From temig at culturalheritage.org Tue Dec 1 09:03:35 2020 From: temig at culturalheritage.org (Tiffani Emig) Date: Tue, 1 Dec 2020 14:03:35 +0000 Subject: [Nhcoll-l] Connecting to Collections Care advisory group volunteer position Message-ID: The Connecting to Collections Care (C2C Care) Professional Development Working Group (PDWG) is seeking new members. This is a volunteer, two year position (January 2021 - December 2022), with the potential to renew for a second term. C2C Care is an outreach program of FAIC and is made possible in part by the Institute for Museum and Library Services. C2C Care serves small and mid-sized cultural institutions, providing information, expert advice, and online training to help them care for their collections. The PDWG's mission is the development of educational programming for staff and volunteers of cultural institutions. C2C Care PDWG Duties and Goals * Attend monthly conference calls with C2C Care during regular business hours. * Suggest ideas for educational programming including online webinars and courses. * Periodically take responsibility for finding appropriate qualified presenters and instructors. * Assess webinar and course feedback as well as survey results to improve the quality of the programming offered. * Track hours spent on C2C Care activities and report annually to C2C Care leadership. * Advocate for C2C Care to its target audience and disseminate announcements as appropriate. PDWG Member Qualifications * Interest in preservation and collections care outreach to the broader community of cultural heritage professionals. * Prior work experience, outreach efforts, partnerships, etc. with C2C Care's target audience of small to mid-size institutions and their particular challenges of limited budgets and resources. At this time, priority will be given to applicants who will diversify the existing Working Group's background, particularly those with experience working with and/or reaching out to underrepresented communities Please send a CV and a brief statement of interest to Nicole Grabow, PDWG Chair, at ngrabow at preserveart.org by Friday December 18, 2020. Tiffani Emig Programs Director & Administrative Manager (she/her/hers) foundation for advancement in conservation Protecting Cultural Heritage temig at culturalheritage.org (t) 202.750.3346 | (f) 202.452.9328 727 15th St NW | Suite 500 | Washington, DC | 20005 culturalheritage.org | @conservators | Facebook -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Built-in Flexibility: Lessons learned to engage your community virtually Join us for an interactive webinar focused on designing engaging and accessible online events that build lasting community. We will explore the 2020 Biology and Math Educators (BIOME) Institute organized by BioQUEST and QUBES as a case study. We will share lessons learned and practices that can be applied to online professional development and educational events. Topics include: participant engagement, asynchronous and synchronous community building, access, universal design, and online professional development. Speakers: Andrew Hasley, Hayley Orndorf, and Deborah Rook of BioQUEST Zoom link: https://ufl.zoom.us/j/99571640979?pwd=V0VwbDBySEtBYUptNUZ2L0RQNGh0UT09 Follow the Zoom link above to join and please visit the webinar series page for information on the additional webinars that will be featured in this series: https://www.idigbio.org/content/webinar-series-adapting-covid-resources-natural-history-collections-new-virtual-world Erica Krimmel Digitization Resource Coordinator Integrated Digitized Biocollections (iDigBio) Florida State University ekrimmel at fsu.edu (619) 876-3794 ORCID 0000-0003-3192-0080 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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I am pleased to share that the full agenda is now live: https://www.henrystewartconferences.com/events/events-dam-and-museums/agenda/day-1 Here are some highlights from the program: * Museums and Cultural Heritage Summit - The current state and future horizon of DAM with The Met, MoMA, and United States Holocaust Memorial Museum * The Role of Digital Transformation with Microsoft * Decolonizing Digital Preservation with Museum Hue * The new General Catalogue of Vatican Museums: delivering extensive public interoperability * Future Forward: What's Next for Museums and Tech with The Cleveland Museum of Art and Rock & Roll Hall of Fame * DAM Training and Onboarding Case Study at the Detroit Institute of Arts * Where Should DAM Fit In Your Museum's Technology Ecosystem? with Royal Ontario Museum and Army Museums Ogilby Trust * Tying Digital Assets to Collections Data with Theresa Regli To register for the online event, visit the link here: https://na.eventscloud.com/damandmuseums Please share with friends/colleagues who may be interested. 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Braker) Date: Mon, 7 Dec 2020 15:33:52 +0000 Subject: [Nhcoll-l] Reminder: Webinar Tomorrow (Dec 8) - Introduction to Arctos for Mammal Collections Message-ID: Please join us for an introduction to managing Mammalogy Collections in Arctos. Abstract: Arctos serves data on over 1,048,000 mammalogical records from 28 collections, including mammal specimens, observations, and media (e.g., photographs, ct scans, fieldnotes). Mammalian data sets range from 3 to over 328,000 records, making Arctos an excellent option for all sizes of collections. Specimens date to the 1850's, are global in scope and span Mammalia. This webinar will highlight some of the key features of Arctos for managing mammalogical data, including: shared localities, relationships between different types of specimens (e.g., host-parasite/pathogen, shared parts), transactions (accessions, loans), linkage to outside databases (e.g., GenBank), object tracking, and projects/publications for citing usage in research. We also will illustrate how media are linked to mammal specimens in Arctos, and will showcase how these media have been used in impactful ways. Presenters: Jon Dunnum (Senior Collection Manager, Division of Mammals) and Mariel Campbell (Collection Manager, Division of Genomic Resources), Museum of Southwestern Biology When: Tuesday, December 8, 2020 at 3:00pm ET/1:00pm MT (19:00 UTC) Where: https://cuboulder.zoom.us/j/96749042184 Can't Make It?: View archived recordings here https://arctosdb.org/learn/webinars/ 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 prc44 at drexel.edu Mon Dec 7 10:45:37 2020 From: prc44 at drexel.edu (Callomon,Paul) Date: Mon, 7 Dec 2020 15:45:37 +0000 Subject: [Nhcoll-l] Alternatives for room climate In-Reply-To: <87039433d28b460d8e7822dde350e3a7@loodusmuuseum.ee> References: <87039433d28b460d8e7822dde350e3a7@loodusmuuseum.ee> Message-ID: Dear Lennart, Safely adding humidity to a collection space is hard and always expensive. The problem if you use a humidifier (such as the home ones you mention) is that there will be a gradient of humidity around it ? damp enough to create mold near the machine but still dry at the far end of the room. If you have multi-outlet ducting for your building climate system, then, at least try and rig something up that uses that ducting to distribute the moisture as evenly as possible. Otherwise, you could set up a system of fans to create air circulation throughout the space and try to even out the humidity that way ? but be aware that doing that could then drop the temperature through the evaporative cooling effect, causing folks to turn up the heating and make the problem worse. Paul Callomon MSc Collection Manager, Malacology and General Invertebrates ________________________________ Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University, Philadelphia 1900 Benjamin Franklin Parkway, Philadelphia PA 19103-1195, USA prc44 at drexel.edu Tel 215-405-5096 - Fax 215-299-1170 From: Nhcoll-l On Behalf Of Lennart Lennuk Sent: Monday, December 7, 2020 10:16 AM To: nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu Subject: [Nhcoll-l] Alternatives for room climate External. Dear curators, We have broken climate system in our collections room and the main problem is too low humidity. What would you suggest for quick alternative for rising the humidity. 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AIBS Public Policy Report AIBS Public Policy Report, Volume 21, Issue 25, December 7, 2020 * Update on Appropriations, COVID-19 Relief * Now in BioScience: Building the Bioeconomy Workforce of the Future * Science Coalition Calls for Increased NSF Funding * John Kerry Named Special Climate Envoy * Biden Announces OMB Director Nominee * CDC Recommends Who Should Get COVID-19 Vaccines First * Call for Applications: 2021 Emerging Public Policy Leadership Award * Webinar Series: Resources for Natural History Collections in a New Virtual World * Bring the Enabling Interdisciplinary and Team Science Course to Your Institution * Short Takes * Representative DeLauro to Chair House Appropriations Committee * Trump Appoints Two New Members to NSB * Former USDA Chief Calls for Investments in Research to Avoid Another Pandemic * NSF Webinar on the Biology Integration Institutes Solicitation * DOE Announces $10 Million for Ecosystem Processes Research * Decline in International Student Enrollment * From the Federal Register ________________________________ The AIBS Public Policy Report is distributed broadly by email every two weeks. Any interested party may self-subscribe to receive these free reports by email. 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 Public Policy Manager, Jyotsna Pandey, at 202-628-1500 x 225. ________________________________ Update on Appropriations, COVID-19 Relief House and Senate Appropriators have reached an agreement on top-line allocations for the twelve appropriations bills to divide the $1.4 trillion in discretionary spending for fiscal year (FY) 2021, but disagreements remain over the exact provisions. Both chambers need to pass and the President needs to sign the spending package before the current stopgap measure expires to avert a government shutdown. It is unclear if the funding bills will be finalized before the December 11 deadline. There has been some discussion about passing another continuing resolution funding the government for an additional week until December 18, to allow for more time to finalize the omnibus spending package. If negotiations collapse completely, lawmakers could enact a stopgap spending measure delaying funding decisions into the new congressional session. However, both House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) are in agreement over avoiding that course. After months of disagreement over the size of a COVID-19 relief package, congressional leaders and White House officials are moving quickly to reach a deal on the next stimulus before the end of the year. House Speaker Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) have expressed willingness to accept a smaller COVID-19 relief package, after insisting for months on passing a $2.2 trillion measure. Pelosi and Schumer have resumed relief negotiations with the White House and have shared a new proposal with McConnell, who in turn has pitched a separate, slimmer $500 billion proposal to GOP Senators. McConnell has indicated that the omnibus appropriations bill would be the likely vehicle for any COVID-19 stimulus package. On December 1, a bipartisan and bicameral group of lawmakers, including Senators Mitt Romney (R-UT), Joe Manchin (D-WV), Susan Collins (R-ME), Mark Warner (D-VA), and others, announced a $908 billion stimulus plan, which includes $160 billion for state and local governments, $16 billion for vaccine development and distribution, and liability protections for businesses. Romney indicated that parts of the bipartisan legislation could be added to a stopgap spending bill ?but we?re continuing to negotiate an entire package that includes the full $908 billion that deals with state and local and liability coverage and extending the [Paycheck Protection Program].? Pelosi and Schumer called the bipartisan plan a good starting point for negotiations: ?in the spirit of compromise we believe the bipartisan framework introduced by Senators yesterday should be used as the basis for immediate bipartisan, bicameral negotiations.? Senator McConnell has not expressed public support for the bipartisan proposal yet. Now in BioScience: Building the Bioeconomy Workforce of the Future A new Washington Watch column, Building the Bioeconomy Workforce of the Future, by AIBS Public Policy Manager Jyotsna Pandey is now available in BioScience. The article explores the education and training dimensions of growing and strengthening the bioeconomy. Below is an excerpt. ?Biology contributes significantly to economic growth and resilience. An educated and technically skilled workforce is needed if biology is to continue to power the economy. But what skills are required? Governments around the world recognize the potential for the bioeconomy to address a number of societal challenges?more than 40 countries have developed policy strategies for promoting this sector. Furthermore, competition in the global bioeconomy has intensified over the past decade. Within the United States, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy has identified bioeconomic innovation as a research and development priority (https://doi.org/10.1093/biosci/biaa049). A 2019 White House summit recognized that US leadership in the sector depends on supporting ?an education and training pipeline for the next generation of bioeconomy scientists, engineers, and innovators.? Before the bioeconomic workforce can be built, however, there is a need to ensure that scientists and science educators have the requisite knowledge and skills to prepare students for careers in the lab and beyond. According to Anna Monfils, professor of biology at Central Michigan University, ?the increasingly collaborative and interdisciplinary nature of scientific research is driving the need for new skill sets to address scientific issues of critical national and global importance.? Monfils argues that the twenty-first century scientist needs to have critical thinking skills ?that allow for systems-level thinking; the ability to find, interpret, and analyze data; and critical reasoning and problem solving.?? Science Coalition Calls for Increased NSF Funding The Coalition for National Science Funding, an alliance of more than 130 professional organizations, universities and businesses, including AIBS, has called on Congress to negotiate and pass the fiscal year (FY) 2021 Commerce-Justice-Science (CJS) appropriations bill and make a significant funding increase for the National Science Foundation (NSF) a high priority. The coalition has asked that Appropriators provide at least $8.548 billion for NSF in FY 2021, as reflected in the House version of the CJS bill. ?This will allow NSF to support burgeoning national priorities such as addressing the COVID-19 pandemic, artificial intelligence, and quantum information sciences, and ensure that long term curiosity-driven research lays the foundation for future national priorities that we can?t envision today,? the groups note. ?Research supported by the agency is vital to the public interest and essential if our country is to stay at the forefront of scientific progress and the cutting edge of technology and innovation. Now is the time for the U.S. to make a significant and robust investment in NSF.? Read the letter. John Kerry Named Special Climate Envoy President-Elect Joe Biden has announced that former Secretary of State John Kerry will serve as the Special Presidential Envoy for Climate Change. In this newly created position on the National Security Council, Kerry would become the highest-ranking U.S. official ever to have a portfolio dedicated to climate change. As Secretary of State in the Obama Administration, Kerry played a key role in negotiating the Paris Climate Accord and signed the agreement on behalf of the United States in 2015. He previously represented Massachusetts in the Senate for 28 years and served as Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee for 4 years. His latest appointment reflects Biden?s commitment to ?addressing climate change as an urgent national security issue.? Biden pledged that the United States would rejoin the Paris Climate Accord, after President Trump withdrew from it earlier this year. Kerry is expected to play a significant role in navigating this. ?America will soon have a government that treats the climate crisis as the urgent national security threat it is,? stated Kerry. ?The climate crisis demands nothing less than all hands on deck.? Kerry?s position does not require Senate confirmation. The Biden transition team announced that a domestic climate official would also be announced in the coming weeks. Biden Announces OMB Director Nominee President-Elect Joe Biden has announced that he will nominate Neera Tanden to be the next Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). Tanden is the President and CEO of the Washington, DC-based think tank, Center for American Progress. Tanden previously served as Senior Adviser for Health Reform at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services under the Obama Administration. She also served as Associate Director for Domestic Policy in former President Bill Clinton?s White House. Tanden earned her bachelor of science degree from University of California, Los Angeles and her JD from Yale Law School. OMB oversees the performance of federal agencies, including science agencies like the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health, and sets and administers the federal budget, including federal science spending. The OMB Director position needs to be confirmed by the Senate. Tanden?s confirmation hearings are expected to take place early next year. Biden?s announcement of his OMB nominee sparked immediate controversy. Expressing concerns about her ?partisan? background, Republican lawmakers have indicated that Tanden will likely face hurdles during the Senate confirmation process. ?Of all the jobs, that?s one where I think you would need to be careful not to have someone who?s overtly partisan,? said Senator Rob Portman (R-OH), who previously served as OMB Director. ?I?m not disqualifying anybody, but I do think it gets a lot harder obviously if they send someone from their progressive left that [is] kind of out of the mainstream,? said Senator John Thune (R-SD). Democratic Senators Elizabeth Warren (MA) and Sherrod Brown (OH) have voiced support for Tanden. CDC Recommends Who Should Get COVID-19 Vaccines First On December 1, 2020, the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP)?a panel of independent scientific experts on vaccines that advises the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)?approved the recommendation that health care personnel and residents of long-term care facilities should receive the first round of COVID-19 vaccinations. According to the panel?s recommendation, once a COVID-19 vaccine is authorized by the Food and Drug Administration and recommended by ACIP, vaccination in the initial phase, also referred to as Phase 1a, should be offered to the highest-priority groups?an estimated 21 million health-care workers and 3 million residents and staff of nursing homes. According to the New York Times, 39 percent of deaths from COVID-19 have occurred in long-term care facilities. The panel?s recommendation has been formally adopted by CDC Director Robert R. Redfield and is the official CDC guidance to the states. Each state will determine their individual vaccine distribution plans. While states are not required to follow the CDC?s recommendations, ?most probably will,? according to Dr. Marcus Plescia, Chief Medical Officer for the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials, a group that represents state public health agencies. ACIP will vote on which groups will receive priority next at a future meeting. Essential workers, who are at increased risk of exposure to the virus because of their jobs, are likely to be next, followed by adults with medical conditions and people over the age of 65. It is unclear when children might be able to get the vaccine due to lack of information on the effects of the vaccine in children. According to Dr. Anthony Fauci, Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the National Institutes of Health, a coronavirus vaccine could be available to the general American population by April 2021. CDC officials anticipate that 40 million doses of vaccine could be available in the United States by the end of the year if both the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines are approved. This would be enough to immunize 20 million people. However, the supply could be constrained initially, with CDC expecting between 5 million and 10 million doses becoming available each week for the first few months. Increased vaccine production and availability is expected by the spring of 2021 and as additional COVID-19 vaccines are approved. Call for Applications: 2021 Emerging Public Policy Leadership Award Are you a science graduate student looking to make a difference in science policy and funding? The American Institute of Biological Sciences (AIBS) is now accepting applications for the 2021 AIBS Emerging Public Policy Leadership Award. This award recognizes graduate students in the biological sciences who are demonstrating an interest and aptitude for working at the intersection of science and policy. Recipients of the AIBS Emerging Public Policy Leadership Award receive: * A trip to Washington, DC, to participate in the AIBS Congressional Visits Day, an annual event where scientists meet with lawmakers to advocate for federal investment in the biological sciences, with a primary focus on the National Science Foundation. Domestic travel and hotel expenses are paid for the winners. As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, winners will participate in a virtual advocacy event in the spring of 2021 (likely in April) and will also have the opportunity to attend a future in-person event. * Online policy and communications training, including information on the legislative process and trends in federal science funding, and how to engage with policymakers and the news media. * Meetings with congressional policymakers to discuss the importance of federal investment in the biological sciences. * A one-year subscription to the journal BioScience and a copy of ?Communicating Science: A Primer for Working with the Media.? The 2021 award is open to U.S. citizens and U.S. permanent residents enrolled in a graduate degree program in the biological sciences, science education, or a closely allied field. Applicants should have a demonstrated interest in and commitment to science policy and/or science education policy. Prior recipients, including Honorable Mentions, are not eligible for the award. Applications are due by 05:00 PM Eastern Time on January 15, 2021. The application guidelines can be downloaded at https://www.aibs.org/news/2020/201111-call-for-eppla-2021.html#subheader. Webinar Series: Resources for Natural History Collections in a New Virtual World Recognizing the rapid changes happening within museum communities and the efforts being made throughout the community to adapt to these changes, iDigBio is organizing a webinar series, entitled Adapting to COVID-19: Resources for Natural History Collections in a New Virtual World. The webinar series aims to help provide insight into how different groups and institutions are adapting to life in a quickly evolving world. AIBS, the Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections (SPNHC), and the Natural Science Collections Alliance contributed to the planning of these programs. The next webinar, ?Built-in Flexibility: Lessons learned engaging your community virtually,? will be held on December 8 from 2:00 - 3:00 PM ET. All webinars will be recorded and held in Zoom. This webinar will focus on designing engaging and accessible online events that build lasting community. We will explore the 2020 Biology and Math Educators (BIOME) Institute organized by BioQUEST and QUBES as a case study. We will share lessons learned and practices that can be applied to online professional development and educational events. Topics include: participant engagement, asynchronous and synchronous community building, access, universal design, and online professional development. Speakers: Andrew Hasley and Hayley Orndorf, BioQUEST Zoom link: https://ufl.zoom.us/j/99571640979?pwd=V0VwbDBySEtBYUptNUZ2L0RQNGh0UT09 Visit the webinar series page for more information: https://www.idigbio.org/content/webinar-series-adapting-covid-resources-natural-history-collections-new-virtual-world Bring the Enabling Interdisciplinary and Team Science Course to Your Institution 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.? Team science is increasingly common in the 21st century to develop convergent solutions to complex problems. 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. There is a real and present need to better prepare scientists for success in this new collaborative environment. The American Institute of Biological Sciences (AIBS) has responded to this call with a program for scientists, educators, and individuals who work with or participate in scientific teams. This intensive, two-day, interactive, professional development course was developed by scientists and other experts focusing on collaboration and teamwork to provide participants with the knowledge and skills required to become productive and effective members of scientific 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. The Enabling Interdisciplinary and Team Science 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. As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, we now offer an online version of the workshop. We can also customize the course and bring it to your university, department, lab, or research team. If you are interested in organizing a workshop for your institution, please contact Scott Glisson at sglisson at aibs.org for more information. Additional information, including a course outline, is available at https://www.aibs.org/news/2020/200420-team-science.html. Short Takes * Representative Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) will succeed Chairwoman Nita Lowey (D-NY) as the Chair of the House Appropriations Committee. Lowey, who was the first woman to lead the panel, is retiring. DeLauro currently chairs the House Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education Appropriations Subcommittee and is expected to continue in that capacity as well. * President Trump has announced his intent to appoint two new members to the National Science Board (NSB): Astrophysicist Matthew Malkan at the University of California, Los Angeles and mechanical engineer Scott Stanley, co-founder of Techno Planet, an aerospace engineering firm. NSB is the governing body of the National Science Foundation and its members are appointed for six-year terms. President Trump has appointed 16 members to the 25-member board, of which 3 were reappointments. * At a congressional hearing on agricultural research, former Agriculture Secretary Dan Glickman warned Senators that zoonotic diseases, such as COVID-19, that jump from animals to humans, will likely happen again and a bigger investment in agricultural research is needed to better prepare the country. ?A concerted national effort, perhaps led by the agriculture research community, is desperately needed,? urged Glickman, who is currently Director of the Aspen Institute. ?COVID, SARS, avian influenza, other strains of bird flu and even Ebola have wreaked havoc on our country and continue to be a source of destruction for the food system,? noted Glickman, citing studies showing that 70 percent of viruses impacting humans came from animals. U.S. investments in agricultural research has been relatively flat in recent years, while other countries, such as China, have significantly increased their spending. * On Tuesday, December 8, 2020, the Directorate of Biological Sciences (BIO) at the National Science Foundation (NSF) will host a webinar with information regarding the Biology Integration Institutes funding opportunity. The program will begin at 1:00 PM EST with a presentation followed by a Q&A session. Link to join the webinar is available at: https://www.nsf.gov/events/event_summ.jsp?cntn_id=301720&WT.mc_id=USNSF_13&WT.mc_ev=click * The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has announced a plan to invest $10 million during fiscal year 2021, pending congressional appropriations, in new observational and experimental studies aimed at improving the accuracy of Earth system models. Research will focus on three separate types of environments?terrestrial, watershed, and subsurface?and on topics such as the interactions between soils and vegetation, atmospheric fluxes over wetlands and coastal systems, and the complex processes taking place within integrated watersheds. Learn more. * According to a new survey of more than 700 colleges conducted by a group of 10 higher education organizations, the total number of international students enrolled at American universities, whether studying from within the U.S. or online from abroad, declined by 16 percent in fall of 2020, while new international student enrollment decreased by 43 percent. The survey also found that one in five international students are studying online from outside the U.S. and that nearly 40,000 international students at responding institutions have deferred their studies to a future term. From the Federal Register The following items appeared in the Federal Register from November 23 to December 4, 2020. 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Join AIBS today. * Become an advocate for science, visit the AIBS Legislative Action Center. The American Institute of Biological Sciences is a non-profit 501(c)3 public charity organization that advances the biological sciences for the benefit of science and society. AIBS works with like-minded organizations, funding agencies, and political entities to promote the use of science to inform decision-making. The organization does this by providing peer-reviewed or vetted information about the biology field and profession and by catalyzing action through building the capacity and the leadership of the community to address matters of common concern. Founded in 1947 as a part of the National Academy of Sciences, AIBS became an independent, member-governed organization in the 1950s. Today, AIBS has over 100 member organizations and has a Public Policy Office in Washington, DC. 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Definitely can confirm the cooling effect Paul mentioned, even though this device is equipped with a heating element that should keep temperatures constant - while "[electric] heating" surely is another element on the list of undesired things you want to avoid in your fluid storage: a huge potential ignition source in the middle of your alcohol collection. My advice would be to keep the situation as stable as possible. An interesting anecdote we found during the research on our upcoming book on best practices for fluid collections was a collection that had a minor humidity issues because the floor in the storage space was wiped wet regularly at least twice a week. Actually it was mildly flooded twice a week evenly several millimetres high. The Advantage was that the storage space was basically dust free, the disadvantage that the concrete flooring saturated with water triggering a mould outbreak because of high humidity inside the storage space. To mitigate your situation you could carefully try to wipe the isles in a selected storage room with little water evenly and monitor closely how the humidity levels behave. This is the only method to my mind where you can exactly determine and measure the amount of water you bring actively under controlled conditions into your storage space (with the hopefully desired effects on the room climate). But less surely is more here, and if you have wooden collection furniture in your storage, you should take great care. Hope this helps Dirk Am 07.12.2020 um 16:45 schrieb Callomon,Paul: > > Dear Lennart, > > Safely adding humidity to a collection space is hard and always > expensive. The problem if you use a humidifier (such as the home ones > you mention) is that there will be a gradient of humidity around it ? > damp enough to create mold near the machine but still dry at the far > end of the room. If you have multi-outlet ducting for your building > climate system, then, at least try and rig something up that uses that > ducting to distribute the moisture as evenly as possible. Otherwise, > you could set up a system of fans to create air circulation throughout > the space and try to even out the humidity that way ? but be aware > that doing that could then drop the temperature through the > evaporative cooling effect, causing folks to turn up the heating and > make the problem worse. > > *Paul Callomon MSc* > /Collection Manager, Malacology and General Invertebrates/ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > *Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University, Philadelphia*** > > 1900 Benjamin Franklin Parkway, Philadelphia PA 19103-1195, USA > /prc44 at drexel.edu Tel 215-405-5096 - Fax > 215-299-1170/ > > *From:*Nhcoll-l *On Behalf Of > *Lennart Lennuk > *Sent:* Monday, December 7, 2020 10:16 AM > *To:* nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu > *Subject:* [Nhcoll-l] Alternatives for room climate > > *External.* > > Dear curators, > > We have broken climate system in our collections room and the main > problem is too low humidity. > > What would you suggest for quick alternative for rising the humidity. > > Are the ordinary humidifiers (meant for homes or Office) ok to use? > > Head! > Lennart > > > _______________________________________________ > 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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Thank you >From Museum Study, LLC Collections Emergencies: Preparedness to Resilience 4 week online course begins January 4 on MuseumStudy.com Diverse hazards are threatening our cultural institutions and can quickly turn into emergencies or disasters. Do you feel comfortable using your emergency plan or responding to an emergency? Have you fully prepared for a response and a resilient recovery? Join Rebecca Kennedy of Curae Collections Care, LLC for the 4 week online course Collections Emergencies: Preparedness to Resilience. This course will go beyond the basics of emergency planning and teach participants how to turn their plans into living documents that work in all emergency events. We will focus on practical skills to guide participants from preparedness through response, into recovery and finally to resiliency. For more information visit our website: http://www.museumstudy.com/courses/course-list/collections-emergencies-preparedness-to-resilience/ The Interpretive Exhibit Planners Toolbox course begins Jan 4 on MuseumStudy.com Guidelines and tools for planning and managing interpretive exhibit projects. Join instructor John Veverka for this 4 week course designed for medium to small museums that may be doing most of their interpretive exhibits "in house". It provides a strategy to help them develop cost effective and "successful" interpretive exhibits (Provoke, Relate, Reveal) based on interpretive objectives and interpretive theme development and illustration. For more information visit our website: http://www.museumstudy.com/courses/course-list/the-interpretive-exhibit-planners-toolbox/ Writing K-12 Lesson Plans for Museums course begins February 1 on MuseumStudy.com This course is designed to teach museum educators how to develop and write formal lesson plans for K-12 programming. Students will review a wide variety of K-12 lesson plans from different types of museums. Each week's lecture, chat, and assignment will be iterative, and students will end the course with a finished lesson plan that they can put into use at their museums. Join Instructor Tara Young for this 4 week online professional development course. For more information visit our website: http://www.museumstudy.com/courses/course-list/writing-k-12-lesson-plans-for-museums/ Creating Exhibitions Through the Collective course begins February 1 on MuseumStudy.com Do you want to create an exhibit that utilizes your community? If so, Creating Exhibitions through the Collective is for you. This class will be focused on community co-curation. We will investigate how community involvement during all stages of the exhibit development process can lead to more interpretation that is credible, community empowerment, and advocacy. Tips and strategies will be provided to build sustainable frameworks for this type of engagement. Join Instructor Saul Sopoci Drake for this 4 week online professional development course. For more information visit our website and view the instructor's video introduction: http://www.museumstudy.com/courses/course-list/creating-exhibitions-through-the-collective/ Managing Previously Unmanaged Collections online course begins Feb 1 on MuseumStudy.com Join instructor Angela Kipp for the 4 week online course Managing Previously Unmanaged Collections. Working with a previously unmanaged collection is one of the most challenging and rewarding projects in the career of a museum professional. Challenging because of the variety of issues like leaking roofs, missing documentation and the question as to whether there is actually a floor underneath those piles of objects. Rewarding because of the variety of new discoveries and the skills that are learned, along with the satisfying feeling of getting things done. The process of securing the collection and making it accessible needs the mindset of a collections manager as well as the one of a project manager. This 4 week course helps you to get a grip on your unmanaged collection by developing a plan to tackle it, defining achievable goals by creating logical exits and finding ways to keep the project going even if you are limited in time, staff and money. For more information visit our website: http://www.museumstudy.com/courses/course-list/managing-previously-unmanaged-collections/ Interpretive Writing online course begins February 1 on MuseumStudy.com Join Professor John Veverka for the course Interpretive Writing. 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The Biodiversity Collections Network (BCoN) along with AIBS and NSCA are potentially interested in being proactive about contacting these agencies to offer our support but it would be interesting to know in advance if contact has been made and by whom. Thanks Andy A : A : A : }<(((_?>.,.,.,.}<(((_?>.,.,.,.}<)))_?> V V V Andy Bentley Ichthyology Collection Manager University of Kansas Biodiversity Institute Dyche Hall 1345 Jayhawk Boulevard Lawrence, KS, 66045-7561 USA Tel: (785) 864-3863 Fax: (785) 864-5335 Email: abentley at ku.edu http://ichthyology.biodiversity.ku.edu A : A : A : }<(((_?>.,.,.,.}<(((_?>.,.,.,.}<)))_?> V V V -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From mjandersen at unm.edu Tue Dec 8 15:10:55 2020 From: mjandersen at unm.edu (Michael Andersen) Date: Tue, 8 Dec 2020 20:10:55 +0000 Subject: [Nhcoll-l] COVID vaccine storage in biological collections facilities In-Reply-To: <90B914FE-B01B-4EAE-8D21-A69BEAF8263B@ku.edu> References: <90B914FE-B01B-4EAE-8D21-A69BEAF8263B@ku.edu> Message-ID: <8F9700A1-57BA-46A4-B972-C0E7DB9868AB@unm.edu> Hi Andy, I agree that we potentially have much to offer our state and local communities in the way of cold storage, and the potential goodwill and exposure is high. We were contacted about a month ago by folks at UNM Hospital. They are in charge of state-wide organization and were taking stock of ultracold resources within the UNM system. We offered to help, but they opted not to include us. I should say that in speaking with UNM Biosafety, we were told that should a freezer be used for vaccine storage, it would first need to be decommissioned of all material, decontaminated, and used only for vaccine storage for the duration of the vaccine program. There didn?t seem to be an option to share space within a freezer. Mike _______________________________________________________ Michael J. Andersen, Ph.D. (he, him, his) Assistant Professor, Department of Biology Curator of Genomic Resources & Associate Curator of Birds, Museum of Southwestern Biology University of New Mexico Albuquerque, NM 87131 phone: 505.277.8017 mjandersen at unm.edu http://www.andersenlabunm.org On Dec 8, 2020, at 12:49 PM, Bentley, Andrew Charles > wrote: [EXTERNAL] Hi all I am interested in knowing if anyone has been contacted by federal, state or local authorities about the possibility of storing COVID vaccine in cryogenic facilities associated with biological collections. It is apparent that cold storage capacity may become an issue for the Pfizer vaccine and maybe others and that the collections community may be in a position to assist in this regard for the good of the communities we reside in. This may also be a great opportunity for us to also showcase the work that we do and the value of our collections to mitigating human health issues such as pandemics and the value of collections in general. The Biodiversity Collections Network (BCoN) along with AIBS and NSCA are potentially interested in being proactive about contacting these agencies to offer our support but it would be interesting to know in advance if contact has been made and by whom. Thanks Andy A : A : A : }<(((_?>.,.,.,.}<(((_?>.,.,.,.}<)))_?> V V V Andy Bentley Ichthyology Collection Manager University of Kansas Biodiversity Institute Dyche Hall 1345 Jayhawk Boulevard Lawrence, KS, 66045-7561 USA Tel: (785) 864-3863 Fax: (785) 864-5335 Email: abentley at ku.edu http://ichthyology.biodiversity.ku.edu A : A : A : }<(((_?>.,.,.,.}<(((_?>.,.,.,.}<)))_?> V V V _______________________________________________ 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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James Bryant SOJOURN Science - Nature - Education Santa Fe, NM https://www.linkedin.com/in/james-bryant-0598a940/ > On Dec 8, 2020, at 1:10 PM, Michael Andersen wrote: > > Hi Andy, > > I agree that we potentially have much to offer our state and local communities in the way of cold storage, and the potential goodwill and exposure is high. We were contacted about a month ago by folks at UNM Hospital. They are in charge of state-wide organization and were taking stock of ultracold resources within the UNM system. We offered to help, but they opted not to include us. I should say that in speaking with UNM Biosafety, we were told that should a freezer be used for vaccine storage, it would first need to be decommissioned of all material, decontaminated, and used only for vaccine storage for the duration of the vaccine program. There didn?t seem to be an option to share space within a freezer. > > Mike > > _______________________________________________________ > Michael J. Andersen, Ph.D. (he, him, his) > Assistant Professor, Department of Biology > Curator of Genomic Resources & Associate Curator of Birds, > Museum of Southwestern Biology > University of New Mexico > Albuquerque, NM 87131 > phone: 505.277.8017 > mjandersen at unm.edu > http://www.andersenlabunm.org > >> On Dec 8, 2020, at 12:49 PM, Bentley, Andrew Charles > wrote: >> >> [EXTERNAL] >> <>Hi all >> >> I am interested in knowing if anyone has been contacted by federal, state or local authorities about the possibility of storing COVID vaccine in cryogenic facilities associated with biological collections. It is apparent that cold storage capacity may become an issue for the Pfizer vaccine and maybe others and that the collections community may be in a position to assist in this regard for the good of the communities we reside in. This may also be a great opportunity for us to also showcase the work that we do and the value of our collections to mitigating human health issues such as pandemics and the value of collections in general. >> >> The Biodiversity Collections Network (BCoN) along with AIBS and NSCA are potentially interested in being proactive about contacting these agencies to offer our support but it would be interesting to know in advance if contact has been made and by whom. >> >> Thanks >> >> Andy >> >> A : A : A : >> }<(((_?>.,.,.,.}<(((_?>.,.,.,.}<)))_?> >> V V V >> Andy Bentley >> Ichthyology Collection Manager >> University of Kansas >> Biodiversity Institute >> Dyche Hall >> 1345 Jayhawk Boulevard >> Lawrence, KS, 66045-7561 >> USA >> >> Tel: (785) 864-3863 >> Fax: (785) 864-5335 >> Email: abentley at ku.edu >> http://ichthyology.biodiversity.ku.edu >> >> A : A : A : >> }<(((_?>.,.,.,.}<(((_?>.,.,.,.}<)))_?> >> V V V >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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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Emily Kaplan Conservator Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian Cultural Resources Center 4220 Silver Hill Road, Suitland, MD 20746-2863 E kaplane at si.edu | T 301.238.1418|F 301.238.3201 | ________________________________ From: Nhcoll-l on behalf of Haff, Tonya (NCMI, Crace) Sent: Wednesday, December 9, 2020 8:26 PM To: nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu Subject: [Nhcoll-l] 'Preventive conservation' External Email - Exercise Caution Hi all, I am wondering if any of you are familiar with the book ?Preventive conservation: collection storage?, by Elkin & Norris? And if so, any thoughts or recommendations? Thanks, Tonya --------------------------------------------------------- Dr Tonya Haff Collections Manager Australian National Wildlife Collection National Research Collections Australia, CSIRO Canberra, Australia Phone: (+61) 02 6242 1566 (office) (+61) 0419 569 109 (mobile) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Walnut St. | Bloomington, IN 47404 website | twitter | email | 812-855-7636 From: Nhcoll-l On Behalf Of Haff, Tonya (NCMI, Crace) Sent: Wednesday, December 9, 2020 8:27 PM To: nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu Subject: [Nhcoll-l] 'Preventive conservation' Hi all, I am wondering if any of you are familiar with the book 'Preventive conservation: collection storage', by Elkin & Norris? And if so, any thoughts or recommendations? Thanks, Tonya --------------------------------------------------------- Dr Tonya Haff Collections Manager Australian National Wildlife Collection National Research Collections Australia, CSIRO Canberra, Australia Phone: (+61) 02 6242 1566 (office) (+61) 0419 569 109 (mobile) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Mellon Opportunity for Diversity in Conservation http://conservation.ucla.edu/Mellon_diversity_opportunity https://www.instagram.com/uclagettydiversityconservation/?hl=en As a land grant institution, the faculty and administration at UCLA acknowledges the Gabrielino/Tongva peoples as the traditional land caretakers of Tovaangar (Los Angeles basin, So. Channel Islands). On Wed, Dec 9, 2020 at 5:27 PM Haff, Tonya (NCMI, Crace) wrote: > Hi all, > > > > I am wondering if any of you are familiar with the book ?Preventive > conservation: collection storage?, by Elkin & Norris? And if so, any > thoughts or recommendations? > > > > Thanks, > > > Tonya > > > > --------------------------------------------------------- > > Dr Tonya Haff > > Collections Manager > > Australian National Wildlife Collection > > National Research Collections Australia, CSIRO > > Canberra, Australia > > Phone: (+61) 02 6242 1566 (office) > > (+61) 0419 569 109 (mobile) > > > _______________________________________________ > 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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Lisa Elkin Chief Registrar & Director of Conservation American Museum of Natural History W: 212.313.7035 / M: 917.209.2092 pronouns: she/her/hers? ________________________________ From: Nhcoll-l on behalf of ELLEN PEARLSTEIN Sent: Wednesday, December 9, 2020 9:12 PM To: Haff, Tonya (NCMI, Crace) Cc: nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu Subject: Re: [Nhcoll-l] 'Preventive conservation' EXTERNAL SENDER It is an excellent book! A reference to have on your shelf! Best! Ellen Ellen Pearlstein Professor UCLA Information Studies 230 GSEIS Los Angeles, CA 90095 UCLA/Getty Program in the Conservation of Archaeological and Ethnographic Materials A 410 Fowler Los Angeles, CA 90095 epearl at ucla.edu Editor, Conservation of featherwork from Central and South America https://archetype.co.uk/our-titles/conservation-of-featherwork-from-central-and-south-america/?id=245 PI, Andrew W. Mellon Opportunity for Diversity in Conservation http://conservation.ucla.edu/Mellon_diversity_opportunity https://www.instagram.com/uclagettydiversityconservation/?hl=en As a land grant institution, the faculty and administration at UCLA acknowledges the Gabrielino/Tongva peoples as the traditional land caretakers of Tovaangar (Los Angeles basin, So. Channel Islands). On Wed, Dec 9, 2020 at 5:27 PM Haff, Tonya (NCMI, Crace) wrote: Hi all, I am wondering if any of you are familiar with the book ?Preventive conservation: collection storage?, by Elkin & Norris? And if so, any thoughts or recommendations? 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URL: From Christine.Ianna at slq.qld.gov.au Wed Dec 9 21:41:02 2020 From: Christine.Ianna at slq.qld.gov.au (Christine Ianna) Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2020 02:41:02 +0000 Subject: [Nhcoll-l] 'Preventive conservation' In-Reply-To: References: , Message-ID: Fantastic news! From: Nhcoll-l On Behalf Of Lisa Elkin Sent: Thursday, 10 December 2020 12:37 PM To: epearl at ucla.edu; Haff, Tonya (NCMI, Crace) Cc: nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu Subject: Re: [Nhcoll-l] 'Preventive conservation' A bit of insider information... We are currently working to make a e-version of the book available. This will reduce costs significantly for our non-North American colleagues (overseas shipping of the 900-page volume is quite pricey!). We will send out an announcement to this list serve and others as soon as the eBook is available. Lisa Elkin Chief Registrar & Director of Conservation American Museum of Natural History W: 212.313.7035 / M: 917.209.2092 pronouns: she/her/hers? ________________________________ From: Nhcoll-l > on behalf of ELLEN PEARLSTEIN > Sent: Wednesday, December 9, 2020 9:12 PM To: Haff, Tonya (NCMI, Crace) > Cc: nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu > Subject: Re: [Nhcoll-l] 'Preventive conservation' EXTERNAL SENDER It is an excellent book! A reference to have on your shelf! Best! Ellen Ellen Pearlstein Professor UCLA Information Studies 230 GSEIS Los Angeles, CA 90095 UCLA/Getty Program in the Conservation of Archaeological and Ethnographic Materials A 410 Fowler Los Angeles, CA 90095 epearl at ucla.edu Editor, Conservation of featherwork from Central and South America https://archetype.co.uk/our-titles/conservation-of-featherwork-from-central-and-south-america/?id=245 PI, Andrew W. Mellon Opportunity for Diversity in Conservation http://conservation.ucla.edu/Mellon_diversity_opportunity https://www.instagram.com/uclagettydiversityconservation/?hl=en As a land grant institution, the faculty and administration at UCLA acknowledges the Gabrielino/Tongva peoples as the traditional land caretakers of Tovaangar (Los Angeles basin, So. Channel Islands). On Wed, Dec 9, 2020 at 5:27 PM Haff, Tonya (NCMI, Crace) > wrote: Hi all, I am wondering if any of you are familiar with the book ?Preventive conservation: collection storage?, by Elkin & Norris? And if so, any thoughts or recommendations? 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URL: From Tonya.Haff at csiro.au Wed Dec 9 21:58:26 2020 From: Tonya.Haff at csiro.au (Haff, Tonya (NCMI, Crace)) Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2020 02:58:26 +0000 Subject: [Nhcoll-l] 'Preventive conservation' In-Reply-To: References: , Message-ID: Thank you all so much, that?s fantastic information. Cheers, Tonya From: Christine Ianna Sent: Thursday, 10 December 2020 1:41 PM To: Lisa Elkin ; epearl at ucla.edu; Haff, Tonya (NCMI, Crace) Cc: nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu Subject: RE: [Nhcoll-l] 'Preventive conservation' Fantastic news! From: Nhcoll-l On Behalf Of Lisa Elkin Sent: Thursday, 10 December 2020 12:37 PM To: epearl at ucla.edu; Haff, Tonya (NCMI, Crace) Cc: nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu Subject: Re: [Nhcoll-l] 'Preventive conservation' A bit of insider information... We are currently working to make a e-version of the book available. This will reduce costs significantly for our non-North American colleagues (overseas shipping of the 900-page volume is quite pricey!). We will send out an announcement to this list serve and others as soon as the eBook is available. Lisa Elkin Chief Registrar & Director of Conservation American Museum of Natural History W: 212.313.7035 / M: 917.209.2092 pronouns: she/her/hers? ________________________________ From: Nhcoll-l > on behalf of ELLEN PEARLSTEIN > Sent: Wednesday, December 9, 2020 9:12 PM To: Haff, Tonya (NCMI, Crace) > Cc: nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu > Subject: Re: [Nhcoll-l] 'Preventive conservation' EXTERNAL SENDER It is an excellent book! A reference to have on your shelf! Best! Ellen Ellen Pearlstein Professor UCLA Information Studies 230 GSEIS Los Angeles, CA 90095 UCLA/Getty Program in the Conservation of Archaeological and Ethnographic Materials A 410 Fowler Los Angeles, CA 90095 epearl at ucla.edu Editor, Conservation of featherwork from Central and South America https://archetype.co.uk/our-titles/conservation-of-featherwork-from-central-and-south-america/?id=245 PI, Andrew W. Mellon Opportunity for Diversity in Conservation http://conservation.ucla.edu/Mellon_diversity_opportunity https://www.instagram.com/uclagettydiversityconservation/?hl=en As a land grant institution, the faculty and administration at UCLA acknowledges the Gabrielino/Tongva peoples as the traditional land caretakers of Tovaangar (Los Angeles basin, So. Channel Islands). On Wed, Dec 9, 2020 at 5:27 PM Haff, Tonya (NCMI, Crace) > wrote: Hi all, I am wondering if any of you are familiar with the book ?Preventive conservation: collection storage?, by Elkin & Norris? And if so, any thoughts or recommendations? Thanks, Tonya --------------------------------------------------------- Dr Tonya Haff Collections Manager Australian National Wildlife Collection National Research Collections Australia, CSIRO Canberra, Australia Phone: (+61) 02 6242 1566 (office) (+61) 0419 569 109 (mobile) _______________________________________________ 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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Phone: 617-495-1057 Fax: 617-495-9484 glewis-g at oeb.harvard.edu From: Nhcoll-l On Behalf Of Haff, Tonya (NCMI, Crace) Sent: Wednesday, December 9, 2020 9:58 PM To: Christine Ianna ; Lisa Elkin ; epearl at ucla.edu Cc: nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu Subject: Re: [Nhcoll-l] 'Preventive conservation' Thank you all so much, that?s fantastic information. Cheers, Tonya From: Christine Ianna > Sent: Thursday, 10 December 2020 1:41 PM To: Lisa Elkin >; epearl at ucla.edu; Haff, Tonya (NCMI, Crace) > Cc: nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu Subject: RE: [Nhcoll-l] 'Preventive conservation' Fantastic news! From: Nhcoll-l > On Behalf Of Lisa Elkin Sent: Thursday, 10 December 2020 12:37 PM To: epearl at ucla.edu; Haff, Tonya (NCMI, Crace) > Cc: nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu Subject: Re: [Nhcoll-l] 'Preventive conservation' A bit of insider information... We are currently working to make a e-version of the book available. This will reduce costs significantly for our non-North American colleagues (overseas shipping of the 900-page volume is quite pricey!). We will send out an announcement to this list serve and others as soon as the eBook is available. Lisa Elkin Chief Registrar & Director of Conservation American Museum of Natural History W: 212.313.7035 / M: 917.209.2092 pronouns: she/her/hers? ________________________________ From: Nhcoll-l > on behalf of ELLEN PEARLSTEIN > Sent: Wednesday, December 9, 2020 9:12 PM To: Haff, Tonya (NCMI, Crace) > Cc: nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu > Subject: Re: [Nhcoll-l] 'Preventive conservation' EXTERNAL SENDER It is an excellent book! A reference to have on your shelf! Best! Ellen Ellen Pearlstein Professor UCLA Information Studies 230 GSEIS Los Angeles, CA 90095 UCLA/Getty Program in the Conservation of Archaeological and Ethnographic Materials A 410 Fowler Los Angeles, CA 90095 epearl at ucla.edu Editor, Conservation of featherwork from Central and South America https://archetype.co.uk/our-titles/conservation-of-featherwork-from-central-and-south-america/?id=245 PI, Andrew W. Mellon Opportunity for Diversity in Conservation http://conservation.ucla.edu/Mellon_diversity_opportunity https://www.instagram.com/uclagettydiversityconservation/?hl=en As a land grant institution, the faculty and administration at UCLA acknowledges the Gabrielino/Tongva peoples as the traditional land caretakers of Tovaangar (Los Angeles basin, So. Channel Islands). On Wed, Dec 9, 2020 at 5:27 PM Haff, Tonya (NCMI, Crace) > wrote: Hi all, I am wondering if any of you are familiar with the book ?Preventive conservation: collection storage?, by Elkin & Norris? And if so, any thoughts or recommendations? Thanks, Tonya --------------------------------------------------------- Dr Tonya Haff Collections Manager Australian National Wildlife Collection National Research Collections Australia, CSIRO Canberra, Australia Phone: (+61) 02 6242 1566 (office) (+61) 0419 569 109 (mobile) _______________________________________________ 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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References: Message-ID: I have been working as a volunteer curator at a small herbarium on the Patuxent Research Refuge for the past 10 years.? It is a reference herbarium for the refuge and holds over 5300 specimens from over 1250 taxa. Right now we are attempting to acquire a new cabinet (a third one) for the herbarium and the donor wants to make sure that the herbarium will be taken care of in the future. If a small herbarium like the Patuxent herbarium has no one to actively work it, what are the pros and cons of putting it into a "mothball" status (not literally) until someone can start working it again? This could happen if the person who has been curating it leaves, passes away suddenly etc, but there is no one to take over. My feeling is that "mothballing" a herbarium is a bad idea if there is a POC who can give access to outside researchers, and the collection is safe and secure. I am asking this because I am retiring and moving out of state. Currently, several volunteers are working the collection and we have imaged about 85% of the collection. We were on track to finish imaging the collection this year until COVID came along. The volunteers have committed to continue to maintain the collection and I will be consulting remotely via the internet. I hope to visit the herbarium two or three times per year to tie down loose ends. Yes, I understand that the specimens of a small herbaria like this one can be donated another institution.? However, I would like to do what we can to make sure it stays on the refuge and only donate it as a last resort. And even then, the herbarium should be kept together as a unit. Any suggestions? -- *Bill Harms* *Volunteer Project Coordinator/Citizen Botanist* *Patuxent Research Refuge - PRR* *Plant Inventory Project - PIP* *Laurel, Maryland* botanybill at verizon.net *BLOG:*/botanybill.info/ *FACEBOOK:* facebook.com/PatuxentPlantSurvey/ *PLANTS OF THE REFUGE PHOTO ALBUM:* https://www.flickr.com/photos/11582493 at N02/sets/72157676590571301 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From asilid at gmail.com Fri Dec 11 12:00:12 2020 From: asilid at gmail.com (Derek Woller) Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2020 10:00:12 -0700 Subject: [Nhcoll-l] Heat panels for controlling pests In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: I find the heat panel concept to be an intriguing one, but also problematic in other ways. For example, the biggest flaw I see is that the linked article specifically mentions it's effective in keeping away crawling dermestids, but I assumed that adult dermestids primarily flew into collection areas and then mated, laid eggs, etc.. Fellow entomologists, primarily coleopterists, is this incorrect thinking on my part? Granted, this method should dissuade wandering dermestid larvae, so it should be helpful to some degree. Thanks for sharing! -- *Derek A. Woller*, Ph.D. USDA Supervisory Entomologist, Rangeland Grasshopper and Mormon Cricket Management Team Phoenix, AZ, U.S.A. Derek.A.Woller at usda.gov Check out my wife's Etsy store where you can buy all sorts of neat vinyl decals (and more), especially cool insect ones: https://www.etsy.com/shop/ArtisticNatureStudio Proud to be an explorer of the final biological frontier: entomology. On Fri, Dec 11, 2020 at 2:43 AM Lennart Lennuk < Lennart.Lennuk at loodusmuuseum.ee> wrote: > Hello! > > We are planning our new collection storage and I happened to read paper > about > > Heat Panels for Controlling Crawling Insects in Storage Areas > > . > > > > Has anybody have experience with these heat panels? > > What else you suggest to use to keep crawling insects away from opened > doors? > > > > Best regards! > > > > Lennart Lennuk > > Head of zoology > > Estonian Museum of Natural History > > +372 6603404, 56569916 > > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 Heath.Garner at ttu.edu Fri Dec 11 12:08:20 2020 From: Heath.Garner at ttu.edu (Garner, Heath) Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2020 17:08:20 +0000 Subject: [Nhcoll-l] Heat panels for controlling pests In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Derek, You are 100% right in that the adults can fly right by and out. To control that, we?ve found (again, anecdotally), that by adjusting the temperature to a certain point when opening and working with the colonies, they aren?t encouraged to fly. -Heath Heath J. Garner Curator of Collections Museum of Texas Tech University Natural Science Research Laboratory 3301 4th Street Lubbock, TX 79415 (806) 742-2486 From: Nhcoll-l On Behalf Of Derek Woller Sent: Friday, December 11, 2020 11:00 AM To: Lennart Lennuk Cc: nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu Subject: Re: [Nhcoll-l] Heat panels for controlling pests I find the heat panel concept to be an intriguing one, but also problematic in other ways. For example, the biggest flaw I see is that the linked article specifically mentions it's effective in keeping away crawling dermestids, but I assumed that adult dermestids primarily flew into collection areas and then mated, laid eggs, etc.. Fellow entomologists, primarily coleopterists, is this incorrect thinking on my part? Granted, this method should dissuade wandering dermestid larvae, so it should be helpful to some degree. Thanks for sharing! -- Derek A. Woller, Ph.D. USDA Supervisory Entomologist, Rangeland Grasshopper and Mormon Cricket Management Team Phoenix, AZ, U.S.A. Derek.A.Woller at usda.gov Check out my wife's Etsy store where you can buy all sorts of neat vinyl decals (and more), especially cool insect ones: https://www.etsy.com/shop/ArtisticNatureStudio Proud to be an explorer of the final biological frontier: entomology. On Fri, Dec 11, 2020 at 2:43 AM Lennart Lennuk > wrote: Hello! We are planning our new collection storage and I happened to read paper about Heat Panels for Controlling Crawling Insects in Storage Areas. Has anybody have experience with these heat panels? What else you suggest to use to keep crawling insects away from opened doors? Best regards! Lennart Lennuk Head of zoology Estonian Museum of Natural History +372 6603404, 56569916 _______________________________________________ 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 asilid at gmail.com Fri Dec 11 12:24:34 2020 From: asilid at gmail.com (Derek Woller) Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2020 10:24:34 -0700 Subject: [Nhcoll-l] Heat panels for controlling pests In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Thanks for confirming, Heath! You'd think I'd have known that 100%, but I've actually never seen a dermestid flying despite it making sense based on where I sometimes find them in collections. And I see where I got confused - I was thinking more broadly about dermestids infesting collections and not specifically ones from a colony since most entomology collections, perhaps obviously, don't keep such things around. :) On Fri, Dec 11, 2020 at 10:08 AM Garner, Heath wrote: > Derek, > > > > You are 100% right in that the adults can fly right by and out. To control > that, we?ve found (again, anecdotally), that by adjusting the temperature > to a certain point when opening and working with the colonies, they aren?t > encouraged to fly. > > > > -Heath > > > > Heath J. Garner > > Curator of Collections > > Museum of Texas Tech University > > Natural Science Research Laboratory > > 3301 4th Street > > Lubbock, TX 79415 > > (806) 742-2486 > > > > > > > > *From:* Nhcoll-l *On Behalf Of *Derek > Woller > *Sent:* Friday, December 11, 2020 11:00 AM > *To:* Lennart Lennuk > *Cc:* nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu > *Subject:* Re: [Nhcoll-l] Heat panels for controlling pests > > > > I find the heat panel concept to be an intriguing one, but also > problematic in other ways. For example, the biggest flaw I see is that the > linked article specifically mentions it's effective in keeping away > crawling dermestids, but I assumed that adult dermestids primarily flew > into collection areas and then mated, laid eggs, etc.. Fellow > entomologists, primarily coleopterists, is this incorrect thinking on my > part? Granted, this method should dissuade wandering dermestid larvae, so > it should be helpful to some degree. > > > > Thanks for sharing! > > -- > > *Derek A. Woller*, Ph.D. > > USDA Supervisory Entomologist, Rangeland Grasshopper and Mormon Cricket > Management Team > > Phoenix, AZ, U.S.A. > > Derek.A.Woller at usda.gov > > Check out my wife's Etsy store where you can buy all sorts of neat vinyl > decals (and more), especially cool insect ones: > https://www.etsy.com/shop/ArtisticNatureStudio > > > > Proud to be an explorer of the final biological frontier: entomology. > > > > On Fri, Dec 11, 2020 at 2:43 AM Lennart Lennuk < > Lennart.Lennuk at loodusmuuseum.ee> wrote: > > Hello! > > We are planning our new collection storage and I happened to read paper > about > > Heat Panels for Controlling Crawling Insects in Storage Areas > > . > > > > Has anybody have experience with these heat panels? > > What else you suggest to use to keep crawling insects away from opened > doors? > > > > Best regards! > > > > Lennart Lennuk > > Head of zoology > > Estonian Museum of Natural History > > +372 6603404, 56569916 > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Nhcoll-l mailing list > Nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu > https://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/nhcoll-l > > > _______________________________________________ > NHCOLL-L is brought to you by the Society for the Preservation of > Natural History Collections (SPNHC), an international society whose > mission is to improve the preservation, conservation and management of > natural history collections to ensure their continuing value to > society. 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URL: From Timothy.Brys at perotmuseum.org Fri Dec 11 12:38:05 2020 From: Timothy.Brys at perotmuseum.org (Timothy Brys) Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2020 17:38:05 +0000 Subject: [Nhcoll-l] Heat panels for controlling pests In-Reply-To: References: , Message-ID: I have only heard of them being used on floors to catch things crawling under the door, especially in a vestibule between a dermestid room and the rest of a building. Door sweeps help but I have heard of people using both just in case. Tim Brys - Perot Museum of Nature and Science Teaching Collection Coordinator Phone: 214.756.5840 timothy.brys at perotmuseum.org 2201 N. Field Street, Dallas Texas 75201 ________________________________ From: Nhcoll-l on behalf of Derek Woller Sent: Friday, December 11, 2020 11:00 AM To: Lennart Lennuk Cc: nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu Subject: Re: [Nhcoll-l] Heat panels for controlling pests I find the heat panel concept to be an intriguing one, but also problematic in other ways. For example, the biggest flaw I see is that the linked article specifically mentions it's effective in keeping away crawling dermestids, but I assumed that adult dermestids primarily flew into collection areas and then mated, laid eggs, etc.. Fellow entomologists, primarily coleopterists, is this incorrect thinking on my part? Granted, this method should dissuade wandering dermestid larvae, so it should be helpful to some degree. Thanks for sharing! -- Derek A. Woller, Ph.D. USDA Supervisory Entomologist, Rangeland Grasshopper and Mormon Cricket Management Team Phoenix, AZ, U.S.A. Derek.A.Woller at usda.gov Check out my wife's Etsy store where you can buy all sorts of neat vinyl decals (and more), especially cool insect ones: https://www.etsy.com/shop/ArtisticNatureStudio Proud to be an explorer of the final biological frontier: entomology. On Fri, Dec 11, 2020 at 2:43 AM Lennart Lennuk > wrote: Hello! We are planning our new collection storage and I happened to read paper about Heat Panels for Controlling Crawling Insects in Storage Areas. Has anybody have experience with these heat panels? What else you suggest to use to keep crawling insects away from opened doors? Best regards! Lennart Lennuk Head of zoology Estonian Museum of Natural History +372 6603404, 56569916 _______________________________________________ Nhcoll-l mailing list Nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu https://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/nhcoll-l _______________________________________________ NHCOLL-L is brought to you by the Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections (SPNHC), an international society whose mission is to improve the preservation, conservation and management of natural history collections to ensure their continuing value to society. See http://www.spnhc.org for membership information. 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If enough data is not collected from the initial survey, I will be conducting email interviews about registration and collections management professionals? experience with technical training and how this impacts your ability to perform daily job functions. If interested in being contacted for this portion of the study, add your email address to the last question of the survey. Personal identifying information will be disassociated from survey responses to protect privacy. If you have any questions regarding your rights as a research subject, please contact the Institutional Review Board (IRB02) office (University of Florida; PO Box 100173; Gainesville, FL 32610; (352) 392-0433 or irb2 at ufl.edu.) Brie Rosenbloom University of Florida, Gainesville Florida Brie.centauri at ufl.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From cassidyk at wsu.edu Fri Dec 11 18:18:27 2020 From: cassidyk at wsu.edu (Cassidy, Kelly Michela) Date: Fri, 11 Dec 2020 23:18:27 +0000 Subject: [Nhcoll-l] COVID vaccine storage in biological collections facilities In-Reply-To: <90B914FE-B01B-4EAE-8D21-A69BEAF8263B@ku.edu> References: <90B914FE-B01B-4EAE-8D21-A69BEAF8263B@ku.edu> Message-ID: I ran across this article in the Washington Post about the Pfizer vaccine. https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2020/11/17/covid-vaccines-what-you-need-to-know/?arc404=true I?m not sure you can read it without a subscription. In summary, trays of vaccine vials will be shipped in dry ice containers outfitted with a GPS thermometer. Each undiluted vial of vaccine contains 5 doses. The undiluted vials can be stored at normal refrigeration for 5 days. When thawed and diluted into 5 doses, the vaccine is good for 6 hours. There has been some talk on our campus about offering storage in the many ultracold freezers scattered around, but I wouldn?t think it would be necessary or desirable. At least for the near future, there will not be much need for long-term storage at ultralow temps. In most cases, I would think the manufacturer should only need to store it near the manufacturing facilities for the time it takes to box it up on dry ice and ship it out. The vaccine will be used up nearly as fast as it arrives at its destination. If the article is correct and the undiluted vials can last for 5 days at normal refrigeration, with the combination of dry ice shipping and normal refrigeration, you could get the vaccine virtually anywhere in the US without any need for an ultracold after it leaves the manufacturer. Ecommerce has created an amazing infrastructure for fast shipping. Shipping will be more of a problem in poorer countries, but I don?t think our university ultracolds will be much help there. Dr. Kelly M. Cassidy, Curator, Conner Museum School of Biological Sciences Box 644236 Washington State University Pullman, WA 99164-4236 509-335-3515 From: Nhcoll-l On Behalf Of Bentley, Andrew Charles Sent: Tuesday, December 8, 2020 11:50 AM To: nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu Subject: [Nhcoll-l] COVID vaccine storage in biological collections facilities Hi all I am interested in knowing if anyone has been contacted by federal, state or local authorities about the possibility of storing COVID vaccine in cryogenic facilities associated with biological collections. It is apparent that cold storage capacity may become an issue for the Pfizer vaccine and maybe others and that the collections community may be in a position to assist in this regard for the good of the communities we reside in. This may also be a great opportunity for us to also showcase the work that we do and the value of our collections to mitigating human health issues such as pandemics and the value of collections in general. The Biodiversity Collections Network (BCoN) along with AIBS and NSCA are potentially interested in being proactive about contacting these agencies to offer our support but it would be interesting to know in advance if contact has been made and by whom. Thanks Andy A : A : A : }<(((_?>.,.,.,.}<(((_?>.,.,.,.}<)))_?> V V V Andy Bentley Ichthyology Collection Manager University of Kansas Biodiversity Institute Dyche Hall 1345 Jayhawk Boulevard Lawrence, KS, 66045-7561 USA Tel: (785) 864-3863 Fax: (785) 864-5335 Email: abentley at ku.edu http://ichthyology.biodiversity.ku.edu A : A : A : }<(((_?>.,.,.,.}<(((_?>.,.,.,.}<)))_?> V V V -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Many thanks, Michael Hofmann Sent from my iPad From schindeld at si.edu Tue Dec 15 10:19:56 2020 From: schindeld at si.edu (Schindel, David) Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2020 15:19:56 +0000 Subject: [Nhcoll-l] Report on the Economic Analyses of Scientific Collections In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Dear Colleagues, I?m writing to let you know that an advisory report to the Interagency Working Group on Scientific Collections (IWGSC) has been released and is now available for download. ?Economic Analyses of Federal Scientific Collections: Methods for Documenting Costs and Benefits? was produced by an Economic Study Group of federal researchers, economists, collections professionals and budget/policy specialists. The following resources will introduce you to the report. Please feel free to download them and share them with colleagues. They are: * A brief recorded introduction to the report, and * A presentation slide deck. The Economic Study Group focused on collections owned, operated and/or supported by Federal agencies, and the methods presented in the report are accompanied by examples from Federal collections. Nevertheless, the need to document costs and benefits is shared by non-governmental collections in all countries. The methods described in the report may prove useful to many of them. If you are interested in receiving future notices about follow-on discussions and presentations associated with the report, please send an expression of interest by return email. Thanks for your interest in this work. I look forward to the discussions generated by the report. Best regards, happy holidays and stay safe, David David E. Schindel, Research Associate Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC schindeld at si.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From monotomidae at gmail.com Wed Dec 16 14:03:14 2020 From: monotomidae at gmail.com (Tommy McElrath) Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2020 13:03:14 -0600 Subject: [Nhcoll-l] Printing catalog numbers & QR codes multi-sided labels Message-ID: <3EF17C6D-BE35-4C25-8E7A-F44AC891CBFB@gmail.com> Apologies for cross-posting to those of you who are also part of the ECN-l listserv. Hello all, I?m working on upgrading the INHS Insect Collection to QR-code accompanied catalog numbers, but wanted to eliminate the issue of having the QR code face up or down when on the insect pin, by printing the catalog number and the QR code on both sides of the label. This would also help with printing labels for ethanol that often get flipped around inside a vial or jar. I know several other people now in the entomology community who are interested in this moving forward, I?m looking on solutions that have worked or are likely to work for people. Here are my requirements: - must be on archival entomology label paper (I know we?ve had a million discussions about this, but I?ve somewhat settled on the Buffington classic: 200g HP double sided gloss brochure paper) - must be able to print QR codes and a human-readable catalog number (e.g. INHS Insect Collection 1000258, see attached) at high-resolution onto a label only 4mm tall and 15cm wide (pinned & slide specimens are the limiting factor, I don?t expect as much problem printing catalog numbers for larger ethanol-vial catalog numbers) - must be able to have above QR codes and human-readable catalog numbers at high resolution onto BOTH sides with enough precision to be cut out without loss of data on either sides (this is the main issue IMO, as many other double-sided solutions do not have to contend with such small labels, and the errors that come with duplex printing) It seems like there are two options for paths that have worked for people: Print your own: Epson R2880 photo printer from an HP workstation, apparently somewhat finicky Thermal printing? I haven?t actually heard specifically that you can do duplex printing on one of these has anyone else gotten this to work on a different system? Order large quantities from barcode suppliers (following are options I?ve seen referenced in NHCOLL-L and ECN-L), but I have not checked it they can do double-sided yet Reliance Barcode Solutions (http://www.reliancebarcode.com/ ) Electronic Imaging Materials (https://barcode-labels.com/ ) (MCZ uses) Any others? I would appreciate any suggestions for good printers or suppliers capable of producing what we want. Sincerely, -- TOMMY MCELRATH Insect Collection Manager Illinois Natural History Survey Prairie Research Institute University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 1816 S. Oak Street | M/C 652 Champaign, IL 61820 217-300-5938 | tcm at illinois.edu insect.inhs.illinois.edu Under the Illinois Freedom of Information Act any written communication to or from university employees regarding university business is a public record and may be subject to public disclosure. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Andy A : A : A : }<(((_?>.,.,.,.}<(((_?>.,.,.,.}<)))_?> V V V Andy Bentley Ichthyology Collection Manager University of Kansas Biodiversity Institute Dyche Hall 1345 Jayhawk Boulevard Lawrence, KS, 66045-7561 USA Tel: (785) 864-3863 Fax: (785) 864-5335 Email: abentley at ku.edu http://ichthyology.biodiversity.ku.edu A : A : A : }<(((_?>.,.,.,.}<(((_?>.,.,.,.}<)))_?> V V V From: Nhcoll-l on behalf of Tommy McElrath Date: Wednesday, December 16, 2020 at 1:03 PM To: "nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu" Subject: [Nhcoll-l] Printing catalog numbers & QR codes multi-sided labels Apologies for cross-posting to those of you who are also part of the ECN-l listserv. Hello all, I?m working on upgrading the INHS Insect Collection to QR-code accompanied catalog numbers, but wanted to eliminate the issue of having the QR code face up or down when on the insect pin, by printing the catalog number and the QR code on both sides of the label. This would also help with printing labels for ethanol that often get flipped around inside a vial or jar. I know several other people now in the entomology community who are interested in this moving forward, I?m looking on solutions that have worked or are likely to work for people. Here are my requirements: - must be on archival entomology label paper (I know we?ve had a million discussions about this, but I?ve somewhat settled on the Buffington classic: 200g HP double sided gloss brochure paper) - must be able to print QR codes and a human-readable catalog number (e.g. INHS Insect Collection 1000258, see attached) at high-resolution onto a label only 4mm tall and 15cm wide (pinned & slide specimens are the limiting factor, I don?t expect as much problem printing catalog numbers for larger ethanol-vial catalog numbers) - must be able to have above QR codes and human-readable catalog numbers at high resolution onto BOTH sides with enough precision to be cut out without loss of data on either sides (this is the main issue IMO, as many other double-sided solutions do not have to contend with such small labels, and the errors that come with duplex printing) It seems like there are two options for paths that have worked for people: 1. Print your own: * Epson R2880 photo printer from an HP workstation, apparently somewhat finicky * Thermal printing? I haven?t actually heard specifically that you can do duplex printing on one of these * has anyone else gotten this to work on a different system? 1. Order large quantities from barcode suppliers (following are options I?ve seen referenced in NHCOLL-L and ECN-L), but I have not checked it they can do double-sided yet * Reliance Barcode Solutions (http://www.reliancebarcode.com/) * Electronic Imaging Materials (https://barcode-labels.com/) (MCZ uses) * Any others? I would appreciate any suggestions for good printers or suppliers capable of producing what we want. Sincerely, [cid:image001.png at 01D6D3AC.738A56D0] -- TOMMY MCELRATH Insect Collection Manager Illinois Natural History Survey Prairie Research Institute University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 1816 S. Oak Street | M/C 652 Champaign, IL 61820 217-300-5938 | tcm at illinois.edu insect.inhs.illinois.edu [facebook] [instagram] [https://webtools.illinois.edu/webservices/js/ds/signature_logo.png] Under the Illinois Freedom of Information Act any written communication to or from university employees regarding university business is a public record and may be subject to public disclosure. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Prondzinski Collections Manager, Natural History Museum The University of Alabama 356 Mary Harmon Bryant Box 870340 Tuscaloosa, AL 35487 Phone 205-348-5625 | Mobile 847-814-2048 mbprondzinski at ua.edu | http://amnh.ua.edu/ [The University of Alabama] [Facebook] From: Nhcoll-l On Behalf Of Tommy McElrath Sent: Wednesday, December 16, 2020 1:03 PM To: nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu Subject: [EXTERNAL] [Nhcoll-l] Printing catalog numbers & QR codes multi-sided labels Apologies for cross-posting to those of you who are also part of the ECN-l listserv. Hello all, I'm working on upgrading the INHS Insect Collection to QR-code accompanied catalog numbers, but wanted to eliminate the issue of having the QR code face up or down when on the insect pin, by printing the catalog number and the QR code on both sides of the label. This would also help with printing labels for ethanol that often get flipped around inside a vial or jar. I know several other people now in the entomology community who are interested in this moving forward, I'm looking on solutions that have worked or are likely to work for people. Here are my requirements: - must be on archival entomology label paper (I know we've had a million discussions about this, but I've somewhat settled on the Buffington classic: 200g HP double sided gloss brochure paper) - must be able to print QR codes and a human-readable catalog number (e.g. INHS Insect Collection 1000258, see attached) at high-resolution onto a label only 4mm tall and 15cm wide (pinned & slide specimens are the limiting factor, I don't expect as much problem printing catalog numbers for larger ethanol-vial catalog numbers) - must be able to have above QR codes and human-readable catalog numbers at high resolution onto BOTH sides with enough precision to be cut out without loss of data on either sides (this is the main issue IMO, as many other double-sided solutions do not have to contend with such small labels, and the errors that come with duplex printing) It seems like there are two options for paths that have worked for people: 1. Print your own: * Epson R2880 photo printer from an HP workstation, apparently somewhat finicky * Thermal printing? I haven't actually heard specifically that you can do duplex printing on one of these * has anyone else gotten this to work on a different system? 1. Order large quantities from barcode suppliers (following are options I've seen referenced in NHCOLL-L and ECN-L), but I have not checked it they can do double-sided yet * Reliance Barcode Solutions (http://www.reliancebarcode.com/) * Electronic Imaging Materials (https://barcode-labels.com/) (MCZ uses) * Any others? I would appreciate any suggestions for good printers or suppliers capable of producing what we want. Sincerely, [cid:image003.png at 01D6D3B7.97560040] -- TOMMY MCELRATH Insect Collection Manager Illinois Natural History Survey Prairie Research Institute University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 1816 S. 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In short, science has become a ?team sport.? Team science is increasingly common in the 21st century to develop convergent solutions to complex problems. 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. There is a real and present need to better prepare scientists for success in this new collaborative environment. The American Institute of Biological Sciences (AIBS) has responded to this call with a program for scientists, educators, and individuals who work with or participate in scientific teams. This intensive, two-day, interactive, professional development course was developed by scientists and other experts focusing on collaboration and teamwork to provide participants with the knowledge and skills required to become productive and effective members of scientific 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. *Who should participate?* - Research program/lab directors - Scientists and faculty engaged in collaborative projects - Researchers and faculty working at the interface of different fields and/or scientific approaches - Graduate students and postdocs looking to augment research planning and communication skills - Groups interested in planning successful research proposals and interdisciplinary research teams - Academic, government, and industry scientists 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. *Participants will develop and hone the skills needed to:* - Explain interdisciplinary team science and characteristics of effective scientific teams - Describe how teams work - Improve team communication and trust - Resolve individual and team conflicts - 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 Participants also have ongoing free access to a course folder packed with resources like course presentation slides, exercises to use with teams, templates, articles, and links to surveys and assessments, videos, websites, and other information. *We'll come to you* AIBS can bring the course to your university, department, lab, or research team. We can also customize the course based on your needs. As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, we now offer an online version of the workshop. If you are interested in organizing a workshop for your institution, please contact Scott Glisson at sglisson at aibs.org for more information. Additional information, including a course outline, is available at https://www.aibs.org/news/2020/200420-team-science.html. We look forward to hearing from you! Jyotsna Pandey, Ph.D. Public Policy Manager American Institute of Biological Sciences -- 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... 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If you have similar data for your museum, and a student looking for a project, consider adding to this nascent literature on interior ecosystems. -Derek -- +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Derek S. Sikes, Curator of Insects Professor of Entomology University of Alaska Museum University of Alaska Fairbanks 1962 Yukon Drive Fairbanks, AK 99775-6960 dssikes at alaska.edu phone: 907-474-6278 FAX: 907-474-5469 he/him/his University of Alaska Museum - search 400,276 digitized arthropod records http://arctos.database.museum/uam_ento_all +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Interested in Alaskan Entomology? Join the Alaska Entomological Society and / or sign up for the email listserv "Alaska Entomological Network" at http://www.akentsoc.org/contact_us -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From simmons.johne at gmail.com Thu Dec 17 22:31:11 2020 From: simmons.johne at gmail.com (John E Simmons) Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2020 22:31:11 -0500 Subject: [Nhcoll-l] Seasonal Selection 2020 Message-ID: Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of pandemics stays us from the completion of our annual poem... #31 in a never-ending series is below for your holiday pleasure. 2020 Vision (St. Entropy needs his checked) ?Twas the night before Christmas; down the museum halls, Not a creature was stirring?they were all on Zoom calls. The stockings were hung (after being steam cleaned, Due to concerns over COVID-19). My colleague in her faceshield, and I in my mask Maintained social distance?we each had our own flask. The museum was silent, as quiet as a stone, As I unwrapped our very own Curator DroneTM. (It flies through the hallways, all smiles and concerns, But costs only half what a curator earns. It points out all your errors, just like a consultant, But solves none of the problems?it?s more an insultant. Like curators, though, it can sleep in collections, And never falls prey to biologic infections.) I?d stocked up on supplies to manage this caper (And found dissertations make great toilet paper). Though it had taken a year, I read Defoe through, And I was no stranger to the plague of Camus. I?d bought canned beans and puzzles to get through bleak December. Was there anything else? Not that I could remember. But then, in a twinkling, with my heart almost cheery, I heard a strange sound, right upon midnight dreary. Away to the window I flew in a hurry, But something was wrong. Was it now time to worry? The moon on the breast of the new-fallen snow, Just like Fukushima, was starting to glow. When, what to my begoggled eyes should appear But a miniature sleigh led by eight virus-free deer? The driver, emerging from a sealed plastic canopy I knew in a moment was our own St. Entropy. I then heard a crash and a thud and a rapping And St. Entropy appeared with a swish and a tapping. His eyes, how they glittered; his smile, so serene; I hoped he was bringing the new viral vaccine. He was dressed all in Tyvek, from the mask to the boots, But this was no year for fur on the suits. Over his shoulder, he was manhandling a sack Which he proceeded to open and quickly unpack. ?I bring gifts!? the Saint shouted, ?Relief from your woes, No more you?ll be troubled with ravens and crows!? My heart slowly sank, my hopes now eroded? The Old Saint had muddled up corvid and COVID. The vaccine that he?d carried over mountain and loch Worked only for smart birds that flew in a flock. We had plenty of magpies, crows, ravens, and jays, But none of them live ones; all stored in arrays. We had to do something. It was urgent. What?s more, The museum had those volumes of forgotten lore. We looked up old research and programmed the Drone To leave our safe shelter and go out on its own. Away it flew, just like soft down from a thistle (Okay, maybe not, but it came back when we whistled). It went to the labs and retrieved new vaccines, And brought them in safely. Deus ex machines. The Saint, who had medical training (who knew?), Injected us all, and flu flew up the flue. Then, not laying a finger anywhere near his nose (Kids, don?t touch your face!), up the fume hood he rose. And I heard him exclaim, as I bolted the door, ?Merry Christmas! And COVID, for you?.Nevermore!? (Sally Shelton and John Simmons want everyone to stay well and safe, or else. Yeah, else.) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Stubbs-Lee, MA, CAPC Conservator / Restauratrice New Brunswick Museum 277 Douglas Avenue Saint John, New Brunswick E2K 1E5 Canada (506) 643-2341 From: Nhcoll-l [mailto:nhcoll-l-bounces at mailman.yale.edu] On Behalf Of John E Simmons Sent: Thursday, December 17, 2020 11:31 PM To: nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu Subject: [Nhcoll-l] Seasonal Selection 2020 Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of pandemics stays us from the completion of our annual poem... #31 in a never-ending series is below for your holiday pleasure. 2020 Vision (St. Entropy needs his checked) ?Twas the night before Christmas; down the museum halls, Not a creature was stirring?they were all on Zoom calls. The stockings were hung (after being steam cleaned, Due to concerns over COVID-19). My colleague in her faceshield, and I in my mask Maintained social distance?we each had our own flask. The museum was silent, as quiet as a stone, As I unwrapped our very own Curator DroneTM. (It flies through the hallways, all smiles and concerns, But costs only half what a curator earns. It points out all your errors, just like a consultant, But solves none of the problems?it?s more an insultant. Like curators, though, it can sleep in collections, And never falls prey to biologic infections.) I?d stocked up on supplies to manage this caper (And found dissertations make great toilet paper). Though it had taken a year, I read Defoe through, And I was no stranger to the plague of Camus. I?d bought canned beans and puzzles to get through bleak December. Was there anything else? Not that I could remember. But then, in a twinkling, with my heart almost cheery, I heard a strange sound, right upon midnight dreary. Away to the window I flew in a hurry, But something was wrong. Was it now time to worry? The moon on the breast of the new-fallen snow, Just like Fukushima, was starting to glow. When, what to my begoggled eyes should appear But a miniature sleigh led by eight virus-free deer? The driver, emerging from a sealed plastic canopy I knew in a moment was our own St. Entropy. I then heard a crash and a thud and a rapping And St. Entropy appeared with a swish and a tapping. His eyes, how they glittered; his smile, so serene; I hoped he was bringing the new viral vaccine. He was dressed all in Tyvek, from the mask to the boots, But this was no year for fur on the suits. Over his shoulder, he was manhandling a sack Which he proceeded to open and quickly unpack. ?I bring gifts!? the Saint shouted, ?Relief from your woes, No more you?ll be troubled with ravens and crows!? My heart slowly sank, my hopes now eroded? The Old Saint had muddled up corvid and COVID. The vaccine that he?d carried over mountain and loch Worked only for smart birds that flew in a flock. We had plenty of magpies, crows, ravens, and jays, But none of them live ones; all stored in arrays. We had to do something. It was urgent. What?s more, The museum had those volumes of forgotten lore. We looked up old research and programmed the Drone To leave our safe shelter and go out on its own. Away it flew, just like soft down from a thistle (Okay, maybe not, but it came back when we whistled). It went to the labs and retrieved new vaccines, And brought them in safely. Deus ex machines. The Saint, who had medical training (who knew?), Injected us all, and flu flew up the flue. Then, not laying a finger anywhere near his nose (Kids, don?t touch your face!), up the fume hood he rose. And I heard him exclaim, as I bolted the door, ?Merry Christmas! And COVID, for you?.Nevermore!? (Sally Shelton and John Simmons want everyone to stay well and safe, or else. Yeah, else.) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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On Thu, Dec 17, 2020 at 8:31 PM John E Simmons wrote: > Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of pandemics stays us from the > completion of our annual poem... #31 in a never-ending series is below for > your holiday pleasure. > > 2020 Vision > > (St. Entropy needs his checked) > > > > ?Twas the night before Christmas; down the museum halls, > > Not a creature was stirring?they were all on Zoom calls. > > The stockings were hung (after being steam cleaned, > > Due to concerns over COVID-19). > > My colleague in her faceshield, and I in my mask > > Maintained social distance?we each had our own flask. > > The museum was silent, as quiet as a stone, > > As I unwrapped our very own Curator DroneTM. > > (It flies through the hallways, all smiles and concerns, > > But costs only half what a curator earns. > > It points out all your errors, just like a consultant, > > But solves none of the problems?it?s more an insultant. > > Like curators, though, it can sleep in collections, > > And never falls prey to biologic infections.) > > I?d stocked up on supplies to manage this caper > > (And found dissertations make great toilet paper). > > Though it had taken a year, I read Defoe through, > > And I was no stranger to the plague of Camus. > > I?d bought canned beans and puzzles to get through bleak December. > > Was there anything else? Not that I could remember. > > But then, in a twinkling, with my heart almost cheery, > > I heard a strange sound, right upon midnight dreary. > > Away to the window I flew in a hurry, > > But something was wrong. Was it now time to worry? > > The moon on the breast of the new-fallen snow, > > Just like Fukushima, was starting to glow. > > When, what to my begoggled eyes should appear > > But a miniature sleigh led by eight virus-free deer? > > The driver, emerging from a sealed plastic canopy > > I knew in a moment was our own St. Entropy. > > I then heard a crash and a thud and a rapping > > And St. Entropy appeared with a swish and a tapping. > > His eyes, how they glittered; his smile, so serene; > > I hoped he was bringing the new viral vaccine. > > He was dressed all in Tyvek, from the mask to the boots, > > But this was no year for fur on the suits. > > Over his shoulder, he was manhandling a sack > > Which he proceeded to open and quickly unpack. > > ?I bring gifts!? the Saint shouted, ?Relief from your woes, > > No more you?ll be troubled with ravens and crows!? > > My heart slowly sank, my hopes now eroded? > > The Old Saint had muddled up corvid and COVID. > > The vaccine that he?d carried over mountain and loch > > Worked only for smart birds that flew in a flock. > > We had plenty of magpies, crows, ravens, and jays, > > But none of them live ones; all stored in arrays. > > We had to do something. It was urgent. What?s more, > > The museum had those volumes of forgotten lore. > > We looked up old research and programmed the Drone > > To leave our safe shelter and go out on its own. > > Away it flew, just like soft down from a thistle > > (Okay, maybe not, but it came back when we whistled). > > It went to the labs and retrieved new vaccines, > > And brought them in safely. Deus ex machines. > > The Saint, who had medical training (who knew?), > > Injected us all, and flu flew up the flue. > > Then, not laying a finger anywhere near his nose > > (Kids, don?t touch your face!), up the fume hood he rose. > > And I heard him exclaim, as I bolted the door, > > ?Merry Christmas! And COVID, for you?.Nevermore!? > > > > (Sally Shelton and John Simmons want everyone to stay well and safe, or > else. 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AIBS Public Policy Report AIBS Public Policy Report, Volume 21, Issue 26, December 21, 2020 * Lawmakers Reach Deal on COVID-19 Relief * Science Leaders Issue Clarion Call for Evidence-Based Policy * Biden Announces Key Nominees * Science Coalition Lays Out Priorities, Recommendations for Biden * Science Groups Write to Congress About FY 2021 Appropriations, Research Relief * AIBS Selects Winners of 2020 Faces of Biology Photo Contest * AIBS Examines Method to Identify Scientific Communities in Citation Graphs * Graduate Student Leaders Sought to Shape Science Policy * Bring the Enabling Interdisciplinary and Team Science Training to Your Institution * Short Takes * NSF?s Bioeconomy Distinguished Lecture Series * USFWS Finalizes Rule that Could Shrink Future Critical Habitats * NASEM Workshop: Biological Applications of Quantum Science * NSF Solicitation on Integrative Research in Biology * Save the Date: 5th Annual Digital Data in Biodiversity Research Conference * From the Federal Register ________________________________ The AIBS Public Policy Report is distributed broadly by email every two weeks. Any interested party may self-subscribe to receive these free reports by email. 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 Public Policy Manager, Jyotsna Pandey, at 202-628-1500 x 225. ________________________________ Lawmakers Reach Deal on COVID-19 Relief After months of unfruitful negotiations, congressional leaders reached an agreement on a $900 billion coronavirus stimulus package over the weekend. ?More help is on the way. Moments ago, in consultation with our committees, the four leaders of the Senate and House finalized an agreement. It would be another major rescue package for the American people,? said Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY). The aid package includes $20 billion for vaccine distribution; $325 billion in economic relief for small businesses, including $284 billion for the Paycheck Protection Program and an additional $20 billion for grants; $82 billion for schools; unemployment benefit extensions of $300 per week through March 2021; and up to $600 direct payments to individuals. The bill leaves out the two controversial measures that had drawn out relief negotiations?aid for state and local governments, which the Democrats had been pushing for, and liability protections for business, a GOP priority. The legislative text of the bill is expected to be released later today. Lawmakers have also reached a deal on a $1.4 trillion fiscal year 2021 appropriations omnibus. After a series of stopgap funding extensions over the last two weeks, the spending package is expected to pass before midnight today along with the stimulus. Science Leaders Issue Clarion Call for Evidence-Based Policy Since the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, US science leaders and others have expressed frustration with the lack of an informed and coherent federal response, a sentiment that echoes objections to the handling of other pressing issues, such as climate change. Writing in BioScience, an assemblage of the past presidents of the American Institute of Biological Sciences (AIBS) have issued an appeal for the reinvigoration of sound policy and governance through the careful consideration of sound science. This effort represents the culmination of decades of service on behalf of informed policymaking. ?AIBS has long stood for the use of science to promote informed decision-making based on the best available evidence. We have helped secure new resources for science and education, defeated antiscience initiatives, and promoted integrity in the use of scientific information to make research funding decisions,? write the authors. In addition, they highlight the importance of marshaling science to foster a better-informed public that makes decisions on the basis of vetted information rather than ?advice from whomever they trust at the time.? The AIBS past presidents note the success of such approaches in addressing past challenges. They describe the discovery of acid rain and its attribution to Midwestern coal-fired power plants, then follow the story to the passage of the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990 and the resultant reduction in environmental damage. Today, they argue, the stakes are high, but the best course of action is clear. Only by marshaling science for the benefit of society, they say, will we be able to ?limit the spread of COVID-19; the disastrous disruption of the world?s climate; the poisoning of global land, air, and water; and the extinction of a major portion of the biodiversity on which we ultimately depend for our survival.? Twenty-six scientific professional societies and organizations have formally endorsed the article. Listen to an audio collage of the past presidents of AIBS reading their statement. Biden Announces Key Nominees Over the past two weeks, President-Elect Joe Biden announced several nominations and appointments for key health and climate related positions in his Administration. On December 17, the Biden-Harris transition team announced the names of individuals who will lead their climate team. ?This brilliant, tested, trailblazing team will be ready on day one to confront the existential threat of climate change with a unified national response rooted in science and equity,? said Biden. * Representative Deb Haaland (D-NM) has been selected to serve as Secretary of the Interior. Haaland currently serves as Vice Chair of the House Committee on Natural Resources and Chairwoman of the House Natural Resources Subcommittee on National Parks, Forests and Public Lands. She served on Biden's climate engagement advisory council and is a co-sponsor of the Green New Deal. She also co-sponsored the American Public Lands and Waters Climate Solution Act (H.R. 5435), which would require the Department of the Interior and the U.S. Forest Service to reduce net greenhouse gas emissions from public lands. Prior to her work in Congress, Haaland worked as an entrepreneur and served as Chairwoman of the New Mexico Democratic Party. If confirmed by the Senate, she will become the first Native American ever to serve in a presidential Cabinet. Haaland received a B.A. from the University of New Mexico and earned a J.D. from the University of New Mexico School of Law. * Michael Regan will be nominated to serve as Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Regan currently serves as Secretary of the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality and previously worked at the EPA as an air quality expert under the Clinton and Bush Administrations. He also served as the Associate Vice President of the Environmental Defense Fund, a Washington, DC-based nonprofit environmental advocacy group. He earned his bachelor?s degree from North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University and has an MPA from George Washington University. Regan?s nomination requires Senate confirmation. * Biden has selected former two-term Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm (D) to lead the Department of Energy. Granholm previously served as the Attorney General of Michigan. She also served as an advisor to the Pew Charitable Trusts? Clean Energy Program. She is a professor at the University of California?s Goldman School of Public Policy and is a Senior Research Fellow at the Berkeley Center for Information Technology Research in the Interests of Society (CITRIS). Granholm received her BA from University of California, Berkeley and her JD from Harvard Law School. Her nomination also requires Senate confirmation. * Brenda Mallory, an environmental lawyer, will be nominated to serve as Chair of the White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ). She currently serves as Director of Regulatory Policy at the Southern Environmental Law Center, a non-profit environmental public interest law firm based in Charlottesville, Virginia. Mallory formerly worked as General Counsel to the CEQ and as Principal Deputy General Counsel at the EPA. Mallory is a graduate of Yale University and Columbia Law School. * Former EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy will be appointed to the position of National Climate Advisor and will lead the newly created White House Office of Domestic Climate Policy. She is the President and CEO of the Natural Resources Defense Council, a non-profit international environmental advocacy group. During her tenure leading the EPA, she was the driving force behind the Obama Administration?s Clean Power Plan, which established national standards for reducing carbon emissions from power plants. McCarthy was formerly a professor at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and currently serves as Chair of the Board of Directors of the Harvard Center for Climate, Health, and the Global Environment. She previously served as Commissioner of the Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection. She earned her BA from the University of Massachusetts at Boston and her MS from Tufts University. * Ali Zaidi, a leading climate expert, will be appointed as Deputy National Climate Advisor. Zaidi currently serves the state of New York as Deputy Secretary to the Governor for Energy and Environment and Chairman of Climate Policy and Finance. He previously served as Associate Director for Natural Resources, Energy, and Science for the Office of Management and Budget under the Obama Administration. He received his A.B. from Harvard University and his J.D. from Georgetown University. On December 10, the President-Elect announced that he will nominate former Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack to once again lead the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). Vilsack, a former two-term Governor of Iowa, led the USDA for eight years under President Obama. During his tenure, he oversaw initiatives to increase rural investments, improve the nation?s school meal system, and increase food safety standards. He also served as Chair of the White House Rural Council. Vilsack previously served as Mayor of Mount Pleasant, Iowa, and in the Iowa State Senate. He received his BA from Hamilton College and his JD from Albany Law School. Biden also announced several key members of his public health team, including: * The Attorney General of California, Xavier Becerra, has been chosen to serve as the Secretary of Health and Human Services. Becerra is a proponent of expanding access to health care previously served twelve terms as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives. He received his BA from Stanford and his JD from Stanford Law School. * Dr. Vivek Murthy, a physician who formerly served as the 19th Surgeon General of the United States, has been tapped to return as Surgeon General. Murthy currently also serves as co-chair of Biden?s COVID-19 transition Advisory Board. He received his BA from Harvard University, his MBA from the Yale School of Management, and his MD from the Yale School of Medicine. * Dr. Rochelle Walensky, Chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases at Massachusetts General Hospital and Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, will be nominated to serve as Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Walensky, an experienced HIV researcher and a practicing infectious diseases physician, received her BA from Washington University in St. Louis, her MD from the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, and her MPH from the Harvard School of Public Health. * Dr. Marcella Nunez-Smith, an expert on health care disparities, will serve as the COVID-19 Equity Task Force Chair. Nunez-Smith currently serves as Associate Professor of Medicine, Public Health, and Management and Associate Dean for Health Equity Research at the Yale School of Medicine. She received her BA from Swarthmore College, her MD from Jefferson Medical College, and her master of health science from Yale University. * Dr. Anthony Fauci, the nation?s leading infectious disease expert, has been tapped to serve as Chief Medical Adviser to the President on COVID-19. Fauci has served as Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases since 1984 and has advised the last six U.S. presidents on a broad range of health and medical issues. He was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President George W. Bush in 2008. Fauci received his BA from the College of the Holy Cross, and his MD from Cornell University. ?This trusted and accomplished team of leaders will bring the highest level of integrity, scientific rigor, and crisis-management experience to one of the toughest challenges America has ever faced?getting the pandemic under control so that the American people can get back to work, back to their lives, and back to their loved ones,? stated President-Elect Biden. Science Coalition Lays Out Priorities, Recommendations for Biden The Coalition for National Science Funding (CNSF)?an alliance of more than 130 professional organizations, scientific societies, universities, and businesses that advocate for the National Science Foundation (NSF)?has submitted a number of science policy priorities and key personnel recommendations to President-elect Joe Biden and his transition team. Policy recommendations from CNSF, of which AIBS is a member, include: ensuring robust and sustainable federal funding for scientific research; providing emergency relief funding for federal science agencies, including NSF; committing to the health of existing major research facilities; increasing funding for infrastructure research and workforce development; prioritizing racial equity and increasing participation of traditionally underrepresented groups in science; and ensuring NSF plays a robust role in the Administration?s climate change agenda. The coalition urges President-elect Biden to appoint a science advisor by January 2021 and nominate that person to serve as Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. The group also calls on the Administration to expeditiously nominate an individual for the Deputy Director position at NSF, which has remained vacant since 2013. Science Groups Write to Congress About FY 2021 Appropriations, Research Relief AIBS joined a group of more than 170 organizations and institutions across all disciplines and areas of science and research in sending a letter to Congressional leadership urging swift action to complete work on fiscal year (FY) 2021 appropriations bills and provide emergency research relief funding to mitigate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. ?Federal investments across more than two dozen defense and nondefense agencies provide the lifeblood for research, discovery, innovation and development in the United States, driving one of the most powerful engines for American prosperity and global leadership,? the groups note. ?Failing to complete work on the appropriations bills that fuel this engine in a timely manner impedes our ability to not only respond and recover from COVID-19, but also to address persistent and fundamental challenges such as chronic and infectious diseases, food and energy security, national security and natural disasters?all of which require advancements in science and technology fostered through federal investments.? Read the letter. AIBS Selects Winners of 2020 Faces of Biology Photo Contest Three winners have been selected in the 2020 Faces of Biology Photo Contest, sponsored by the American Institute of Biological Sciences (AIBS). ?Art and science are inextricably linked to effective communication,? said Scott Glisson, CEO of AIBS. ?This contest provides a forum for expression, inspiration, and technical skill. The creativity involved is magnificent.? The AIBS Faces of Biology contest showcases biological research in its many forms and settings. The photos are used to help the public and policymakers better understand the value of biological research and education. Carlos Ruiz, a graduate student at Florida International University, won first place; Nicholas Freymueller, a master?s student at the University of New Mexico, won second place; and Mike Hamilton, emeritus director at the University of California Blue Oak Ranch Reserve, won third place. View the winning entries. A forthcoming issue of the journal BioScience will feature the first-place photograph on the cover and the second- and third-place photos in an article. All of the winners receive a one-year subscription to BioScience. Carlos Ruiz will also receive $250. AIBS Examines Method to Identify Scientific Communities in Citation Graphs AIBS, in collaboration with the NET ESolutions Corporation, published findings from an analysis of citations of scientific articles which introduced a meta-method for large-scale discovery of scientific communities of practice. The idea of ?Invisible Colleges,? self-assembled groups of scientists with common scientific interests, has been around for several hundred years, yet the study of the behavior of such groups has been limited to small samples and case studies. In this work, a new bibliometric method is presented for identifying such groups. This method was validated with expert review of the thematic relatedness of clusters of articles. This study is a first step in designing and testing a meta-method that could enable large-scale identification of communities of different sizes and types, based on different search criteria, data collection technique, choice of clustering algorithm, adjustable parameters, and cluster selection criteria. This method could be used in identifying expertise and/or conflicts of interest for peer review. The manuscript, entitled ?Finding Scientific Communities in Citation Graphs: Articles and Authors? was just published online in the Quantitative Science Studies journal and is open-access and available at https://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/qss_a_00095. Graduate Student Leaders Sought to Shape Science Policy Are you a science graduate student looking to make a difference in science policy and funding? The American Institute of Biological Sciences (AIBS) is now accepting applications for the 2021 AIBS Emerging Public Policy Leadership Award. This award recognizes graduate students in the biological sciences who are demonstrating an interest and aptitude for working at the intersection of science and policy. Recipients of the AIBS Emerging Public Policy Leadership Award receive: * A trip to Washington, DC, to participate in the AIBS Congressional Visits Day, an annual event where scientists meet with lawmakers to advocate for federal investment in the biological sciences, with a primary focus on the National Science Foundation. Domestic travel and hotel expenses are paid for the winners. As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, winners will participate in a virtual advocacy event in the spring of 2021 (likely in April) and will also have the opportunity to attend a future in-person event. * Online policy and communications training, including information on the legislative process and trends in federal science funding, and how to engage with policymakers and the news media. * Meetings with congressional policymakers to discuss the importance of federal investment in the biological sciences. * A one-year subscription to the journal BioScience and a copy of ?Communicating Science: A Primer for Working with the Media.? The 2021 award is open to U.S. citizens and U.S. permanent residents enrolled in a graduate degree program in the biological sciences, science education, or a closely allied field. Applicants should have a demonstrated interest in and commitment to science policy and/or science education policy. Prior recipients, including Honorable Mentions, are not eligible for the award. Applications are due by 05:00 PM Eastern Time on January 15, 2021. The application guidelines can be downloaded at https://www.aibs.org/news/2020/201111-call-for-eppla-2021.html#subheader. Bring the Enabling Interdisciplinary and Team Science Training to Your Institution 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.? Team science is increasingly common in the 21st century to develop convergent solutions to complex problems. 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. There is a real and present need to better prepare scientists for success in this new collaborative environment. The American Institute of Biological Sciences (AIBS) has responded to this call with a program for scientists, educators, and individuals who work with or participate in scientific teams. This intensive, two-day, interactive, professional development course was developed by scientists and other experts focusing on collaboration and teamwork to provide participants with the knowledge and skills required to become productive and effective members of scientific 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. The Enabling Interdisciplinary and Team Science 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. As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, we now offer an online version of the workshop. We can also customize the course and bring it to your university, department, lab, or research team. If you are interested in organizing a workshop for your institution, please contact Scott Glisson at sglisson at aibs.org for more information. Additional information, including a course outline, is available at https://www.aibs.org/news/2020/200420-team-science.html. Short Takes * The National Science Foundation?s (NSF) Bioeconomy Coordinating Committee and NSF Directorates are holding a monthly bioeconomy lecture series featuring individual speakers and panels representing the science and technology funded by a Directorate. Speakers will present on research and broader impacts in areas associated with biotechnology and the bioeconomy that are of interest broadly across the foundation. The next virtual session, Bio-inspired and Sustainable Design: Towards Functional Materials, will take place on January 14, 2020 at 11:00 AM Eastern. Learn more. * The United States Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) has finalized new regulations that could make it easier to exclude areas from being designated as critical habitats. Under the Endangered Species Act, critical habitats are considered essential for the conservation of threatened and endangered species. The new critical habitat rule has been adopted as it was proposed in September and goes into effect on January 19, 2021. ?The regulation states that [FWS] shall exclude any area where the benefits of exclusion outweigh those of inclusion,? stated USFWS. ?Benefits of exclusion may include avoidance of economic, national security, and other relevant impacts while benefits of inclusion may include ecological or conservation benefits.? The new rule provides categories of ?other relevant impacts? that may be considered, including public health and safety, community interests, and the environment. USFWS Director Aurelia Skipwith asserted that ?in addition to improving consistency and predictability for stakeholders, these regulations will stimulate more effective conservation on the ground.? * The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) is organizing a workshop on the research and development needs to advance biological applications of quantum-enabled sensing and imaging technologies. The workshop is intended to bring together experts working on state-of-the-art quantum-enabled technologies with scientists who are interested in applying these technologies to biological systems. The event will take place on March 8-10, 2021 and is open to the public. Register here: https://quantum-and-bio.heysummit.com/?mc_cid=e89932f0b4&mc_eid=cfc3938e72 * A new solicitation has been issued by the NSF Directorate for Biological Sciences (BIO) on Integrative Research in Biology (IntBIO). The IntBIO program replaces the Rules of Life track, which was previously a part of the core program solicitations in the four Divisions of BIO. The new program refines and expands the former submission track. The solicitation invites collaborative proposals that tackle bold questions in biology and require an integrated approach. The collaborative interdisciplinary teams should also be fully engaged in the training and education of the next generation of scientists who will be future leaders in integrative research. * The 5th annual Digital Data in Biodiversity Research conference will be held virtually on June 7-9, 2021. The 2021 event will be hosted by the Florida Museum of Natural History in co-sponsorship with iDigBio and the Natural Science Collections Alliance (NSCA). Registration will open on February 1. Keep up with the conference as it is planned at: https://www.idigbio.org/content/digital-data-2021-digital-data%E2%80%99s-grand-challenge-expanding-discovery-across-multiple-domains or at the conference wiki page: https://www.idigbio.org/wiki/index.php/5th_Annual_Digital_Data_Conference,_Florida_Museum_of_Natural_History. From the Federal Register The following items appeared in the Federal Register from December 7 to 18, 2020. 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Representatives from the NASEM panel that authored the report, *Biological Collections: Ensuring Critical Research and Education for the 21st Century*, and the *Extended Specimen Network* writing committee will discuss and leverage the common themes and associated recommendations from these reports to kick off discussions on the short-, medium-, and long-term implementation plan goals and identify the path forward. *Forward-Thinking Discussion on Biological Collections * Date: Thursday, January 14, 2021 Time: 2:00-4:00 PM Eastern Time (includes a 15 minute break) Location: Online via Zoom Registration is free, but required. For more information about the program and panelists and to register for the webinar, please visit: https://bcon.aibs.org/2020/12/21/webinar-forward-thinking-discussion-on-biological-collections/ . The Biological Collections community around the world is incredibly diverse and all voices need to be heard. We rely on you to disseminate this announcement far and wide to groups and individuals who should be a part of this conversation. Jyotsna Pandey, Ph.D. Public Policy Manager American Institute of Biological Sciences -- 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 sugal at ptd.net Wed Dec 23 12:38:15 2020 From: sugal at ptd.net (Susan Gallagher) Date: Wed, 23 Dec 2020 12:38:15 -0500 Subject: [Nhcoll-l] Phorids in dermestid colony Message-ID: <5FE38087.8010308@ptd.net> Hello List, Longtime lurker here, with a phorid fly infestation in one of my dermestid beetle colonies. I thought I'd gotten them all out when I removed some specimens that weren't quite as dry as normal. Those specimens had adult flies and larvae. I moved everything to a new tank and don't see any more larvae, but some adults are still in there scuttling around. Is there a chance the colony is salvageable, or should I just get rid of it? Thanks. Sue -- ******************************************* Susan Gallagher, Chief Naturalist Carbon County Environmental Education Center 151 East White Bear Drive Summit Hill, Pennsylvania 18250 (570) 645-8597 sugal at ptd.net www.carboneec.org From tlabedz1 at unl.edu Wed Dec 23 12:53:45 2020 From: tlabedz1 at unl.edu (Thomas Labedz) Date: Wed, 23 Dec 2020 17:53:45 +0000 Subject: [Nhcoll-l] Phorids in dermestid colony In-Reply-To: <5FE38087.8010308@ptd.net> References: <5FE38087.8010308@ptd.net> Message-ID: I've occasional had these fly problems too. They prefer damp to very damp conditions. I'd recommend pulling the carcasses being cleaned from the dermestid colony and freezing them to kill fly larva. Once frozen for a few weeks remove the carcass from the freezer, let thaw, and let dry before resubmitting it to the dermestid colony. In the meantime keep your dermestid colony dry. Do not add water or carcasses that are not totally dry to the colony. I will sometimes use very dry, jerky-like strips of excess meat trimmed from larger carcasses and dried. In time the flies will find the colony uninhabitable and die out. If the colony substrate is damp it might be a good idea to restart the colony with drier conditions to prevent mold or fungal growth. Good luck! Thomas Labedz Thomas E. Labedz, Collections Manager Division of Zoology and Division of Botany University of Nebraska State Museum Morrill Hall 645 North 14th Street Lincoln, NE 68588-0338 -----Original Message----- From: Nhcoll-l On Behalf Of Susan Gallagher Sent: Wednesday, December 23, 2020 11:38 AM To: nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu Subject: [Nhcoll-l] Phorids in dermestid colony Non-NU Email Hello List, Longtime lurker here, with a phorid fly infestation in one of my dermestid beetle colonies. I thought I'd gotten them all out when I removed some specimens that weren't quite as dry as normal. Those specimens had adult flies and larvae. I moved everything to a new tank and don't see any more larvae, but some adults are still in there scuttling around. Is there a chance the colony is salvageable, or should I just get rid of it? Thanks. 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Let me know how you get on with making these, and any modifications or improvements you come up with! https://www.researchgate.net/publication/347950720_A_simple_system_for_holding_mollusk_shells_and_other_small_objects_for_photography DOI: 10.13140/RG.2.2.25585.92000 Paul Callomon MSc Collection Manager, Malacology and General Invertebrates ________________________________ Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University, Philadelphia 1900 Benjamin Franklin Parkway, Philadelphia PA 19103-1195, USA prc44 at drexel.edu Tel 215-405-5096 - Fax 215-299-1170 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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As a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, winners will participate in a virtual advocacy event in the spring of 2021 (likely in April) and will also have the opportunity to attend a future in-person event. - *Online policy and communications training*, including information on the legislative process and trends in federal science funding, and how to engage with policymakers and the news media. - *Meetings with congressional policymakers* to discuss the importance of federal investment in the biological sciences. - *A one-year subscription to the journal BioScience* and a copy of ?Communicating Science: A Primer for Working with the Media.? The 2021 award is open to U.S. citizens and U.S. permanent residents enrolled in a graduate degree program in the biological sciences, science education, or a closely allied field. Applicants should have a demonstrated interest in and commitment to science policy and/or science education policy. 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Thank you for the Holiday cheer! > > On Thu, Dec 17, 2020 at 8:31 PM John E Simmons > wrote: > Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of pandemics stays us from the completion of our annual poem... #31 in a never-ending series is below for your holiday pleasure. > > 2020 Vision > (St. Entropy needs his checked) > > ?Twas the night before Christmas; down the museum halls, > Not a creature was stirring?they were all on Zoom calls. > The stockings were hung (after being steam cleaned, > Due to concerns over COVID-19). > My colleague in her faceshield, and I in my mask > Maintained social distance?we each had our own flask. > The museum was silent, as quiet as a stone, > As I unwrapped our very own Curator DroneTM. > (It flies through the hallways, all smiles and concerns, > But costs only half what a curator earns. > It points out all your errors, just like a consultant, > But solves none of the problems?it?s more an insultant. > Like curators, though, it can sleep in collections, > And never falls prey to biologic infections.) > I?d stocked up on supplies to manage this caper > (And found dissertations make great toilet paper). > Though it had taken a year, I read Defoe through, > And I was no stranger to the plague of Camus. > I?d bought canned beans and puzzles to get through bleak December. > Was there anything else? Not that I could remember. > But then, in a twinkling, with my heart almost cheery, > I heard a strange sound, right upon midnight dreary. > Away to the window I flew in a hurry, > But something was wrong. Was it now time to worry? > The moon on the breast of the new-fallen snow, > Just like Fukushima, was starting to glow. > When, what to my begoggled eyes should appear > But a miniature sleigh led by eight virus-free deer? > The driver, emerging from a sealed plastic canopy > I knew in a moment was our own St. Entropy. > I then heard a crash and a thud and a rapping > And St. Entropy appeared with a swish and a tapping. > His eyes, how they glittered; his smile, so serene; > I hoped he was bringing the new viral vaccine. > He was dressed all in Tyvek, from the mask to the boots, > But this was no year for fur on the suits. > Over his shoulder, he was manhandling a sack > Which he proceeded to open and quickly unpack. > ?I bring gifts!? the Saint shouted, ?Relief from your woes, > No more you?ll be troubled with ravens and crows!? > My heart slowly sank, my hopes now eroded? > The Old Saint had muddled up corvid and COVID. > The vaccine that he?d carried over mountain and loch > Worked only for smart birds that flew in a flock. > We had plenty of magpies, crows, ravens, and jays, > But none of them live ones; all stored in arrays. > We had to do something. It was urgent. What?s more, > The museum had those volumes of forgotten lore. > We looked up old research and programmed the Drone > To leave our safe shelter and go out on its own. > Away it flew, just like soft down from a thistle > (Okay, maybe not, but it came back when we whistled). > It went to the labs and retrieved new vaccines, > And brought them in safely. Deus ex machines. > The Saint, who had medical training (who knew?), > Injected us all, and flu flew up the flue. > Then, not laying a finger anywhere near his nose > (Kids, don?t touch your face!), up the fume hood he rose. > And I heard him exclaim, as I bolted the door, > ?Merry Christmas! And COVID, for you?.Nevermore!? > > (Sally Shelton and John Simmons want everyone to stay well and safe, or else. 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Submit today!* *Use the button above or copy and paste the following into your browser to access our submission portal:* *https://www.eventsquid.com/event/11514 * AAMG?s 2021 conference will explore how academic museums and galleries are fostering wellness and embracing new understandings of equity in the midst of one of the most challenging social, political, and economic periods in American history. This year?s conference aims to find new paths and solutions to a more just and empathetic world. We invite proposals that address these questions: How are museums and galleries becoming community hubs where emotional, psychological, and identity-centered fairness and solace can be explored, created, debated, and located? How have DEAI initiatives challenged or disrupted your institutional structure and internal practices, including collections, exhibitions, storytelling and teaching, and management? How do academic museums and galleries survive and thrive in this new higher education reality? *Possible Proposal Topics:* - Embedding wellness across the institution - Adapting and changing priorities for the better to be more equitable - Social emotional learning as a foundation for the educational resources - Taking the wellness temperature of museums ? are we healthy? - Helping our parent institutions address racial and gender justice practices and initiatives - Creating effective political discourse in our communities - Expanding audience when embracing health and wellness-oriented programs and resources - Overcoming the impact of inequities that have long existed in higher education and society on museums/galleries - Moving our staff, colleagues, students, and audiences from a focus on self-care to an emphasis on community-care *Types of Proposals Requested* - SESSION - PANEL DISCUSSION - BOLD IDEAS - ROUNDTABLE - POSTER SESSION *2021 Conference Proposal Information & Guidelines* SESSION Four presenters speak for fifteen minutes each on a focused topic. There should be time left at the end for Q&A (60 min. presentations/30 min. Q&A). Proposals must include information on the four presenters, one person serving as chair of the session. The chair can also be a presenter or serve as moderator/chair. Sessions are 1.5 hours. Items Needed for your Submission 1. Title (Maximum of 10 words) 2. Bio 3. Headshot 4. Description (Maximum of 75 words) If the session is accepted, this will be used in the Program*. 5. Abstract (Maximum of 250 words) Include why your session is innovative and relevant. Describe (up to three) objectives and potential learning outcomes of the proposal. Tell us why your topic and the proposed presentations within this session relate to the 2021 theme of Wellness & Equity? 6. Intended Audience/Track. Check all that apply (Student & Emerging Professional, Leadership & Management, Education & Community, Collections, Curatorial) 7. Presenters (200 words). List presenters you have approached to participate in this session and provide a brief description of the topic or contribution they will make to this session. PANEL DISCUSSION Three-four speakers will engage in a moderated discussion. Panel discussions, including Q&A, will be 1.5 hours. (max. 30 min. presentations/60 min. discussion and Q&A). Panels are 1.5 hours. Items Needed for your Submission 1. Title (Maximum of 10 words) 2. Bio 3. Headshot 4. Abstract (Maximum of 75 words) If the panel is accepted, this will be used in the Program*. 5. Description (Maximum of 300 words) Include why your panel is innovative and relevant. Tell us how your topic relates to the 2021 theme of Wellness & Equity. 6. Intended Audience/Track. Check all that apply (Student & Emerging Professional, Leadership & Management, Education & Community, Collections, Curatorial) 7. Presenters (200 words). List presenters you have approached to participate in this session and provide a brief description of the contribution they will make to this panel. BOLD IDEAS These single presentations are 5-8 minutes each and will be grouped together, similar to a pecha kucha. These Bold Ideas are intended to showcase everything from the variety of work that you do (case studies) to the big challenges and solutions needed in the field, all with a focus on wellness and equity. Items Needed for your Submission 1. Title (Maximum of 10 words) 2. Bio 3. Headshot 4. Description (Maximum of 75 words) If the session is accepted, this will be used in the Program*. 5. Abstract (Maximum of 250 words) Describe how your bold idea/story relates to the 2021 theme of Wellness & Equity? ROUNDTABLE FACILITATOR As the Roundtable Facilitator you will offer a 10-15 minute overview about a topic and your personal or professional connection to it, and then facilitate a conversation with those present. Items Needed for your Submission 1. Title (Maximum of 10 words) 2. Bio 3. Headshot 4. Description (Maximum of 75 words) If the session is accepted, this will be used in the Program*. 5. Abstract (Maximum of 250 words) Provide an overview for your discussion and why your skills, experiences, and interests will contribute to your success as a discussion leader, particularly as this relates to the conference theme. 6. Co-moderator/s. (Maximum 100 words) If you plan to have others co-moderate, please list them here and a brief description of how their skills and experience will contribute to the topic. POSTER SESSION Share your research, demonstrating a connection to the conference theme. These poster sessions offer an opportunity to share 5-10 minute presentations about recent research and discuss the research with attendees. These will be held live during the conference. Items Needed for your Submission 1. Title (Maximum of 10 words) 2. Bio 3. Headshot 4. 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