From emily.braker at colorado.edu Mon Nov 1 11:26:57 2021 From: emily.braker at colorado.edu (Emily M. Braker) Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2021 15:26:57 +0000 Subject: [Nhcoll-l] Arctos Webinar (Nov. 9) - University of Alaska Herbarium: Documenting Alaska's flora at the crossroads of Beringia Message-ID: Please join us on November 9 for a webinar that highlights Arctos tools developed to support the NSF-funded Flora of Alaska project at the University of Alaska Museum's Herbarium (ALA). Title: Documenting Alaska's flora at the crossroads of Beringia Presenters: Stefanie Ickert-Bond, Stephanie Zaborac-Reed, and Campbell Webb Abstract: The unique position of Alaska at the crossroads of Beringia has prompted changes and accommodations of special features of our specimens in the Arctos database as well as features from our new Flora of Alaska project using taxonomic concepts. These include but are not restricted to Russian language labels that are translated but are also saved in Cyrillic, sharing of taxon concept mappings, and historical maps based on the major floristic works for Alaska - Hult?n's Flora of Alaska. We will also demonstrate using Arctos for teaching systematic botany online in an innovative way. Arctos is a powerful and flexible tool with great potential for enhancing research. We will also demonstrate Arctos' new API (Application Programming Interface). When: Tuesday, November 9, 2021 at 3:00pm ET/1:00pm MT (19:00 UTC) Where: https://cuboulder.zoom.us/j/94312392735 (passcode: arctos) Can't Make It?: This webinar will be recorded and made available on the Arctos Youtube station: 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 http://www.colorado.edu/cumuseum/research-collections/vertebrates -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From michael.denslow at gmail.com Mon Nov 1 12:49:42 2021 From: michael.denslow at gmail.com (Michael Denslow) Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2021 10:49:42 -0600 Subject: [Nhcoll-l] =?utf-8?q?New_iDigBio_Digitization_Academy_Course=3A_?= =?utf-8?q?Public_Participation_in_Digitization_of_Biodiversity_Col?= =?utf-8?b?bGVjdGlvbnMgKERlYyA24oCTOSk=?= Message-ID: We are excited to introduce the next professional development opportunity offered by the iDigBio Digitization Academy: Public Participation in Digitization of Biodiversity Collections. This free, online course is focused on public participation in science as it relates to digitization and research using biodiversity specimens. Public participation in science is sometimes referred to as citizen science, community science, or crowdsourcing. The aim of the course is to empower participants with the knowledge and skills to successfully (1) identify and address the opportunities and additional complexity that public engagement introduces to a digitization project at a biodiversity collection, including ethical and legal factors, (2) design a public engagement in digitization project, including budgeting and risk management, (3) identify, evaluate, and use tools and online platforms in a public engagement in digitization workflow, (4) identify and implement quality management strategies, (5) identify common participant motivations and strategies to recruit and engage participants in a project, including events, games, and online forums, (6) and perform evaluation of a public engagement in digitization project. This course is targeted at those already associated with a biodiversity collection, such as student technicians, collections managers, curators, affiliated educators, or administrators. The course will be relevant to a diversity of collection types. Participants do not need to have prior knowledge of public participation in science, only a desire to use it as part of their future research or digitization activities. The course will occur from December 6?9 (Monday?Thursday) from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. and 2 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. ET. Participants can expect to spend three hours per day in synchronous meetings and as much as two additional hours of preparation time per day outside of class. So this is about a 20-hour time commitment. We expect to cap the course at 20 participants and will make admission decisions based on the relevance of the training to the future of the applicant?s organization and a desire to engage a diversity of perspectives. The course will be delivered in English. Those interested in participating from outside the US are welcome to apply. You may apply to participate in this course at: https://forms.gle/avUwqtCDTcU9i5DU6 Applications are due by 8 a.m. ET on Monday, November 15. Admissions decisions will be made by November 17. Should you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact Michael Denslow at michael.denslow at gmail.com. This course is brought to you by iDigBio (https://www.idigbio.org) and will be taught by Michael Denslow, Erica Krimmel, and Austin Mast. Please consider sharing this announcement with others who might benefit from it. Thanks! With best regards, Austin Mast, Erica Krimmel, and Michael Denslow -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Visit the series page: io.aibs.org/nagoya *(1) Enabling Large-Scale Ecological Research with Open Genetic Data* Macrosystems Biology and Long-Term Ecological Research integrates the specimens and data collected at individual sites to allow a robust understanding of the structure and functions of ecosystems over extended spatial and temporal scales. Join us for this workshop to recognize both the value and challenges of integrating open genetic sequence data with this long-term ecological research to unlock opportunities for predictive modeling of habitats and ecosystems. *Date: *November 10, 2021 *Time: *12:00 - 2:00 PM EST or 5:00 - 7:00 PM UTC (This program will be recorded) *Hosted by:* American Society for Microbiology & Ecological Society of America *Learn more and register at*: https://www.aibs.org/news/2021/211026-nagoya-workshop-four.html#subheader *(2) More than Potatoes: Collaboration for Collecting and Building the Tree of Life* Leandro and Sandy have collaborated for over a decade to understand the evolution and diversity of the nightshade family (Solanaceae). Join them in a conversation about what it takes to make collections and phylogenetic studies have the greatest societal impacts. *Date: *November 15, 2021 *Time: *9:00 -11:00 AM EST or 2:00 - 4:00 PM UTC (This program will be recorded) *Hosted by:* American Society of Plant Taxonomists & Botanical Society of America *Learn more and register at:* https://www.aibs.org/news/2021/211020-nagoya-workshop-three.html#subheader *(3) International Genomic Research Coordination to Preserve Big Cats* Drs. Ryder, Luo, and colleagues have collaborated on projects to understand the evolution and genetic diversity in feline species around the world. Join us in a discussion on their efforts from frozen zoos to genebanks and international coordination activism to conserve tigers, panthers, and other megafauna. *Date: *November 18, 2021 *Time: *9:00 - 11:00 AM EST or 2:00 - 4:00 PM UTC (This program will be recorded) *Hosted by:* American Genetic Association *Learn more and register at:* https://www.aibs.org/news/2021/211028-nagoya-workshop-five.html#subheader ___________________ Jyotsna Pandey, Ph.D. Director of Public Policy American Institute of Biological Sciences (AIBS) -- 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 garymotz at indiana.edu Mon Nov 1 22:59:30 2021 From: garymotz at indiana.edu (Motz, Gary) Date: Tue, 2 Nov 2021 02:59:30 +0000 Subject: [Nhcoll-l] job opportunity: user experience developer at IU In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Dear SPNHC community, Indiana University seeks to hire a user experience developer to assist in front-line IT support for gallery interactive technologies and to develop content/applications for those gallery interactives. A full job description is included here and interested parties should apply online here: https://hrms.indiana.edu/psp/PH1PRD_PUB/EMPLOYEE/HRMS/c/HRS_HRAM_FL.HRS_CG_S EARCH_FL.GBL?Page=HRS_APP_JBPST_FL &Action=U&FOCUS=Applicant&SiteId=1&JobOpeningId=297439&PostingSeq=1 Questions regarding this job opportunity should be directed to the hiring manager, Gary Motz (garymotz at iu.edu ). User Experience Developer Department Information: The department of University Collections in the Office of the Vice President for Research was created in 2018 to ensure proper stewardship of library, museum, and archival collections throughout the Indiana University system. University Collections will open the Collections, Teaching, Research and Exhibition Center in 2022. The Indiana University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology (IUMAA), formed by the merging of the world-class collections of the Mathers Museum of World Cultures and Glenn Black Laboratory, will open its newly renovated facility in spring 2023. Job Summary The User Experiences Developer will assist the department of University Collections and the Indiana University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology (IUMAA) in implementing online, database, and museum technology projects. The position will report to the University Collections Information Technology Leader. The User Experiences Developer will assist the Information Technology Leader in developing and executing digital infrastructure for a university-wide Content Management System (CMS) and web portal that will support collections metadata, storage, and online discoverability; work on day-to-day software implementation activities between software vendor Collective Access, UITS, and University Collections; write computer code needed to customize Collective Access software according to different collections' needs; and monitor and problem solve software implementation and web interface issues. The User Experiences Developer will also provide technical support for University Collections and IUMAA building equipment, including operating and troubleshooting interactive gallery audiovisual systems; create user-centered front-end software interfaces for museum-installed gallery technology; and assist University Collections and IUMAA staff in problem solving relevant technological issues. In addition, this position will assist in maintaining and updating University Collections' and IUMAA's websites and provide ongoing maintenance and care for collections-related digital infrastructure, including digitization, metadata creation, and online discoverability concerns. Qualifications Education Bachelor's Degree in museum informatics or equivalent computer science degree Work Experience 2 years of programming and database, or related experience Demonstrated understanding of collections and museum needs Skills: * Proficient communication skills. * Maintains a high degree of professionalism. * Demonstrated time management and priority setting skills. * Demonstrates a high commitment to quality. * Possesses flexibility to work in a fast paced, dynamic environment. * Seeks to acquire knowledge in area of specialty. * Highly thorough and dependable. * Demonstrates a high level of accuracy, even under pressure. 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And GCG AGM and winter seminar 30th November - call for papers In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Apologies for cross-posting, Please see details for the forthcoming Geological Curators Group (GCG) AGM below. Many thanks, Kind regards Andrew From: The Geological Curators Group mailing list On Behalf Of Sarah King Sent: 26 October 2021 22:13 To: GEO-CURATORS at JISCMAIL.AC.UK Subject: Fw: Trustees wanted! And GCG AGM and winter seminar 30th November - call for papers Dear all, A reminder of our current news: We are very pleased to announce that the date is set for the Geological Curators Group AGM and winter seminar: 30th November 2021! We are now accepting abstracts for short (10-15 mins) talks, under the banner of GCG World Tour. We have seen lots more engagement from our lovely international members over the last 18 months, as events have moved online, and many new members from across the world. We would like to celebrate our members outside the UK, with stories of innovations in, relationships with, and stories from geological collections around the world. These can be surrounding the topic of covid and how your organisation coped, or anything else you would like to share! See https://www.geocurator.org/events/145-48th-annual-general-meeting-and-seminar for more details. The AGM will be at 4pm GMT/UTC, with more details to follow. We are also seeking new Trustees to help run GCG. There's lots to do but if you're passionate about geological collections and would like to help safeguard them for the future we have four roles available: * Collections Coordinator * Journal Editor * Communications Coordinator (new role) * Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Coordinator (new role) Please have a look at the info here: https://www.geocurator.org/committee/management-documents/147-getting-involved-with-gcg/trustee-positions-available-for-2022-onwards for more details. 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URL: From dlpaul at illinois.edu Tue Nov 2 15:16:39 2021 From: dlpaul at illinois.edu (Deborah Paul) Date: Tue, 2 Nov 2021 14:16:39 -0500 Subject: [Nhcoll-l] You're Invited! to Working Sessions for Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG) Message-ID: Greetings SPNHC Peeps! Many of you are actively capturing data in your databases to publish to various places like a Symbiota portal, iDigBio, and GBIF. We can all put our data together into one harmonized pile because ... standards! If you are interested in where our biodiversity data standards come from, like Darwin Core and Audubon Core, you have an opportunity to learn more throughout the month of November. Everyone is welcome, no experience necessary. Find out how these standards help make our data interoperable, and how you can help achieve that goal. Where: Working Sessions for the Interest and Task Groups from TDWG. When: Wednesdays and Thursdays in November, see TDWG 2021 November Working Sessions Schedule What Topics?: See the Sessions Lists How to Register (it's free)! Just a few of the topics you might find interesting include: * People in Biodiversity Data: sharing the disambiguation work * Hands-on session on standardization of biological interactions data * Collection Descriptions Interest Group * Plant Phenology Standards Task Group * Machine Observations Interest Group * Views (that's image views) Controlled Vocabularies Task Group The Working Sessions Organizers have done a great job organizing these and they are ready for any questions: send email to WrkSessCoord at tdwg.org From all of us at TDWG and who create, manage, and use biodiversity data -- thanks! Debbie, et al at TDWG (apologies for cross-postings, but glad our community is connected!) -- - Deborah Paul, Biodiversity Informatics Community Liaison - Species File Group (INHS), University of Illinois -- Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG) Chair 2021-2022 -- Florida State University Courtesy Appointment -- Species File Group and Eventshttps://speciesfilegroup.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dlpaul at illinois.edu Tue Nov 2 18:59:34 2021 From: dlpaul at illinois.edu (Deborah Paul) Date: Tue, 2 Nov 2021 17:59:34 -0500 Subject: [Nhcoll-l] You are Invited to TaxonWorks Together 2021 - What's New in TaxonWorks? What's Different? What's Next? Message-ID: <755c014a-9c4b-cbd5-b4f9-4b5f5ca63b9f@illinois.edu> Hello Everyone, Focusing on TaxonWorks, please join us for an informal series of events designed to hear from many who create and use data that we collectively use to "Describe life". If you work with taxonomists, if you manage taxonomic names or nomenclature, if you are a collection manager, if you are an ecologist using these data, if you are a software developer, if you are a taxonomist writing species descriptions -- building matrices and taxonomic keys, if you are curious about other collection management software, if you're wondering if there are other ways to manage people, taxonomic, and nomenclatural data along with your collections data, we hope you'll join us. When: 6 - 10 December 2021 You're in!: Register Here for Zoom links Find out more: Agenda for TaxonWorks Together 2021 Questions? We're ready and waiting. Please do share widely to interested colleagues, students, citizen scientists, ... In anticipation, Deborah Paul, from the Species File Group as your Biodiversity Informatics Community Liaison (Please do excuse cross-postings, but do celebrate we can expand our reach together. Thanks!) -- - Deborah Paul, Biodiversity Informatics Community Liaison - Species File Group (INHS), University of Illinois -- Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG) Chair 2021-2022 -- Florida State University Courtesy Appointment -- Species File Group and Eventshttps://speciesfilegroup.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ekrimmel at gmail.com Wed Nov 3 13:20:56 2021 From: ekrimmel at gmail.com (Erica Krimmel) Date: Wed, 3 Nov 2021 10:20:56 -0700 Subject: [Nhcoll-l] Job announcement with iDigBio at Florida State University: Workforce Development Manager Message-ID: Florida State University?s Institute for Digital Information and Scientific Communication (idiginfo.org) invites applications for a Workforce Development Manager for the iDigBio project (idigbio.org). iDigBio is the US National Resource for Advancing Digitization of Biodiversity Collections and is based at Florida State University (FSU), University of Florida, and Arizona State University. Biodiversity collections curate such things as plants on sheets, fossils in drawers, fish in jars, and insects on pins, and there are about a billion specimens of this type curated by more than 1500 US collections. The portion of iDigBio based at FSU is iDigBio?s Digitization, Workforce Development, and Citizen Science Domain. iDigBio began in 2011 and has just received a new five-year grant from the US National Science Foundation ( https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2027654) with this position budgeted for all five years. The Workforce Development Manager will collaborate with others in the domain and across iDigBio in the development and delivery of iDigBio?s professional development offerings for the biodiversity collections community. These offerings will often be in the form of short courses in iDigBio?s new Digitization Academy. The Digitization Academy began in 2021 and has offered an inaugural Introduction to Biodiversity Specimen Digitization course, with a new course, Public Participation in Digitization of Biodiversity Collections, planned for December. The topics of new courses will be determined by community needs, but they are expected to include such things as advanced courses in digital imaging, georeferencing, 3D modeling, and data management. The Workforce Development Manager should bring experience with the digitization of biodiversity (or similar) collections and teaching. (Similar collections could include, for example, cultural heritage collections.) However, the successful Workforce Development Manager applicant need not start with an advanced knowledge of all potential course topics. The Workforce Development Manager will participate in the development of digitization protocols, best practices, and standards where there are needs to do so in support of biodiversity collections digitization. The position is a great opportunity to play a central role advancing the important work of the biodiversity collections community. The position is currently classified as based in Tallahassee, Florida, though it is possible that it could be converted to a remote position to accommodate the constraints of a very strong applicant. Tallahassee is the state capital and located adjacent to one of North America?s biodiversity hotspots, which is protected in an extensive patchwork of natural areas, such as the Apalachicola National Forest, St. Marks National Wildlife Refuge, Wakulla Springs State Park, and many others. The area has abundant outdoor opportunities, including paddling the springs and rivers, hiking and biking the many miles of trails, swimming and snorkeling on the coast, fishing, and more. The starting annual salary is expected to be somewhere from the high $50,000's to mid $60,000's, depending on training and prior experience. Tallahassee?s cost of living is below the national average, and the city is home to a number of strong public schools. FSU was recognized as one of Insight into Diversity?s fourteen ?Diversity Champions? that celebrate and encourage diversity and inclusion across campus. To learn more and apply visit https://bit.ly/3bww7Ti. To apply, you will be asked to provide your CV, a cover letter in which you cite how your past experiences prepare you to successfully accomplish the responsibilities of the position, and a brief (up to 1 page) statement of how you will seek to advance workforce development for the biodiversity collections community. We will be happy to answer questions that you might have?just email us at amast at fsu.edu or ekrimmel at fsu.edu. *Erica Krimmel* Digitization Resources 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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People with expertise in this subject might work extensively with immature insects, or species that have aquatic life stages. Do you have any recommendations for entomologists that I should contact for a possible interview? Please email me at: genevieve.anderegg at colorado.edu This project has been approved by my university's IRB, and interviewees would have to consent to their name being associated with their statements. Feel free to contact me if you are interested in my project! Thanks, Genevieve Anderegg -- University of Colorado Boulder Museum and Field Studies MS (Collections/Field) CUMNH Vertebrate Collections, McCain Lab she/her/hers 612-876-8138 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From rdelapena at fieldmuseum.org Thu Nov 4 16:57:04 2021 From: rdelapena at fieldmuseum.org (Robin Delapena) Date: Thu, 4 Nov 2021 15:57:04 -0500 Subject: [Nhcoll-l] We need your INPUT and then your Vote! Message-ID: Hello all, There is a requirement that species records express whether the organism was dead or alive at the time of the observation or collection. A proposal has been submitted to the TDWG Darwin Core Interest Group to establish a new DwC term. *What we need from you:* 1. Please read the entire thread on GitHub https://github.com/tdwg/dwc/issues/363 , then 2. share your thoughts on GitHub (you will need to log in), 3. *then if you are in support of this new DwC term "Vitality"*, please click on ? (thumbs up) at the top of the thread. We need all the support we can get! Thanks so much for taking the time, --Robin DeLaPe?a p.s. Need a GitHub account? Visit *https://github.com *, choose a username, provide an email address and password, then click the big green ?Sign up for GitHub? button. -- *Robin DeLaPe**?a *(she/her) Digitization Project Coordinator (ESB) S&E, Negaunee Integrative Research Center (Invertebrates) O: 312.665.7165 email: rdelapena at fieldmuseum.org Field Museum 1400 S. DuSable Lake Shore Dr. Chicago, IL 60605-2496 fieldmuseum.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Christopher.Weeks at mnh.im Fri Nov 5 05:11:50 2021 From: Christopher.Weeks at mnh.im (Weeks, Christopher) Date: Fri, 5 Nov 2021 09:11:50 +0000 Subject: [Nhcoll-l] UK NW Conservators Group Christmas Meeting Message-ID: <918aec505a8e491897fb8f4619fe99e1@EXMDBP2.reiltys.government.iomgov> Covid & Other Disasters Conservation Matters in the Northwest Call for Papers and Save the Date Are you a conservator or curator, employed or volunteering, in public service or private practice, or a student? We are delighted to announce our 2021 Christmas conference (#CMNW2021). This is an opportunity for networking and exchange of ideas and experiences. We especially encourage contributions from students to practice their public speaking in a friendly and relaxed atmosphere. We want to hear your experiences of this extraordinary year. Are you coming up for air, or still picking up the pieces? Have you been dealing with water ingress and pest outbreaks during lockdown? The global pandemic has been hard on many of us personally and professionally. We have been forced to think again about our support networks and our mental health, and about the sustainability of our practices. Some things may never be the same again. Please send us your proposals for talks on ideas, case studies and experiences of Covid and other disasters. Your 15 minute presentation might be on: * The effect of the pandemic on collections care or emergency planning * Successes and failures of remote communication * Changes in the habits of pests * Rethinking the priorities of conservation practice Venue: The People's History Museum, Manchester Date: Friday 10th December, 2021 Deadline for submission of titles and abstracts (max. 200 words): Friday 12th November 2021. Please send your submissions to christopher.weeks at mnh.im. In addition to the talks there will be a behind-the-scenes tour of the PHM conservation studios. This will be a cross-disciplinary conference for conservators, curators, collection managers, volunteers and students engaged or interested in the care of collections. Proposals are welcomed from those inside and outside of the northwest. Museums Development Northwest have kindly offered to provide a number of travel bursaries; further details will be announced when we send out the conference invite in due course. Unfortunately we do not have a budget to cover speaker expenses. This conference is organised by Northwest Conservators in partnership with Northwest Museums Federation https://www.nwfed.org.uk/ and Museum Development North West https://museumdevelopmentnorthwest.wordpress.com/. Christopher Weeks ACR Collections Care and Conservation Manager Manx National Heritage, Eiraght Ashoonagh Vannin Manx Museum, Douglas, Isle of Man, IM1 3LY Isle of Man Registered Charity No 603 [Shopping]manxnationalheritage.im/shop [Face]facebook.com/manxnationalheritage [Twit]@manxheritage [Insta]@manxnationalheritage [MNH] [Icon Accredited Member Logosml - JPG] Isle of Man. Giving you freedom to flourish WARNING: This email message and any files transmitted with it are confidential and may be subject to legal privilege. You must not copy or deliver it to any other person or use the contents in any unauthorised manner without the express permission of the sender. 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The seven speakers will discuss a range of topics related to the practice of paleontology and the exchange of information across diverse communities. Virtual presentations will take place on Tuesdays at 11:00 UTC and Fridays at 16:00 UTC, beginning November 16. For more information on speakers and the topics of their presentations, please see the attached flyer. We invite everyone in our global paleontological community to attend this free speaker series! To help us plan, we ask that you please register using this link: https://diversity-dynamics-and-crises.eventbrite.co.nz/. Registered participants will receive email updates about the series, calendar invites for upcoming speakers, and the Zoom link for attendance. We look forward to discussing these important topics with you, and hope that you will consider joining us. 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Staff members of the herbarium have played leadership roles in the digitization of biodiversity specimens locally (e.g., as part of WeDigFLPlants, https://biospex.org/project/wedigflplants) and nationally (e.g., through iDigBio, https://www.idigbio.org/). Students have traditionally held the position for 2?3 years and have TA'd or RA'd during their remaining time at FSU to broaden their experience even farther. All students that are accepted to our program receive stipend salary support, full tuition waiver, a contribution to the student health insurance plan and annual travel allowance to attend conferences. FSU has a strong ecology and evolution program (http://www.bio.fsu.edu/ee/ for more details), and the campus is situated in the beautiful Florida panhandle?one of the continent's biodiversity hotspots and a great place to be a biologist. Applications begin to be considered soon after Dec. 1, 2021 (for details see http://www.bio.fsu.edu/grad/admissions/apply/). Interested individuals should also contact me directly (contact info in signature). For more info on me and my lab, including the fun stuff that we are doing with 3D modeling and augmented reality technology, visit http://www.bio.fsu.edu/faculty.php?faculty-id=mast and http://mastlab.org/ and https://idiginfo.org/. I?m particularly looking for applicants who are ready to be innovative with their graduate research and are genuinely enthusiastic about the many research opportunities provided by biodiversity collections. Thanks! Austin Austin Mast ? Professor ? Department of Biological Science ? 319 Stadium Drive ? Florida State University ? Tallahassee, FL 32306-4295 ? U.S.A. ? (850) 645-1500 ? Director ? Institute for Digital Information & Scientific Communication ? College of Communication and Information ? Florida State University ? amast at fsu.edu ? he/him -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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These include but are not restricted to Russian language labels that are translated but are also saved in Cyrillic, sharing of taxon concept mappings, and historical maps based on the major floristic works for Alaska - Hult?n's Flora of Alaska. We will also demonstrate using Arctos for teaching systematic botany online in an innovative way. Arctos is a powerful and flexible tool with great potential for enhancing research. We will also demonstrate Arctos' new API (Application Programming Interface). When: Tuesday, November 9, 2021 at 3:00pm ET/1:00pm MT (19:00 UTC) Where: https://cuboulder.zoom.us/j/94312392735 (passcode: arctos) Can't Make It?: This webinar will be recorded and made available on the Arctos Youtube station: 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 http://www.colorado.edu/cumuseum/research-collections/vertebrates -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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I'm interested to learn how many collection records cite LORAN and thus assessing whether digitizing the entire line network would be worthwhile for georeferencing projects like ours. Chirp up if your databases do or don't mention LORAN. Paul Callomon Collection Manager, Malacology and General Invertebrates ________________________________ Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University 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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(or ?Korstian Division?, the name of the section of Duke Forest I?m focusing on); I also drew polygons on maps within the search engines, which was also helpful. So, I now have a good rough estimate of the number of vascular plants, bryophytes, lichens and non-lichen fungi for the Korstian Division. But I am not as familiar with similar search engines for non-botany (and non-mycology) natural history collections. I am aware of eBird, but I think that includes mostly observations, not actual specimen records, right? (Still, I may tap into it, since we have a lot more birdwatchers active than actual bird collectors). I?ve also heard of FishNet, for fish; but it is unlikely to give me any data for a forest? Are there comparable search engines for species (specimen) records of herps, mammals, insects, and non-insect invertebrates (annelids, molluscs, spiders, etc.)? Side note: I don?t really want to rely on iNaturalist observations because I?ve seen so many misidentifications there. But I will if I must. (Convince me!). iNaturalist also doesn?t have historical data (because the app is only a few years old?but am I wrong about this? Is anyone uploading historical records into iNaturalist?). Again, I?m aiming to get a rough number of species of organisms for a given geographic area. If you can help me, please send me direct messages (rather than to the listserv) because I subscribe to the digest of this listserv, and I only receive my digest once per month. So I may not see your reply for a month. Thanks for any help or advice you can give me. Sincerely yours, Scott Scott LaGreca, Ph.D. Collections Manager, Lichens Duke Lichen Herbarium Room 137 Biological Sciences Building 130 Science Drive Box 90338 Duke University Durham, NC 27708 USA -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From abentley at ku.edu Tue Nov 9 13:48:01 2021 From: abentley at ku.edu (Bentley, Andrew Charles) Date: Tue, 9 Nov 2021 18:48:01 +0000 Subject: [Nhcoll-l] Search engines for non-botany natural history collections In-Reply-To: <4FC9D9B8-3000-460D-BCE0-625CA31DA7DD@contoso.com> References: <4FC9D9B8-3000-460D-BCE0-625CA31DA7DD@contoso.com> Message-ID: Scott The two main search portals that you will probably want to try are GBIF and iDigBio. Most collections publish their data to these two portals and it also includes observation records. GBIF appears to have 410 records with the words ?Duke Forest? in the locality string - https://www.gbif.org/occurrence/search?offset=200&locality=Duke%20Forest&advanced=1&occurrence_status=present. A lot of these appear to ne fungi but there are some animalia in there too. www.gbif.org www.idgibio.org 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 ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3093-1258 http://ichthyology.biodiversity.ku.edu A : A : A : }<(((_?>.,.,.,.}<(((_?>.,.,.,.}<)))_?> V V V From: Nhcoll-l On Behalf Of Scott LaGreca Sent: Tuesday, November 9, 2021 12:36 PM To: nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu Subject: [Nhcoll-l] Search engines for non-botany natural history collections Dear Colleagues, I?m trying to estimate the number of species of organisms in a particular section of Duke Forest, a preserve/teaching/research forest owned by Duke University (where I work). I?ve searched the literature and found some publications that include e.g. plant inventories, etc. for Duke Forest, but not that many. So I have been exploring using the different online natural history specimen search engines to answer my question. As a botanist I have a good handle on the search engines I can use to search herbaria (for vascular plants, bryophytes, you name it). I simply used the key words ?Duke Forest? (or ?Korstian Division?, the name of the section of Duke Forest I?m focusing on); I also drew polygons on maps within the search engines, which was also helpful. So, I now have a good rough estimate of the number of vascular plants, bryophytes, lichens and non-lichen fungi for the Korstian Division. But I am not as familiar with similar search engines for non-botany (and non-mycology) natural history collections. I am aware of eBird, but I think that includes mostly observations, not actual specimen records, right? (Still, I may tap into it, since we have a lot more birdwatchers active than actual bird collectors). I?ve also heard of FishNet, for fish; but it is unlikely to give me any data for a forest? Are there comparable search engines for species (specimen) records of herps, mammals, insects, and non-insect invertebrates (annelids, molluscs, spiders, etc.)? Side note: I don?t really want to rely on iNaturalist observations because I?ve seen so many misidentifications there. But I will if I must. (Convince me!). iNaturalist also doesn?t have historical data (because the app is only a few years old?but am I wrong about this? Is anyone uploading historical records into iNaturalist?). Again, I?m aiming to get a rough number of species of organisms for a given geographic area. If you can help me, please send me direct messages (rather than to the listserv) because I subscribe to the digest of this listserv, and I only receive my digest once per month. So I may not see your reply for a month. 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Collection Manager - Section of Birds Carnegie Museum of Natural History - Oakland, 4400 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America Req #648 Thursday, Posted: October 28, 2021 Carnegie Museum of Natural History, one of the four Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh, is among the top natural history museums in the country. It maintains, preserves, and interprets an extraordinary collection of artifacts, objects, and scientific specimens used to broaden understanding of evolution, conservation, and biodiversity. Carnegie Museum of Natural History generates new scientific knowledge, advances science literacy, and inspires visitors of all ages to become passionate about science, nature, and world cultures. Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh is interested in candidates who, through their experience and collaborations, will contribute to diversity and excellence of the Carnegie Museums community. Collection Manager for the Section of Birds is responsible for the physical care, maintenance, and preservation of the bird collection, and to maintain and improve specimen records and databases. This position is responsible for incoming and outgoing loans, overseeing the preparation and integration of new specimens, and facilitating the use of the collection by researchers and other visitors. The Collection Manager will also train and supervise other personnel, volunteers, and work study students in day-to-day tasks, including georeferencing, physical organization of specimens, and collection-based research projects. Requests for loans and data must be handled in a timely manner with appropriate documentation. This position will support the needs of CMNH exhibitions, education programming, and marketing. Other responsibilities may include participating in identifying funding opportunities and working closely with the curator in obtaining funding. Additional internal and external service may be included as part of an annual plan. Participation in professional development activities to further knowledge of collection stewardship is expected. A desire to conduct research up to or less than 10% is encouraged, but not required, and can be negotiated at the time of hiring. Collection Manager of Birds will contribute substantially to strategic development and the execution of the long-term collections plan. QUALIFICATIONS * Minimum qualifications for this position are an advanced degree in a natural science field, bioinformatics, or museum studies from an accredited university with at least three years of work experience in a systematic collection. * Previous work experience involving day-to-day management of a biological collection and familiarity with specimen preparation, avian taxonomy and systematics is essential. * A record of effective science communication and project management is also desirable. * Working knowledge of scientific principles and practices, with special emphasis on techniques, procedures, best practices, and professional standards for bird species identification, specimen preparation, specimen handling and storage, and scientific data management preferred. * Candidate should have a working knowledge of external data repositories such as GBIF, iDigBio, and MorphoSource and can work on iterative tasks over lengthy periods of time with minimal supervision. * An understanding of relevant regulatory laws, compliance procedures, and facility security related to collections and artifacts is essential. * Necessary computer skills include word processing, manipulation of large databases in Access, and basic knowledge in one or more computer coding languages (e.g., R, MatLab, Python, etc.). * Must be able to work independently and collaboratively and establish and maintain a culture of collaboration with co-workers, supervisors, and the public. * Effective oral and written science communication skills are also an important part of educational programming responsibilities. * Ability to read written Spanish and familiarity with birds from Central and South America is desirable. * A successful applicant must be detail oriented for accuracy of data and should also have experience with bird identification and preparation of study skins, fluid specimens and skeletons, and dermestid husbandry and be motivated to develop and seek funding to expand the bird collection using the extended specimen framework (e.g., stomach contents, nests, pollen loads, feces, feather samples, quantifying plumage color, and digitizing data from historical surveys and archival materials). PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS * While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to walk, sit, talk, and hear. The employee is occasionally required to use hands to handle specimens and operate tools or controls and use arms to reach. Drawers to be manipulated will be located up to 10 feet high (must have ability to climb a rolling ladder). The employee is occasionally required to climb or balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. Basic manual dexterity with both hands required. * The employee performs duties in a wide variety of settings including office, collection area, and public galleries. The noise level in the work environment will vary accordingly. * The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 40 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus. * The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. * Must be able to work with ethanol and other chemicals and is regularly exposure to dust, chemicals, fumes, and sharp instruments. ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS * Duties include care of the collections, database management and improvement, documentation and processing of loans, preparing and cataloging new specimens, assisting visitors, participating in other museums programs as appropriate. * Expected to promote and ensure the conservation, preparation, care, use and security of the collection. Should have a commitment to expand and contribute to use of the ornithology collection in research, education, and outreach. * Position will maintain a complete database of all specimens/objects and monitor their storage conditions, including but not limited to temperature and humidity levels, pest infestation, and cleanliness. Must also handle the receipt, preparation, cataloging, accessioning, and integrating of new specimens. Must also be familiar and comply with the museum collections management policy. * Duties include training, managing, and working with undergraduate work study student assistants, interns, and volunteers to carry out curation activities and specimen preparation. There may be on-the-exhibit-floor support of events, classes, identification requests, and offsite lectures or field trips. Expected to give tours of the collection. Participate in a broad range of museum activities including exhibits programs, and internal and external educational activities. * Provide support for activities in other departments - including exhibits, education and museum committee work, and external service (e.g., professional society membership and officer positions, consultations, peer review, participation in museum programs, workshops, seminars, and other forms of professional development in the museum profession). ADDITIONAL QUALIFICATIONS AND RESPONSIBILITIES * Assist in grant-proposal preparations for collection-related projects. * Coordinating and managing permits relating to collection activities. * Operating and maintaining the dermestid skeletal preparation facility. * Care for fluid collection and be familiar with laws regarding packing of fluid specimens on loan. * Excellent communications skills and an innate ability to engage and enthuse the public and stakeholders through their work. * Has the ability to work independently or as part of a team and who has excellent organizational skills and a detail-oriented approach to work. * Basic knowledge of museum practices and standards for collection care; excellent oral, written, supervisory, and mechanical skills. * Computer skills and the ability to adapt rapidly to changes in technology. * Ability to interact in a positive and enthusiastic manner with others in the workplace. * Maintain relationship with the National Aviary, the Audubon Society of Western Pennsylvania, and works closely with the Powdermill Avian Research Center. * Any other duties as assigned. The following PA Act 153 clearances, or proof of application of clearances, are required beginning employment and as a condition of continued employment: * Pennsylvania Child Abuse History Clearance * Pennsylvania State Police Criminal Record Check * FBI Fingerprint Criminal Background Check Obtaining the required clearances is completed as part of the new hire process. Carnegie Museums is an Equal Opportunity-Affirmative Action Employer - Minorities / Females / Veterans / Individuals with Disabilities / Sexual Orientation / Gender Identity The above job description reflects the essential functions and qualifications for the position identified, and shall not be construed as a detailed description of all the work requirements that may be inherent in the position. The job description does not constitute an employment contract and does not alter the at-will relationship between CMP and the employee. *GUIDANCE ON ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS: The Americans with Disabilities Act ("ADA") requires employers to consider and accommodate qualified individuals with disabilities. An individual is qualified if he or she can perform the essential functions of a job with or without reasonable accommodation. An essential job function is any task that is a fundamental part of the job. When considering essentiality, one must focus upon whether the function is essential to this particular job and not to the department as a whole. Some additional guidance on essential functions follows below. Please note that the following guidelines are non-exhaustive. If you have any questions or need additional guidance, please contact Human Resources. A. Is the function required to be performed on a regular basis? If the function is rarely performed, it may not be essential. B. Is the function highly specialized? Is the incumbent hired for his/her expertise or ability to perform the function? The need for special expertise is an indication of an essential function. C. Does the position exist, at least in part, to perform the function? If so, the function is more likely to be essential. D. How much time is spent performing the function and how often? Note that even functions performed 10% of the time could be essential if they are required on a regular basis. E. Would elimination of the function fundamentally alter the job? If so, the function is more likely to be essential. F. What are the consequences of not requiring the incumbent to perform the function? If they are significant, the function is more likely to be essential. G. Are there a limited number of employees among whom the performance of the function could be distributed if the incumbent could not perform it? If so, it is more likely to be essential. Suzanne B. McLaren (she, her, hers) Collection Manager, Section of Mammals Edward O'Neil Research Center (Carnegie Museum of Natural History Annex) 5800 Baum Blvd Pittsburgh PA 15206 USA Telephone 412-665-2615 Fax 412-665-2751 Mammal collections of the Western Hemisphere: a survey and directory of collections. Jonathan L Dunnum, Bryan S McLean, Robert C Dowler, Systematic Collections Committee of the American Society of Mammalogists, Journal of Mammalogy, Volume 99, Issue 6, 5 December 2018, Pages 1307-1322, https://doi.org/10.1093/jmammal/gyy151 The information contained in this message and/or attachments is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of, or taking of any action in reliance upon, this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. 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The only limitation is that the book is in German, but it is a very comprehensive publication. https://www.schweizerbart.de/publications/detail/isbn/9783510652310/Piechocki_Handel_Makroskopische_Prapara?l=EN Might be useful, with best wishes Dirk Am 04.11.2021 um 02:32 schrieb Genevieve Anderegg: > Hi everyone, > > I am a master's student studying Museum Studies at CU Boulder, and am > conducting my thesis on the collections management?of fluid preserved > insect specimens. A component of my project is interviewing > entomologists that have experience with the preservation of insects in > fluid (e. g., ethanol) to learn about their practices and record their > tacit knowledge so that it can be shared with the wider community. > People with expertise in this subject might work extensively with > immature insects, or species that have aquatic life stages. > Do you have any recommendations for entomologists that I should > contact for a possible interview? Please email me at: > genevieve.anderegg at colorado.edu > > This project has been approved by my university's IRB, and > interviewees would have to consent to their name being associated with > their statements. Feel free to contact me if you are interested in my > project! > Thanks, > > Genevieve Anderegg > > -- > University of Colorado Boulder > Museum and Field Studies MS (Collections/Field) > CUMNH Vertebrate Collections, McCain Lab > she/her/hers > 612-876-8138 > > > _______________________________________________ > Nhcoll-l mailing list > Nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu > https://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/nhcoll-l > > _______________________________________________ > NHCOLL-L is brought to you by the Society for the Preservation of > Natural History Collections (SPNHC), an international society whose > mission is to improve the preservation, conservation and management of > natural history collections to ensure their continuing value to > society. 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The depth of knowledge that she has built up about the collection, the importance of the collections for research, the development and implementation of protocols to protect a collection that is in a building that is substandard and out of space is a testament to her lateral thinking and commitment to conserving and enhancing the State Botanical Collection. She has also overseen important changes to workflows as we have moved into the digital space. These include contributions to the Australasians Virtual Herbarium Project, the first real effort to database our specimen records. The massive task of migrating over 800,000 database records into a new database system with consequent flow on to work practices and processes. She lead the efforts to locate and digitise our types specimens for the International Global Plants project. 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John Simmons also has a own section on phenoxetol in his Fluid Preservation book (pages 69-70) The recommendation we give in our forthcoming book is that specimens from phenoxetol should first be re-fixed in a 4% formaldehyde solution for few days (depending on specimen size, body mass etc.) and then stepped up from 30-50-70% EtOH. This seems to have worked fine, but this experience so far refers exclusively to elasmobranchs, which tend to behave slightly different to fixatives and preservatives compared to, for example, bony fish (likely because of the cartilage). Close monitoring during stepping specimens up surely is advised. Hope this helps Dirk Am 12.11.2021 um 01:43 schrieb Haff, Tonya (NCMI, Crace): > Hello all, > > We just come upon some bird specimens in our collection that have been > preserved with Phenoxyethanol.? There are no notes on its > concentration. The fluid needs to be changed over. I think we should > change it to 70% ETOH, but I am not sure if we should slowly step up > the concentration, or if another solution would be preferable? > > Thanks! > > Tonya > > _______________________________________________ > 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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Dear Tonya, several recipes exist and have been used in collections since the mid 1950ies, mainly for marine invertebrates, but no only. Simon Moore published on it back in 1999 and colleagues from the NHM in London may chip-in. John Simmons also has a own section on phenoxetol in his Fluid Preservation book (pages 69-70) The recommendation we give in our forthcoming book is that specimens from phenoxetol should first be re-fixed in a 4% formaldehyde solution for few days (depending on specimen size, body mass etc.) and then stepped up from 30-50-70% EtOH. This seems to have worked fine, but this experience so far refers exclusively to elasmobranchs, which tend to behave slightly different to fixatives and preservatives compared to, for example, bony fish (likely because of the cartilage). Close monitoring during stepping specimens up surely is advised. Hope this helps Dirk Am 12.11.2021 um 01:43 schrieb Haff, Tonya (NCMI, Crace): Hello all, We just come upon some bird specimens in our collection that have been preserved with Phenoxyethanol. There are no notes on its concentration. The fluid needs to be changed over. I think we should change it to 70% ETOH, but I am not sure if we should slowly step up the concentration, or if another solution would be preferable? Thanks! Tonya _______________________________________________ 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. -- [cid:image001.png at 01D7D79D.4C5623F0] Dirk Neumann Tel: 089 / 8107-111 Fax: 089 / 8107-300 neumann(a)snsb.de Postanschrift: Staatliche Naturwissenschaftliche Sammlungen Bayerns Zoologische Staatssammlung M?nchen Dirk Neumann, Sektion Ichthyologie / DNA-Storage M?nchhausenstr. 21 81247 M?nchen Besuchen Sie unsere Sammlung: http://www.zsm.mwn.de/sektion/ichthyologie-home/ --------- Dirk Neumann Tel: +49-89-8107-111 Fax: +49-89-8107-300 neumann(a)snsb.de postal address: Bavarian Natural History Collections The Bavarian State Collection of Zoology Dirk Neumann, Section Ichthyology / DNA-Storage Muenchhausenstr. 21 81247 Munich (Germany) Visit our section at: http://www.zsm.mwn.de/sektion/ichthyologie-home/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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What has been observed repeatedly in the past (in larger vertebrates) is complete maceration of specimens (which can happen at a sudden, even if specimens were closely monitored). View from that end, I am not sure how well the DNA would be preserved anyway, especially because all recipes we found have up to 80 parts of water (or more). I would assume that this would case strong hydrolysis of the DNA helix right from the start, at least this would be intuitive, but I am really guessing here, and others might have more details or knowledge on this. But you definitely raise an important point that is definitely worth considering, before you attempt to re-fix specimens with formaldehyde (which were previously in a formaldehyde-free preservative)! With best wishes Dirk Am 12.11.2021 um 14:14 schrieb Callomon,Paul: > > Dirk: do you know (or does anyone else) the effect of Phenoxyethanol > on DNA? If it does not degrade it, then we should be aware that > refixing in formalin will and that snips should thus be taken ahead of > that stage if future gene work is contemplated. > > Paul Callomon > > Collection Manager, Malacology and General Invertebrates// > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > *Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University*** > > 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 > *Dirk Neumann > *Sent:* Friday, November 12, 2021 2:53 AM > *To:* nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu > *Subject:* Re: [Nhcoll-l] Phenoxyethanol > > *External.* > > Dear Tonya, > > several recipes exist and have been used in collections since the mid > 1950ies, mainly for marine invertebrates, but no only. Simon Moore > published > > on it back in 1999 and colleagues from the NHM in London may chip-in. > > John Simmons also has a own section on phenoxetol in his Fluid > Preservation book > > (pages 69-70) > > The recommendation we give in our forthcoming book is that specimens > from phenoxetol should first be re-fixed in a 4% formaldehyde solution > for few days (depending on specimen size, body mass etc.) and then > stepped up from 30-50-70% EtOH. This seems to have worked fine, but > this experience so far refers exclusively to elasmobranchs, which tend > to behave slightly different to fixatives and preservatives compared > to, for example, bony fish (likely because of the cartilage). Close > monitoring during stepping specimens up surely is advised. > > Hope this helps > > Dirk > > Am 12.11.2021 um 01:43 schrieb Haff, Tonya (NCMI, Crace): > > Hello all, > > We just come upon some bird specimens in our collection that have > been preserved with Phenoxyethanol.? There are no notes on its > concentration. The fluid needs to be changed over. I think we > should change it to 70% ETOH, but I am not sure if we should > slowly step up the concentration, or if another solution would be > preferable? > > Thanks! > > Tonya > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Nhcoll-l mailing list > > Nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu > > https://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/nhcoll-l > > _______________________________________________ > > NHCOLL-L is brought to you by the Society for the Preservation of > > Natural History Collections (SPNHC), an international society whose > > mission is to improve the preservation, conservation and management of > > natural history collections to ensure their continuing value to > > society. Seehttp://www.spnhc.org for membership information. > > Advertising on NH-COLL-L is inappropriate. > > -- > > > Dirk Neumann > > Tel: 089 / 8107-111 > Fax: 089 / 8107-300 > neumann(a)snsb.de > > Postanschrift: > > Staatliche Naturwissenschaftliche Sammlungen Bayerns > Zoologische Staatssammlung M?nchen > Dirk Neumann, Sektion Ichthyologie / DNA-Storage > M?nchhausenstr. 21 > 81247 M?nchen > > Besuchen Sie unsere Sammlung: > http://www.zsm.mwn.de/sektion/ichthyologie-home/ > > > --------- > > Dirk Neumann > > Tel: +49-89-8107-111 > Fax: +49-89-8107-300 > neumann(a)snsb.de > > postal address: > > Bavarian Natural History Collections > The Bavarian State Collection of Zoology > Dirk Neumann, Section Ichthyology / DNA-Storage > Muenchhausenstr. 21 > 81247 Munich (Germany) > > Visit our section at: > http://www.zsm.mwn.de/sektion/ichthyologie-home/ > > -- Dirk Neumann Tel: 089 / 8107-111 Fax: 089 / 8107-300 neumann(a)snsb.de Postanschrift: Staatliche Naturwissenschaftliche Sammlungen Bayerns Zoologische Staatssammlung M?nchen Dirk Neumann, Sektion Ichthyologie / DNA-Storage M?nchhausenstr. 21 81247 M?nchen Besuchen Sie unsere Sammlung: http://www.zsm.mwn.de/sektion/ichthyologie-home/ --------- Dirk Neumann Tel: +49-89-8107-111 Fax: +49-89-8107-300 neumann(a)snsb.de postal address: Bavarian Natural History Collections The Bavarian State Collection of Zoology Dirk Neumann, Section Ichthyology / DNA-Storage Muenchhausenstr. 21 81247 Munich (Germany) Visit our section at: http://www.zsm.mwn.de/sektion/ichthyologie-home/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Of course there were many variations on the theme (in concentration) and some adapted Hugh Steedman?s later formula (1976) of his fixative and post-fixation preservative (PFP) which worked well in general (especially histologically) but, the preservative was also found to swell some tissues, making them more gelatinous but still intact - enough to make collection managers nervous! How this affects DNA preservation I am not sure but I would think that it was not a useful recipe in this area! If specimens in phenoxetol + glycol mixtures were fixed in formalin to start with then they shouldn?t need re-fixing unless they are deemed swollen enough to be fragile. Hopefully this makes sense? With all good wishes, Simon Simon Moore MIScT, RSci, FLS, ACR Conservator of Natural Sciences and Cutlery Historian, www.natural-history-conservation.com > On 12 Nov 2021, at 13:52, Dirk Neumann wrote: > > Hi Paul, > > I think this strongly depends on the recipe: we found 5 different, three of which include addition of saturated (40%) formaldehyde solution. If it would be one of those three, the initial formaldehyde addition should be detectable (e.g. through test strips for formaldehyde). > > Another point keeping in mind surely is the osmolarity of the solution, if you move fragile marine invertebrates from phenoxetol into something else (Simon cautioned and mentioned this earlier); but as Tonya was specifically asking for birds in phenoxetol, I thought this would be less relevant. > > What has been observed repeatedly in the past (in larger vertebrates) is complete maceration of specimens (which can happen at a sudden, even if specimens were closely monitored). View from that end, I am not sure how well the DNA would be preserved anyway, especially because all recipes we found have up to 80 parts of water (or more). I would assume that this would case strong hydrolysis of the DNA helix right from the start, at least this would be intuitive, but I am really guessing here, and others might have more details or knowledge on this. > > But you definitely raise an important point that is definitely worth considering, before you attempt to re-fix specimens with formaldehyde (which were previously in a formaldehyde-free preservative)! > > With best wishes > Dirk > > > Am 12.11.2021 um 14:14 schrieb Callomon,Paul: >> Dirk: do you know (or does anyone else) the effect of Phenoxyethanol on DNA? If it does not degrade it, then we should be aware that refixing in formalin will and that snips should thus be taken ahead of that stage if future gene work is contemplated. >> >> >> Paul Callomon >> Collection Manager, Malacology and General Invertebrates >> Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University >> 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 Dirk Neumann >> Sent: Friday, November 12, 2021 2:53 AM >> To: nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu >> Subject: Re: [Nhcoll-l] Phenoxyethanol >> >> External. >> >> Dear Tonya, >> >> several recipes exist and have been used in collections since the mid 1950ies, mainly for marine invertebrates, but no only. Simon Moore published on it back in 1999 and colleagues from the NHM in London may chip-in. >> >> John Simmons also has a own section on phenoxetol in his Fluid Preservation book (pages 69-70) >> >> The recommendation we give in our forthcoming book is that specimens from phenoxetol should first be re-fixed in a 4% formaldehyde solution for few days (depending on specimen size, body mass etc.) and then stepped up from 30-50-70% EtOH. This seems to have worked fine, but this experience so far refers exclusively to elasmobranchs, which tend to behave slightly different to fixatives and preservatives compared to, for example, bony fish (likely because of the cartilage). Close monitoring during stepping specimens up surely is advised. >> >> >> Hope this helps >> Dirk >> >> >> >> Am 12.11.2021 um 01:43 schrieb Haff, Tonya (NCMI, Crace): >> Hello all, >> >> We just come upon some bird specimens in our collection that have been preserved with Phenoxyethanol. There are no notes on its concentration. The fluid needs to be changed over. I think we should change it to 70% ETOH, but I am not sure if we should slowly step up the concentration, or if another solution would be preferable? >> >> Thanks! >> >> Tonya >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Nhcoll-l mailing list >> Nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu >> https://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/nhcoll-l >> >> _______________________________________________ >> NHCOLL-L is brought to you by the Society for the Preservation of >> Natural History Collections (SPNHC), an international society whose >> mission is to improve the preservation, conservation and management of >> natural history collections to ensure their continuing value to >> society. See http://www.spnhc.org for membership information. >> Advertising on NH-COLL-L is inappropriate. >> >> >> -- >> >> >> >> Dirk Neumann >> >> Tel: 089 / 8107-111 >> Fax: 089 / 8107-300 >> neumann(a)snsb.de >> >> Postanschrift: >> >> Staatliche Naturwissenschaftliche Sammlungen Bayerns >> Zoologische Staatssammlung M?nchen >> Dirk Neumann, Sektion Ichthyologie / DNA-Storage >> M?nchhausenstr. 21 >> 81247 M?nchen >> >> Besuchen Sie unsere Sammlung: >> http://www.zsm.mwn.de/sektion/ichthyologie-home/ >> >> --------- >> >> Dirk Neumann >> >> Tel: +49-89-8107-111 >> Fax: +49-89-8107-300 >> neumann(a)snsb.de >> >> postal address: >> >> Bavarian Natural History Collections >> The Bavarian State Collection of Zoology >> Dirk Neumann, Section Ichthyology / DNA-Storage >> Muenchhausenstr. 21 >> 81247 Munich (Germany) >> >> Visit our section at: >> http://www.zsm.mwn.de/sektion/ichthyologie-home/ >> > > > -- > > > > Dirk Neumann > > Tel: 089 / 8107-111 > Fax: 089 / 8107-300 > neumann(a)snsb.de > > Postanschrift: > > Staatliche Naturwissenschaftliche Sammlungen Bayerns > Zoologische Staatssammlung M?nchen > Dirk Neumann, Sektion Ichthyologie / DNA-Storage > M?nchhausenstr. 21 > 81247 M?nchen > > Besuchen Sie unsere Sammlung: > http://www.zsm.mwn.de/sektion/ichthyologie-home/ > > --------- > > Dirk Neumann > > Tel: +49-89-8107-111 > Fax: +49-89-8107-300 > neumann(a)snsb.de > > postal address: > > Bavarian Natural History Collections > The Bavarian State Collection of Zoology > Dirk Neumann, Section Ichthyology / DNA-Storage > Muenchhausenstr. 21 > 81247 Munich (Germany) > > Visit our section at: > http://www.zsm.mwn.de/sektion/ichthyologie-home/ > > > _______________________________________________ > 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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Sometimes figuring out exactly who those initials on the label (or in the notebook) represent can be challenging. Or, perhaps the handwriting itself is the challenge. These are just some of hurdles when managing people information. How might we share disambiguation work across our communities? If you'd like to learn more about some work to help us all democratize solving these puzzles and coalescing our knowledge, please join us for a 2 hour workshop: * **Title:* People in Biodiversity Data: Sharing the Disambiguation Work *Date/Time:* November 17, 20:00 UTC (Convert to your time zone ) *Register: *TDWG Working Sessions *Brought to you by*:? The People in Biodiversity Data TDWG Task Group and The Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG) Organization Read more about it. People in Biodiversity Data: Sharing the Disambiguation Work Looking forward to hearing about your experiences managing and sharing people data. 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As a collections manager, do I physically separate the individual specimens and send them off to their respective collections (General Invertebrates [Cnidaria], Mollusca and General Invertebrates [Crustacea] and [Annelida]) or preserve the assemblage intact? If they were tigers and snails collected at the same spot, for example, there would be no problem doing this; but snails don't live on tigers. 2. If I choose not to separate them (correctly, I think), then once I catalog the individual taxa into their respective databases, into which collection does the assemblage physically go? All four epibionts are attached to the sea fan, so that would seem to have the best claim to priority as it's both a specimen in its own right and a substrate for the others. The problem there is that our General Invertebrates collection is not funded, whereas our mollusk collection is. Our neontological "departments" are all taxon-based and each has its own community of curators, managers, associates and researchers as well as its own demands on space, infrastructure and support. 3. Most museums divide their Recent collections by taxon as above. However, this contrasts with Vertebrate and Invertebrate Paleontology, which are pan-taxonomical disciplines. Our Recent crabs, for example, go in the Crustacea collection, away from their commensal mollusk chums, but fossil crabs and mollusks both belong in a single Invertebrate Paleontology collection, while fossil fishes and mammoths snuggle up in the Vertebrate Paleontology collection. 4. How then does the existence and maintenance of neontological taxon-based collections (Entomology, Malacology, Mammalogy etc) configure science - does it encourage the emergence of museum entomologists, malacologists and mammalogists over, say, benthic ecologists? Paul Callomon Collection Manager, Malacology and General Invertebrates ________________________________ Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University 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... URL: From neumann at snsb.de Tue Nov 16 09:04:37 2021 From: neumann at snsb.de (Dirk Neumann) Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2021 15:04:37 +0100 Subject: [Nhcoll-l] Specimens vs assemblies In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <168fb546-3a67-76b4-a87b-f100b5b10ca8@snsb.de> Hi Paul, from a database perspective, would this not just be a separate storage collection that would need to be entered for the associated species in their respective taxon-based databases? In the case of some (Marine) parasites, it would also be very difficult to separate the different organisms, I think the key challenges from a collections management point of view are - knowing that these specimens are there - and where I could find them (if they are obviously not in the respective taxonomic collection, but still associated with the sea fan) Also - very classical solution - you could created dummy lots without contents for the respective collections so that there is a physical representation of "the jar", and the printed label says says where to find the object. Mixed samples (also: eDNA, soil samples) will be difficult to handle in taxon-based collections, but surely will increase (unsorted malaise traps returned from the field would in principle also belong into this category). We can handle this more easily now in our databases by setting respective references and internal linkages; this surely was more of a challenge back in the days of file cards and hand-written inventory book entries. By separating them, you definitely loose "information" - I would keep them together, unless a specific (research) question requires "disconnection". Hope this helps Dirk Am 16.11.2021 um 14:46 schrieb Callomon,Paul: > > Folks, > > I?m working with some interesting questions at the moment and thought > I?d ask for colleagues? input. Look on it as broader service to > science or something. > > 1. I?m dealing today with a sea fan (Cnidaria: Alcyonacea) that bears > several wing oysters (Mollusca: Pteriidae) and barnacles > (Crustacea: Cirripeda) as well as a couple of tube worms > (Annelida: Polychaeta) and countless diatoms. As a collections > manager, do I physically separate the individual specimens and > send them off to their respective collections (General > Invertebrates [Cnidaria], Mollusca and General Invertebrates > [Crustacea] and [Annelida]) or preserve the assemblage intact? If > they were tigers and snails collected at the same spot, for > example, there would be no problem doing this; but snails don?t > live on tigers. > 2. If I choose not to separate them (correctly, I think), then once I > catalog the individual taxa into their respective databases, into > which collection does the assemblage physically go? All four > epibionts are attached to the sea fan, so that would seem to have > the best claim to priority as it?s both a specimen in its own > right and a substrate for the others. The problem there is that > our General Invertebrates collection is not funded, whereas our > mollusk collection is. Our neontological ?departments? are all > taxon-based and each has its own community of curators, managers, > associates and researchers as well as its own demands on space, > infrastructure and support. > 3. Most museums divide their Recent collections by taxon as above. > However, this contrasts with Vertebrate and Invertebrate > Paleontology, which are pan-taxonomical disciplines. Our Recent > crabs, for example, go in the Crustacea collection, away from > their commensal mollusk chums, but fossil crabs and mollusks both > belong in a single Invertebrate Paleontology collection, while > fossil fishes and mammoths snuggle up in the Vertebrate > Paleontology collection. > 4. How then does the existence and maintenance of neontological > taxon-based collections (Entomology, Malacology, Mammalogy etc) > configure science ? does it encourage the emergence of museum > entomologists, malacologists and mammalogists over, say, benthic > ecologists? > > Paul Callomon > > Collection Manager, Malacology and General Invertebrates// > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > *Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University*** > > 1900 Benjamin Franklin Parkway, Philadelphia PA 19103-1195, USA > /prc44 at drexel.edu/ /Tel 215-405-5096 - Fax > 215-299-1170/ > > > _______________________________________________ > Nhcoll-l mailing list > Nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu > https://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/nhcoll-l > > _______________________________________________ > NHCOLL-L is brought to you by the Society for the Preservation of > Natural History Collections (SPNHC), an international society whose > mission is to improve the preservation, conservation and management of > natural history collections to ensure their continuing value to > society. Seehttp://www.spnhc.org for membership information. > Advertising on NH-COLL-L is inappropriate. -- Dirk Neumann Tel: 089 / 8107-111 Fax: 089 / 8107-300 neumann(a)snsb.de Postanschrift: Staatliche Naturwissenschaftliche Sammlungen Bayerns Zoologische Staatssammlung M?nchen Dirk Neumann, Sektion Ichthyologie / DNA-Storage M?nchhausenstr. 21 81247 M?nchen Besuchen Sie unsere Sammlung: http://www.zsm.mwn.de/sektion/ichthyologie-home/ --------- Dirk Neumann Tel: +49-89-8107-111 Fax: +49-89-8107-300 neumann(a)snsb.de postal address: Bavarian Natural History Collections The Bavarian State Collection of Zoology Dirk Neumann, Section Ichthyology / DNA-Storage Muenchhausenstr. 21 81247 Munich (Germany) Visit our section at: http://www.zsm.mwn.de/sektion/ichthyologie-home/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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That is another reason to separate the parasites versus the host in my museum. We do not have a reference system that tells people, look in the bird skin collection if you are interested in parasites. Doesn't mean we couldn't set it up that way, but it would involve some thought process. And Dirk is right that our databases now have great ways to record and track these types of relationships. Check out these examples from Arctos which use relationships to record the type of data you are talking about: https://arctos.database.museum/guid/DMNS:Bird:44431 (ate and host/parasite) https://arctos.database.museum/guid/UAM:Ento:378955 (iNaturalist to museum object) Assemblages are something I haven't dealt with much in vertebrate collections. I would be really interested to hear how other types of collections use those. cheers, Beth Wommack On Tue, Nov 16, 2021 at 7:07 AM Dirk Neumann wrote: > ? This message was sent from a non-UWYO address. Please exercise caution > when clicking links or opening attachments from external sources. > > Hi Paul, > > from a database perspective, would this not just be a separate storage > collection that would need to be entered for the associated species in > their respective taxon-based databases? > > In the case of some (Marine) parasites, it would also be very difficult to > separate the different organisms, I think the key challenges from a > collections management point of view are > - knowing that these specimens are there > - and where I could find them (if they are obviously not in the respective > taxonomic collection, but still associated with the sea fan) > > Also - very classical solution - you could created dummy lots without > contents for the respective collections so that there is a physical > representation of "the jar", and the printed label says says where to find > the object. > > Mixed samples (also: eDNA, soil samples) will be difficult to handle in > taxon-based collections, but surely will increase (unsorted malaise traps > returned from the field would in principle also belong into this category). > We can handle this more easily now in our databases by setting respective > references and internal linkages; this surely was more of a challenge back > in the days of file cards and hand-written inventory book entries. > > By separating them, you definitely loose "information" - I would keep them > together, unless a specific (research) question requires "disconnection". > > Hope this helps > Dirk > > > Am 16.11.2021 um 14:46 schrieb Callomon,Paul: > > Folks, > > > > I?m working with some interesting questions at the moment and thought I?d > ask for colleagues? input. Look on it as broader service to science or > something. > > > > 1. I?m dealing today with a sea fan (Cnidaria: Alcyonacea) that bears > several wing oysters (Mollusca: Pteriidae) and barnacles (Crustacea: > Cirripeda) as well as a couple of tube worms (Annelida: Polychaeta) and > countless diatoms. As a collections manager, do I physically separate the > individual specimens and send them off to their respective collections > (General Invertebrates [Cnidaria], Mollusca and General Invertebrates > [Crustacea] and [Annelida]) or preserve the assemblage intact? If they were > tigers and snails collected at the same spot, for example, there would be > no problem doing this; but snails don?t live on tigers. > 2. If I choose not to separate them (correctly, I think), then once I > catalog the individual taxa into their respective databases, into which > collection does the assemblage physically go? All four epibionts are > attached to the sea fan, so that would seem to have the best claim to > priority as it?s both a specimen in its own right and a substrate for the > others. The problem there is that our General Invertebrates collection is > not funded, whereas our mollusk collection is. Our neontological > ?departments? are all taxon-based and each has its own community of > curators, managers, associates and researchers as well as its own demands > on space, infrastructure and support. > 3. Most museums divide their Recent collections by taxon as above. > However, this contrasts with Vertebrate and Invertebrate Paleontology, > which are pan-taxonomical disciplines. Our Recent crabs, for example, go in > the Crustacea collection, away from their commensal mollusk chums, but > fossil crabs and mollusks both belong in a single Invertebrate Paleontology > collection, while fossil fishes and mammoths snuggle up in the Vertebrate > Paleontology collection. > 4. How then does the existence and maintenance of neontological > taxon-based collections (Entomology, Malacology, Mammalogy etc) configure > science ? does it encourage the emergence of museum entomologists, > malacologists and mammalogists over, say, benthic ecologists? > > > > Paul Callomon > > Collection Manager, Malacology and General Invertebrates > ------------------------------ > > *Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University* > > 1900 Benjamin Franklin Parkway, Philadelphia PA 19103-1195, USA > *prc44 at drexel.edu* * Tel 215-405-5096 - Fax > 215-299-1170* > > > > _______________________________________________ > Nhcoll-l mailing listNhcoll-l at mailman.yale.eduhttps://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/nhcoll-l > > _______________________________________________ > NHCOLL-L is brought to you by the Society for the Preservation of > Natural History Collections (SPNHC), an international society whose > mission is to improve the preservation, conservation and management of > natural history collections to ensure their continuing value to > society. See http://www.spnhc.org for membership information. > Advertising on NH-COLL-L is inappropriate. > > > -- > > > Dirk Neumann > > Tel: 089 / 8107-111 > Fax: 089 / 8107-300 > neumann(a)snsb.de > > Postanschrift: > > Staatliche Naturwissenschaftliche Sammlungen Bayerns > Zoologische Staatssammlung M?nchen > Dirk Neumann, Sektion Ichthyologie / DNA-Storage > M?nchhausenstr. 21 > 81247 M?nchen > > Besuchen Sie unsere Sammlung: > http://www.zsm.mwn.de/sektion/ichthyologie-home/ > > --------- > > Dirk Neumann > > Tel: +49-89-8107-111 > Fax: +49-89-8107-300 > neumann(a)snsb.de > > postal address: > > Bavarian Natural History Collections > The Bavarian State Collection of Zoology > Dirk Neumann, Section Ichthyology / DNA-Storage > Muenchhausenstr. 21 > 81247 Munich (Germany) > > Visit our section at: > http://www.zsm.mwn.de/sektion/ichthyologie-home/ > > -- Elizabeth Wommack, PhD Curator and Collections Manager of Vertebrates University of Wyoming Museum of Vertebrates Berry Biodiversity Conservation Center University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY 82071 ewommack@ uwyo.edu www.uwymv. org UWYMV Collection Use Policy -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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For a bird, I probably would lose the internal parasites when preparing a skin, so I remove them and save them separately. > > 2. If you keep them together as a group, will they be easy to find in your collection? That is another reason to separate the parasites versus the host in my museum. We do not have a reference system that tells people, look in the bird skin collection if you are interested in parasites. Doesn't mean we couldn't set it up that way, but it would involve some thought process. > > And Dirk is right that our databases now have great ways to record and track these types of relationships. > Check out these examples from Arctos which use relationships to record the type of data you are talking about: > https://arctos.database.museum/guid/DMNS:Bird:44431 (ate and host/parasite) > https://arctos.database.museum/guid/UAM:Ento:378955 (iNaturalist to museum object) > > Assemblages are something I haven't dealt with much in vertebrate collections. I would be really interested to hear how other types of collections use those. > > cheers, > Beth Wommack > > >> On Tue, Nov 16, 2021 at 7:07 AM Dirk Neumann wrote: >> ? This message was sent from a non-UWYO address. Please exercise caution when clicking links or opening attachments from external sources. >> >> >> Hi Paul, >> >> from a database perspective, would this not just be a separate storage collection that would need to be entered for the associated species in their respective taxon-based databases? >> >> In the case of some (Marine) parasites, it would also be very difficult to separate the different organisms, I think the key challenges from a collections management point of view are >> - knowing that these specimens are there >> - and where I could find them (if they are obviously not in the respective taxonomic collection, but still associated with the sea fan) >> >> Also - very classical solution - you could created dummy lots without contents for the respective collections so that there is a physical representation of "the jar", and the printed label says says where to find the object. >> >> Mixed samples (also: eDNA, soil samples) will be difficult to handle in taxon-based collections, but surely will increase (unsorted malaise traps returned from the field would in principle also belong into this category). We can handle this more easily now in our databases by setting respective references and internal linkages; this surely was more of a challenge back in the days of file cards and hand-written inventory book entries. >> >> By separating them, you definitely loose "information" - I would keep them together, unless a specific (research) question requires "disconnection". >> >> Hope this helps >> Dirk >> >> >>> Am 16.11.2021 um 14:46 schrieb Callomon,Paul: >>> Folks, >>> >>> >>> >>> I?m working with some interesting questions at the moment and thought I?d ask for colleagues? input. Look on it as broader service to science or something. >>> >>> >>> >>> I?m dealing today with a sea fan (Cnidaria: Alcyonacea) that bears several wing oysters (Mollusca: Pteriidae) and barnacles (Crustacea: Cirripeda) as well as a couple of tube worms (Annelida: Polychaeta) and countless diatoms. As a collections manager, do I physically separate the individual specimens and send them off to their respective collections (General Invertebrates [Cnidaria], Mollusca and General Invertebrates [Crustacea] and [Annelida]) or preserve the assemblage intact? If they were tigers and snails collected at the same spot, for example, there would be no problem doing this; but snails don?t live on tigers. >>> If I choose not to separate them (correctly, I think), then once I catalog the individual taxa into their respective databases, into which collection does the assemblage physically go? All four epibionts are attached to the sea fan, so that would seem to have the best claim to priority as it?s both a specimen in its own right and a substrate for the others. The problem there is that our General Invertebrates collection is not funded, whereas our mollusk collection is. Our neontological ?departments? are all taxon-based and each has its own community of curators, managers, associates and researchers as well as its own demands on space, infrastructure and support. >>> Most museums divide their Recent collections by taxon as above. However, this contrasts with Vertebrate and Invertebrate Paleontology, which are pan-taxonomical disciplines. Our Recent crabs, for example, go in the Crustacea collection, away from their commensal mollusk chums, but fossil crabs and mollusks both belong in a single Invertebrate Paleontology collection, while fossil fishes and mammoths snuggle up in the Vertebrate Paleontology collection. >>> How then does the existence and maintenance of neontological taxon-based collections (Entomology, Malacology, Mammalogy etc) configure science ? does it encourage the emergence of museum entomologists, malacologists and mammalogists over, say, benthic ecologists? >>> >>> >>> Paul Callomon >>> >>> Collection Manager, Malacology and General Invertebrates >>> >>> Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University >>> >>> 1900 Benjamin Franklin Parkway, Philadelphia PA 19103-1195, USA >>> prc44 at drexel.edu Tel 215-405-5096 - Fax 215-299-1170 >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Nhcoll-l mailing list >>> Nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu >>> https://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/nhcoll-l >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> NHCOLL-L is brought to you by the Society for the Preservation of >>> Natural History Collections (SPNHC), an international society whose >>> mission is to improve the preservation, conservation and management of >>> natural history collections to ensure their continuing value to >>> society. See http://www.spnhc.org for membership information. >>> Advertising on NH-COLL-L is inappropriate. >> >> -- >> >> >> >> Dirk Neumann >> >> Tel: 089 / 8107-111 >> Fax: 089 / 8107-300 >> neumann(a)snsb.de >> >> Postanschrift: >> >> Staatliche Naturwissenschaftliche Sammlungen Bayerns >> Zoologische Staatssammlung M?nchen >> Dirk Neumann, Sektion Ichthyologie / DNA-Storage >> M?nchhausenstr. 21 >> 81247 M?nchen >> >> Besuchen Sie unsere Sammlung: >> http://www.zsm.mwn.de/sektion/ichthyologie-home/ >> >> --------- >> >> Dirk Neumann >> >> Tel: +49-89-8107-111 >> Fax: +49-89-8107-300 >> neumann(a)snsb.de >> >> postal address: >> >> Bavarian Natural History Collections >> The Bavarian State Collection of Zoology >> Dirk Neumann, Section Ichthyology / DNA-Storage >> Muenchhausenstr. 21 >> 81247 Munich (Germany) >> >> Visit our section at: >> http://www.zsm.mwn.de/sektion/ichthyologie-home/ >> >> > > > -- > Elizabeth Wommack, PhD > Curator and Collections Manager of Vertebrates > University of Wyoming Museum of Vertebrates > Berry Biodiversity Conservation Center > University of Wyoming, > Laramie, WY 82071 > ewommack at uwyo.edu > www.uwymv.org > UWYMV Collection Use Policy > > _______________________________________________ > 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 dssikes at alaska.edu Tue Nov 16 12:34:20 2021 From: dssikes at alaska.edu (Derek Sikes) Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2021 08:34:20 -0900 Subject: [Nhcoll-l] Specimens vs assemblies In-Reply-To: References: <168fb546-3a67-76b4-a87b-f100b5b10ca8@snsb.de> Message-ID: I cover some of these issues in a short article: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/340038603_What_is_a_specimen_What_should_we_count_and_report_when_managing_an_entomology_collection The database we use, Arctos, is quite flexible in accommodating such specimens. The most common case is when we get a donation of vials that have had their contents identified to mixed taxa. The most extreme case was a PhD student's voucher collection - each large vial was a bulk sample that he had 1) identified the contents to family and counted all the individuals in each. Thus, one vial of this donation = many different records in our database, one for each lowest identification. This does make it harder to count the collection though. One needs to be very specific about what one wants to count: vials? specimens? lowest identifications? In the case I just mentioned the number of vials would be far lower than the number of identifications and that would be far lower than the number of specimens (eg. 100 vials, 1000 identifications, 10000 specimens). Of course, if we had enough resources we would break these vials out into unmixed vials, which greatly increases their accessibility to further taxon-specific research. Arctos also has an object-tracking system that uses a hierarchical nested container system to keep track of where specimens are. We still organize the collection taxonomically, but for situations like this, it's great to have a parallel system so such a composite lot would be easy to find. And of course as Beth stated, it's simple to record a beetle on a pin with a nematomorph emerging from inside it as two linked database records. One pin, one barcode label, two records, two phyla, two GUIDs. https://arctos.database.museum/guid/UAM:Ento:111995 -Derek On Tue, Nov 16, 2021 at 5:48 AM Elizabeth Wommack wrote: > Hi Paul, > > Interesting problem. With reference to vertebrates I would say it is > potentially closest to when we deal with parasites. Those do live on and in > a vertebrate. > > I would have a couple different things to think about on whether or not I > separate them: > 1. Are you going to lose or damage one of them in the preparation process > of the main organism? For a bird, I probably would lose the internal > parasites when preparing a skin, so I remove them and save them separately. > > 2. If you keep them together as a group, will they be easy to find in your > collection? That is another reason to separate the parasites versus the > host in my museum. We do not have a reference system that tells people, > look in the bird skin collection if you are interested in parasites. > Doesn't mean we couldn't set it up that way, but it would involve some > thought process. > > And Dirk is right that our databases now have great ways to record and > track these types of relationships. > Check out these examples from Arctos which use relationships to record the > type of data you are talking about: > https://arctos.database.museum/guid/DMNS:Bird:44431 (ate and > host/parasite) > https://arctos.database.museum/guid/UAM:Ento:378955 (iNaturalist to > museum object) > > Assemblages are something I haven't dealt with much in vertebrate > collections. I would be really interested to hear how other types of > collections use those. > > cheers, > Beth Wommack > > > On Tue, Nov 16, 2021 at 7:07 AM Dirk Neumann wrote: > >> ? This message was sent from a non-UWYO address. Please exercise caution >> when clicking links or opening attachments from external sources. >> >> Hi Paul, >> >> from a database perspective, would this not just be a separate storage >> collection that would need to be entered for the associated species in >> their respective taxon-based databases? >> >> In the case of some (Marine) parasites, it would also be very difficult >> to separate the different organisms, I think the key challenges from a >> collections management point of view are >> - knowing that these specimens are there >> - and where I could find them (if they are obviously not in the >> respective taxonomic collection, but still associated with the sea fan) >> >> Also - very classical solution - you could created dummy lots without >> contents for the respective collections so that there is a physical >> representation of "the jar", and the printed label says says where to find >> the object. >> >> Mixed samples (also: eDNA, soil samples) will be difficult to handle in >> taxon-based collections, but surely will increase (unsorted malaise traps >> returned from the field would in principle also belong into this category). >> We can handle this more easily now in our databases by setting respective >> references and internal linkages; this surely was more of a challenge back >> in the days of file cards and hand-written inventory book entries. >> >> By separating them, you definitely loose "information" - I would keep >> them together, unless a specific (research) question requires >> "disconnection". >> >> Hope this helps >> Dirk >> >> >> Am 16.11.2021 um 14:46 schrieb Callomon,Paul: >> >> Folks, >> >> >> >> I?m working with some interesting questions at the moment and thought I?d >> ask for colleagues? input. Look on it as broader service to science or >> something. >> >> >> >> 1. I?m dealing today with a sea fan (Cnidaria: Alcyonacea) that bears >> several wing oysters (Mollusca: Pteriidae) and barnacles (Crustacea: >> Cirripeda) as well as a couple of tube worms (Annelida: Polychaeta) and >> countless diatoms. As a collections manager, do I physically separate the >> individual specimens and send them off to their respective collections >> (General Invertebrates [Cnidaria], Mollusca and General Invertebrates >> [Crustacea] and [Annelida]) or preserve the assemblage intact? If they were >> tigers and snails collected at the same spot, for example, there would be >> no problem doing this; but snails don?t live on tigers. >> 2. If I choose not to separate them (correctly, I think), then once I >> catalog the individual taxa into their respective databases, into which >> collection does the assemblage physically go? All four epibionts are >> attached to the sea fan, so that would seem to have the best claim to >> priority as it?s both a specimen in its own right and a substrate for the >> others. The problem there is that our General Invertebrates collection is >> not funded, whereas our mollusk collection is. Our neontological >> ?departments? are all taxon-based and each has its own community of >> curators, managers, associates and researchers as well as its own demands >> on space, infrastructure and support. >> 3. Most museums divide their Recent collections by taxon as above. >> However, this contrasts with Vertebrate and Invertebrate Paleontology, >> which are pan-taxonomical disciplines. Our Recent crabs, for example, go in >> the Crustacea collection, away from their commensal mollusk chums, but >> fossil crabs and mollusks both belong in a single Invertebrate Paleontology >> collection, while fossil fishes and mammoths snuggle up in the Vertebrate >> Paleontology collection. >> 4. How then does the existence and maintenance of neontological >> taxon-based collections (Entomology, Malacology, Mammalogy etc) configure >> science ? does it encourage the emergence of museum entomologists, >> malacologists and mammalogists over, say, benthic ecologists? >> >> >> >> Paul Callomon >> >> Collection Manager, Malacology and General Invertebrates >> ------------------------------ >> >> *Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University* >> >> 1900 Benjamin Franklin Parkway, Philadelphia PA 19103-1195, USA >> *prc44 at drexel.edu* * Tel 215-405-5096 - Fax >> 215-299-1170* >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Nhcoll-l mailing listNhcoll-l at mailman.yale.eduhttps://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/nhcoll-l >> >> _______________________________________________ >> NHCOLL-L is brought to you by the Society for the Preservation of >> Natural History Collections (SPNHC), an international society whose >> mission is to improve the preservation, conservation and management of >> natural history collections to ensure their continuing value to >> society. See http://www.spnhc.org for membership information. >> Advertising on NH-COLL-L is inappropriate. >> >> >> -- >> >> >> Dirk Neumann >> >> Tel: 089 / 8107-111 >> Fax: 089 / 8107-300 >> neumann(a)snsb.de >> >> Postanschrift: >> >> Staatliche Naturwissenschaftliche Sammlungen Bayerns >> Zoologische Staatssammlung M?nchen >> Dirk Neumann, Sektion Ichthyologie / DNA-Storage >> M?nchhausenstr. 21 >> 81247 M?nchen >> >> Besuchen Sie unsere Sammlung: >> http://www.zsm.mwn.de/sektion/ichthyologie-home/ >> >> --------- >> >> Dirk Neumann >> >> Tel: +49-89-8107-111 >> Fax: +49-89-8107-300 >> neumann(a)snsb.de >> >> postal address: >> >> Bavarian Natural History Collections >> The Bavarian State Collection of Zoology >> Dirk Neumann, Section Ichthyology / DNA-Storage >> Muenchhausenstr. 21 >> 81247 Munich (Germany) >> >> Visit our section at: >> http://www.zsm.mwn.de/sektion/ichthyologie-home/ >> >> > > -- > Elizabeth Wommack, PhD > Curator and Collections Manager of Vertebrates > University of Wyoming Museum of Vertebrates > Berry Biodiversity Conservation Center > University of Wyoming, > Laramie, WY 82071 > ewommack@ uwyo.edu > www.uwymv. org > UWYMV Collection Use Policy > > > _______________________________________________ > 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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Advertising for Assistant Professor: https://apol-recruit.ucsd.edu/JPF02926 Or Associate/Full: https://apol-recruit.ucsd.edu/JPF02958 -- The Scripps Institution of Oceanography invites applicants whose research focuses on the biology of marine fishes for an assistant professorial position. Possible research areas include (but are not limited to) evolution, comparative morphology, phylogenetics, biogeography, speciation, genetics, genomics, behavior, ecology, and physiology. The successful candidate will have the ability to interact with colleagues at SIO and other departments within the large and dynamic UCSD campus. We seek applicants with the expertise and desire to teach at the undergraduate and graduate level, including a core graduate course on fish diversity. The successful candidate will be expected to serve as the faculty Curator of the SIO Marine Vertebrate Collection (MVC), for which there is additional salary compensation. Previous curator/collections experience is preferred but not required. The MVC is among the world's preeminent collections of marine fishes maintaining approximately two million alcohol-preserved specimens in over 120,000 lots, representing nearly 6,000 species. It includes worldwide holdings of deep-sea and pelagic fishes as well as extensive holdings of coastal fishes from the entire eastern Pacific. The MVC supports scientific research by providing specimens for studies on fish biology and evolution and plays an integral role in the support of research and graduate and undergraduate education at SIO. The faculty Curator oversees the MVC?s full-time collection manager, actively uses the collection in their research and teaching, and devotes time to raising financial support for the collection. Candidates will be evaluated on their potential ability to establish a vigorous research program, provide intellectual leadership in their field, acquire extramural funds, teach and mentor graduate students, teach in the marine biology undergraduate major, and help build an equitable and diverse scholarly environment. Salary is commensurate with qualifications and based on University of California pay scales. Applicants who are also competitive at the Associate/Full level are encouraged to apply here, as well: https://apol-recruit.ucsd.edu/JPF02958 (Associate/Full Professor). Each position requires a separate submission. We understand that the COVID-19 pandemic may have had a substantial impact on academic productivity. In our academic hiring processes, we will be keeping this in mind as we consider achievement relative to opportunity. We encourage you to reflect on constraints on opportunity in your field that were caused by the events of the pandemic and where applicable, to discuss your achievements in this light. SIO is a world-renowned center of solid Earth, planetary, oceanographic, biological, and atmospheric research with over 200 principal investigators leading research programs. SIO is part of the University of California, San Diego, which is one of the top research universities in the world. We are committed to academic excellence and diversity within the faculty, staff, and student community. 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URL: From gali.beiner at mail.huji.ac.il Wed Nov 17 08:53:15 2021 From: gali.beiner at mail.huji.ac.il (Gali Beiner) Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2021 15:53:15 +0200 Subject: [Nhcoll-l] (no subject) In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Hi Marta (and all NHCOLL-listers), Just to let you know that my article (following the presentation I gave on the same subject during the conference on preservation of natural history wet collections in Paris, Dec 2018) is available to read: Labels for Eternity: Testing Printed Labels for use in Wet Collections | Collection Forum (allenpress.com) https://doi.org/10.14351/0831-4985-34.1.101 *Collection Forum* (2020) 34 (1): 101?113. Printers for wet collections are an interesting subject. I'm afraid that there are no 100% certain answers here. Best wishes, Gali On Wed, Nov 17, 2021 at 11:44 AM Marta P?rez wrote: > Dear colleagues, > > Any news regarding print system for wet collections? Thermal transfer > printing using a thermal transfer printer and spun bound polyester labels > is still the best option? And what about brands, Datamax is still the first > choice? Also in Europe? > > Thanks! > Marta P?rez Azc?rate > *Laboratori de Conservaci? Preventiva i Restauraci?* > Grop > > Nat-Museu de Ci?ncies Naturals de Barcelona > *Laboratori de Natura* > Pg Picasso s/n > 08003 Barcelona > Tel. 932562209 > marta.perez.cr at gmail.com > > https://museuciencies.cat/area-cientifica/serveis-cientifico-tecnics/laboratoris-tecnics/conservacio-preventiva-i-restauracio/ > > _______________________________________________ > 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. > -- Gali Beiner (ACR) Conservator, Palaeontology Lab National Natural History Collections The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Berman Building, Edmond J. Safra campus, Givat Ram Jerusalem 91904, Israel Fax. 972-2-6585785 *gali.beiner at mail.huji.ac.il * *https://nnhc.huji.ac.il/?lang=en * -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From abentley at ku.edu Wed Nov 17 09:41:48 2021 From: abentley at ku.edu (Bentley, Andrew Charles) Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2021 14:41:48 +0000 Subject: [Nhcoll-l] (no subject) In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Hi Marta We are still very happy with our thermal transfer printer label system here. The material seems to be holding up extremely well in real world scenarios in wet collections for ichthyology and herpetology here and we are not seeing any of the issues highlighted in Gali's paper. I have examined 10 year old labels from our collection and they look identical to a new label printed today. Our Datamax printer has also held up extremely well. We have had it for over 7 years and have not had a single tissue with it. I do know that the printer that we have (the Datamax I-class Mark III 400dpi with ethernet and cutter options) has reached end of life and is no longer available but there are replacement options - see attached. I do not however have any experience with these newer models. I do however suspect that they are just as robust. I also do not know what availability of these printers or the media is like in Europe. The initial expense of this system can be daunting but I consider it money well spent and well worth it. Hope that helps 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 ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3093-1258 http://ichthyology.biodiversity.ku.edu A : A : A : }<(((_?>.,.,.,.}<(((_?>.,.,.,.}<)))_?> V V V From: Nhcoll-l On Behalf Of Marta P?rez Sent: Wednesday, November 17, 2021 3:41 AM To: nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu Subject: [Nhcoll-l] (no subject) Dear colleagues, Any news regarding print system for wet collections? Thermal transfer printing using a thermal transfer printer and spun bound polyester labels is still the best option? And what about brands, Datamax is still the first choice? Also in Europe? Thanks! Marta P?rez Azc?rate Laboratori de Conservaci? Preventiva i Restauraci? Grop Nat-Museu de Ci?ncies Naturals de Barcelona Laboratori de Natura Pg Picasso s/n 08003 Barcelona Tel. 932562209 marta.perez.cr at gmail.com https://museuciencies.cat/area-cientifica/serveis-cientifico-tecnics/laboratoris-tecnics/conservacio-preventiva-i-restauracio/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: Datamax PM43.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 627030 bytes Desc: Datamax PM43.pdf URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: Datamax PX940.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 278271 bytes Desc: Datamax PX940.pdf URL: From jegelewicz at yahoo.com Wed Nov 17 11:52:38 2021 From: jegelewicz at yahoo.com (Teresa Mayfield) Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2021 09:52:38 -0700 Subject: [Nhcoll-l] Specimens vs assemblies References: Message-ID: Paul, Sorry for the long-winded response! As a collections manager, do I physically separate the individual specimens > and send them off to their respective collections (General Invertebrates > [Cnidaria], Mollusca and General Invertebrates [Crustacea] and [Annelida]) > or preserve the assemblage intact? I would preserve them intact. once I catalog the individual taxa into their respective databases, into > which collection does the assemblage physically go? All four epibionts are > attached to the sea fan, so that would seem to have the best claim > to priority as it's both a specimen in its own right and a substrate for > the others. The problem there is that our General Invertebrates collection > is not funded, whereas our mollusk collection is. Our neontological > departments are all taxon-based and each has its own community of curators, > managers, associates and researchers as well as its own demands on space, > infrastructure and support. Ah, a social problem - sort of. Who is willing to care for the entire assemblage and if willing do they have the resources to do so? I don't have a good answer here but it does highlight the inequalities between collections held by a single institution - this is something for institution-wide discussion. Who decides what is important? How then does the existence and maintenance of neontological taxon-based > collections (Entomology, Malacology, Mammalogy etc) configure science? Does > it encourage the emergence of museum entomologists, malacologists and > mammalogists over, say, benthic ecologists? Another social issue. We have institutions that physically manage everything as if it is a single collection (mostly due to lack of resources) but they still tend to separate their digital catalogs in Arctos as you have outlined above. I don't think any method is better than the other as long as someone studying crabs in the Crustacea collection will find the ones that are part of your mollusk collection and the other way around. Using a single database system throughout an institution is one step to making discoverability better, the other is using an object tracking system to denote storage locations so that one can find the crabs no matter which curator/collection manager is handling them. Adios, Teresa J. Mayfield-Meyer *Arctos Community Coordinator* *ORCiD - 0000-0002-1970-7044 * It's not dead if it has data! -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From acohen at austin.utexas.edu Wed Nov 17 13:47:47 2021 From: acohen at austin.utexas.edu (Adam Cohen (Univ. TX)) Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2021 12:47:47 -0600 Subject: [Nhcoll-l] has anyone automated the counting and/or measuring of specimens from photos? Message-ID: Counting fish and measuring (smallest and largest) specimens in each jar has become part of our standard procedure. Unfortunately it is one of the most time consuming steps in our workflow. I am looking for ways of speeding this up. Has anyone tried using counting apps like CountThings ( https://countthings.com/en/). I tried it and was not initially impressed - counts were way off. But, they are now developing a fish specimen counting template based on ~50 specimen images I sent them. So now I am starting to seriously consider how we might include this in our workflow. Are there other apps out there being used to count specimens? Are they accurate? Perhaps there are programs out there that allow automated measuring of specimens based on images of specimens that also include a scale bar? I started exploring ImageJ (https://imagej.nih.gov/ij/index.html), which does this via a multi-step (multi click) process and unless it can be applied in bulk somehow, I think it will take more time than using calipers by hand. I see there are a bunch of plugins that I have not begun to explore. To date our counting and measuring has always preceded cataloging so that we can get those data included in the database and printed on our formal jar labels. I am now imagining, cataloging and leaving those fields empty initially while we photograph the contents of each jar, developing an archive of images. Then, periodically we could apply a procedure to the images in bulk that would extract counts and ideally measures. I'd be interested in any thoughts about any aspect of this topic. Adam ------------------------- Adam E. Cohen Ichthyology Collection Manager Biodiversity Collections (Texas Natural History Collections), University of Texas, 10100 Burnet Rd., PRC176/R4000 Austin, Texas 78758-4445 U.S.A. Phone: Cell: 512 970 2479 | Office: 512 471-8845 | Lab: 512 471-4823 Websites: TNHCIchthyology | Fishes of Texas -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From lls94 at cornell.edu Wed Nov 17 14:46:44 2021 From: lls94 at cornell.edu (Leslie L Skibinski) Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2021 19:46:44 +0000 Subject: [Nhcoll-l] DAMs providers Message-ID: Hello everyone, We are exploring Data Asset Management systems (DAMs) for small to mid-size institutions. I know of at least one institution that is using ResourceSpace. Is anyone else using that system? We are exploring our options and would like to know what others are doing, and the pros and cons of different systems. Thanks. --Leslie Leslie L. Skibinski Collections Manager Paleontological Research Institution 1259 Trumansburg Road Ithaca, New York 14850 Ph. (607) 273-6623 ext. 128 Fax: (607) 273-6620 Leslie L. Skibinski Collections Manager Paleontological Research Institution 1259 Trumansburg Road Ithaca, New York 14850 Ph. (607) 273-6623 ext. 128 Fax: (607) 273-6620 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Tonya.Haff at csiro.au Wed Nov 17 17:32:52 2021 From: Tonya.Haff at csiro.au (Haff, Tonya (NCMI, Crace)) Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2021 22:32:52 +0000 Subject: [Nhcoll-l] vials for storing insects in ETOH Message-ID: Hello all, We are planning on rehousing our collection of vertebrate parasites in ETOH (a range of invertebrate taxa) before we move to our new building in a few years. The goal is to: a) make the specimens safer from accidental dehydration; and b) save space and alcohol volume. The collection is currently housed in McCartney vials. They are good but do eventually fail, and dry out rapidly when they do. In addition, there are many specimens that could be housed in much smaller containers, which would save lots of space, if it were appropriate to do so. Our plan is to move specimens and labels into smaller vials, filled with alcohol, and then to place those smaller vials into 2L jars topped with ETOH. Jars would be organised taxonomically and with a large label inside the jar so specimens will still be easy to find (though it will probably be annoying to have to go through the whole jar but hey ho). But we think this solution offers greater storage/space potential and should allow us so safely preserve smaller specimens in smaller vials, without the risk of dehydration. My question regards vial tops. Right now we are planning on using LDPE push top lids (into soda glass vials). I think this should be fine, but I just wanted to collect the collective mind to see if anyone had any thoughts on this to offer? It's the lids that I am wondering about. The only alternative I can think of is to use cotton stoppers instead, but I worry that cotton is too 'catchy' for invertebrates and might lead to damage. We could get screw top lids, but they are wadded and I am not sure what the lid material is (but it is black so maybe Bakelite?). The specimens will be housed in a climate-controlled vault at 18C and 50% rH, so I think there shouldn't be any issues of lids popping out because of temperature changes, etc (though that thought does make me feel nervous I admit). Thanks in advance and apologies for the very long email! Cheers, Tonya -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From couteaufin at btinternet.com Wed Nov 17 17:49:58 2021 From: couteaufin at btinternet.com (Simon Moore) Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2021 22:49:58 +0000 Subject: [Nhcoll-l] vials for storing insects in ETOH In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <7124E57E-2E5B-4B66-84C7-4C5DAB358F80@btinternet.com> Hi Tonya, When I was last doing this kind of work (about 20 years ago) I used nylon ribbed caps and these were inserted (inverted) into larger jars. When I last looked at them (one year ago) they were still holding up well with no noticeable evaporation. With all good wishes, Simon Simon Moore MIScT, RSci, FLS, ACR Conservator of Natural Sciences and Cutlery Historian, www.natural-history-conservation.com > On 17 Nov 2021, at 22:32, Haff, Tonya (NCMI, Crace) wrote: > > Hello all, > > We are planning on rehousing our collection of vertebrate parasites in ETOH (a range of invertebrate taxa) before we move to our new building in a few years. The goal is to: a) make the specimens safer from accidental dehydration; and b) save space and alcohol volume. The collection is currently housed in McCartney vials. They are good but do eventually fail, and dry out rapidly when they do. In addition, there are many specimens that could be housed in much smaller containers, which would save lots of space, if it were appropriate to do so. > > Our plan is to move specimens and labels into smaller vials, filled with alcohol, and then to place those smaller vials into 2L jars topped with ETOH. Jars would be organised taxonomically and with a large label inside the jar so specimens will still be easy to find (though it will probably be annoying to have to go through the whole jar but hey ho). But we think this solution offers greater storage/space potential and should allow us so safely preserve smaller specimens in smaller vials, without the risk of dehydration. > > My question regards vial tops. Right now we are planning on using LDPE push top lids (into soda glass vials). I think this should be fine, but I just wanted to collect the collective mind to see if anyone had any thoughts on this to offer? It's the lids that I am wondering about. The only alternative I can think of is to use cotton stoppers instead, but I worry that cotton is too 'catchy' for invertebrates and might lead to damage. We could get screw top lids, but they are wadded and I am not sure what the lid material is (but it is black so maybe Bakelite?). > > The specimens will be housed in a climate-controlled vault at 18C and 50% rH, so I think there shouldn't be any issues of lids popping out because of temperature changes, etc (though that thought does make me feel nervous I admit). > > Thanks in advance and apologies for the very long email! > > Cheers, > > Tonya > _______________________________________________ > 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: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: PastedGraphic-2.tiff Type: image/tiff Size: 38900 bytes Desc: not available URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: MA logo.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 19375 bytes Desc: not available URL: From abentley at ku.edu Wed Nov 17 17:57:59 2021 From: abentley at ku.edu (Bentley, Andrew Charles) Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2021 22:57:59 +0000 Subject: [Nhcoll-l] vials for storing insects in ETOH In-Reply-To: <7124E57E-2E5B-4B66-84C7-4C5DAB358F80@btinternet.com> References: <7124E57E-2E5B-4B66-84C7-4C5DAB358F80@btinternet.com> Message-ID: Tonya Here at KU, out entomology division is doing similar by placing vials into larger jars for more efficient storage. However, instead of using caps, they are using polyester batting to stopper each vial which has the advantage of allowing alcohol exchange between each individual vial and the surrounding alcohol in the jar. A small wad of the batting inserted into the top of the vial provides a good barrier - https://www.amazon.com/Fairfield-Poly-Premium-Fiber-32-Ounce/dp/B004ALQ0M2. The material is not affected by alcohol and does not break down. I can send images if it would help 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 ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3093-1258 http://ichthyology.biodiversity.ku.edu A : A : A : }<(((_?>.,.,.,.}<(((_?>.,.,.,.}<)))_?> V V V From: Nhcoll-l On Behalf Of Simon Moore Sent: Wednesday, November 17, 2021 4:50 PM To: Haff, Tonya (NCMI, Crace) Cc: NHCOLL-new Subject: Re: [Nhcoll-l] vials for storing insects in ETOH Hi Tonya, When I was last doing this kind of work (about 20 years ago) I used nylon ribbed caps and these were inserted (inverted) into larger jars. When I last looked at them (one year ago) they were still holding up well with no noticeable evaporation. With all good wishes, Simon Simon Moore MIScT, RSci, FLS, ACR Conservator of Natural Sciences and Cutlery Historian, www.natural-history-conservation.com [cid:image001.png at 01D7DBD4.0FC35C10][cid:image002.jpg at 01D7DBD4.0FC35C10] On 17 Nov 2021, at 22:32, Haff, Tonya (NCMI, Crace) > wrote: Hello all, We are planning on rehousing our collection of vertebrate parasites in ETOH (a range of invertebrate taxa) before we move to our new building in a few years. The goal is to: a) make the specimens safer from accidental dehydration; and b) save space and alcohol volume. The collection is currently housed in McCartney vials. They are good but do eventually fail, and dry out rapidly when they do. In addition, there are many specimens that could be housed in much smaller containers, which would save lots of space, if it were appropriate to do so. Our plan is to move specimens and labels into smaller vials, filled with alcohol, and then to place those smaller vials into 2L jars topped with ETOH. Jars would be organised taxonomically and with a large label inside the jar so specimens will still be easy to find (though it will probably be annoying to have to go through the whole jar but hey ho). But we think this solution offers greater storage/space potential and should allow us so safely preserve smaller specimens in smaller vials, without the risk of dehydration. My question regards vial tops. Right now we are planning on using LDPE push top lids (into soda glass vials). I think this should be fine, but I just wanted to collect the collective mind to see if anyone had any thoughts on this to offer? It's the lids that I am wondering about. The only alternative I can think of is to use cotton stoppers instead, but I worry that cotton is too 'catchy' for invertebrates and might lead to damage. We could get screw top lids, but they are wadded and I am not sure what the lid material is (but it is black so maybe Bakelite?). The specimens will be housed in a climate-controlled vault at 18C and 50% rH, so I think there shouldn't be any issues of lids popping out because of temperature changes, etc (though that thought does make me feel nervous I admit). Thanks in advance and apologies for the very long email! Cheers, Tonya _______________________________________________ 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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Simmons Writer and Museum Consultant Museologica *and* Associate Curator of Collections Earth and Mineral Science Museum & Art Gallery Penn State University *and* Investigador Asociado, Departamento de Ornitologia Museo de Historia Natural, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima On Wed, Nov 17, 2021 at 5:58 PM Bentley, Andrew Charles wrote: > Tonya > > > > Here at KU, out entomology division is doing similar by placing vials into > larger jars for more efficient storage. However, instead of using caps, > they are using polyester batting to stopper each vial which has the > advantage of allowing alcohol exchange between each individual vial and the > surrounding alcohol in the jar. A small wad of the batting inserted into > the top of the vial provides a good barrier - > https://www.amazon.com/Fairfield-Poly-Premium-Fiber-32-Ounce/dp/B004ALQ0M2. > The material is not affected by alcohol and does not break down. > > > > I can send images if it would help > > > > 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 > > ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3093-1258 > > http://ichthyology.biodiversity.ku.edu > > A : A : A : > }<(((_?>.,.,.,.}<(((_?>.,.,.,.}<)))_?> > V V V > > > > *From:* Nhcoll-l * On Behalf Of *Simon > Moore > *Sent:* Wednesday, November 17, 2021 4:50 PM > *To:* Haff, Tonya (NCMI, Crace) > *Cc:* NHCOLL-new > *Subject:* Re: [Nhcoll-l] vials for storing insects in ETOH > > > > Hi Tonya, > > > > When I was last doing this kind of work (about 20 years ago) I used nylon > ribbed caps and these were inserted (inverted) into larger jars. When I > last looked at them (one year ago) they were still holding up well with no > noticeable evaporation. > > > > With all good wishes, Simon > > Simon Moore MIScT, RSci, FLS, ACR > Conservator of Natural Sciences and Cutlery Historian, > > www.natural-history-conservation.com > > > > > > On 17 Nov 2021, at 22:32, Haff, Tonya (NCMI, Crace) > wrote: > > Hello all, > > We are planning on rehousing our collection of vertebrate parasites in > ETOH (a range of invertebrate taxa) before we move to our new building in a > few years. The goal is to: a) make the specimens safer from accidental > dehydration; and b) save space and alcohol volume. The collection is > currently housed in McCartney vials. They are good but do eventually fail, > and dry out rapidly when they do. In addition, there are many specimens > that could be housed in much smaller containers, which would save lots of > space, if it were appropriate to do so. > > Our plan is to move specimens and labels into smaller vials, filled with > alcohol, and then to place those smaller vials into 2L jars topped with > ETOH. Jars would be organised taxonomically and with a large label inside > the jar so specimens will still be easy to find (though it will probably be > annoying to have to go through the whole jar but hey ho). But we think this > solution offers greater storage/space potential and should allow us so > safely preserve smaller specimens in smaller vials, without the risk of > dehydration. > > My question regards vial tops. Right now we are planning on using LDPE > push top lids (into soda glass vials). I think this should be fine, but I > just wanted to collect the collective mind to see if anyone had any > thoughts on this to offer? It's the lids that I am wondering about. The > only alternative I can think of is to use cotton stoppers instead, but > I worry that cotton is too 'catchy' for invertebrates and might lead to > damage. We could get screw top lids, but they are wadded and I am not sure > what the lid material is (but it is black so maybe Bakelite?). > > The specimens will be housed in a climate-controlled vault at 18C and 50% > rH, so I think there shouldn't be any issues of lids popping out because of > temperature changes, etc (though that thought does make me feel nervous I > admit). > > Thanks in advance and apologies for the very long email! > > Cheers, > > Tonya > _______________________________________________ > 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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So, what we did was to buy several thousand hospital-grade Vacutainer serum glass test tubes with red rubber "injection port" stoppers, designed to be used by hypodermic puncture of the stopper. It turns out that the little 1-dram shell vials that we already had in stock by the tens of thousands (and a few larger sizes of shell vials) are *the exact same diameter* as these standard blood sample test tubes, and those stoppers fit perfectly. We removed the stoppers from the test tubes, transferred all of the contents of the old vials into shell vials, and put the stoppers in by inserting a hypodermic needle in the cap to release the pressure and then sealing the vials. While this did leave us with thousands and thousands of useless test tubes, it was - for whatever odd reason - *significantly* cheaper to buy test tubes with stoppers in them than it was to just buy the exact same stoppers in bulk. At the time, I think it was only about 15 dollars per 100 test tubes, and about 50 cents per stopper. Looking online now, those stoppers appear to sell for 85 cents each, and the Vacutainer tubes with those exact stoppers are 35 dollars per 100. Go figure. That was 15 years ago now, and the stoppers are in perfect shape, and we haven't lost a milliliter of ethanol, cumulative - except for the two or three vials that have been opened in those 15 years. I would rate this as an incredible success, with the one qualification being that you can't put the stoppers back without using a hypodermic needle to release the pressure. That's why, for a very actively-used collection, this approach might create some real headaches. The old neoprene stoppers (we had black ones, green ones, and gray ones) all seemed to swell up or even dissolve from prolonged contact with ethanol, but these red ones show no signs of any problems to date, and maybe they are actually archival. It may take another 25 years or so to be certain. Regardless, we have no more vials with neoprene stoppers or plastic stoppers. More heavily-used parts of our collections that are kept at room temperature utilize either the "many vials inside a bigger vial" system that many people practice, or use screw-cap vials with cone-shaped plastic cap inserts that drastically reduce evaporation. We use different storage systems for ethanol samples kept in the freezer, and evaporation isn't an issue. I don't have all of the specs and supplier and manufacturer data handy, but anyone seriously interested should not have too much difficulty figuring out how to do the same thing we did. Peace, -- Doug Yanega Dept. of Entomology Entomology Research Museum Univ. of California, Riverside, CA 92521-0314 skype: dyanega phone: (951) 827-4315 (disclaimer: opinions are mine, not UCR's) https://faculty.ucr.edu/~heraty/yanega.html "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method" - Herman Melville, Moby Dick, Chap. 82 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From neumann at snsb.de Thu Nov 18 02:46:09 2021 From: neumann at snsb.de (Dirk Neumann) Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2021 08:46:09 +0100 Subject: [Nhcoll-l] vials for storing insects in ETOH In-Reply-To: References: <7124E57E-2E5B-4B66-84C7-4C5DAB358F80@btinternet.com> Message-ID: Dear Tonya, adding to Andy and John and picking up what Doug said, there are two main points to consider: Firstly, as John mentioned, the (plastic) stoppers fail, which often means that they start to melt down or release chemicals (e.g. softeners), which, because of small volumes inside tubes, might trigger secondary reactions that can harm contained material rapidly (e.g. rubber-based stoppers melting into vials and specimens, softeners changing chemical equilibria, etc. ). Because jars are packed with tubes, it is difficult to monitor this, because usually you only look to the outer vials, but rarely those in the middle of the jar (unless you would remove all smaller jars inside the jar, which nobody does, I assume). Secondly, it might be worth taking the glass tubes themselves in consideration as well. Soda-lime glass tends to release alkaline ions, which can create very reactive surface layers on the glass surfaces inside these tubes. While this is not so much of a problem for larger specimens as fish, the contact surface of small invertebrates with containers walls is much larger. Our Entomology here in Munich therefore relies on borosilicate tubes. There are various producers for such borosilicate test tubes. This basically matches the conservational recommendations of the KUR-Project of colleagues in Berlin for the restoration of their fluid collections (only in German, here is a DeepL-translation of the relevant section): Store smaller preparations in borosilicate tubes with cotton wool stoppers (KERMA company) (for spiked preparations (for spiked specimens wrap stopper with Japanese paper from PAPER NAO) to prevent contact with highly reactive soda lime glass weathering layer, - Minimum volume for collection jars 200 ml as safety against desiccation. Hope this help Dirk Am 18.11.2021 um 00:01 schrieb John E Simmons: > I second Andy's recommendation of the polyester fiber plugs. They are > far easier to work with and rarely come out of the vials if inserted > correctly. Compressible stoppers, soft flexible lids, and rigid lids > will all fail over time. > > --John > > John E. Simmons > Writer and Museum Consultant > Museologica > /and/ > Associate Curator of Collections > Earth and Mineral Science Museum & Art Gallery > Penn State Universitybatting > /and/ > Investigador Asociado, Departamento de Ornitologia > Museo de Historia Natural, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima > > > On Wed, Nov 17, 2021 at 5:58 PM Bentley, Andrew Charles > wrote: > > Tonya > > Here at KU, out entomology division is doing similar by placing > vials into larger jars for more efficient storage.? However, > instead of using caps, they are using polyester batting to stopper > each vial which has the advantage of allowing alcohol exchange > between each individual vial and the surrounding alcohol in the > jar.? A small wad of the batting inserted into the top of the vial > provides a good barrier - > https://www.amazon.com/Fairfield-Poly-Premium-Fiber-32-Ounce/dp/B004ALQ0M2. > The material is not affected by alcohol and does not break down. > > I can send images if it would help > > 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 > > ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3093-1258 > > > http://ichthyology.biodiversity.ku.edu > > > ? ? A? :???????????? A :???????????? A? : > ?}<(((_?>.,.,.,.}<(((_?>.,.,.,.}<)))_?> > ??? V??????????????? V??????????????? V > > *From:* Nhcoll-l *On Behalf Of > *Simon Moore > *Sent:* Wednesday, November 17, 2021 4:50 PM > *To:* Haff, Tonya (NCMI, Crace) > *Cc:* NHCOLL-new > *Subject:* Re: [Nhcoll-l] vials for storing insects in ETOH > > Hi Tonya, > > When I was last doing this kind of work (about 20 years ago) I > used nylon ribbed caps and these were inserted (inverted) into > larger jars.? When I last looked at them (one year ago) they were > still holding up well with no noticeable evaporation. > > With all good wishes, Simon > > Simon Moore MIScT, RSci, FLS,?ACR > Conservator of Natural Sciences?and?Cutlery Historian, > > www.natural-history-conservation.com > > > > > > On 17 Nov 2021, at 22:32, Haff, Tonya (NCMI, Crace) > wrote: > > Hello all, > > We are planning on rehousing our collection of vertebrate > parasites in ETOH (a range of invertebrate taxa) before > we?move to our new building in a few years. The goal is to: a) > make the specimens safer from accidental dehydration;?and b) > save space and alcohol volume. The collection is currently > housed in McCartney vials. They are good but do?eventually > fail, and dry out rapidly when they do. In addition, there are > many specimens that could be housed in?much smaller > containers, which would save lots of space, if it were > appropriate to do so. > > Our plan is to move specimens and labels into smaller vials, > filled with alcohol, and then to place those smaller > vials?into 2L jars topped with ETOH. Jars would be organised > taxonomically and with a large label inside the jar > so?specimens will still be easy to find (though it will > probably be annoying to have to go through the whole jar but > hey?ho). But we think this solution offers greater > storage/space potential and should allow us so safely preserve > smaller?specimens in smaller vials, without the risk of > dehydration. > > My question regards vial tops. Right now we are planning on > using LDPE push top lids (into soda glass vials). I think?this > should be fine, but I just wanted to collect the collective > mind to see if anyone had any thoughts on this to offer??It's > the lids that I am wondering about. The only alternative I can > think of is to use cotton stoppers instead, but I?worry that > cotton is too 'catchy' for invertebrates and might lead to > damage. We could get screw top lids, but they are?wadded and I > am not sure what the lid material is (but it is black so maybe > Bakelite?). > > The specimens will be housed in a climate-controlled vault at > 18C and 50% rH, so I think there shouldn't be any issues?of > lids popping out because of temperature changes, etc (though > that thought does make me feel nervous I admit). > > Thanks in advance and apologies for the very long email! > > Cheers, > > Tonya > _______________________________________________ > Nhcoll-l mailing list > Nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu > https://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/nhcoll-l > > _______________________________________________ > NHCOLL-L is brought to you by the Society for the Preservation of > Natural History Collections (SPNHC), an international society > whose > mission is to improve the preservation, conservation and > management of > natural history collections to ensure their continuing value to > society. 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The discussion about polyester batting is interesting but I have always found that with arthropods, the tiny tarsi tend to get hooked in fibrous closures and get withdrawn from the tube when removing the closure. So far, I have not found nylon to degrade after c. 30 years - has anyone else used this material? With all good wishes, Simon Simon Moore MIScT, RSci, FLS, ACR Conservator of Natural Sciences and Cutlery Historian, www.natural-history-conservation.com > On 18 Nov 2021, at 07:46, Dirk Neumann wrote: > > Dear Tonya, > > adding to Andy and John and picking up what Doug said, there are two main points to consider: > > Firstly, as John mentioned, the (plastic) stoppers fail, which often means that they start to melt down or release chemicals (e.g. softeners), which, because of small volumes inside tubes, might trigger secondary reactions that can harm contained material rapidly (e.g. rubber-based stoppers melting into vials and specimens, softeners changing chemical equilibria, etc. ). Because jars are packed with tubes, it is difficult to monitor this, because usually you only look to the outer vials, but rarely those in the middle of the jar (unless you would remove all smaller jars inside the jar, which nobody does, I assume). > > Secondly, it might be worth taking the glass tubes themselves in consideration as well. Soda-lime glass tends to release alkaline ions, which can create very reactive surface layers on the glass surfaces inside these tubes. While this is not so much of a problem for larger specimens as fish, the contact surface of small invertebrates with containers walls is much larger. Our Entomology here in Munich therefore relies on borosilicate tubes. There are various producers for such borosilicate test tubes. > > This basically matches the conservational recommendations of the KUR-Project of colleagues in Berlin for the restoration of their fluid collections (only in German, here is a DeepL-translation of the relevant section): > > Store smaller preparations in borosilicate tubes with cotton wool stoppers (KERMA company) (for spiked preparations > (for spiked specimens wrap stopper with Japanese paper from PAPER NAO) to prevent contact with highly reactive > soda lime glass weathering layer, > - Minimum volume for collection jars 200 ml as safety against desiccation. > > Hope this help > Dirk > > > Am 18.11.2021 um 00:01 schrieb John E Simmons: >> I second Andy's recommendation of the polyester fiber plugs. They are far easier to work with and rarely come out of the vials if inserted correctly. Compressible stoppers, soft flexible lids, and rigid lids will all fail over time. >> >> --John >> >> John E. Simmons >> Writer and Museum Consultant >> Museologica >> and >> Associate Curator of Collections >> Earth and Mineral Science Museum & Art Gallery >> Penn State Universitybatting >> and >> Investigador Asociado, Departamento de Ornitologia >> Museo de Historia Natural, Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos, Lima >> >> >> On Wed, Nov 17, 2021 at 5:58 PM Bentley, Andrew Charles wrote: >> Tonya >> >> >> Here at KU, out entomology division is doing similar by placing vials into larger jars for more efficient storage. However, instead of using caps, they are using polyester batting to stopper each vial which has the advantage of allowing alcohol exchange between each individual vial and the surrounding alcohol in the jar. A small wad of the batting inserted into the top of the vial provides a good barrier - https://www.amazon.com/Fairfield-Poly-Premium-Fiber-32-Ounce/dp/B004ALQ0M2. The material is not affected by alcohol and does not break down. >> >> >> I can send images if it would help >> >> >> 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 >> >> ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3093-1258 >> >> http://ichthyology.biodiversity.ku.edu >> >> A : A : A : >> }<(((_?>.,.,.,.}<(((_?>.,.,.,.}<)))_?> >> V V V >> >> >> From: Nhcoll-l On Behalf Of Simon Moore >> Sent: Wednesday, November 17, 2021 4:50 PM >> To: Haff, Tonya (NCMI, Crace) >> Cc: NHCOLL-new >> Subject: Re: [Nhcoll-l] vials for storing insects in ETOH >> >> >> Hi Tonya, >> >> >> When I was last doing this kind of work (about 20 years ago) I used nylon ribbed caps and these were inserted (inverted) into larger jars. When I last looked at them (one year ago) they were still holding up well with no noticeable evaporation. >> >> >> With all good wishes, Simon >> >> Simon Moore MIScT, RSci, FLS, ACR >> Conservator of Natural Sciences and Cutlery Historian, >> >> www.natural-history-conservation.com >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> On 17 Nov 2021, at 22:32, Haff, Tonya (NCMI, Crace) wrote: >> >> Hello all, >> >> We are planning on rehousing our collection of vertebrate parasites in ETOH (a range of invertebrate taxa) before we move to our new building in a few years. The goal is to: a) make the specimens safer from accidental dehydration; and b) save space and alcohol volume. The collection is currently housed in McCartney vials. They are good but do eventually fail, and dry out rapidly when they do. In addition, there are many specimens that could be housed in much smaller containers, which would save lots of space, if it were appropriate to do so. >> >> Our plan is to move specimens and labels into smaller vials, filled with alcohol, and then to place those smaller vials into 2L jars topped with ETOH. Jars would be organised taxonomically and with a large label inside the jar so specimens will still be easy to find (though it will probably be annoying to have to go through the whole jar but hey ho). But we think this solution offers greater storage/space potential and should allow us so safely preserve smaller specimens in smaller vials, without the risk of dehydration. >> >> My question regards vial tops. Right now we are planning on using LDPE push top lids (into soda glass vials). I think this should be fine, but I just wanted to collect the collective mind to see if anyone had any thoughts on this to offer? It's the lids that I am wondering about. The only alternative I can think of is to use cotton stoppers instead, but I worry that cotton is too 'catchy' for invertebrates and might lead to damage. We could get screw top lids, but they are wadded and I am not sure what the lid material is (but it is black so maybe Bakelite?). >> >> The specimens will be housed in a climate-controlled vault at 18C and 50% rH, so I think there shouldn't be any issues of lids popping out because of temperature changes, etc (though that thought does make me feel nervous I admit). >> >> Thanks in advance and apologies for the very long email! >> >> Cheers, >> >> Tonya >> _______________________________________________ >> Nhcoll-l mailing list >> Nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu >> https://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/nhcoll-l >> >> _______________________________________________ >> NHCOLL-L is brought to you by the Society for the Preservation of >> Natural History Collections (SPNHC), an international society whose >> mission is to improve the preservation, conservation and management of >> natural history collections to ensure their continuing value to >> society. 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This is finer than polyester batting and thus less likely to snag the specimen; if the plug is made by first rolling the wool into a sausage and then folding it double and pushing the butt end into the vial opening (like a Kielbasa, extending the metaphor) there are few open fibers facing the specimen. Rehousing some 1850s lots recently gave me a chance to test the cotton for strength and confirmed that it is effectively inert in alcohol, though not in air. See https://www.researchgate.net/publication/308079611_An_alternative_to_gelatin_capsules_in_natural_history_collections Given that a vial is going to be submerged in ethanol, though, maybe one could use rolled paper as a stopper - perfectly stable, very cheap. Lollipop sticks (Chupa-chups and the like) are just rolled white paper, and expand slightly when wet - sliced up, they might make great micro-vial stoppers. - We used to keep multiple lots in common jars, as Tonya proposed, and still don't automatically counsel against it. There are economic advantages in terms of space and material costs and the time-saving element of only having to check one lid for dozens of specimens, but there might be long-term issues with sharing fluid via permeable internal barriers, such as the migration of lipids, radio-isotopes and even DNA between lots that could one day give a false signal in analysis. Placing multiple lots in a common jar but giving each one an impermeable stopper keeps them separate and means that the surrounding fluid is simply a secondary safety measure in case the internal stoppers fail. However, the stability in ethanol of any post-1980s plastic compound across museum-scale time periods is still not guaranteed. Paul Callomon Collection Manager, Malacology and General Invertebrates Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University 1900 Benjamin Franklin Parkway, Philadelphia PA 19103-1195, USA prc44 at drexel.edu Tel 215-405-5096 - Fax 215-299-1170 From wpoly at calacademy.org Thu Nov 18 17:20:39 2021 From: wpoly at calacademy.org (William Poly) Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2021 17:20:39 -0500 Subject: [Nhcoll-l] [Spam] Re: vials for storing insects in ETOH In-Reply-To: References: <7124E57E-2E5B-4B66-84C7-4C5DAB358F80@btinternet.com> Message-ID: I've also observed the swelling of the green and gray rubber stoppers that Doug mentioned. The swelling is inside the vial where the stopper contacts the ethanol. Could be the denaturants reacting with the rubber (not sure of the exact composition of these rubber stoppers). Of course the entire stopper will swell if immersed completely in a larger container. Swelling on both ends of the stopper could crack the neck of the vial[?]. As an alternate method of relieving pressure (instead of using hypodermic needles), one can use a dissecting probe and release pressure on the side of the rubber stopper (if the vials aren't too fragile); it's worked for me and others. Bill *William J. Poly* *Research Associate* *Department of Ichthyology* *California Academy of Sciences* *55 Music Concourse Drive, Golden Gate Park* *San Francisco, California 94118* *wpoly at calacademy.org * *https://www.calacademy.org/scientists/ichthyology/wpoly * On Thu, Nov 18, 2021 at 8:51 AM Callomon,Paul wrote: > Just some additional thoughts to what everyone else has said: > > - We have found that phenolic resin (the smooth, hard black resin used to > make screw tops for smaller vials such as 4- or 6-dram ones, usually with > foil or cone-seal liners) is not stable in ethanol; it leaches a brown > stain into the fluid within a couple of years. > - We use small glass "micro-vials" in our dry and wet collections. In > alcohol, we stopper them with natural cotton wool. This is finer than > polyester batting and thus less likely to snag the specimen; if the plug is > made by first rolling the wool into a sausage and then folding it double > and pushing the butt end into the vial opening (like a Kielbasa, extending > the metaphor) there are few open fibers facing the specimen. Rehousing some > 1850s lots recently gave me a chance to test the cotton for strength and > confirmed that it is effectively inert in alcohol, though not in air. See > https://avanan.url-protection.com/v1/url?o=https%3A//www.researchgate.net/publication/308079611_An_alternative_to_gelatin_capsules_in_natural_history_collections&g=ZjBjOTg5ZTY2Mzg2NGQzNQ==&h=ODY1ODc4MTRhYjY1NDYzOGY2YTdjODc1NzQxNjFjMDEzNGJlMGMwMmY5NWZiYjYzYzk1ZjI2N2YyMmM4N2ZmNQ==&p=YXAzOmNhbGFjYWRlbXk6YXZhbmFuOmc6OTJjMTkyY2QxYmNiNzk5MTU2NDk3ZGVjNzVhOTg4ZjU6djE6cA== > Given that a vial is going to be submerged in ethanol, though, maybe one > could use rolled paper as a stopper - perfectly stable, very cheap. > Lollipop sticks (Chupa-chups and the like) are just rolled white paper, and > expand slightly when wet - sliced up, they might make great micro-vial > stoppers. > - We used to keep multiple lots in common jars, as Tonya proposed, and > still don't automatically counsel against it. There are economic advantages > in terms of space and material costs and the time-saving element of only > having to check one lid for dozens of specimens, but there might be > long-term issues with sharing fluid via permeable internal barriers, such > as the migration of lipids, radio-isotopes and even DNA between lots that > could one day give a false signal in analysis. Placing multiple lots in a > common jar but giving each one an impermeable stopper keeps them separate > and means that the surrounding fluid is simply a secondary safety measure > in case the internal stoppers fail. However, the stability in ethanol of > any post-1980s plastic compound across museum-scale time periods is still > not guaranteed. > > > Paul Callomon > Collection Manager, Malacology and General Invertebrates > > Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University > 1900 Benjamin Franklin Parkway, Philadelphia PA 19103-1195, USA > prc44 at drexel.edu Tel 215-405-5096 - Fax 215-299-1170 > > > _______________________________________________ > Nhcoll-l mailing list > Nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu > > https://avanan.url-protection.com/v1/url?o=https%3A//mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/nhcoll-l&g=NmYyYjQyNTgwNjI5YmZlYg==&h=NDA2MDliOWY4NGNmNTM5ODkwMTU3NjY0MDdjNzAyNDE4MGY5ZThlYjc5MWMyNjA3YWU2ZDdiZWEyM2FiMjU4MA==&p=YXAzOmNhbGFjYWRlbXk6YXZhbmFuOmc6OTJjMTkyY2QxYmNiNzk5MTU2NDk3ZGVjNzVhOTg4ZjU6djE6cA== > > _______________________________________________ > NHCOLL-L is brought to you by the Society for the Preservation of > Natural History Collections (SPNHC), an international society whose > mission is to improve the preservation, conservation and management of > natural history collections to ensure their continuing value to > society. 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The TORCH project is digitizing and serving online the data from ca. 2 million herbarium specimens from the South-Central United States, unlocking the information from these collections with an array of scientific and societal benefits. The project seeks a total of 20 interns for the summer of 2022 (June 6?August 12). The interns will participate in all aspects of specimen digitization, learn about herbarium collections management and the type of research that is conducted in herbaria, and carry out their own research project using herbarium specimens. These internships will take place at five of the institutions that are collaborating on the project: the Botanical Research Institute of Texas in Fort Worth; the University of Oklahoma in Norman; Oklahoma State University in Stillwater; Texas A&M University in College Station; and the University of Texas at Austin, with four interns residing at each institution. Working closely with a faculty/staff mentor at one of the five institutions, each intern will develop a scientific project utilizing digitized data, with 70% of their time devoted directly to digitization activities, including imaging specimens, transcribing specimen label data, and/or georeferencing. The remaining time will be spent on enrichment activities, including lectures and workshops about the technology and best practices of specimen digitization and curation, data collection and analysis, and poster preparation. Activities may also include field collection of plant specimens. The internship will culminate with the interns and their mentors attending the TORCH scientific meeting, in conjunction with the Texas Plant Conservation Conference, August 8?10 in Fort Worth, where the students will present the results of their projects in a poster session. 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Although the position is currently classified as based in Stillwater, Oklahoma, it is possible that it could be converted to a remote position to accommodate the constraints of a very strong applicant. Would you please consider sharing this announcement with those who might be interested and well-qualified for the position? Thank you! Diego Barroso TORCH TCN Project Manager Database Analyst (TORCH TCN Data Manager) The Department of Plant Biology, Ecology, and Evolution at Oklahoma State University in Stillwater (http://plantbio.okstate.edu) seeks a full-time Database Analyst to begin January 2022 with an annual renewal contingent on satisfactory performance through August 2023. The Data Analyst will serve as Data Manager for the NSF-funded herbarium digitization project ?American Crossroads: Digitizing the Vascular Flora of the South-Central United States? (https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1902085). This manager will maintain the project?s centralized database, oversee data synchronization with project portals and repositories, provide overall quality control of images and crowdsourced data, ensure that workflows and data management protocols meet project standards for data preservation and data quality, work with contracted technical developers, and conduct training workshops on data management. The manager will work closely with the project?s Technological Innovator and Project Manager (at the lead institution, Botanical Research Institute of Texas) on data-related tasks and will report to Dr. Mark Fishbein at Oklahoma State University. The project is an inter-institutional collaboration (TORCH: Texas Oklahoma Regional Consortium of Herbaria) among Oklahoma State University, Botanical Research Institute of Texas, University of Texas at Austin, University of Oklahoma, and Texas A&M University. The position is currently classified as based in Stillwater, Oklahoma, though it is possible that it could be converted to a remote position to accommodate the constraints of a very strong applicant. Specific responsibilities include: 1) manage user accounts; 2) assist the Project Manager in creating workflow documentation; 3) monitor and ensure data and image quality; 4) provide workflow training (online and in person) to project participants; 5) provide technical support to project participants; 6) assist with importing existing specimen data and images into the TORCH web portal; 7) integrate data and images with external aggregators (e.g., iDigBio, GBIF, JSTOR); 8) assist the Project Manager in generating reports; 9) travel to participating herbaria for training sessions and to periodic meetings of senior project personnel. Required competencies: written and oral communication, problem solving, organization, working on teams with different skill levels and learning curves, working with team members from diverse backgrounds and social groups, knowledge of data management procedures including familiarity with SQL. Desired skills: data cleaning (OpenRefine, etc); scripting (e.g., Python, PHP); Linux; Darwin Core and related data standards; cross-walking data between different standards; image processing software (e.g., Adobe Lightroom); familiar with tools for syncing files (e.g., rsync, Dropbox); georeferencing. Minimum Qualifications: B.S. in Computer Science, Museum Science, or related field. Desired qualifications: M.S. in Computer Science, Museum Science, or related field; one year of experience in data management for natural history collections. All applications should be submitted online at jobs.okstate.edu referencing reqID req10546. Include 1) cover letter, 2) r?sum? or curriculum vitae, 3) names and contact information for three references, 4) transcripts. Candidates from groups underrepresented in science and academia are especially encouraged to apply. Review of applications will begin December 17, 2021 and continue until position is filled. Contact information: Mark Fishbein, mark.fishbein at okstate.edu, 405-744-2544. Position is contingent upon available funding. Oklahoma State University, as an equal opportunity employer, complies with all applicable federal and state laws regarding non-discrimination and affirmative action. Oklahoma State University is committed to a policy of equal opportunity for all individuals and does not discriminate based on race, religion, age, sex, color, national origin, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, disability, or veteran status with regard to employment, educational programs and activities, and/or admissions. For more information, visit https:///eeo.okstate.edu. From A.J.van_Dam at lumc.nl Fri Nov 26 04:43:29 2021 From: A.J.van_Dam at lumc.nl (A.J.van_Dam at lumc.nl) Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2021 09:43:29 +0000 Subject: [Nhcoll-l] [MOGELIJK SPAM ! ******] Re: [Spam] Re: vials for storing insects in ETOH In-Reply-To: References: <7124E57E-2E5B-4B66-84C7-4C5DAB358F80@btinternet.com> , Message-ID: <477ce999789847c6a44d92ff9c891514@lumc.nl> Silicon rubbers swell in low and non-polar solvents and its vapors. At a molecular level silicon rubbers exhibit a high segmental mobility resulting in a relatively high permeability. These papers might be of interest to understand the mechanism of action: https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlehtml/2015/tc/c5tc01927c https://www.researchgate.net/publication/319043965_THE_INTERACTIONS_OF_PRESERVATIVE_FLUID_SPECIMEN_CONTAINER_AND_SEALANT_IN_A_FLUID_COLLECTION Kind regards, Dries Andries J. van Dam | curator-conservator Anatomical Museum | Leiden University Medical Center | Building 3 (V3-32) P.O.Box 9600 | 2300 RC Leiden | The Netherlands Visiting address: Hippocratespad 21 | Tel: +31 (0)71 52 68356 | E-mail: A.J.van_Dam at lumc.nl Scientific associate | Natural History Museum London | http://www.nhm.ac.uk ________________________________ Van: Nhcoll-l namens William Poly Verzonden: donderdag 18 november 2021 23:20:39 Aan: Callomon,Paul CC: NHCOLL-new Onderwerp: [MOGELIJK SPAM ! ******] Re: [Nhcoll-l] [Spam] Re: vials for storing insects in ETOH I've also observed the swelling of the green and gray rubber stoppers that Doug mentioned. The swelling is inside the vial where the stopper contacts the ethanol. Could be the denaturants reacting with the rubber (not sure of the exact composition of these rubber stoppers). Of course the entire stopper will swell if immersed completely in a larger container. Swelling on both ends of the stopper could crack the neck of the vial[?]. As an alternate method of relieving pressure (instead of using hypodermic needles), one can use a dissecting probe and release pressure on the side of the rubber stopper (if the vials aren't too fragile); it's worked for me and others. Bill William J. Poly Research Associate Department of Ichthyology California Academy of Sciences 55 Music Concourse Drive, Golden Gate Park San Francisco, California 94118 wpoly at calacademy.org https://www.calacademy.org/scientists/ichthyology/wpoly On Thu, Nov 18, 2021 at 8:51 AM Callomon,Paul > wrote: Just some additional thoughts to what everyone else has said: - We have found that phenolic resin (the smooth, hard black resin used to make screw tops for smaller vials such as 4- or 6-dram ones, usually with foil or cone-seal liners) is not stable in ethanol; it leaches a brown stain into the fluid within a couple of years. - We use small glass "micro-vials" in our dry and wet collections. In alcohol, we stopper them with natural cotton wool. This is finer than polyester batting and thus less likely to snag the specimen; if the plug is made by first rolling the wool into a sausage and then folding it double and pushing the butt end into the vial opening (like a Kielbasa, extending the metaphor) there are few open fibers facing the specimen. Rehousing some 1850s lots recently gave me a chance to test the cotton for strength and confirmed that it is effectively inert in alcohol, though not in air. See https://avanan.url-protection.com/v1/url?o=https%3A//www.researchgate.net/publication/308079611_An_alternative_to_gelatin_capsules_in_natural_history_collections&g=ZjBjOTg5ZTY2Mzg2NGQzNQ==&h=ODY1ODc4MTRhYjY1NDYzOGY2YTdjODc1NzQxNjFjMDEzNGJlMGMwMmY5NWZiYjYzYzk1ZjI2N2YyMmM4N2ZmNQ==&p=YXAzOmNhbGFjYWRlbXk6YXZhbmFuOmc6OTJjMTkyY2QxYmNiNzk5MTU2NDk3ZGVjNzVhOTg4ZjU6djE6cA== Given that a vial is going to be submerged in ethanol, though, maybe one could use rolled paper as a stopper - perfectly stable, very cheap. Lollipop sticks (Chupa-chups and the like) are just rolled white paper, and expand slightly when wet - sliced up, they might make great micro-vial stoppers. - We used to keep multiple lots in common jars, as Tonya proposed, and still don't automatically counsel against it. There are economic advantages in terms of space and material costs and the time-saving element of only having to check one lid for dozens of specimens, but there might be long-term issues with sharing fluid via permeable internal barriers, such as the migration of lipids, radio-isotopes and even DNA between lots that could one day give a false signal in analysis. Placing multiple lots in a common jar but giving each one an impermeable stopper keeps them separate and means that the surrounding fluid is simply a secondary safety measure in case the internal stoppers fail. However, the stability in ethanol of any post-1980s plastic compound across museum-scale time periods is still not guaranteed. Paul Callomon Collection Manager, Malacology and General Invertebrates Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University 1900 Benjamin Franklin Parkway, Philadelphia PA 19103-1195, USA prc44 at drexel.edu Tel 215-405-5096 - Fax 215-299-1170 _______________________________________________ Nhcoll-l mailing list Nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu https://avanan.url-protection.com/v1/url?o=https%3A//mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/nhcoll-l&g=NmYyYjQyNTgwNjI5YmZlYg==&h=NDA2MDliOWY4NGNmNTM5ODkwMTU3NjY0MDdjNzAyNDE4MGY5ZThlYjc5MWMyNjA3YWU2ZDdiZWEyM2FiMjU4MA==&p=YXAzOmNhbGFjYWRlbXk6YXZhbmFuOmc6OTJjMTkyY2QxYmNiNzk5MTU2NDk3ZGVjNzVhOTg4ZjU6djE6cA== _______________________________________________ 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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My question is if anyone knows if propylene material can detach chemicals (like acidification o similar) o can react with EtOH and cause damage to DNA. Advices and experiences are welcome! Thanks in advance Sergio Sergio Montagud Alario Museo [UV] Hist?ria Natural Universitat de Val?ncia C/. Dr. Moliner, 50 E-46100 Burjassot (Valencia). Spain web: www.uv.es/museuhn -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From sergio.montagud at gmail.com Fri Nov 26 09:54:12 2021 From: sergio.montagud at gmail.com (Sergio Montagud) Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2021 15:54:12 +0100 Subject: [Nhcoll-l] Freeze drying Message-ID: The freeze drying technique to preserve small specimens of invertebrates and vertebrates (lizards, frogs, mouses...) had a good acceptance by Natural History Museums years before. But now, seems not to hear so many news about it... We are thinking to acquire a freeze drying to prepare small vertebrates (reptiles and amphibians) and big invertebrates like cephalopods, spiders or similars. Main objectives are for DNA preservation, quality expositions and didactic materials for children's and scholar purposes. Someone that works with this technique and can recommend models, experiences and companies? Thanks in advance Sergio Sergio Montagud Alario Museo [UV] Hist?ria Natural Universitat de Val?ncia C/. Dr. Moliner, 50 E-46100 Burjassot (Valencia). Spain web: www.uv.es/museuhn -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jkbraun at ou.edu Mon Nov 29 09:11:52 2021 From: jkbraun at ou.edu (Braun, Janet K.) Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2021 14:11:52 +0000 Subject: [Nhcoll-l] Open Position-Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History Message-ID: CURATOR/ARCHIVIST I - Job Number: 214102 Organization : Okla Museum of Natural History Job Location : Oklahoma-Norman-Norman Campus Schedule : Full-time Work Schedule: M-F, 8-5 (hours may vary, flexible work schedule with some work occurring in the evenings and on weekends) Salary Range: $15.38/hr Benefits Provided: Yes Required Attachments: Resume, Cover Letter Job Description --- Provides technical assistance for the museum?s 12 collections, including the Integrated Pest Management (IPM) program, monitoring of museum collections? environments, and management of the dermestid facility for research-quality skeletal preparations; provides direct support to collection management staff in the management and maintenance of the collections by assisting with digitization, archiving and inventorying, database management, and all other aspects of collections management. Supports and assists the museum?s security, special events, exhibits, and other front of the house departments, including but not limited to serving as a dock guard, handling incoming and outgoing deliveries, setting up and tearing down for special events, and assisting with public events and visitor services operations. Job Requirements --- Required Education: Bachelor's Degree or equivalent combination of education/job related experience, AND: * 0-24 months of progressive collection management experience in a professional museum setting Skills: * Operation and maintenance of Isolation and Treatment Facility, including inspecting all incoming material to prevent pest introductions. * Operation and management of the Dermestid Facility to produce research-quality skeletal preparations. * Monitor and identify museum pests, posting reports, and taking appropriate actions to prevent infestations. * Environmental monitoring of museum collections and exhibit areas. * Maintenance of department-related records and databases. * Assisting collection management staff with digitization, archiving and inventorying, database management, and other collections management related duties. * Assisting security department with dock-related guard duties assisting other museum departments as needed, including special events exhibits, education, and visitor service Certifications: * None Departmental Preferences: * MA or Bachelor's Degree in anthropology, archaeology, art history, culture * 12-24 months of Integrated Pest Management, Dermestid Facility, or collection management experience * Prior supervisory and photographic/multi-media experience. * Demonstration of prior positive outcomes working with indigenous cultures and/or sensitivity to cult Supervision: Student Group Special Instructions: * If you are selected as a final candidate for this position, you will be subject to The University of Oklahoma Norman Campus Tuberculosis Testing policy. To view the policy, visit https://hr.ou.edu/Policies-Handbooks/TB-Testing. * The University of Oklahoma complies with the Federal COVID-19 vaccine requirement for all employees. All current and future employees must provide proof of full vaccination or request an accommodation for exemption from the Federal requirement. For detailed information regarding this requirement, visit https://hr.ou.edu/News/Coronavirus-COVID-19-Information. Hiring contingent upon a Background Check?- Yes Special Indications: None Dr. Janet K. Braun Interim Director t. 405.325.5198 f. 405.325.7699 Sam Noble Museum University of Oklahoma 2401 Chautauqua Ave. Norman, OK 73072-7029 [Link10] ? [Link11] ? [Link12] ? [Link13] ?[Link14] ? [Link15] -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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While the position?s primary duties are the museum?s IPM program, dermestid colony, and treatment facility, this is an excellent entry level position to gain experience in a wide variety of museum departments, including the museum?s collections, security, exhibits, special events, visitor services and public programs. ?For additional information and to apply: https://ou.taleo.net/careersection/2/jobdetail.ftl?job=214102&tz=GMT-06%3A00&tzname=America%2FChicago [A close up of a sloth Description automatically generated with low confidence] Brandi S. Coyner, PhD Curatorial Associate Mammalogy & Oklahoma Collection of Genomic Resources bcoyner at ou.edu Sam Noble Museum University of Oklahoma 2401 Chautauqua Ave. Norman, OK 73072-7029 [Link10] ? [Link11] ? [Link12] ? [Link13] ?[Link14] ? [Link15] -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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[and, yes, international applicants will be considered] Best, R?diger Bieler -- R?diger Bieler, PhD Curator of Zoology/Invertebrates Negaunee Integrative Research Center, Field Museum of Natural History 1400 S. DuSable Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, IL 60605-2496, U.S.A. +1 (312) 665-7720 | rbieler at fieldmuseum.org | fieldmuseum.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From PALMERL at si.edu Mon Nov 29 16:46:27 2021 From: PALMERL at si.edu (Palmer, Lisa) Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2021 21:46:27 +0000 Subject: [Nhcoll-l] FW: Announcing 2021 Virtual HEART Week! In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: fyi From: Foley, Lori Sent: Monday, November 29, 2021 11:31 AM Subject: Announcing 2021 Virtual HEART Week! External Email - Exercise Caution Please share this announcement widely! Announcing 2021 Virtual HEART Week! After careful consideration of the continued health risks posed by COVID-19, the Heritage Emergency and Response Training (HEART) coordination team decided not to host an in-person HEART program this year. However, in its place will be a week of informative programming dedicated to increasing understanding of emergencies and disasters that affect cultural institutions and historic sites. Kicking off the week of December 6 is an informational session about the history of HEART and its creation by the Heritage Emergency National Task Force. Three graduates will highlight how HEART has helped them in their work. The rest of the week, daily keynotes will feature experts in the fields of emergency management, heritage protection, and current disaster research. All webinars will take place in Zoom. Webinars are free but registration is required. For more information and to register, go to https://culturalrescue.si.edu/hentf/training/. Monday, December 6 Stories from the HEART: Heritage Emergency and Response Training in Action 2:00 PM-3:00 PM EST Tuesday, December 7 Using Volunteers in Times of Disaster Dr. Samantha Montano, Assistant Professor of Emergency Management, Massachusetts Maritime Academy 1:00 PM-2:00 PM EST Wednesday, December 8 The Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico to the rescue of the artistic and cultural heritage of Puerto Rico Marta Mabel P?rez, Executive Director, Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico 1:00 PM-2:00 PM EST Thursday, December 9 Cultural Heritage & Climate Change: Disaster Planning, Adaptation, and Resilience Sarah Sutton: CEO, Environment and Culture Partners 1:00 PM-2:00 PM EST Friday, December 10 Social media and disasters affecting cultural heritage Dr. Pakhee Kumar, Lecturer in Sustainable Heritage and Data Analysis, University College London 1:00 PM-2:00 PM EST About HEART In 2015 the Smithsonian Cultural Rescue Initiative (SCRI) became the co-sponsor, with FEMA's Office of Environmental Planning and Historic Preservation (OEHP), of the Heritage Emergency National Task Force (HENTF), a public-private partnership created to protect our nation's cultural heritage. Both SCRI and OEHP are committed to expanding training for cultural stewards, first responders, and emergency managers to better prepare them to work together to address emergencies and disasters that affect cultural institutions and historic sites. With funding from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and Bank of America, HENTF has created this training opportunity for U.S.-based professionals to gain skills and experience in disaster response for cultural heritage. HEART combines the important principles of the internationally recognized First Aid to Cultural Heritage in Times of Crisis (FAC) training model with context-specific information for a U.S. audience. Questions? Contact the Heritage Emergency National Task Force at hentf at si.edu or contact the Smithsonian Cultural Rescue Initiative at culturalrescue at si.edu. 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