources to meet the learning demands of participants. Learn more at http://www8.nationalacademies.org/onpinews/newsitem.aspx?RecordID=25183&_ga=2.243568773.1650999362.1541095371-42127930.1541095371 * Democratic lawmakers in the House are planning to revive a special committee focused on climate change, which was created by Representative Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) in 2007 but disbanded by Republican lawmakers in 2011. The previous panel, named the Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming, was not authorized to pass legislation, but conducted several hearings on relevant topics and examined impacts of climate change and advancements in renewable energy. * The National Science Foundation (NSF) has announced that it is reviewing ?possible future directions? for the Graduate Research Opportunities Worldwide (GROW) program to study abroad, citing a decline in the number of GROW recipients from 158 in 2016 to 88 in 2018. The program enables graduate students receiving the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship to work with experts in another country by allowing them to apply for an additional $5000 allowance to cover travel and living expenses. Science Insider reported that NSF?s online system, called FastLane, has stopped accepting GROW proposals. Amanda Greenwell, an NSF official, has indicated that the agency expects to make an announcement in a few weeks. From the Federal Register The following items appeared in the Federal Register from October 29 to November 9, 2018. For more information on these or other recent items, please visit the AIBS Federal Register Resource at www.aibs.org/federal-register-resource/index.html. Week Ending November 9, 2018 Environmental Protection Agency * Notification of a Public Meeting of the Chartered Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee (CASAC) * Notification of a Public Teleconference of the Chartered Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee (CASAC) Health and Human Services * Board of Scientific Counselors, Office of Infectious Diseases (BSC, OID) * Meeting of the National Advisory Council for Healthcare Research and Quality * Meeting of the Tick-Borne Disease Working Group * National Toxicology Program Board of Scientific Counselors; Announcement of Meeting; Request for Comments * Office of the Director, National Institutes of Health; Notice of Meeting National Science Foundation * Advisory Committee for Biological Sciences; Notice of Meeting * Sunshine Act Meeting; National Science Board Week Ending November 2, 2018 Commerce * National Sea Grant Advisory Board (NSGAB); Public Meeting of the National Sea Grant Advisory Board * Nominations for the 2019-2022 General Advisory Committee and the Scientific Advisory Subcommittee to the United States Delegation to the Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission Environmental Protection Agency * FIFRA Scientific Advisory Panel; Notice of Public Virtual Meeting; Request for Comments on Prospective Ad hoc Candidates Health and Human Services * Advisory Council for the Elimination of Tuberculosis Meeting (ACET) * Science Advisory Board to the National Center for Toxicological Research Advisory Committee; Notice of Meeting Interior * Agency Information Collection Activities; USA National Phenology Network--The Nature's Notebook Plant and Animal Observing Program * Invasive Species Advisory Committee; Public Meeting National Science Foundation * Advisory Committee for Biological Sciences; Notice of Meeting * National Science Board; Sunshine Act Meetings Become an Advocate for Science: Join the AIBS Legislative Action Center Quick, free, easy, effective, impactful! 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From: Nhcoll-l [mailto:nhcoll-l-bounces at mailman.yale.edu] On Behalf Of Callomon,Paul Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2018 8:28 AM To: NH-COLL listserv (nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu) Subject: [Nhcoll-l] Words and things Colleagues, I am hunting around for a word that describes the time-neutral study of life on Earth. "Paleontology" and "Biology" are both time-specific (the former explicitly, the latter by usage) and "integrated biology" is not clear. Is there a word that means "the study of life regardless of time"? Paul Callomon Collection Manager, Malacology and General Invertebrates ________________________________ Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University, Philadelphia 1900 Benjamin Franklin Parkway, Philadelphia PA 19103-1195, USA callomon at ansp.org Tel 215-405-5096 - Fax 215-299-1170 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From darrah.jorgensen at gmail.com Wed Nov 14 09:41:22 2018 From: darrah.jorgensen at gmail.com (Darrah Steffen) Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2018 08:41:22 -0600 Subject: [Nhcoll-l] Words and things In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: I would reccomend just a simple natural history. The definition of that phrase is: the scientific study of animals or plants, especially as concerned with observation rather than experiment. This gives a broad interpretation and the general public typically thinks of both biological and paleontological sciences when looking at natural history in the sciences. Darrah Steffen PR Assistant Sternberg Museum of Natural History 3000 Sternberg Drive Hays, KS 67601 On Wed, Nov 14, 2018, 8:27 AM Callomon,Paul Colleagues, > > > > I am hunting around for a word that describes the time-neutral study of > life on Earth. ?Paleontology? and ?Biology? are both time-specific (the > former explicitly, the latter by usage) and ?integrated biology? is not > clear. Is there a word that means ?the study of life regardless of time?? > > > > *Paul Callomon* > *Collection Manager, Malacology and General Invertebrates* > ------------------------------ > > *Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University, Philadelphia* > > 1900 Benjamin Franklin Parkway, Philadelphia PA 19103-1195, USA > *callomon at ansp.org Tel 215-405-5096 - Fax 215-299-1170* > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 EWheeler at royalbcmuseum.bc.ca Wed Nov 14 09:51:16 2018 From: EWheeler at royalbcmuseum.bc.ca (Wheeler, Erica J RBCM:EX) Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2018 14:51:16 +0000 Subject: [Nhcoll-l] Words and things In-Reply-To: References: , Message-ID: <1542207073058.75515@royalbcmuseum.bc.ca> ?I've started using the term 'Biodiversity Science' because 1) it easily encompasses anything you want it to and is time-neutral, 2) makes it clear collections based inquiry is indeed SCIENCE, and 3) gives us a bit of breathing room from the Victorian cabinet of curiosities that is evoked by the term natural history. Erica ______________________________________________________________________________________________ Erica Wheeler PhD Head, Collections Care and Conservation | Collections, Knowledge and Engagement [https://sales.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/logo.png] Traditional Territory of the Lekwungen (Songhees and Xwsepsum Nations) 675 Belleville Street, Victoria, BC Canada V8W 9W2 T 250 480-8369 EWheeler at royalbcmuseum.bc.ca | www.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca | www.bcarchives.bc.ca During November, for every museum membership you purchase, you'll receive 50% off an additional membership*. Go BOGO now! *Some restrictions apply. See online for details. ________________________________ From: Nhcoll-l on behalf of Darrah Steffen Sent: November-14-18 6:41 AM To: Callomon,Paul Cc: NH-COLL listserv (nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu) Subject: Re: [Nhcoll-l] Words and things I would reccomend just a simple natural history. The definition of that phrase is: the scientific study of animals or plants, especially as concerned with observation rather than experiment. This gives a broad interpretation and the general public typically thinks of both biological and paleontological sciences when looking at natural history in the sciences. Darrah Steffen PR Assistant Sternberg Museum of Natural History 3000 Sternberg Drive Hays, KS 67601 On Wed, Nov 14, 2018, 8:27 AM Callomon,Paul wrote: Colleagues, I am hunting around for a word that describes the time-neutral study of life on Earth. "Paleontology" and "Biology" are both time-specific (the former explicitly, the latter by usage) and "integrated biology" is not clear. Is there a word that means "the study of life regardless of time"? Paul Callomon Collection Manager, Malacology and General Invertebrates ________________________________ Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University, Philadelphia 1900 Benjamin Franklin Parkway, Philadelphia PA 19103-1195, USA callomon at ansp.org Tel 215-405-5096 - Fax 215-299-1170 _______________________________________________ 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. From mole at morris.net Wed Nov 14 11:54:33 2018 From: mole at morris.net (Paul J. Morris) Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2018 11:54:33 -0500 Subject: [Nhcoll-l] Words and things In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <20181114115433.155ef393@chicoreus> As Bob Linsley used to say in his undergraduate historical geology and paleontology courses, paleontology is the study of the entire history of life, biology is the tiny subset of paleontology which just considers life in the present... I tend to refer to the natural sciences and to natural science collections, but those phrases, like biogeosciences, also include minerology and geology as well as studies of living systems. -Paul On Wed, 14 Nov 2018 14:27:41 +0000 "Callomon,Paul" wrote: > Colleagues, > > I am hunting around for a word that describes the time-neutral study > of life on Earth. "Paleontology" and "Biology" are both time-specific > (the former explicitly, the latter by usage) and "integrated biology" > is not clear. Is there a word that means "the study of life > regardless of time"? > > Paul Callomon > Collection Manager, Malacology and General Invertebrates > ________________________________ > Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University, Philadelphia > 1900 Benjamin Franklin Parkway, Philadelphia PA 19103-1195, USA > callomon at ansp.org Tel 215-405-5096 - Fax > 215-299-1170 > -- Paul J. Morris Biodiversity Informatics Manager Museum of Comparative Zo?logy, Harvard University mole at morris.net AA3SD PGP public key available From nico.franz at asu.edu Wed Nov 14 12:02:23 2018 From: nico.franz at asu.edu (Nico Franz) Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2018 10:02:23 -0700 Subject: [Nhcoll-l] Two Postdoc Positions in Biodiversity Informatics at Arizona State University Message-ID: The Biodiversity Knowledge Integration Center (BioKIC) at Arizona State University (ASU) invites applications for two postdoctoral research scholar positions in biodiversity informatics. The positions are part of a new Biodiversity Data Science Initiative launched at ASU and led by Beckett Sterner and Nico Franz. The initiative will focus on building an innovative web platform that leverages theoretical advancements and prototype software for taxonomic concept alignment (https://doi.org/10.1093/sysbio/syw023), with the goal to establish a scalable taxonomic intelligence service that will carry value for scientific audiences, science publishers, government agencies, and environmental consulting firms. The platform will accelerate the growth of high-quality, reproducible biological data by driving the adoption of taxonomic intelligence metadata in scientific datasets and journals. Position 1 ad: https://sols.asu.edu/sites/default/files/job_12575.pdf Position 2 ad: https://sols.asu.edu/sites/default/files/job_12643.pdf We are committed to open science and an inclusive, equitable, and team-oriented work environment that promotes the candidate's career and personal advancement. The Biodiversity Data Science Initiative is located within the School of Life Sciences and Natural History Collections at Arizona State University. This setting offers a supportive and stimulating environment, with a diverse collection of faculty with expertise across the life and computational sciences, as well as access to excellent academic and computing resources. The Initiative is further supported by faculty from ASU's School of Computing, Informatics, and Decision Systems Engineering and external experts in data science for systematic biology. In addition, the postdoctoral researcher will be able to take advantage of multiple seminar series and a large community of faculty, postdocs, and students. Arizona State University offers a rich environment for early-career researchers and a wide range of support programs for postdocs. Exploratory e-mail inquiries are strongly encouraged. Interested applicants should send a one-page research statement, clearly indicating their qualifications and motivation to join the project, Curriculum Vitae, and contact information for three references to nico.franz at asu.edu and bsterne1 at asu.edu. The review of applications is rolling until the search is closed. The start date is flexible, with a preference for January 1, 2019. Salary is commensurate with experience, with a range of $55,000 to 75,000 annually, plus ASU benefits, for exceptionally well qualified applicants. Reasonable relocation funds are available. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From trehman at brit.org Wed Nov 14 22:50:04 2018 From: trehman at brit.org (Tiana Rehman) Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2018 03:50:04 +0000 Subject: [Nhcoll-l] Obituary: Dr. Hugh Daniel Wilson (TAMU) In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Posted on behalf of my friend, Amanda Neill: I am saddened to report the death of my friend and botanical mentor, Dr. Hugh D. Wilson, retired Emeritus Professor of Biology and former Curator of the TAMU Herbarium at Texas A&M University. Wilson was known for the study of the floras of Ohio and Texas, with focus on conservation of rare species and habitats, and for his ethnobotanical research and early molecular work on Lagenaria, Cucurbita, and Chenopodium. His enthusiasm for taxonomy, ethnobotany, floristics, conservation, and specimen digitization inspired many of his students to become botanists or pursue related fields, and I am lucky to count myself among them. Wilson was the curator of the TAMU Herbarium (now combined with Texas A&M's Tracy Herbarium, TAES) and was an early, visionary promoter of specimen digitization, herbarium data standards, online collections browsers, and regional consortium building-- many years before these ideas became widely embraced and adopted. He was instrumental in the creation of one of the earliest online herbarium specimen browsers (for TAMU and TAES), and provided leadership for both iterations of the region's herbarium consortia (first, the Digital Flora of Texas Consortium, and later, the Texas-Oklahoma Regional Consortium of Herbaria (TORCH)). Wilson's insistence that botanical data should be digitized so they could be easily shared and updated, and then eventually combined and mined for research-- long before Big Data was a thing-- made him a pariah, in his own opinion. In my opinion, he is one of the giants upon whose shoulders many of us now stand. In lieu of other forms of commemoration, please take the time to accompany your students in their fieldwork, or invite them to accompany you in yours. -- Amanda K. Neill (amanda.neill at gmail.com) * *Dr. Wilson's obituary, published in the Alliance Review on 10 November 2018, is pasted below:* * Hugh Daniel Wilson was born in Alliance, Ohio, to Fern and Elvin Wilson on August 15, 1943 and died November 5, 2018. He grew up in Alliance and graduated from Alliance High School in 1961. He was a running back on the AHS 1958 Football State Championship team and held a track record at the Ohio State Relays that lasted for nearly 20 years. Hugh was elected to Alliance High School Athletic Hall of Fame in 2000. Sargent Hugh Wilson was honorably discharged from the United States Air Force 1964-68 with an Air Force medal of Commendation for Meritorious service in Vietnam. After returning from the service, Hugh completed a Bachelor of Arts (Biology) in 1970 and Master of Arts (Botany) in 1972 at Kent State University, Kent, Ohio. Thesis: ?The Vascular Plants of Holmes County, Ohio?. Hugh received his Ph.D. in Botany and Anthropology 1973-1976 from Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana Dissertation: ?A biosystematic study of the cultivated chenopods (Quinoa) and related species?. After earning his Ph.D., Hugh was a visiting professor on the faculty in the Department of Botany at the University of Wyoming, Laramie, Wyoming. Hugh had full responsibility for a five week Science Camp offering field Botany. In 1977, Dr. Wilson joined the faculty at Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, (College of Science), Department of Biology. He taught Taxonomy of Flowering Plants, Field Systematic Botany, and Economic Botany until he retired in 2011 as Professor Emeritus. Hugh was given the Edmund H. Fulling Award, Society for Economic Botany, 1981, Fellow American Association for the Advancement of Science 1990. He received support for research from the National Science Foundation, U.S. Department of Agriculture, and National Geographic Society. Dr. Wilson was a member of American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Society of Plant Taxonomists and Society for Economic Botany. Hugh is survived by his wife, C. Toni (Favazzo) Wilson, College Station, TX; son, Quentin F. Wilson, Portland, Oregon; brother, Gary L. Wilson, Los Angeles, CA., nephews, Derek M. Wilson, Dallas, TX, C.D. Wilson, Sachem, CT; and their children. A private service will be held for Hugh at Mt. Union Cemetery at his request. Tiana F. 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My colleagues are hopeful they have just come in to investigate and have died, but my instinct tells me they may have been eating specimens and are now trying to leave. Ideally we want them gone completely from everywhere, though I know this is easier said than done. For the bone vault, we can freeze the contents of the room, clean/fumigate the room, and then put the material back in. But the mammal and bird collections are larger and more delicate and so this is not so easy, and perhaps not warranted, given the limited number of dermestids we've found there. I'm wondering if any of you could recommend solutions for how to tackle this problem? Would placing pheromone traps to localise the problem and then freezing/fumigating specific cabinets be sufficient, and how would we know if it's not? Anyway, any thoughts or suggestions would be very welcome. 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After one month, you can remove them.?Tom Parker??-----Original Message----- From: Tonya.Haff To: nhcoll-l ; pestlist Cc: Alex.Drew ; Christopher.Wilson Sent: Sun, Nov 18, 2018 11:12 pm Subject: [pestlist] Dermestid help <!-- #yiv1988423298 _filtered #yiv1988423298 {font-family:"Cambria Math";panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4;} _filtered #yiv1988423298 {font-family:Calibri;panose-1:2 15 5 2 2 2 4 3 2 4;} #yiv1988423298 #yiv1988423298 p.yiv1988423298MsoNormal, #yiv1988423298 li.yiv1988423298MsoNormal, #yiv1988423298 div.yiv1988423298MsoNormal {margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri", sans-serif;} #yiv1988423298 a:link, #yiv1988423298 span.yiv1988423298MsoHyperlink {color:#0563C1;text-decoration:underline;} #yiv1988423298 a:visited, #yiv1988423298 span.yiv1988423298MsoHyperlinkFollowed {color:#954F72;text-decoration:underline;} #yiv1988423298 span.yiv1988423298EmailStyle17 {font-family:"Calibri", sans-serif;color:windowtext;} #yiv1988423298 .yiv1988423298MsoChpDefault {font-family:"Calibri", sans-serif;} _filtered #yiv1988423298 {margin:72.0pt 72.0pt 72.0pt 72.0pt;} #yiv1988423298 div.yiv1988423298WordSection1 {} -->Hi all, ? We just discovered that we have a dermestid (variegated carpet beetle) infestation here. Very bad news, as we?ve been really successful at keeping our vaults clean until now. At any rate, I just found a few hundred adults on the floor of our bone vault ? dead and dying. I?m sure they are eating some residual material on our dingo skulls, which were not cleaned properly? before storing (this is an historical problem). In addition, we?ve found a few (~20) in our mammal (skin and skulls) vault, and a very few (~10) in our bird vault. I?m not sure what the cause of this outbreak is, other than nice warm weather. In the bird and mammal? vaults they are concentrated near the door cracks to the emergency exists (yes this is probably a design flaw). My colleagues are hopeful they have just come in to investigate and have died, but my instinct tells me they may have been eating specimens and are now trying to leave. ? Ideally we want them gone completely from everywhere, though I know this is easier said than done. For the bone vault, we can freeze the contents of the room, clean/fumigate the room, and then put the material back in. But the mammal and bird collections are larger and more delicate and so this is not so easy, and perhaps not warranted, given the limited number of dermestids we?ve found there. I?m wondering if any of you could recommend solutions for how to tackle this problem? Would placing pheromone traps to localise the problem and then freezing/fumigating specific cabinets be sufficient, and how would we know if it?s not? Anyway, any thoughts or suggestions would be very welcome. ? Cheers, ? 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Team science is increasingly common in 21st century biological, life, and environmental sciences. Collaboration is no longer limited to sharing ideas with the biologist in the lab next door. The questions confronting science often require teams that may include a mix of computer and information scientists, physical and social scientists, mathematicians, ethicists, policy and management experts, as well as community stakeholders and citizen scientists. Adding to this complexity, teams span programs within organizations, cross organization boundaries to form institutional consortia, and often include international partners. This intensive, two-day, interactive, professional development course was designed by scientists and experts on collaboration and teamwork to provide participants with the knowledge and skills required to become productive and effective members of scientific teams. 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Participants will develop and hone the skills needed to: - Explain interdisciplinary team science and characteristics of effective scientific teams - Describe how teams work - Recognize competencies and characteristics of effective team leadership - Create effective teams and team culture - Develop a shared vision, mission, plan, and key performance indicators for a scientific team - Identify and assess the right mix of competencies and people needed for a scientific team - Use team tools and processes such as quality improvement cycle and knowledge mapping - Improve team communication and trust Dates: January 14-15, 2019 Location: 1201 New York Avenue, NW, Suite 420, Washington, DC 20005 Learn more at https://www.aibs.org/events/team_science_event.html. ___________________________________________ Jyotsna Pandey, Ph.D. Public Policy Manager American Institute of Biological Sciences 1201 New York Avenue, NW Suite 420 Washington, DC 20005 Phone: 202-628-1500 x 225 www.aibs.org Follow us on Twitter! @AIBS_Policy -- This message is confidential and should only be read by its intended recipients.? 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You could use your freezer, hire a trailer freezer if the collection is bigger than your current freezer, or use low oxygen (either individually bagging specimens or large flexible chambers). Due to the high susceptibility of the mammal and bird specimens it may be better to store them in barrier film bags, as this makes them ?invisible? to the bugs. You have some of these facilities in Canberra (e.g. freezers at the AWM and the NGA), or I can send you contact details for Australian suppliers. Best wishes Alex Roach Modified Atmospheres 0414 663 472 On Tue, 20 Nov 2018 at 12:04 am, 'bugman22' via Museumpests < pestlist at googlegroups.com> wrote: > Tonya - > > Have you considered Vapona pest strips hung in the vaults at a rate of one > strip/1,000 cu ft? After one month, you can remove them. > > Tom Parker > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Tonya.Haff > To: nhcoll-l ; pestlist < > pestlist at googlegroups.com> > Cc: Alex.Drew ; Christopher.Wilson > > Sent: Sun, Nov 18, 2018 11:12 pm > Subject: [pestlist] Dermestid help > > Hi all, > > We just discovered that we have a dermestid (variegated carpet beetle) > infestation here. Very bad news, as we?ve been really successful at keeping > our vaults clean until now. At any rate, I just found a few hundred adults > on the floor of our bone vault ? dead and dying. I?m sure they are eating > some residual material on our dingo skulls, which were not cleaned > properly before storing (this is an historical problem). In addition, > we?ve found a few (~20) in our mammal (skin and skulls) vault, and a very > few (~10) in our bird vault. I?m not sure what the cause of this outbreak > is, other than nice warm weather. In the bird and mammal vaults they are > concentrated near the door cracks to the emergency exists (yes this is > probably a design flaw). My colleagues are hopeful they have just come in > to investigate and have died, but my instinct tells me they may have been > eating specimens and are now trying to leave. > > Ideally we want them gone completely from everywhere, though I know this > is easier said than done. For the bone vault, we can freeze the contents of > the room, clean/fumigate the room, and then put the material back in. But > the mammal and bird collections are larger and more delicate and so this is > not so easy, and perhaps not warranted, given the limited number of > dermestids we?ve found there. I?m wondering if any of you could recommend > solutions for how to tackle this problem? Would placing pheromone traps to > localise the problem and then freezing/fumigating specific cabinets be > sufficient, and how would we know if it?s not? Anyway, any thoughts or > suggestions would be very welcome. > > Cheers, > > Tonya > > --------------------------------------------------------- > Dr Tonya Haff > Collections Manager > Australian National Wildlife Collection > National Research Collections Australia, CSIRO > Canberra, Australia > Phone: (+61) 02 62421566 > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Museumpests" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to pestlist+unsubscribe at googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to pestlist at googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/pestlist. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/pestlist/cac7915bb135421eb5858865e6ce2d80%40exch3-mel.nexus.csiro.au > > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Museumpests" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to pestlist+unsubscribe at googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to pestlist at googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/pestlist. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/pestlist/1190560710.2810638.1542632679844%40mail.yahoo.com > > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- *Alex Roach* *Director* Modified Atmospheres *M:* 0414 663 472 ABN: 66 164 577 557 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From m.becker at musnathist.com Wed Nov 21 09:58:10 2018 From: m.becker at musnathist.com (Matthew Becker) Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2018 09:58:10 -0500 Subject: [Nhcoll-l] Cleaning a roadkill freezer Message-ID: <07888722-50f4-c0d4-328e-1215d0f6f4a9@musnathist.com> Hi everyone, We have a freezer where we store dead on recovery animals before sending them to our taxidermist to be mounted for exhibition and storage. We are in the process of the cleaning out this freezer as some of the dead animals at the bottom of the freezer are dated back to the 1990s! Getting rid of the old specimens isn't so much of a problem...the real problem is that at some point in the past the museum lost power and the roadkill freezer thawed leaving a horrible dead smell inside (beyond the regular dead smell from the animals). My question: Does anyone have recommendations for cleaning a roadkill freezer? My inclination is just to go at it with bleach, but if anyone has any better/less toxic suggestions I would very much appreciate it! Thank you. Matthew Becker Curator of Collections Museum of Natural History + Planetarium Roger Williams Park 1000 Elmwood Ave., Providence, RI 02907 401-680-7221 From w.shepherd at swiftcurrent.ca Wed Nov 21 10:26:50 2018 From: w.shepherd at swiftcurrent.ca (William Shepherd) Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2018 15:26:50 +0000 Subject: [Nhcoll-l] Cleaning a roadkill freezer In-Reply-To: <07888722-50f4-c0d4-328e-1215d0f6f4a9@musnathist.com> References: <07888722-50f4-c0d4-328e-1215d0f6f4a9@musnathist.com> Message-ID: Hello Matthew, I don't have much experience in getting rid of corpse smell from freezers but smells tend to get into everything. Bleach would probably help but when all is said and done you'll probably still smell it to some extent. If there are any fluids or left overs frozen to the freezer, cleaning that out will help too. My best recommendation for the smell would be to clean it well with soap, possibly give it a wipe down with bleach, and then put bowls or pans of baking soda in there for a while. The amount of baking soda will depend on the size of the freezer but you can't have too much. The flow through boxes may work too but you have limited surface area being exposed to the smell. The longer you leave the baking soda in there the better, but this may depend on how quickly you need to get the freezer back into use. In the conservation world baking soda is often used to remove or reduce smell from items with relative success. 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 -----Original Message----- From: Nhcoll-l On Behalf Of Matthew Becker Sent: November 21, 2018 8:58 AM To: nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu Subject: [Nhcoll-l] Cleaning a roadkill freezer Hi everyone, We have a freezer where we store dead on recovery animals before sending them to our taxidermist to be mounted for exhibition and storage. We are in the process of the cleaning out this freezer as some of the dead animals at the bottom of the freezer are dated back to the 1990s! Getting rid of the old specimens isn't so much of a problem...the real problem is that at some point in the past the museum lost power and the roadkill freezer thawed leaving a horrible dead smell inside (beyond the regular dead smell from the animals). My question: Does anyone have recommendations for cleaning a roadkill freezer? My inclination is just to go at it with bleach, but if anyone has any better/less toxic suggestions I would very much appreciate it! Thank you. Matthew Becker Curator of Collections Museum of Natural History + Planetarium Roger Williams Park 1000 Elmwood Ave., Providence, RI 02907 401-680-7221 _______________________________________________ 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. From couteaufin at btinternet.com Wed Nov 21 10:39:05 2018 From: couteaufin at btinternet.com (Simon Moore) Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2018 15:39:05 +0000 Subject: [Nhcoll-l] Cleaning a roadkill freezer In-Reply-To: References: <07888722-50f4-c0d4-328e-1215d0f6f4a9@musnathist.com> Message-ID: <2A5036C9-EC83-4F70-973D-12D33A40AF2B@btinternet.com> Hi Matthew, I have had some first-hand experience of this as I was the only one with a strong enough stomach! I cleaned the freezer interior with a hose first, followed by strong disinfectant but not bleach. Once the freezer was dry and could be safely switched on, then the putrefaction odour was minimal. The bodies were buried in a shallow mass grave and then had building materials dumped on them to prevent marauding. Once the building work had been done, then there were a few passable skeletons amongst the remains, some had semi-mummified! With all good wishes, Simon. Simon Moore MIScT, RSci, FLS, ACR Conservator of Natural Sciences and Cutlery Historian, www.natural-history-conservation.com > On 21 Nov 2018, at 15:26, William Shepherd wrote: > > Hello Matthew, > > I don't have much experience in getting rid of corpse smell from freezers but smells tend to get into everything. Bleach would probably help but when all is said and done you'll probably still smell it to some extent. If there are any fluids or left overs frozen to the freezer, cleaning that out will help too. My best recommendation for the smell would be to clean it well with soap, possibly give it a wipe down with bleach, and then put bowls or pans of baking soda in there for a while. The amount of baking soda will depend on the size of the freezer but you can't have too much. The flow through boxes may work too but you have limited surface area being exposed to the smell. The longer you leave the baking soda in there the better, but this may depend on how quickly you need to get the freezer back into use. In the conservation world baking soda is often used to remove or reduce smell from items with relative success. > > 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 > > -----Original Message----- > From: Nhcoll-l On Behalf Of Matthew Becker > Sent: November 21, 2018 8:58 AM > To: nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu > Subject: [Nhcoll-l] Cleaning a roadkill freezer > > Hi everyone, > > We have a freezer where we store dead on recovery animals before sending them to our taxidermist to be mounted for exhibition and storage. We are in the process of the cleaning out this freezer as some of the dead animals at the bottom of the freezer are dated back to the 1990s! > Getting rid of the old specimens isn't so much of a problem...the real problem is that at some point in the past the museum lost power and the roadkill freezer thawed leaving a horrible dead smell inside (beyond the regular dead smell from the animals). > > My question: Does anyone have recommendations for cleaning a roadkill freezer? My inclination is just to go at it with bleach, but if anyone has any better/less toxic suggestions I would very much appreciate it! > > Thank you. > > Matthew Becker > Curator of Collections > Museum of Natural History + Planetarium > Roger Williams Park > 1000 Elmwood Ave., Providence, RI 02907 > 401-680-7221 > _______________________________________________ > 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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Hope this helps Dirk Am 21.11.2018 um 16:26 schrieb William Shepherd: > Hello Matthew, > > I don't have much experience in getting rid of corpse smell from freezers but smells tend to get into everything. Bleach would probably help but when all is said and done you'll probably still smell it to some extent. If there are any fluids or left overs frozen to the freezer, cleaning that out will help too. My best recommendation for the smell would be to clean it well with soap, possibly give it a wipe down with bleach, and then put bowls or pans of baking soda in there for a while. The amount of baking soda will depend on the size of the freezer but you can't have too much. The flow through boxes may work too but you have limited surface area being exposed to the smell. The longer you leave the baking soda in there the better, but this may depend on how quickly you need to get the freezer back into use. In the conservation world baking soda is often used to remove or reduce smell from items with relative success. > > 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 > > -----Original Message----- > From: Nhcoll-l On Behalf Of Matthew Becker > Sent: November 21, 2018 8:58 AM > To: nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu > Subject: [Nhcoll-l] Cleaning a roadkill freezer > > Hi everyone, > > We have a freezer where we store dead on recovery animals before sending them to our taxidermist to be mounted for exhibition and storage. We are in the process of the cleaning out this freezer as some of the dead animals at the bottom of the freezer are dated back to the 1990s! > Getting rid of the old specimens isn't so much of a problem...the real problem is that at some point in the past the museum lost power and the roadkill freezer thawed leaving a horrible dead smell inside (beyond the regular dead smell from the animals). > > My question: Does anyone have recommendations for cleaning a roadkill freezer? My inclination is just to go at it with bleach, but if anyone has any better/less toxic suggestions I would very much appreciate it! > > Thank you. > > Matthew Becker > Curator of Collections > Museum of Natural History + Planetarium > Roger Williams Park > 1000 Elmwood Ave., Providence, RI 02907 > 401-680-7221 > _______________________________________________ > 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. > _______________________________________________ > 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/sektion/ichthyologie-home/ --------- 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/sektion/ichthyologie-home/ From prc44 at drexel.edu Wed Nov 21 10:57:34 2018 From: prc44 at drexel.edu (Callomon,Paul) Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2018 15:57:34 +0000 Subject: [Nhcoll-l] Cleaning a roadkill freezer In-Reply-To: References: <07888722-50f4-c0d4-328e-1215d0f6f4a9@musnathist.com> Message-ID: We had a freezer full of freshwater mussels that failed, creating a tank of black, stinking fluid. We hosed it out, then used Lysol cleaner and dried it on the loading dock for about a week. Then we threw it out anyway, as the stink was intractable. PC Paul Callomon Collection Manager, Malacology and General Invertebrates Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University, Philadelphia 1900 Benjamin Franklin Parkway, Philadelphia PA 19103-1195, USA callomon at ansp.org Tel 215-405-5096 - Fax 215-299-1170 -----Original Message----- From: Nhcoll-l On Behalf Of Dirk Neumann Sent: Wednesday, November 21, 2018 10:49 AM To: nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu Subject: Re: [Nhcoll-l] Cleaning a roadkill freezer Hi Matthew, we? had similar issues in our -25?C chamber; stepping onto the aluminium flooring when entering the rooms after clearing & thawing, the blood was coming up like in a bad horror movie. We cleaned thoroughly with detergent, ripped out the aluminium panels and treated the entire room and floor with a disinfectant that was rated for hospitals. There is not only the smell, but for sure viruses and bacteria that can't be killed of that easily; as your freezer surely contained birds and mammals, disinfection is strongly recommended (even if you consider to trash it). Usually the smell is gone afterwards, too. Hope this helps Dirk Am 21.11.2018 um 16:26 schrieb William Shepherd: > Hello Matthew, > > I don't have much experience in getting rid of corpse smell from freezers but smells tend to get into everything. Bleach would probably help but when all is said and done you'll probably still smell it to some extent. If there are any fluids or left overs frozen to the freezer, cleaning that out will help too. My best recommendation for the smell would be to clean it well with soap, possibly give it a wipe down with bleach, and then put bowls or pans of baking soda in there for a while. The amount of baking soda will depend on the size of the freezer but you can't have too much. The flow through boxes may work too but you have limited surface area being exposed to the smell. The longer you leave the baking soda in there the better, but this may depend on how quickly you need to get the freezer back into use. In the conservation world baking soda is often used to remove or reduce smell from items with relative success. > > 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: > https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fsain.s > caa.sk.ca%2Fcollections%2Fswift-current-museum&data=02%7C01%7Cprc4 > 4%40drexel.edu%7C1d513d5d2d204f75f54608d64fc8fcd8%7C3664e6fa47bd45a696 > 708c4f080f8ca6%7C0%7C0%7C636784121991993233&sdata=cVzxhQxB0FJjvvnL > tkHJKfTtj0VFBhHLFdh%2Bym7FUCw%3D&reserved=0 > Library: > https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.l > ibrarything.com%2Fprofile%2FSwiftCurrentMuseum&data=02%7C01%7Cprc4 > 4%40drexel.edu%7C1d513d5d2d204f75f54608d64fc8fcd8%7C3664e6fa47bd45a696 > 708c4f080f8ca6%7C0%7C0%7C636784121991993233&sdata=76MqSpYjCoMDE7hu > is8TZqJaGtTTWxAJ4aljNN1tUnE%3D&reserved=0 > Website: > https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sw > iftcurrent.ca&data=02%7C01%7Cprc44%40drexel.edu%7C1d513d5d2d204f75 > f54608d64fc8fcd8%7C3664e6fa47bd45a696708c4f080f8ca6%7C0%7C0%7C63678412 > 1991993233&sdata=JdLClkOfnRJ2ceJOBOSWfWgmaX7x8ObuKvAsM9uaIyE%3D&am > p;reserved=0 > > -----Original Message----- > From: Nhcoll-l On Behalf Of > Matthew Becker > Sent: November 21, 2018 8:58 AM > To: nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu > Subject: [Nhcoll-l] Cleaning a roadkill freezer > > Hi everyone, > > We have a freezer where we store dead on recovery animals before sending them to our taxidermist to be mounted for exhibition and storage. We are in the process of the cleaning out this freezer as some of the dead animals at the bottom of the freezer are dated back to the 1990s! > Getting rid of the old specimens isn't so much of a problem...the real problem is that at some point in the past the museum lost power and the roadkill freezer thawed leaving a horrible dead smell inside (beyond the regular dead smell from the animals). > > My question: Does anyone have recommendations for cleaning a roadkill freezer? My inclination is just to go at it with bleach, but if anyone has any better/less toxic suggestions I would very much appreciate it! > > Thank you. > > Matthew Becker > Curator of Collections > Museum of Natural History + Planetarium Roger Williams Park > 1000 Elmwood Ave., Providence, RI 02907 > 401-680-7221 > _______________________________________________ > Nhcoll-l mailing list > Nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu > https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmailm > an.yale.edu%2Fmailman%2Flistinfo%2Fnhcoll-l&data=02%7C01%7Cprc44%4 > 0drexel.edu%7C1d513d5d2d204f75f54608d64fc8fcd8%7C3664e6fa47bd45a696708 > c4f080f8ca6%7C0%7C0%7C636784121991993233&sdata=fyY32wkuzbNo%2BuwwR > eASGxDQmRtLkyPKURFewL4LdJE%3D&reserved=0 > > _______________________________________________ > 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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During work, we wore full body tyvek suits, goggles and masks, and double labs gloves on top of which we wore heavy duty rubber gloves. The biohazard potential is simply huge. Gali Beiner (ACR) Conservator, Palaeontology Lab National Natural History Collections The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Berman Building, Edmond J. Safra campus, Givat Ram Jerusalem 91904, Israel Fax. 972-2-6585785 gali.beiner at mail.huji.ac.il http://nnhc.huji.ac.il/ ?????? ??? ??, 21 ????? 2018, 16:58, ??? Matthew Becker < m.becker at musnathist.com>: > Hi everyone, > > We have a freezer where we store dead on recovery animals before sending > them to our taxidermist to be mounted for exhibition and storage. We are > in the process of the cleaning out this freezer as some of the dead > animals at the bottom of the freezer are dated back to the 1990s! > Getting rid of the old specimens isn't so much of a problem...the real > problem is that at some point in the past the museum lost power and the > roadkill freezer thawed leaving a horrible dead smell inside (beyond the > regular dead smell from the animals). > > My question: Does anyone have recommendations for cleaning a roadkill > freezer? My inclination is just to go at it with bleach, but if anyone > has any better/less toxic suggestions I would very much appreciate it! > > Thank you. > > Matthew Becker > Curator of Collections > Museum of Natural History + Planetarium > Roger Williams Park > 1000 Elmwood Ave., Providence, RI 02907 > 401-680-7221 > _______________________________________________ > 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... 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If your freezer lining has seams, esp. where walls and floor join and/or in the floor of the compartment, and fluid could have accumulated and seeped through those seams, you will want to consider the possibility of removing the lining(s), to also wash those affected surfaces, and/or to replace the freezer's insulation. Cost of doing such an extensive cleaning/deodorizing may of course be more costly than simply replacing the freezer. Peter > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Nhcoll-l On Behalf Of > > Matthew Becker > > Sent: November 21, 2018 8:58 AM > > To: nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu > > Subject: [Nhcoll-l] Cleaning a roadkill freezer > > > > Hi everyone, > > > > We have a freezer where we store dead on recovery animals before sending > them to our taxidermist to be mounted for exhibition and storage. We are in > the process of the cleaning out this freezer as some of the dead animals at > the bottom of the freezer are dated back to the 1990s! > > Getting rid of the old specimens isn't so much of a problem...the real > problem is that at some point in the past the museum lost power and the > roadkill freezer thawed leaving a horrible dead smell inside (beyond the > regular dead smell from the animals). > > > > My question: Does anyone have recommendations for cleaning a roadkill > freezer? My inclination is just to go at it with bleach, but if anyone has > any better/less toxic suggestions I would very much appreciate it! > > > > Thank you. > > > > Matthew Becker > > Curator of Collections > > Museum of Natural History + Planetarium Roger Williams Park > > 1000 Elmwood Ave., Providence, RI 02907 > > 401-680-7221 > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Rod Rodrigo Pellegrini Registrar, Natural History Bureau New Jersey State Museum PO Box 530 Trenton, NJ 08625-0530 USA Rodrigo.Pellegrini at sos.state.nj.us From: Nhcoll-l [mailto:nhcoll-l-bounces at mailman.yale.edu] On Behalf Of Alex Krohn Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2018 1:53 PM To: nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu Subject: [EXTERNAL] [Nhcoll-l] Precipitate or Mold in Ethanol Stored Specimens Hi everyone, I recently found some bizzare white granules in some our ethanol preserved specimens. See the attached photos. The white granules tend to stick to the items in the jar, rather than rest at the bottom of the jar. They do not crush easily (like I imagine precipitates would), but instead squish more like tiny styrofoam bits or pieces (like I imagine mold would). Has anyone seen this before? I washed the specimens and jars in fresh 70% EtOH, and then replaced the EtOH in the jar. So far no new granules have appeared. 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Tocci Senior Curatorial Technician Harvard University Herbaria 22 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, MA 02138 U.S.A. Phone: 617-495-1057 Fax: 617-495-9484 glewis-g at oeb.harvard.edu From: Nhcoll-l On Behalf Of Alex Krohn Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2018 1:53 PM To: nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu Subject: [Nhcoll-l] Precipitate or Mold in Ethanol Stored Specimens Hi everyone, I recently found some bizzare white granules in some our ethanol preserved specimens. See the attached photos. The white granules tend to stick to the items in the jar, rather than rest at the bottom of the jar. They do not crush easily (like I imagine precipitates would), but instead squish more like tiny styrofoam bits or pieces (like I imagine mold would). Has anyone seen this before? I washed the specimens and jars in fresh 70% EtOH, and then replaced the EtOH in the jar. So far no new granules have appeared. If anyone has any better ideas of what this might be or how to treat it, I'm very interested. Thank you! Alex Krohn --------------------- Assistant Director Kenneth S. Norris Center for Natural History University of California, Santa Cruz https://norriscenter.ucsc.edu/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From museumknitter at gmail.com Tue Nov 27 14:15:49 2018 From: museumknitter at gmail.com (Judith Price) Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2018 14:15:49 -0500 Subject: [Nhcoll-l] Precipitate or Mold in Ethanol Stored Specimens In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: We sometimes found similar white precipitate in Crustacea samples at the Canadian Museum of Nature. The nice guys in our Mineralogy group ran it through their spectrometer and determined it was cholesterol. Presumably these fats were dissolved from the animals and then precipitated, perhaps due to a change in preservative chemical(s). Judith Price (retired but still reading!) > On Nov 27, 2018, at 2:09 PM, Tocci (Lewis-Gentry), Genevieve E. wrote: > > Hi Alex, > > I can?t say what it is, but it is very unlikely to be fungi. The ethanol should kill any fungal growth and is what we use to preserve our fluid collections as well as treat any moldy things. You can always look under a microscope to be sure. > > Best, > Genevieve > > ================================================= > Genevieve E. Tocci > Senior Curatorial Technician > Harvard University Herbaria > 22 Divinity Ave., Cambridge, MA 02138 U.S.A. > Phone: 617-495-1057 Fax: 617-495-9484 > glewis-g at oeb.harvard.edu > > From: Nhcoll-l On Behalf Of Alex Krohn > Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2018 1:53 PM > To: nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu > Subject: [Nhcoll-l] Precipitate or Mold in Ethanol Stored Specimens > > Hi everyone, > > I recently found some bizzare white granules in some our ethanol preserved specimens. See the attached photos. The white granules tend to stick to the items in the jar, rather than rest at the bottom of the jar. They do not crush easily (like I imagine precipitates would), but instead squish more like tiny styrofoam bits or pieces (like I imagine mold would). > > Has anyone seen this before? I washed the specimens and jars in fresh 70% EtOH, and then replaced the EtOH in the jar. So far no new granules have appeared. If anyone has any better ideas of what this might be or how to treat it, I'm very interested. > > Thank you! > > Alex Krohn > > --------------------- > Assistant Director > Kenneth S. Norris Center for Natural History > University of California, Santa Cruz > > https://norriscenter.ucsc.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. From eric.lazo-wasem at yale.edu Tue Nov 27 14:23:33 2018 From: eric.lazo-wasem at yale.edu (Lazo-Wasem, Eric) Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2018 19:23:33 +0000 Subject: [Nhcoll-l] Precipitate or Mold in Ethanol Stored Specimens In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Hi Alex, This is what happens when a specimen fixed in formalin is not rinsed sufficiently in water before immersion in alcohol. Depending on the size of the fixed specimen, one needs to wash the specimen for anywhere from a few minutes (small crustacea) to several days (large long fixed sponges, fish, etc.). I?ve never tested like Judith Price mentions, but the person who hired me several decades ago cautioned me to rinse specimens in water before transferring to alcohol else I can expect precipitate. It happened enough that I believe his cautionary note without understanding the chemistry. Best, Eric Eric A. Lazo-Wasem Senior Collections Manager Peabody Museum of Natural History Yale University 170 Whitney Ave. New Haven, CT 06520 203 432-3784 From: Nhcoll-l On Behalf Of Alex Krohn Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2018 1:53 PM To: nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu Subject: [Nhcoll-l] Precipitate or Mold in Ethanol Stored Specimens Hi everyone, I recently found some bizzare white granules in some our ethanol preserved specimens. See the attached photos. The white granules tend to stick to the items in the jar, rather than rest at the bottom of the jar. They do not crush easily (like I imagine precipitates would), but instead squish more like tiny styrofoam bits or pieces (like I imagine mold would). Has anyone seen this before? I washed the specimens and jars in fresh 70% EtOH, and then replaced the EtOH in the jar. So far no new granules have appeared. If anyone has any better ideas of what this might be or how to treat it, I'm very interested. Thank you! Alex Krohn --------------------- Assistant Director Kenneth S. Norris Center for Natural History University of California, Santa Cruz https://norriscenter.ucsc.edu/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From couteaufin at btinternet.com Tue Nov 27 18:20:26 2018 From: couteaufin at btinternet.com (Simon Moore) Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2018 23:20:26 +0000 Subject: [Nhcoll-l] Precipitate or Mold in Ethanol Stored Specimens In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <5182C07D-A9A5-48B6-AB67-A7DE1D870F2C@btinternet.com> Many thanks for this information - it is just what I am lecturing about in Paris next week to raise awareness of this type of problem! I have often been asked to ID crystal growths and suspensions in fluid-preserved material and the answers (If there are any) are as varied as are the causes of their appearance. Firstly I often dilute concentrated formalin to the standard 10% fixing strength using local tap water, this offers and usually maintains a neutral pH (7.0 or just a bit below 6.5). If tap water is used to dilute alcohols of any sort, to preservative strength (70% or 80%) then this produces a precipitate, usually with 24 hours of mixing. Where fluids combine with animal and plant material during the fixation and preservation stages, they often leach solute by-products into the fluids. Over years the fluid and specimen build to an equilibrium and assuming that no lipid leaching or similar contamination occurs (the cholesterol for example but isn?t this partly soluble in alcohol?), then this can go unnoticed until the jar is topped up with fresh preservative fluid and then a snow-dome effect can occur - looks terrible but the specimens are undamaged. Once the ?snow? has settled and the fluid has cleared (or partially) one can see the effect (if any) this change may have brought about on the specimens but usually it?s slight or no change at all. Crystals of calcium stearate have been analysed (by FTIR) adhered to specimens - how does that come about? The causes and results can be quite bewildering but a record of treatment/s to specimens is most useful. Mould (I?m a Brit!) will only start to appear if the concentration of alcohol falls below 30%, similarly it can grow in formalin at c. 2-3% concentration (0.8 - 1% formaldehyde) - these are the critical parameters for mould growth and (it appears) that only certain species of mould can grow in these conditions. If anyone has any further thoughts I would be most interested (I only have a week!) Or examples of weird looking contaminants attaching to fluid-preserved material please post these to me off-list but not too many! With all good wishes, Simon. Simon Moore MIScT, RSci, FLS, ACR Conservator of Natural Sciences and Cutlery Historian, www.natural-history-conservation.com > On 27 Nov 2018, at 19:23, Lazo-Wasem, Eric wrote: > > Hi Alex, > > This is what happens when a specimen fixed in formalin is not rinsed sufficiently in water before immersion in alcohol. Depending on the size of the fixed specimen, one needs to wash the specimen for anywhere from a few minutes (small crustacea) to several days (large long fixed sponges, fish, etc.). I?ve never tested like Judith Price mentions, but the person who hired me several decades ago cautioned me to rinse specimens in water before transferring to alcohol else I can expect precipitate. It happened enough that I believe his cautionary note without understanding the chemistry. > > Best, Eric > > Eric A. Lazo-Wasem > Senior Collections Manager > Peabody Museum of Natural History > Yale University > 170 Whitney Ave. > New Haven, CT 06520 > 203 432-3784 > > From: Nhcoll-l On Behalf Of Alex Krohn > Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2018 1:53 PM > To: nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu > Subject: [Nhcoll-l] Precipitate or Mold in Ethanol Stored Specimens > > Hi everyone, > > I recently found some bizzare white granules in some our ethanol preserved specimens. See the attached photos. The white granules tend to stick to the items in the jar, rather than rest at the bottom of the jar. They do not crush easily (like I imagine precipitates would), but instead squish more like tiny styrofoam bits or pieces (like I imagine mold would). > > Has anyone seen this before? I washed the specimens and jars in fresh 70% EtOH, and then replaced the EtOH in the jar. So far no new granules have appeared. If anyone has any better ideas of what this might be or how to treat it, I'm very interested. > > Thank you! > > Alex Krohn > > --------------------- > Assistant Director > Kenneth S. Norris Center for Natural History > University of California, Santa Cruz > > https://norriscenter.ucsc.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. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Next time be sure to transfer the specimen right (the shrinking will be less extreme on the specimen too) Hope this helps. -- Fabian Neisskenwirth Pr?paration Naturwissenschaftlicher Pr?parator +41 (0)31 350 72 25 NATURHISTORISCHES MUSEUM BERN Bernastrasse 15, CH???3005 Bern www.nmbe.ch Eine Institution der Burgergemeinde Bern Von: Nhcoll-l [mailto:nhcoll-l-bounces at mailman.yale.edu] Im Auftrag von Alex Krohn Gesendet: Dienstag, 27. November 2018 19:53 An: nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu Betreff: [Nhcoll-l] Precipitate or Mold in Ethanol Stored Specimens Hi everyone, I recently found some bizzare white granules in some our ethanol preserved specimens. See the attached photos. The white granules tend to stick to the items in the jar, rather than rest at the bottom of the jar. They do not crush easily (like I imagine precipitates would), but instead squish more like tiny styrofoam bits or pieces (like I imagine mold would). Has anyone seen this before? I washed the specimens and jars in fresh 70% EtOH, and then replaced the EtOH in the jar. So far no new granules have appeared. If anyone has any better ideas of what this might be or how to treat it, I'm very interested. Thank you! Alex Krohn --------------------- Assistant Director Kenneth S. Norris Center for Natural History University of California, Santa Cruz https://norriscenter.ucsc.edu/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From neumann at snsb.de Wed Nov 28 05:26:37 2018 From: neumann at snsb.de (Dirk Neumann) Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2018 11:26:37 +0100 Subject: [Nhcoll-l] Precipitate or Mold in Ethanol Stored Specimens In-Reply-To: <5182C07D-A9A5-48B6-AB67-A7DE1D870F2C@btinternet.com> References: <5182C07D-A9A5-48B6-AB67-A7DE1D870F2C@btinternet.com> Message-ID: Hi Alex, we (John E. Simmons, Julian Carter and me - in preparation to attend a lecture in Paris next week :-) agree that it would be a good idea to pick one of those nodules and investigate the structure under a binocular; it should be easy to recognise any crystalline structure if there is any. If you see small white crystals (and your photos look very familiar to us), these would surely be a strong hint for paraformaldehyde, as Simon indicated. Colesterol is a rather a waxy substance, and you should be able to note the difference immediately. Hope this helps, with best wishes from us (John, Julian an me, currently sticking or heads together and having much fun during our preparations for the Paris meeting next week) Am 28.11.2018 um 00:20 schrieb Simon Moore: > Many thanks for this information - it is just what I am lecturing > about in Paris next week to raise awareness of this type of problem! > > I have often been asked to ID crystal growths and suspensions in > fluid-preserved material and the answers (If there are any) are as > varied as are the causes of their appearance. > > Firstly I often dilute concentrated formalin to the standard 10% > fixing strength using local tap water, this offers and usually > maintains a neutral pH ?(7.0 or just a bit below 6.5). ?If tap water > is used to dilute alcohols of any sort, to preservative strength (70% > or 80%) then this produces a precipitate, usually with 24 hours of mixing. > > Where fluids combine with animal and plant material during the > fixation and preservation stages, they often leach solute by-products > into the fluids. ?Over years the fluid and specimen build to an > equilibrium and assuming that no lipid leaching or similar > contamination occurs (the cholesterol for example but isn?t this > partly soluble in alcohol?), then this can go unnoticed until the jar > is topped up with fresh preservative fluid and then a snow-dome effect > can occur - looks terrible but the specimens are undamaged. Once the > ?snow? has settled and the fluid has cleared (or partially) one can > see the effect (if any) this change may have brought about on the > specimens but usually it?s slight or no change at all. > > Crystals of calcium stearate have been analysed (by FTIR) adhered to > specimens - how does that come about? ?The causes and results can be > quite bewildering but a record of treatment/s to specimens is most useful. > > Mould (I?m a Brit!) will only start to appear if the concentration of > alcohol falls below 30%, similarly it can grow in formalin at c. 2-3% > concentration (0.8 - 1% formaldehyde) - these are the critical > parameters for mould growth and (it appears) that only certain species > of mould can grow in these conditions. > > If anyone has any further thoughts I would be most interested (I only > have a week!) ?Or examples of weird looking contaminants attaching to > fluid-preserved material please post these to me off-list but not too > many! > > With all good wishes, Simon. > > Simon Moore MIScT, RSci, FLS,?ACR > Conservator of Natural Sciences?and Cutlery Historian, > > > > www.natural-history-conservation.com > > > > > >> On 27 Nov 2018, at 19:23, Lazo-Wasem, Eric > > wrote: >> >> Hi Alex, >> This is what happens when a specimen fixed in formalin is not rinsed >> sufficiently in water before immersion in alcohol.? Depending on the >> size of the fixed specimen, one needs to wash the specimen for >> anywhere from a few minutes (small crustacea) to several days (large >> long fixed sponges, fish, etc.). ?I?ve never tested like Judith Price >> mentions, but the person who hired me several decades ago cautioned >> me to rinse specimens in water before transferring to alcohol else I >> can expect precipitate.? It happened enough that I believe his >> cautionary note without understanding the chemistry. >> Best, Eric >> Eric A. Lazo-Wasem >> Senior Collections Manager >> Peabody Museum of Natural History >> Yale University >> 170 Whitney Ave. >> New Haven, CT 06520 >> 203 432-3784 >> *From:*Nhcoll-l > >*On Behalf Of*Alex Krohn >> *Sent:*Tuesday, November 27, 2018 1:53 PM >> *To:*nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu >> *Subject:*[Nhcoll-l] Precipitate or Mold in Ethanol Stored Specimens >> Hi everyone, >> I recently found some bizzare white granules in some our ethanol >> preserved specimens. See the attached photos. The white granules tend >> to stick to the items in the jar, rather than rest at the bottom of >> the jar. They do not crush easily (like I imagine precipitates >> would), but instead squish more like tiny styrofoam bits or pieces >> (like I imagine mold would). >> Has anyone seen this before? I washed the specimens and jars in fresh >> 70% EtOH, and then replaced the EtOH in the jar. So far no new >> granules have appeared. If anyone has any better ideas of what this >> might be or how to treat it, I'm very interested. >> Thank you! >> Alex Krohn >> --------------------- >> Assistant Director >> Kenneth S. Norris Center for Natural History >> University of California, Santa Cruz >> https://norriscenter.ucsc.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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Simmons, Julian Carter and me - in preparation to attend a lecture in Paris next week :-) agree that it would be a good idea to pick one of those nodules and investigate the structure under a binocular; it should be easy to recognise any crystalline structure if there is any. If you see small white crystals (and your photos look very familiar to us), these would surely be a strong hint for paraformaldehyde, as Simon indicated. Colesterol is a rather a waxy substance, and you should be able to note the difference immediately. Hope this helps, with best wishes from us (John, Julian an me, currently sticking or heads together and having much fun during our preparations for the Paris meeting next week) Am 28.11.2018 um 00:20 schrieb Simon Moore: Many thanks for this information - it is just what I am lecturing about in Paris next week to raise awareness of this type of problem! I have often been asked to ID crystal growths and suspensions in fluid-preserved material and the answers (If there are any) are as varied as are the causes of their appearance. Firstly I often dilute concentrated formalin to the standard 10% fixing strength using local tap water, this offers and usually maintains a neutral pH (7.0 or just a bit below 6.5). If tap water is used to dilute alcohols of any sort, to preservative strength (70% or 80%) then this produces a precipitate, usually with 24 hours of mixing. Where fluids combine with animal and plant material during the fixation and preservation stages, they often leach solute by-products into the fluids. Over years the fluid and specimen build to an equilibrium and assuming that no lipid leaching or similar contamination occurs (the cholesterol for example but isn?t this partly soluble in alcohol?), then this can go unnoticed until the jar is topped up with fresh preservative fluid and then a snow-dome effect can occur - looks terrible but the specimens are undamaged. Once the ?snow? has settled and the fluid has cleared (or partially) one can see the effect (if any) this change may have brought about on the specimens but usually it?s slight or no change at all. Crystals of calcium stearate have been analysed (by FTIR) adhered to specimens - how does that come about? The causes and results can be quite bewildering but a record of treatment/s to specimens is most useful. Mould (I?m a Brit!) will only start to appear if the concentration of alcohol falls below 30%, similarly it can grow in formalin at c. 2-3% concentration (0.8 - 1% formaldehyde) - these are the critical parameters for mould growth and (it appears) that only certain species of mould can grow in these conditions. If anyone has any further thoughts I would be most interested (I only have a week!) Or examples of weird looking contaminants attaching to fluid-preserved material please post these to me off-list but not too many! With all good wishes, Simon. Simon Moore MIScT, RSci, FLS, ACR Conservator of Natural Sciences and Cutlery Historian, [cid:C1E34A64-2782-4C13-9542-0187237C0047 at home] www.natural-history-conservation.com On 27 Nov 2018, at 19:23, Lazo-Wasem, Eric > wrote: Hi Alex, This is what happens when a specimen fixed in formalin is not rinsed sufficiently in water before immersion in alcohol. Depending on the size of the fixed specimen, one needs to wash the specimen for anywhere from a few minutes (small crustacea) to several days (large long fixed sponges, fish, etc.). I?ve never tested like Judith Price mentions, but the person who hired me several decades ago cautioned me to rinse specimens in water before transferring to alcohol else I can expect precipitate. It happened enough that I believe his cautionary note without understanding the chemistry. Best, Eric Eric A. Lazo-Wasem Senior Collections Manager Peabody Museum of Natural History Yale University 170 Whitney Ave. New Haven, CT 06520 203 432-3784 From: Nhcoll-l > On Behalf Of Alex Krohn Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2018 1:53 PM To: nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu Subject: [Nhcoll-l] Precipitate or Mold in Ethanol Stored Specimens Hi everyone, I recently found some bizzare white granules in some our ethanol preserved specimens. See the attached photos. The white granules tend to stick to the items in the jar, rather than rest at the bottom of the jar. They do not crush easily (like I imagine precipitates would), but instead squish more like tiny styrofoam bits or pieces (like I imagine mold would). Has anyone seen this before? I washed the specimens and jars in fresh 70% EtOH, and then replaced the EtOH in the jar. So far no new granules have appeared. If anyone has any better ideas of what this might be or how to treat it, I'm very interested. Thank you! Alex Krohn --------------------- Assistant Director Kenneth S. Norris Center for Natural History University of California, Santa Cruz https://norriscenter.ucsc.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. 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Juliette Galpin De : Nhcoll-l [mailto:nhcoll-l-bounces at mailman.yale.edu] De la part de Bo Delling Envoy? : mercredi 28 novembre 2018 17:20 ? : neumann at snsb.de; nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu Objet : Re: [Nhcoll-l] Precipitate or Mold in Ethanol Stored Specimens Hi, We have similar experience at NRM Stockholm, i.e. most certainly paraformaldehyde resulting from too short period in water prior to first EtOH step (20%). Our geologists did some analyses on the ?white stuff? and found no mineral content such as CaCO3 or similar. Bo Delling Phd, Ichthyology Collection Manager, Zoology Swedish Museum of Natural History Department of Zoology Frescativ?gen 44 P.O. Box 50007 SE-104 05 Stockholm Phone: +46 85195 4240 Fr?n: Nhcoll-l F?r Dirk Neumann Skickat: den 28 november 2018 11:27 Till: nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu ?mne: Re: [Nhcoll-l] Precipitate or Mold in Ethanol Stored Specimens Hi Alex, we (John E. Simmons, Julian Carter and me - in preparation to attend a lecture in Paris next week :-) agree that it would be a good idea to pick one of those nodules and investigate the structure under a binocular; it should be easy to recognise any crystalline structure if there is any. If you see small white crystals (and your photos look very familiar to us), these would surely be a strong hint for paraformaldehyde, as Simon indicated. Colesterol is a rather a waxy substance, and you should be able to note the difference immediately. Hope this helps, with best wishes from us (John, Julian an me, currently sticking or heads together and having much fun during our preparations for the Paris meeting next week) Am 28.11.2018 um 00:20 schrieb Simon Moore: Many thanks for this information - it is just what I am lecturing about in Paris next week to raise awareness of this type of problem! I have often been asked to ID crystal growths and suspensions in fluid-preserved material and the answers (If there are any) are as varied as are the causes of their appearance. Firstly I often dilute concentrated formalin to the standard 10% fixing strength using local tap water, this offers and usually maintains a neutral pH (7.0 or just a bit below 6.5). If tap water is used to dilute alcohols of any sort, to preservative strength (70% or 80%) then this produces a precipitate, usually with 24 hours of mixing. Where fluids combine with animal and plant material during the fixation and preservation stages, they often leach solute by-products into the fluids. Over years the fluid and specimen build to an equilibrium and assuming that no lipid leaching or similar contamination occurs (the cholesterol for example but isn?t this partly soluble in alcohol?), then this can go unnoticed until the jar is topped up with fresh preservative fluid and then a snow-dome effect can occur - looks terrible but the specimens are undamaged. Once the ?snow? has settled and the fluid has cleared (or partially) one can see the effect (if any) this change may have brought about on the specimens but usually it?s slight or no change at all. Crystals of calcium stearate have been analysed (by FTIR) adhered to specimens - how does that come about? The causes and results can be quite bewildering but a record of treatment/s to specimens is most useful. Mould (I?m a Brit!) will only start to appear if the concentration of alcohol falls below 30%, similarly it can grow in formalin at c. 2-3% concentration (0.8 - 1% formaldehyde) - these are the critical parameters for mould growth and (it appears) that only certain species of mould can grow in these conditions. If anyone has any further thoughts I would be most interested (I only have a week!) Or examples of weird looking contaminants attaching to fluid-preserved material please post these to me off-list but not too many! With all good wishes, Simon. Simon Moore MIScT, RSci, FLS, ACR Conservator of Natural Sciences and Cutlery Historian, [cid:C1E34A64-2782-4C13-9542-0187237C0047 at home] www.natural-history-conservation.com On 27 Nov 2018, at 19:23, Lazo-Wasem, Eric > wrote: Hi Alex, This is what happens when a specimen fixed in formalin is not rinsed sufficiently in water before immersion in alcohol. Depending on the size of the fixed specimen, one needs to wash the specimen for anywhere from a few minutes (small crustacea) to several days (large long fixed sponges, fish, etc.). I?ve never tested like Judith Price mentions, but the person who hired me several decades ago cautioned me to rinse specimens in water before transferring to alcohol else I can expect precipitate. It happened enough that I believe his cautionary note without understanding the chemistry. Best, Eric Eric A. Lazo-Wasem Senior Collections Manager Peabody Museum of Natural History Yale University 170 Whitney Ave. New Haven, CT 06520 203 432-3784 From: Nhcoll-l > On Behalf Of Alex Krohn Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2018 1:53 PM To: nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu Subject: [Nhcoll-l] Precipitate or Mold in Ethanol Stored Specimens Hi everyone, I recently found some bizzare white granules in some our ethanol preserved specimens. See the attached photos. The white granules tend to stick to the items in the jar, rather than rest at the bottom of the jar. They do not crush easily (like I imagine precipitates would), but instead squish more like tiny styrofoam bits or pieces (like I imagine mold would). Has anyone seen this before? I washed the specimens and jars in fresh 70% EtOH, and then replaced the EtOH in the jar. So far no new granules have appeared. If anyone has any better ideas of what this might be or how to treat it, I'm very interested. Thank you! Alex Krohn --------------------- Assistant Director Kenneth S. Norris Center for Natural History University of California, Santa Cruz https://norriscenter.ucsc.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. 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The specimens now WREAK of napthalene and our collections manager tried placing them in a box with baking soda (he had heard this would work with textiles and so tried it with our specimens). Its been nearly a year and the specimens smell pretty much the same. Any suggestions on how to remove the smell? Thanks! Kirsten [CMU] Kirsten E. Nicholson, Ph.D (she, her, hers) Professor | Biology Dept & Institute for Great Lakes Research | 2104 Biosciences Natural History Curator | Museum of Cultural & Natural History | 103 Rowe Central Michigan University | Mt. Pleasant, MI 48859 P: 989-774-3758 or 3829 | F: 989-774-2612 or 3462 E: kirsten.nicholson at cmich.edu Office Hours Spring 2018: Mon. & Wed., 3-5pm, 103 Rowe Hall -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Over 10,000 vertebrate and invertebrate fossils have been uncovered at The Mammoth Site from its initial field season in 1974 to present. These bones belong mostly to Columbian mammoths; more than 2,000 specimens are preserved in-situ.? At least 29 other vertebrate species are found at the site, and specimens of 53 invertebrate and botanical species, help explain a long ago ecosystem. Internship Positions ?Two types of seasonal internships starting in May and ending in August. Positions are: * Up to 40 hours per week for 10-16 weeks (variable schedule; will include weekends). * Compensation: $9.00/hour with onsite housing*. *Housing: Housing is provided to interns as part of compensation on Mammoth Site property. Housing is residential housing near The Mammoth Site, within the town limits of Hot Springs, SD. Laundry facilities are available on site. Responsibilities Education Internships ?Six available positions; may include: * Public Interpretation of Science * Educational Programs * Guest Services and Memberships * Exhibits Work * Other duties as assigned Conservation Internships ?Four available positions, may include: * Fossil preparation, stabilization * Research assistance * Fossil recovery and documentation * Field work education * Other duties as assigned Deadline: February 28, 2019 Preferred Qualifications Education Internships o Advanced experience (>1 year) with public speaking and/or docent work. o Customer Service (>1 year) o Experience in education program delivery and development. Conservation Internships o One year or more of vertebrate or invertebrate preparation, and/or museum curatorial experience in vertebrate paleontology. o A working knowledge of Microsoft Office, Excel, Access, and/or ArcGIS software. Minimum Qualifications ???? 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You must be at least in your second year at a US academic institution, have US citizenship, or previously established work visa to be considered. Application: Visit The Mammoth Site website (http://mammothsite.com/volunteeremployment-opportunities/) for your application and contact Dr. Sharon Holte: Dr. Sharon Holte Email: sharonh at mammothsite.org Mammoth Site of Hot Springs, South Dakota, Inc. P.O. Box 692; 1800 Highway 18 Bypass Hot Springs, South Dakota 57747 You will receive a Mammoth Site application and two academic reference forms; you must submit these materials with a current CV, unofficial university transcript and cover letter by February 28, 2019. -- Wm. Justin Wilkins WE DIG BIG! The Mammoth Site of Hot Springs, SD, Inc. a non-profit 501 (c) (3) organization 1800 US 18 Bypass PO Box 692, Hot Springs, SD 57747 Phone: 605-745-6017 ext. 217 Fax: 605-745-3038 email: justinw at mammothsite.org website: www.mammothsite.org From couteaufin at btinternet.com Fri Nov 30 04:38:46 2018 From: couteaufin at btinternet.com (Simon Moore) Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2018 09:38:46 +0000 Subject: [Nhcoll-l] Practical courses in natural history conservation technology Message-ID: The following 3 day practical course are available in 2019 from Simon Moore. Taxidermy Conservation Course to be held at Reading Museum Service Store, 2-4 Darwin Close, Reading RG2 0RB. From the 14th to 16th of May, 2019. Pinned insects conservation course At laboratory G6 (TBC), Cole Museum, Reading University, Whiteknights, RG6 6UA From 8th to 10th of April, 2019. There are also 3 places available for the next fluid preservation course Level 5 Teaching Labs, Faculty of Biological Sciences, Miall Building, University of Leeds Leeds LS2 9JT From the 21st to 24th of January 2019 The cost for each is 300 UKP. If interested please contact Simon via email: couteaufin at btinternet.com for more details and a booking form / schedule. With all good wishes, Simon. Simon Moore MIScT, RSci, FLS, ACR Conservator of Natural Sciences and Cutlery Historian, www.natural-history-conservation.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From couteaufin at btinternet.com Fri Nov 30 06:37:32 2018 From: couteaufin at btinternet.com (Simon Moore) Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2018 11:37:32 +0000 Subject: [Nhcoll-l] Pinned insects course - explanation Message-ID: The Pinned Insects Conservation course that i just advertised requires a bit of explanation as it?s a new course. The course is (as always) largely practical and requires steady hands and a keen eye (close-up visor). As you know pinned insects are extremely brittle and prone to damage - mainly through pest insect depredations. You will learn how to handle, attach and repair butterfly / moth wings, detached abdomens and other appendages including the extremely delicate antennae! Pest larval damage includes munching gaps in insect wings - you will learn how to repair / gap-fill this type of damage, even a bit of restoration where display specimens require some colouring to make them presentable. How to deal with mould growth / carefully neutralise and remove it. Dealing with verdigris crystalline growth and removing a copper-cored pin. Finally, how to replace a lepidopteran body by restoration using a bit of dried husk from a magnolia pod. All of these techniques are low-tech, therefore affordable and I am alway looking for new ideas to improve them. With all good wishes, Simon. 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