From neumann at snsb.de Mon Jan 3 11:12:27 2022 From: neumann at snsb.de (Dirk Neumann) Date: Mon, 3 Jan 2022 17:12:27 +0100 Subject: [Nhcoll-l] Changes to International Custom Tariff Codes Message-ID: Dear colleagues, with effect of 1 January 2022, the international custom tariff codes are amended, which also affects the custom tariff codes under title 9705 we are using. The European Commission provides a full summary (> 1000 pages ...) in the Commission Implementing Regulation 2021/1832, which is available here (in all EU languages). The relevant pages for us are 705-707, more specifically page 706 bottom to page 707. The amendment introduces a more refined distinction in title 9705 for collections and collectors? pieces of: * _archaeological, ethnographic or historical_ interest, *CN 9705 10 00*, i.e. *man-made artefacts*, and* * * _zoological, botanical, mineralogical, anatomical_ or _palaeontological_ interest*:* o Human specimens and parts thereof,*CN 9705 21 00*, i.e. *specimens in / samples from anthropological collections*, o Extinct or endangered species and parts thereof, *CN 9705 22 00*, e.g. *specimens / samples falling under CITES or with respective IUCN status*, o Other, *CN 9705 29 00*, i.e. all non-human specimens (excluding man-made artefacts) that are not categorised as 'extinct' or 'endangered' Please accustom yourself with this new categorisation and adjust your shipping documents accordingly where relevant. Even though this amendment is highly welcome because we now have an own Custom tariff Code that exclusively covers our preserved museum material (*CN 9705 29 00*), it introduces slight inconvenience with regard to *CN 9705 22 00 *as well, because no reference point has been set as to which conservation laws are specifically meant here. For example, CITES listing of species in the European Union differs from the official CITES Annexes (EU has 4 and is slightly stricter, while CITES has only 3), and I doubt that postal carriers and customs do know e.g. national ed listings of species, or would even know where to look them up. Unless you are shipping specimens of species that are _extinct_ (probably: extinct in the wild) or are indexed on one of the CITES Annexes, you should prefer *CN 9705 29 00*, while you would prefer *CN 9705 21 00* for any anthropological material (palaeobotany and archaeozoological specimens would fall under 9705 29 00 to my understanding). Template follows below. With best wishes for 2022 Dirk ***** This package contains dead museum specimens (preserved freshwater fish for Latin species names refer to included loan agreement) for scientific research, which are exclusively exchanged between museums acc. point (5) (b) in the Annex of Commission Regulation (EU) 2020/762 amending (EU) No 142/2011. The material was originally preserved in formalin solution (max. strength: < 10%, UN2209) for at least one week and then transferred into 75 % denatured Ethanol (UN1170, PG II) for further preservation. Preserved specimens packed are not subject to the initial selection list of products for veterinary checks at border inspection posts under Art. 3 Council Directive 2007/275/EC, Annex I, EX 9705 00 00). Preservation of specimens agrees with requirements for Safe Treatment laid down in Point (8) (a) (e) (ii) in the /ANNEX /to the Commission Regulation (EU) No 294/2013, amending Commission Regulation (EU) No 142/2011, /ANNEX XIII, /CHAPTER VI.The specimens are on loan for biodiversity (morphological / taxonomical) research and legally belong to the State of Bavaria (Country of Origin: Germany); they are non-infectious, non-contagious, non-venomous, unfit for human consumption, no traded goods, have no commercial value and are not for resale. *HS-Code:9705 29 00* (Collections of _zoological _/ botanical / mineralogical palaeontological interest, not extinct or endangered) *Declared value:5.00 ?* -- 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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URL: From jbest at brit.org Tue Jan 4 14:25:46 2022 From: jbest at brit.org (Jason Best) Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2022 19:25:46 +0000 Subject: [Nhcoll-l] Nhcoll-l Digest, Vol 115, Issue 5 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Hello, I'm chair of the DemoCamp symposium (along with Cat Chapman and Erica Krimmel) at SPNHC 2022. I'm wondering if any other symposium or workshop chairs have received information about how to get notified when abstracts are submitted and how to access them for review etc. When I log into the system for submitting abstracts, I can do so (a test abstract) and I get an email notice as author but don't get any notice as chair about the submission and I don't see any way to view submissions. I've emailed the conference organizers twice requesting info but have not heard back. Any suggestions? Thanks, Jason Jason Best Director of Biodiversity Informatics Botanical Research Institute of Texas 1700 University Drive Fort Worth, Texas 76107 817-332-4441 ext. 230 http://www.brit.org From jbest at brit.org Tue Jan 4 14:27:30 2022 From: jbest at brit.org (Jason Best) Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2022 19:27:30 +0000 Subject: [Nhcoll-l] SPNHC 2022 Abstract submission review? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <51EE93D9-2FFD-4A8F-B833-7242E04FCCC2@brit.org> Hello, I'm chair of the DemoCamp symposium (along with Cat Chapman and Erica Krimmel) at SPNHC 2022. I'm wondering if any other symposium or workshop chairs have received information about how to get notified when abstracts are submitted and how to access them for review etc. When I log into the system for submitting abstracts, I can do so (a test abstract) and I get an email notice as author but don't get any notice as chair about the submission and I don't see any way to view submissions. I've emailed the conference organizers twice requesting info but have not heard back. Any suggestions? Thanks, Jason P.S. Apologies for the duplicate email, but I didn't change the subject line appropriately. Jason Best Director of Biodiversity Informatics Botanical Research Institute of Texas 1700 University Drive Fort Worth, Texas 76107 817-332-4441 ext. 230 http://www.brit.org From Lennart.Lennuk at loodusmuuseum.ee Wed Jan 5 04:38:59 2022 From: Lennart.Lennuk at loodusmuuseum.ee (Lennart Lennuk) Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2022 09:38:59 +0000 Subject: [Nhcoll-l] shelving in wet collection Message-ID: Hi Do you have any experience using this kind of shelving in wet collections? I am worried about load-bearing capacity and also the stability of little jars. Is it ok to place a rubber mat under little jars to maintain the stability? [cid:image001.jpg at 01D80228.D3E1FD20] Best regards! Lennart Lennuk Head of collections Estonian Museum of Natural History +372 6603404, 56569916 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: image001.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 42269 bytes Desc: image001.jpg URL: From couteaufin at btinternet.com Wed Jan 5 05:04:36 2022 From: couteaufin at btinternet.com (Simon Moore) Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2022 10:04:36 +0000 Subject: [Nhcoll-l] shelving in wet collection In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <014F9BDA-E4FC-4BDA-95A2-6DC9F79EED7D@btinternet.com> Hi Lennart, Various museums have used anti-slip mats to prevent jars from moving around but containers with small bases (vials, tubes &c) will need to be placed in secondary containers to keep them upright. The matting would need to be long-lasting and proof against accidental spillage / leakage of preservative fluids and someone may have ?the latest? info-wise and what would be the best material for this. With all good wishes, Simon Simon Moore MIScT, RSci, FLS, ACR Conservator of Natural Sciences and Cutlery Historian, www.natural-history-conservation.com > On 5 Jan 2022, at 09:38, Lennart Lennuk wrote: > > Hi > > Do you have any experience using this kind of shelving in wet collections? > I am worried about load-bearing capacity and also the stability of little jars. > Is it ok to place a rubber mat under little jars to maintain the stability? > > > > Best regards! > Lennart Lennuk > Head of collections > Estonian Museum of Natural History > +372 6603404, 56569916 > > _______________________________________________ > Nhcoll-l mailing list > Nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu > https://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/nhcoll-l > > _______________________________________________ > NHCOLL-L is brought to you by the Society for the Preservation of > Natural History Collections (SPNHC), an international society whose > mission is to improve the preservation, conservation and management of > natural history collections to ensure their continuing value to > society. See http://www.spnhc.org for membership information. > Advertising on NH-COLL-L is inappropriate. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- 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 neumann at snsb.de Wed Jan 5 05:17:08 2022 From: neumann at snsb.de (Dirk Neumann) Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2022 11:17:08 +0100 Subject: [Nhcoll-l] shelving in wet collection In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <57685c6d-5cce-f610-47d4-9e1e0c2c1fae@snsb.de> Hi Lennart, to me this looks like storage for lab consumables, and even for this purpose you may need to prefer (closed) chemical cabinets instead of open storage (depending on the lab chemicals). For ordinary fluid preserved collections, the recommendation is not to go below 75 ml fluid volume per container. Depending on the quality of the closures and the environmental settings in the storage area, containers below 75 ml may dry up fast, if the seal/closure is bad. Depending on the number of jars, you would need to adjust your monitoring regime to spot evaporation losses and to prevent damage to objects stored in smaller containers. If you would need or want to store specimens in smaller volumes, it would make more sense to use closed cabinets with drawers. Ideally, as Simon recommends, the drawers are equipped with grids or boxes that stabilise the small vials or tubes. We have equipped our cool and refrigerated storage with such drawer-cabinets Hope this helps Dirk Am 05.01.2022 um 10:38 schrieb Lennart Lennuk: > > Hi > > Do you have any experience using this kind of shelving in wet collections? > > I am worried about load-bearing capacity and also the stability of > little jars. > > Is it ok to place a rubber mat under little jars to maintain the > stability? > > Best regards! > > Lennart Lennuk > > Head of collections > > Estonian Museum of Natural History > > +372 6603404, 56569916 > > > _______________________________________________ > Nhcoll-l mailing list > Nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu > https://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/nhcoll-l > > _______________________________________________ > NHCOLL-L is brought to you by the Society for the Preservation of > Natural History Collections (SPNHC), an international society whose > mission is to improve the preservation, conservation and management of > natural history collections to ensure their continuing value to > society. 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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Lennart From: Dirk Neumann [mailto:neumann at snsb.de] Sent: Wednesday, January 5, 2022 12:17 PM To: Lennart Lennuk Cc: nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu Subject: Re: [Nhcoll-l] shelving in wet collection Hi Lennart, to me this looks like storage for lab consumables, and even for this purpose you may need to prefer (closed) chemical cabinets instead of open storage (depending on the lab chemicals). For ordinary fluid preserved collections, the recommendation is not to go below 75 ml fluid volume per container. Depending on the quality of the closures and the environmental settings in the storage area, containers below 75 ml may dry up fast, if the seal/closure is bad. Depending on the number of jars, you would need to adjust your monitoring regime to spot evaporation losses and to prevent damage to objects stored in smaller containers. If you would need or want to store specimens in smaller volumes, it would make more sense to use closed cabinets with drawers. Ideally, as Simon recommends, the drawers are equipped with grids or boxes that stabilise the small vials or tubes. We have equipped our cool and refrigerated storage with such drawer-cabinets Hope this helps Dirk Am 05.01.2022 um 10:38 schrieb Lennart Lennuk: Hi Do you have any experience using this kind of shelving in wet collections? I am worried about load-bearing capacity and also the stability of little jars. Is it ok to place a rubber mat under little jars to maintain the stability? [cid:image001.jpg at 01D80236.2AF309D0] Best regards! Lennart Lennuk Head of collections Estonian Museum of Natural History +372 6603404, 56569916 _______________________________________________ Nhcoll-l mailing list Nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu https://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/nhcoll-l _______________________________________________ NHCOLL-L is brought to you by the Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections (SPNHC), an international society whose mission is to improve the preservation, conservation and management of natural history collections to ensure their continuing value to society. See http://www.spnhc.org for membership information. Advertising on NH-COLL-L is inappropriate. -- [cid:part2.lGJZW0lI.Xjaji9aP at snsb.de] 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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With best wishes Dirk Am 05.01.2022 um 12:17 schrieb Lennart Lennuk: > > Most of our fluid preserved collection is in 100, 300 and 500ml jars. > > This far I have been asking the shelving company for perforated steel > shelf plates finished with powder coating > > but the company is trying to convince me to use the shelving shown on > the picture in my previous letter. > > Best! > Lennart > > *From:*Dirk Neumann [mailto:neumann at snsb.de] > *Sent:* Wednesday, January 5, 2022 12:17 PM > *To:* Lennart Lennuk > *Cc:* nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu > *Subject:* Re: [Nhcoll-l] shelving in wet collection > > Hi Lennart, > > to me this looks like storage for lab consumables, and even for this > purpose you may need to prefer (closed) chemical cabinets instead of > open storage (depending on the lab chemicals). > > For ordinary fluid preserved collections, the recommendation is not to > go below 75 ml fluid volume per container. Depending on the quality of > the closures and the environmental settings in the storage area, > containers below 75 ml may dry up fast, if the seal/closure is bad. > Depending on the number of jars, you would need to adjust your > monitoring regime to spot evaporation losses and to prevent damage to > objects stored in smaller containers. > > If you would need or want to store specimens in smaller volumes, it > would make more sense to use closed cabinets with drawers. Ideally, as > Simon recommends, the drawers are equipped with grids or boxes that > stabilise the small vials or tubes. We have equipped our cool and > refrigerated storage with such drawer-cabinets > > > Hope this helps > > Dirk > > Am 05.01.2022 um 10:38 schrieb Lennart Lennuk: > > Hi > > Do you have any experience using this kind of shelving in wet > collections? > > I am worried about load-bearing capacity and also the stability of > little jars. > > Is it ok to place a rubber mat under little jars to maintain the > stability? > > mailbox:///C:/Mail/qk9hn92x.slt/Mail/mailin.lrz-muenchen.de/Inbox?number=336779710&header=quotebody&part=1.2&filename=image001.jpg > > Best regards! > > Lennart Lennuk > > Head of collections > > Estonian Museum of Natural History > > +372 6603404, 56569916 > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Nhcoll-l mailing list > > Nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu > > https://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/nhcoll-l > > _______________________________________________ > > NHCOLL-L is brought to you by the Society for the Preservation of > > Natural History Collections (SPNHC), an international society whose > > mission is to improve the preservation, conservation and management of > > natural history collections to ensure their continuing value to > > society. Seehttp://www.spnhc.org for membership information. > > Advertising on NH-COLL-L is inappropriate. > > -- > > cid:part2.lGJZW0lI.Xjaji9aP at snsb.de > > > 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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The metal underneath is unprimed mild steel, so it rusts fast. Bear in mind too that shelving made of rods does not bear loads evenly; a jar sitting near the edge, for example, will be better supported on one side than the other and will thus lean a bit. 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: Wednesday, January 5, 2022 7:06 AM To: Lennart Lennuk Cc: nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu Subject: Re: [Nhcoll-l] shelving in wet collection External. I Lennart, I doubt that jars will be stable on this sort of shelves; also, how much would be the total allowed weight on such shelves? The design doesn't seem to be suited to carry huge weights. With best wishes Dirk Am 05.01.2022 um 12:17 schrieb Lennart Lennuk: Most of our fluid preserved collection is in 100, 300 and 500ml jars. This far I have been asking the shelving company for perforated steel shelf plates finished with powder coating but the company is trying to convince me to use the shelving shown on the picture in my previous letter. Best! Lennart From: Dirk Neumann [mailto:neumann at snsb.de] Sent: Wednesday, January 5, 2022 12:17 PM To: Lennart Lennuk Cc: nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu Subject: Re: [Nhcoll-l] shelving in wet collection Hi Lennart, to me this looks like storage for lab consumables, and even for this purpose you may need to prefer (closed) chemical cabinets instead of open storage (depending on the lab chemicals). For ordinary fluid preserved collections, the recommendation is not to go below 75 ml fluid volume per container. Depending on the quality of the closures and the environmental settings in the storage area, containers below 75 ml may dry up fast, if the seal/closure is bad. Depending on the number of jars, you would need to adjust your monitoring regime to spot evaporation losses and to prevent damage to objects stored in smaller containers. If you would need or want to store specimens in smaller volumes, it would make more sense to use closed cabinets with drawers. Ideally, as Simon recommends, the drawers are equipped with grids or boxes that stabilise the small vials or tubes. We have equipped our cool and refrigerated storage with such drawer-cabinets Hope this helps Dirk Am 05.01.2022 um 10:38 schrieb Lennart Lennuk: Hi Do you have any experience using this kind of shelving in wet collections? I am worried about load-bearing capacity and also the stability of little jars. Is it ok to place a rubber mat under little jars to maintain the stability? [mailbox:///C:/Mail/qk9hn92x.slt/Mail/mailin.lrz-muenchen.de/Inbox?number=336779710&header=quotebody&part=1.2&filename=image001.jpg] Best regards! Lennart Lennuk Head of collections Estonian Museum of Natural History +372 6603404, 56569916 _______________________________________________ Nhcoll-l mailing list Nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu https://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/nhcoll-l _______________________________________________ NHCOLL-L is brought to you by the Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections (SPNHC), an international society whose mission is to improve the preservation, conservation and management of natural history collections to ensure their continuing value to society. See http://www.spnhc.org for membership information. Advertising on NH-COLL-L is inappropriate. -- [cid:image002.png at 01D80209.61FC8550] 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/ -- [cid:image003.png at 01D80209.61FC8550] 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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Shelvng company is offering this kind but I am concerned again about the stability of little jars because the holes seem to be quite big [cid:image003.jpg at 01D80249.CFAE6290] Best! Lennart From: Callomon,Paul [mailto:prc44 at drexel.edu] Sent: Wednesday, January 5, 2022 2:54 PM To: neumann at snsb.de; Lennart Lennuk Cc: nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu Subject: RE: [Nhcoll-l] shelving in wet collection Another problem with ?fridge shelving? is that the plastic coating (which is usually not powder coating but hot-dip) can crack and fail in time, especially around welded joints that remain rigid while the bars bend slightly under the weight of their load. The metal underneath is unprimed mild steel, so it rusts fast. Bear in mind too that shelving made of rods does not bear loads evenly; a jar sitting near the edge, for example, will be better supported on one side than the other and will thus lean a bit. 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: Wednesday, January 5, 2022 7:06 AM To: Lennart Lennuk > Cc: nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu Subject: Re: [Nhcoll-l] shelving in wet collection External. I Lennart, I doubt that jars will be stable on this sort of shelves; also, how much would be the total allowed weight on such shelves? The design doesn't seem to be suited to carry huge weights. With best wishes Dirk Am 05.01.2022 um 12:17 schrieb Lennart Lennuk: Most of our fluid preserved collection is in 100, 300 and 500ml jars. This far I have been asking the shelving company for perforated steel shelf plates finished with powder coating but the company is trying to convince me to use the shelving shown on the picture in my previous letter. Best! Lennart From: Dirk Neumann [mailto:neumann at snsb.de] Sent: Wednesday, January 5, 2022 12:17 PM To: Lennart Lennuk Cc: nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu Subject: Re: [Nhcoll-l] shelving in wet collection Hi Lennart, to me this looks like storage for lab consumables, and even for this purpose you may need to prefer (closed) chemical cabinets instead of open storage (depending on the lab chemicals). For ordinary fluid preserved collections, the recommendation is not to go below 75 ml fluid volume per container. Depending on the quality of the closures and the environmental settings in the storage area, containers below 75 ml may dry up fast, if the seal/closure is bad. Depending on the number of jars, you would need to adjust your monitoring regime to spot evaporation losses and to prevent damage to objects stored in smaller containers. If you would need or want to store specimens in smaller volumes, it would make more sense to use closed cabinets with drawers. Ideally, as Simon recommends, the drawers are equipped with grids or boxes that stabilise the small vials or tubes. We have equipped our cool and refrigerated storage with such drawer-cabinets Hope this helps Dirk Am 05.01.2022 um 10:38 schrieb Lennart Lennuk: Hi Do you have any experience using this kind of shelving in wet collections? I am worried about load-bearing capacity and also the stability of little jars. Is it ok to place a rubber mat under little jars to maintain the stability? [mailbox:///C:/Mail/qk9hn92x.slt/Mail/mailin.lrz-muenchen.de/Inbox?number=336779710&header=quotebody&part=1.2&filename=image001.jpg] Best regards! Lennart Lennuk Head of collections Estonian Museum of Natural History +372 6603404, 56569916 _______________________________________________ Nhcoll-l mailing list Nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu https://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/nhcoll-l _______________________________________________ NHCOLL-L is brought to you by the Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections (SPNHC), an international society whose mission is to improve the preservation, conservation and management of natural history collections to ensure their continuing value to society. See http://www.spnhc.org for membership information. Advertising on NH-COLL-L is inappropriate. -- [cid:image002.png at 01D80249.9102FD30] 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/ -- [cid:image003.png at 01D80209.61FC8550] 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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Lennart From: Nhcoll-l [mailto:nhcoll-l-bounces at mailman.yale.edu] On Behalf Of Lennart Lennuk Sent: Wednesday, January 5, 2022 3:35 PM To: Callomon,Paul ; neumann at snsb.de Cc: nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu Subject: Re: [Nhcoll-l] shelving in wet collection Thank you all. We are then deciding to use perforated steel plate with powder coating. Have you any suggestions how the perforation could be done? Shelvng company is offering this kind but I am concerned again about the stability of little jars because the holes seem to be quite big [cid:image003.jpg at 01D80254.D5D4EF80] Best! Lennart From: Callomon,Paul [mailto:prc44 at drexel.edu] Sent: Wednesday, January 5, 2022 2:54 PM To: neumann at snsb.de; Lennart Lennuk > Cc: nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu Subject: RE: [Nhcoll-l] shelving in wet collection Another problem with ?fridge shelving? is that the plastic coating (which is usually not powder coating but hot-dip) can crack and fail in time, especially around welded joints that remain rigid while the bars bend slightly under the weight of their load. The metal underneath is unprimed mild steel, so it rusts fast. Bear in mind too that shelving made of rods does not bear loads evenly; a jar sitting near the edge, for example, will be better supported on one side than the other and will thus lean a bit. 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: Wednesday, January 5, 2022 7:06 AM To: Lennart Lennuk > Cc: nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu Subject: Re: [Nhcoll-l] shelving in wet collection External. I Lennart, I doubt that jars will be stable on this sort of shelves; also, how much would be the total allowed weight on such shelves? The design doesn't seem to be suited to carry huge weights. With best wishes Dirk Am 05.01.2022 um 12:17 schrieb Lennart Lennuk: Most of our fluid preserved collection is in 100, 300 and 500ml jars. This far I have been asking the shelving company for perforated steel shelf plates finished with powder coating but the company is trying to convince me to use the shelving shown on the picture in my previous letter. Best! Lennart From: Dirk Neumann [mailto:neumann at snsb.de] Sent: Wednesday, January 5, 2022 12:17 PM To: Lennart Lennuk Cc: nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu Subject: Re: [Nhcoll-l] shelving in wet collection Hi Lennart, to me this looks like storage for lab consumables, and even for this purpose you may need to prefer (closed) chemical cabinets instead of open storage (depending on the lab chemicals). For ordinary fluid preserved collections, the recommendation is not to go below 75 ml fluid volume per container. Depending on the quality of the closures and the environmental settings in the storage area, containers below 75 ml may dry up fast, if the seal/closure is bad. Depending on the number of jars, you would need to adjust your monitoring regime to spot evaporation losses and to prevent damage to objects stored in smaller containers. If you would need or want to store specimens in smaller volumes, it would make more sense to use closed cabinets with drawers. Ideally, as Simon recommends, the drawers are equipped with grids or boxes that stabilise the small vials or tubes. We have equipped our cool and refrigerated storage with such drawer-cabinets Hope this helps Dirk Am 05.01.2022 um 10:38 schrieb Lennart Lennuk: Hi Do you have any experience using this kind of shelving in wet collections? I am worried about load-bearing capacity and also the stability of little jars. Is it ok to place a rubber mat under little jars to maintain the stability? [mailbox:///C:/Mail/qk9hn92x.slt/Mail/mailin.lrz-muenchen.de/Inbox?number=336779710&header=quotebody&part=1.2&filename=image001.jpg] Best regards! Lennart Lennuk Head of collections Estonian Museum of Natural History +372 6603404, 56569916 _______________________________________________ Nhcoll-l mailing list Nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu https://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/nhcoll-l _______________________________________________ NHCOLL-L is brought to you by the Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections (SPNHC), an international society whose mission is to improve the preservation, conservation and management of natural history collections to ensure their continuing value to society. See http://www.spnhc.org for membership information. Advertising on NH-COLL-L is inappropriate. -- [cid:image002.png at 01D80249.9102FD30] 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/ -- [cid:image003.png at 01D80209.61FC8550] 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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Can you have a "lip" or some other structure added to the shelf so that nothing can slide off? What is the deflection on the shelf? See if you can get a sample of both types of shelving and do a deflection test. Check out the gauge of steel for the perforated shelf. You can always go with a thicker gauge. This will increase the rigidity and decrease the deflection. You will still have to be concerned about all of the things I listed above for perforated shelving. Good luck. --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 From: Nhcoll-l On Behalf Of Lennart Lennuk Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2022 9:59 AM To: Lennart Lennuk ; Callomon,Paul ; neumann at snsb.de Cc: nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu Subject: Re: [Nhcoll-l] shelving in wet collection Hi! Now we are back on wire shelving beacause the shelving company says that the wired ones are actually more stable and do not bend like perforated steel shelves. For me the picture of the shelve looks quite promising and its load-bearing capacity is 200kg! What do you think? [cid:image001.jpg at 01D8021E.5D73E360] Best! Lennart From: Nhcoll-l [mailto:nhcoll-l-bounces at mailman.yale.edu] On Behalf Of Lennart Lennuk Sent: Wednesday, January 5, 2022 3:35 PM To: Callomon,Paul >; neumann at snsb.de Cc: nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu Subject: Re: [Nhcoll-l] shelving in wet collection Thank you all. We are then deciding to use perforated steel plate with powder coating. Have you any suggestions how the perforation could be done? Shelvng company is offering this kind but I am concerned again about the stability of little jars because the holes seem to be quite big [cid:image002.jpg at 01D8021E.5D73E360] Best! Lennart From: Callomon,Paul [mailto:prc44 at drexel.edu] Sent: Wednesday, January 5, 2022 2:54 PM To: neumann at snsb.de; Lennart Lennuk > Cc: nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu Subject: RE: [Nhcoll-l] shelving in wet collection Another problem with "fridge shelving" is that the plastic coating (which is usually not powder coating but hot-dip) can crack and fail in time, especially around welded joints that remain rigid while the bars bend slightly under the weight of their load. The metal underneath is unprimed mild steel, so it rusts fast. Bear in mind too that shelving made of rods does not bear loads evenly; a jar sitting near the edge, for example, will be better supported on one side than the other and will thus lean a bit. 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: Wednesday, January 5, 2022 7:06 AM To: Lennart Lennuk > Cc: nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu Subject: Re: [Nhcoll-l] shelving in wet collection External. I Lennart, I doubt that jars will be stable on this sort of shelves; also, how much would be the total allowed weight on such shelves? The design doesn't seem to be suited to carry huge weights. With best wishes Dirk Am 05.01.2022 um 12:17 schrieb Lennart Lennuk: Most of our fluid preserved collection is in 100, 300 and 500ml jars. This far I have been asking the shelving company for perforated steel shelf plates finished with powder coating but the company is trying to convince me to use the shelving shown on the picture in my previous letter. Best! Lennart From: Dirk Neumann [mailto:neumann at snsb.de] Sent: Wednesday, January 5, 2022 12:17 PM To: Lennart Lennuk Cc: nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu Subject: Re: [Nhcoll-l] shelving in wet collection Hi Lennart, to me this looks like storage for lab consumables, and even for this purpose you may need to prefer (closed) chemical cabinets instead of open storage (depending on the lab chemicals). For ordinary fluid preserved collections, the recommendation is not to go below 75 ml fluid volume per container. Depending on the quality of the closures and the environmental settings in the storage area, containers below 75 ml may dry up fast, if the seal/closure is bad. Depending on the number of jars, you would need to adjust your monitoring regime to spot evaporation losses and to prevent damage to objects stored in smaller containers. If you would need or want to store specimens in smaller volumes, it would make more sense to use closed cabinets with drawers. Ideally, as Simon recommends, the drawers are equipped with grids or boxes that stabilise the small vials or tubes. We have equipped our cool and refrigerated storage with such drawer-cabinets Hope this helps Dirk Am 05.01.2022 um 10:38 schrieb Lennart Lennuk: Hi Do you have any experience using this kind of shelving in wet collections? I am worried about load-bearing capacity and also the stability of little jars. Is it ok to place a rubber mat under little jars to maintain the stability? [mailbox:///C:/Mail/qk9hn92x.slt/Mail/mailin.lrz-muenchen.de/Inbox?number=336779710&header=quotebody&part=1.2&filename=image001.jpg] Best regards! Lennart Lennuk Head of collections Estonian Museum of Natural History +372 6603404, 56569916 _______________________________________________ Nhcoll-l mailing list Nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu https://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/nhcoll-l _______________________________________________ NHCOLL-L is brought to you by the Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections (SPNHC), an international society whose mission is to improve the preservation, conservation and management of natural history collections to ensure their continuing value to society. See http://www.spnhc.org for membership information. Advertising on NH-COLL-L is inappropriate. -- [cid:image004.png at 01D8021E.5D73E360] 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/ -- [cid:image005.png at 01D8021E.5D73E360] 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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Name: image005.png Type: image/png Size: 8608 bytes Desc: image005.png URL: From prc44 at drexel.edu Wed Jan 5 10:46:59 2022 From: prc44 at drexel.edu (Callomon,Paul) Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2022 15:46:59 +0000 Subject: [Nhcoll-l] shelving in wet collection In-Reply-To: <3cec6895991943cbb6221920e78a4cbb@loodusmuuseum.ee> References: <57685c6d-5cce-f610-47d4-9e1e0c2c1fae@snsb.de> <918ddb01c8d0401a880227bd4003c8c9@loodusmuuseum.ee> <3cec6895991943cbb6221920e78a4cbb@loodusmuuseum.ee> Message-ID: Hi Lennart, I think the shelf you pictured will bend under even moderate load. However, you can find that out for yourself - get a sample! Put a piece of timber under each end (or wherever your load-bearers will be) and start loading it. Deflection depends on how numerous and evenly-spaced the load bearers are. A shelf with four load-bearers can have a lower deflection rate than one that is only supported in two places. This kind of wire shelving is often cantilevered (supported only on one long side) or sits on spurs (cantilever arms sticking out of a vertical frame or a wall), both of which are likely unsuitable for heavy fluid collections as deflection will be in the shorter plane - the shelf will bend downwards towards you, in other words, causing the containers to march like lemmings to the front and topple off. If the supplier is not able to provide deflection (bending) information, beware. Do the test yourself or refuse to sign off on using them. As Leslie points out, the key factor is point loading, not overall carrying capacity. Jars are point loads; big boxes full of T-shirts are distributed loads. Shelving suitable for the latter might be unacceptable for the former. 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URL: From simmons.johne at gmail.com Wed Jan 5 10:48:43 2022 From: simmons.johne at gmail.com (John E Simmons) Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2022 10:48:43 -0500 Subject: [Nhcoll-l] shelving in wet collection In-Reply-To: <3cec6895991943cbb6221920e78a4cbb@loodusmuuseum.ee> References: <57685c6d-5cce-f610-47d4-9e1e0c2c1fae@snsb.de> <918ddb01c8d0401a880227bd4003c8c9@loodusmuuseum.ee> <3cec6895991943cbb6221920e78a4cbb@loodusmuuseum.ee> Message-ID: Lennart, I agree with the comments offered by Dirk and Paul, but there are a few more things that you need to to consider, based on my experiences working with an architect to write specifications for the shelving system used at the Biodiversity Research Center at the University of Kansas in 1996. 1. Load capacity--the amount of weight a shelf can support is calculated as an evenly distributed load, but of course jars on a shelf are not an even distribution of weight because some jars are bigger than others. For this reason, the load bearing capacity of the shelf should be determined by two factors, the total load and how much the shelf can flex (warp) with an uneven load. The largest jars we used on the shelves were one gallon jars (3.8 liters), and they weighed about 8 lbs (3.6 kg) each, depending on the type of jar and the weight of the specimens they contained. Our specifications were that the shelves could not flex more than 1/8 of an inch (0.32 cm) if loaded with gallon jars in the very center. We determined by experiment that when a 36 inch long shelf (91 cm) flexed more than this, the jars on it tended to slide to the center. When shelves flex, the jars on them tend to slide to the center and become unstable, so this is a very important factor. I have seen shelves in several fluid collections that had the proper weight bearing capacity but flexed so much that they were not usable. We required the shelving manufacturer to provide us with a sample set of shelves to test ourselves. 2. Coating--Keep in mind that the jars do not simply sit on the shelf. As they are removed and returned, they will slide across the surface and can scratch through many sorts of coatings. We tested powder coated and plastic coated metal shelving by simply rubbing a nickel coin (a soft metal) on the surface, which rapidly cut through both powder coated and plastic covered shelves, and meant that within a few years of use the shelves would begin to oxidize. For this reason, we opted to use stainless steel shelving. We were not allowed to use wooden shelves or wood-product shelves because of the fire danger they present. If sufficiently strong, wooden shelves are excellent because jars on them do not slide around as much as on metal shelves, but our local fire marshall ruled against wood because it easily burns and because a sprinkler system cannot penetrate through a solid wood shelf. If you are allowed to use wood, make sure you apply the same rule about flexing of the shelf. 3. Fire safety--we were required to have shelves that were at least 50% perforated to allow water from the sprinkle system to penetrate to the lowest shelf. For this reason, combined with the issues of weight and shelf flex, we selected stainless steel wire shelves. The problem with wire shelves, as you know, is that small jars are not stable on them due to the gaps between the wires. To cope with this issue, we made the decision that the smallest capacity jar that could sit directly on the shelf was 8 ounces (237 ml) because smaller jars are less stable. Specimens in smaller jars or vials had to be placed inside an 8 ounce jar. To make the shelf surface more even, a galvanized metal mat was placed on each shelf that was drilled out to 50% perforation. This provided a flat, stable surface from edge to edge across the shelf. The system we selected has been in use since 1997 and has proven to be extremely reliable and study, with no oxidation to the shelving or the metal mats, and no warping of the shelves when fully loaded. I have included a photo of a jar on the stainless steel wire shelf with galvanized mat with a size scale. --John [image: image.jpeg] John E. 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, Jan 5, 2022 at 9:59 AM Lennart Lennuk < Lennart.Lennuk at loodusmuuseum.ee> wrote: > Hi! > > > > Now we are back on wire shelving beacause the shelving company says that > > the wired ones are actually more stable and do not bend like perforated > steel shelves. > > For me the picture of the shelve looks quite promising and its load-bearing > capacity is 200kg! > > What do you think? > > > > Best! > Lennart > > > > *From:* Nhcoll-l [mailto:nhcoll-l-bounces at mailman.yale.edu] *On Behalf Of > *Lennart Lennuk > *Sent:* Wednesday, January 5, 2022 3:35 PM > *To:* Callomon,Paul ; neumann at snsb.de > *Cc:* nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu > *Subject:* Re: [Nhcoll-l] shelving in wet collection > > > > Thank you all. > > We are then deciding to use perforated steel plate with powder coating. > > Have you any suggestions how the perforation could be done? > > > > Shelvng company is offering this kind but I am concerned again about the > stability of little jars > > because the holes seem to be quite big > > [image: cid:image003.jpg at 01D80254.D5D4EF80] > > > > Best! > Lennart > > > > *From:* Callomon,Paul [mailto:prc44 at drexel.edu ] > *Sent:* Wednesday, January 5, 2022 2:54 PM > *To:* neumann at snsb.de; Lennart Lennuk > *Cc:* nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu > *Subject:* RE: [Nhcoll-l] shelving in wet collection > > > > Another problem with ?fridge shelving? is that the plastic coating (which > is usually not powder coating but hot-dip) can crack and fail in time, > especially around welded joints that remain rigid while the bars bend > slightly under the weight of their load. The metal underneath is unprimed > mild steel, so it rusts fast. > > Bear in mind too that shelving made of rods does not bear loads evenly; a > jar sitting near the edge, for example, will be better supported on one > side than the other and will thus lean a bit. > > > > 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:* Wednesday, January 5, 2022 7:06 AM > *To:* Lennart Lennuk > *Cc:* nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu > *Subject:* Re: [Nhcoll-l] shelving in wet collection > > > > *External.* > > I Lennart, > > > > I doubt that jars will be stable on this sort of shelves; also, how much > would be the total allowed weight on such shelves? The design doesn't seem > to be suited to carry huge weights. > > > > With best wishes > > Dirk > > > > > > Am 05.01.2022 um 12:17 schrieb Lennart Lennuk: > > Most of our fluid preserved collection is in 100, 300 and 500ml jars. > > This far I have been asking the shelving company for perforated steel > shelf plates finished with powder coating > > but the company is trying to convince me to use the shelving shown on the > picture in my previous letter. > > > > Best! > Lennart > > > > *From:* Dirk Neumann [mailto:neumann at snsb.de ] > *Sent:* Wednesday, January 5, 2022 12:17 PM > *To:* Lennart Lennuk > > *Cc:* nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu > *Subject:* Re: [Nhcoll-l] shelving in wet collection > > > > Hi Lennart, > > > > to me this looks like storage for lab consumables, and even for this > purpose you may need to prefer (closed) chemical cabinets instead of open > storage (depending on the lab chemicals). > > > > For ordinary fluid preserved collections, the recommendation is not to go > below 75 ml fluid volume per container. Depending on the quality of the > closures and the environmental settings in the storage area, containers > below 75 ml may dry up fast, if the seal/closure is bad. Depending on the > number of jars, you would need to adjust your monitoring regime to spot > evaporation losses and to prevent damage to objects stored in smaller > containers. > > > > If you would need or want to store specimens in smaller volumes, it would > make more sense to use closed cabinets with drawers. Ideally, as Simon > recommends, the drawers are equipped with grids or boxes that stabilise the > small vials or tubes. We have equipped our cool and refrigerated storage > with such drawer-cabinets > > > > > Hope this helps > > Dirk > > > > > > > > Am 05.01.2022 um 10:38 schrieb Lennart Lennuk: > > Hi > > > > Do you have any experience using this kind of shelving in wet collections? > > I am worried about load-bearing capacity and also the stability of little > jars. > > Is it ok to place a rubber mat under little jars to maintain the stability? > > > > [image: > mailbox:///C:/Mail/qk9hn92x.slt/Mail/mailin.lrz-muenchen.de/Inbox?number=336779710&header=quotebody&part=1.2&filename=image001.jpg] > > > > Best regards! > > Lennart Lennuk > > Head of collections > > Estonian Museum of Natural History > > +372 6603404, 56569916 > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Nhcoll-l mailing list > > Nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu > > https://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/nhcoll-l > > > > _______________________________________________ > > NHCOLL-L is brought to you by the Society for the Preservation of > > Natural History Collections (SPNHC), an international society whose > > mission is to improve the preservation, conservation and management of > > natural history collections to ensure their continuing value to > > society. 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The Anthropology Collections currently hold approximately 500,000 artifacts in the areas of Archaeology and Ethnology; the collections are largely from North America, but represent cultures from around the world. This position supports the efforts to preserve and protect the collections on a long-term basis, increase access and grow scientific output, to manage and expand collections, and to help inspire diverse communities? understanding of, and involvement in, anthropology and the natural world. This position supports the collections and research activities of the Department of Anthropology as it aspires to curate the best understood and most ethically held anthropology collection in North America. The Department seeks to document and understand the human communities of the Rocky Mountain region and beyond through study of their material cultures while adhering to the guiding principles of respect, reciprocity, justice, and dialogue. *Essential duties: * - Assists with professional collections management for all collections. - Assists with the accession, deaccession, documentation, registration, and preparation of collections as assigned. - Implements training, monitoring, and daily supervision of interns and volunteers as assigned. - Responds to internal and external queries and requests, and facilitates use of collections. - Assists in maintaining collections metadata, including digital records and associated multimedia files. - Implements and ensures adherence to all safety protocols in collections. - Supports and delivers internal and external outreach programs as appropriate or required. - Other duties as assigned. *Minimum qualifications/Requirements: * - Bachelor?s Degree in Anthropology or related field required. - 1 year museum collections management experience required. - 1 year relational database experience required. - Occasional local and out of state travel required. - Evening and weekend shifts as needed required. - Ability to handle culturally sensitive items and human ancestral remains according to cultural and departmental protocols required. - *The Museum loves science. As a science institution, the Museum believes in the science behind vaccines. Effective September 1, 2021, all persons offered a position will be required to provide valid proof of full vaccination against COVID-19 prior to starting employment.* All applicants must submit a cover letter and resume to be considered, along with the online application form. Follow the link to apply: https://phf.tbe.taleo.net/phf01/ats/careers/v2/viewRequisition?org=DMNS&cws=38&rid=1476 For questions, please contact Dominique Alhambra at dominique.alhambra at dmns.org Best, Dominique Alhambra Anthropology Collections Manager Denver Museum of Nature & Science -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dyanega at gmail.com Thu Jan 6 13:45:08 2022 From: dyanega at gmail.com (Douglas Yanega) Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2022 10:45:08 -0800 Subject: [Nhcoll-l] Google Earth fix? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <5e14f39b-214e-68d0-8414-238d612212b4@gmail.com> Hi, all. As part of our normal routine for georeferencing legacy material, I and others here who work with specimen data capture use Google Earth. Much of this activity was curtailed during the pandemic, and we're just now getting back to some of this. It's come to my attention that - evidently - Google Earth no longer shows the boundaries of counties in the US. State boundaries, yes, zip code boundaries, yes, but there used to be county boundaries and county names, and they appear to be entirely gone now. This promises to entail a significant addition to the time required for us to properly capture data, and in some cases will make assignment to county impossible, when a point maps along a road that crosses a county line (e.g., we need to data capture three points along Hwy 380 between Bingham and Carrizozo, NM, and somewhere between those towns there is a county line between Socorro and Lincoln counties - but it's invisible). Yes, points mapping to a town or named place are generally fine, but points along roads often require a visual confirmation as to which side of a county line they are on, and that can't be done if Google Earth has permanently removed county lines from their display. I'm sure we're not alone in having made extensive use of this feature, and wanting to have it back. Short of a massive letter-writing campaign to Google Earth admins, does anyone know a fix for this? Thanks in advance, -- 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 From dssikes at alaska.edu Thu Jan 6 13:52:32 2022 From: dssikes at alaska.edu (Derek Sikes) Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2022 09:52:32 -0900 Subject: [Nhcoll-l] Google Earth fix? In-Reply-To: <5e14f39b-214e-68d0-8414-238d612212b4@gmail.com> References: <5e14f39b-214e-68d0-8414-238d612212b4@gmail.com> Message-ID: Geolocate allows many different map interfaces, including topo maps. This might help. https://www.geo-locate.org/ -Derek On Thu, Jan 6, 2022 at 9:46 AM Douglas Yanega wrote: > Hi, all. > > As part of our normal routine for georeferencing legacy material, I and > others here who work with specimen data capture use Google Earth. Much > of this activity was curtailed during the pandemic, and we're just now > getting back to some of this. It's come to my attention that - evidently > - Google Earth no longer shows the boundaries of counties in the US. > > State boundaries, yes, zip code boundaries, yes, but there used to be > county boundaries and county names, and they appear to be entirely gone > now. This promises to entail a significant addition to the time required > for us to properly capture data, and in some cases will make assignment > to county impossible, when a point maps along a road that crosses a > county line (e.g., we need to data capture three points along Hwy 380 > between Bingham and Carrizozo, NM, and somewhere between those towns > there is a county line between Socorro and Lincoln counties - but it's > invisible). Yes, points mapping to a town or named place are generally > fine, but points along roads often require a visual confirmation as to > which side of a county line they are on, and that can't be done if > Google Earth has permanently removed county lines from their display. > > I'm sure we're not alone in having made extensive use of this feature, > and wanting to have it back. Short of a massive letter-writing campaign > to Google Earth admins, does anyone know a fix for this? > > Thanks in advance, > > -- > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > 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. > -- +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ *Derek S. Sikes*, Curator of Insects, Professor of Entomology University of Alaska Museum (UAM), University of Alaska Fairbanks 1962 Yukon Drive, Fairbanks, AK 99775-6960 dssikes at alaska.edu phone: 907-474-6278 he/him/his University of Alaska Museum - search 357,704 digitized arthropod records +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Interested in Alaskan Entomology? Join the Alaska Entomological Society and / or sign up for the email listserv "Alaska Entomological Network" at http://www.akentsoc.org/contact_us -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From trombone at amnh.org Thu Jan 6 13:55:15 2022 From: trombone at amnh.org (Thomas J Trombone) Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2022 18:55:15 +0000 Subject: [Nhcoll-l] Google Earth fix? In-Reply-To: <5e14f39b-214e-68d0-8414-238d612212b4@gmail.com> References: <5e14f39b-214e-68d0-8414-238d612212b4@gmail.com> Message-ID: Hi Doug, There's apparently a third-party plug-in that provides county boundaries. See this post for more info: https://support.google.com/earth/thread/124369583/county-boundaries-and-other-information-missing-from-new-borders-and-labels-layer?hl=en&msgid=133045875 and here's the page for the plug-in: https://www.earthpoint.us/Counties.aspx I've barely tried using it myself, so I can't vouch for its utility. Best, Tom Thomas J. Trombone | Data Manager | Department of Ornithology American Museum of Natural History | Central Park West @ 79th Street | New York, NY 10024-5192 (212) 313-7783 | trombone at amnh.org | http://www.amnh.org/our-research/vertebrate-zoology/ornithology -----Original Message----- From: Nhcoll-l On Behalf Of Douglas Yanega Sent: Thursday, 06 January 2022 1:45 PM To: nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu Subject: [Nhcoll-l] Google Earth fix? EXTERNAL SENDER Hi, all. As part of our normal routine for georeferencing legacy material, I and others here who work with specimen data capture use Google Earth. Much of this activity was curtailed during the pandemic, and we're just now getting back to some of this. It's come to my attention that - evidently - Google Earth no longer shows the boundaries of counties in the US. State boundaries, yes, zip code boundaries, yes, but there used to be county boundaries and county names, and they appear to be entirely gone now. This promises to entail a significant addition to the time required for us to properly capture data, and in some cases will make assignment to county impossible, when a point maps along a road that crosses a county line (e.g., we need to data capture three points along Hwy 380 between Bingham and Carrizozo, NM, and somewhere between those towns there is a county line between Socorro and Lincoln counties - but it's invisible). Yes, points mapping to a town or named place are generally fine, but points along roads often require a visual confirmation as to which side of a county line they are on, and that can't be done if Google Earth has permanently removed county lines from their display. I'm sure we're not alone in having made extensive use of this feature, and wanting to have it back. Short of a massive letter-writing campaign to Google Earth admins, does anyone know a fix for this? Thanks in advance, -- 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://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Ffaculty.ucr.edu%2F~heraty%2Fyanega.html&data=04%7C01%7C%7C052f41a998244ab4ae2508d9d144d4af%7Cbe0003e8c6b9496883aeb34586974b76%7C0%7C0%7C637770915843039825%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&sdata=gplZLklrrVjzJjS5Y%2FAKnoriGeygLjh8cE4mmQL4Wig%3D&reserved=0 "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method" - Herman Melville, Moby Dick, Chap. 82 _______________________________________________ Nhcoll-l mailing list Nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmailman.yale.edu%2Fmailman%2Flistinfo%2Fnhcoll-l&data=04%7C01%7C%7C052f41a998244ab4ae2508d9d144d4af%7Cbe0003e8c6b9496883aeb34586974b76%7C0%7C0%7C637770915843039825%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&sdata=lL5FmP4sNqfddGZAxrPfP0cgjFsv5PRiQLHngyfbsI0%3D&reserved=0 _______________________________________________ NHCOLL-L is brought to you by the Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections (SPNHC), an international society whose mission is to improve the preservation, conservation and management of natural history collections to ensure their continuing value to society. See https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.spnhc.org%2F&data=04%7C01%7C%7C052f41a998244ab4ae2508d9d144d4af%7Cbe0003e8c6b9496883aeb34586974b76%7C0%7C0%7C637770915843039825%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&sdata=K6YeHsd2ZCkm%2F%2BrKBLyff56tFn9IqhvfT8RAUqe4Pc0%3D&reserved=0 for membership information. Advertising on NH-COLL-L is inappropriate. From dyanega at gmail.com Thu Jan 6 13:58:18 2022 From: dyanega at gmail.com (Douglas Yanega) Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2022 10:58:18 -0800 Subject: [Nhcoll-l] Google Earth fix? In-Reply-To: References: <5e14f39b-214e-68d0-8414-238d612212b4@gmail.com> Message-ID: On 1/6/22 10:52 AM, Derek Sikes wrote: > Geolocate allows many different map interfaces, including topo maps. > This might help. > > https://www.geo-locate.org/ > We've looked at this site in the past, but Geolocate uses Google Earth base maps, and also does not show county lines any more. If you can figure out a way to see county lines on a web display using GL, I'd like to know the trick. 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 From marieangel79 at gmail.com Thu Jan 6 14:03:54 2022 From: marieangel79 at gmail.com (Marie Angel) Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2022 11:03:54 -0800 Subject: [Nhcoll-l] Google Earth fix? In-Reply-To: References: <5e14f39b-214e-68d0-8414-238d612212b4@gmail.com> Message-ID: Hi, In Geolocate?s collaborative georeferencing web client (https://www.geo-locate.org/web/WebComGeoref.aspx ), if you click on the small blue and white plus sign on the right side, it will show different base layers and overlays. Under ?overlays? there is an option to show US counties. I hope this helps! Best, Marie > On Jan 6, 2022, at 10:58 AM, Douglas Yanega wrote: > > On 1/6/22 10:52 AM, Derek Sikes wrote: >> Geolocate allows many different map interfaces, including topo maps. This might help. >> >> https://www.geo-locate.org/ >> > We've looked at this site in the past, but Geolocate uses Google Earth base maps, and also does not show county lines any more. If you can figure out a way to see county lines on a web display using GL, I'd like to know the trick. > > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Nhcoll-l mailing list > Nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu > https://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/nhcoll-l > > _______________________________________________ > NHCOLL-L is brought to you by the Society for the Preservation of > Natural History Collections (SPNHC), an international society whose > mission is to improve the preservation, conservation and management of > natural history collections to ensure their continuing value to > society. See http://www.spnhc.org for membership information. > Advertising on NH-COLL-L is inappropriate. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dyanega at gmail.com Thu Jan 6 14:06:25 2022 From: dyanega at gmail.com (Douglas Yanega) Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2022 11:06:25 -0800 Subject: [Nhcoll-l] Google Earth fix? In-Reply-To: References: <5e14f39b-214e-68d0-8414-238d612212b4@gmail.com> Message-ID: <9e0e8cd5-472a-e8fe-822e-5f70c7916da5@gmail.com> On 1/6/22 10:55 AM, Thomas J Trombone wrote: > Hi Doug, > > There's apparently a third-party plug-in that provides county boundaries. See this post for more info: > > https://support.google.com/earth/thread/124369583/county-boundaries-and-other-information-missing-from-new-borders-and-labels-layer?hl=en&msgid=133045875 > > and here's the page for the plug-in: https://www.earthpoint.us/Counties.aspx > > I've barely tried using it myself, so I can't vouch for its utility. AHA! Yes, this does exactly restore the previous display feature, with county names and boundaries. I see that apparently Google Earth made the switch in mid-to-late 2021, and have gotten lots of complaints already. Thanks for this. The others who have linked as US Census layer, you might try this EarthPoint layer as well. 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 From nelson.rios at yale.edu Thu Jan 6 14:09:37 2022 From: nelson.rios at yale.edu (Rios, Nelson) Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2022 19:09:37 +0000 Subject: [Nhcoll-l] Google Earth fix? In-Reply-To: References: <5e14f39b-214e-68d0-8414-238d612212b4@gmail.com> Message-ID: Hi Doug, Google maps are the default in geolocate, but if you click the little plus sign in the top tight corner there will be options for different layers and overlays one of which includes a county lines overlay (see attached). The county outlines do disappear at the higher zoom levels, but we plan to adjust that in the next month or so to scale all the way down. Another option for Google Earth, might be to download a shape file for the county outlines and convert to KML which google Earth should be able to read. Best, Nelson -----Original Message----- From: Nhcoll-l On Behalf Of Douglas Yanega Sent: Thursday, January 6, 2022 1:58 PM To: nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu Subject: Re: [Nhcoll-l] Google Earth fix? On 1/6/22 10:52 AM, Derek Sikes wrote: > Geolocate allows many different map interfaces, including topo maps. > This might help. > > https://nam12.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww. > geo-locate.org%2F&data=04%7C01%7Cner36%40connect.yale.edu%7C29341f > c9cdd14990456d08d9d1468403%7Cdd8cbebb21394df8b4114e3e87abeb5c%7C0%7C0% > 7C637770923055795927%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQI > joiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&sdata=ZIfJ%2BTpuI > WpfbqV5yI2jaO94IwO%2Bq%2B%2Ba5Jqh81JyduY%3D&reserved=0 > We've looked at this site in the past, but Geolocate uses Google Earth base maps, and also does not show county lines any more. If you can figure out a way to see county lines on a web display using GL, I'd like to know the trick. 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Another very good resource that I use often is https://caltopo.com The MapBuilder Topo and other layers there are very useful for federal lands, trails and county lines. cheers, Tom J. Tom Giermakowski Division of Amphibians and Reptiles Museum of Southwestern Biology MSC03 2020, Dept Biology University of New Mexico Albuquerque, NM 87131-0001, USA Tel. 505-277-5130 http://msb.unm.edu/ From: Nhcoll-l On Behalf Of Derek Sikes Sent: Thursday, January 6, 2022 11:53 To: nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu Subject: Re: [Nhcoll-l] Google Earth fix? [EXTERNAL] Geolocate allows many different map interfaces, including topo maps. This might help. https://www.geo-locate.org/ -Derek On Thu, Jan 6, 2022 at 9:46 AM Douglas Yanega > wrote: Hi, all. As part of our normal routine for georeferencing legacy material, I and others here who work with specimen data capture use Google Earth. Much of this activity was curtailed during the pandemic, and we're just now getting back to some of this. It's come to my attention that - evidently - Google Earth no longer shows the boundaries of counties in the US. State boundaries, yes, zip code boundaries, yes, but there used to be county boundaries and county names, and they appear to be entirely gone now. This promises to entail a significant addition to the time required for us to properly capture data, and in some cases will make assignment to county impossible, when a point maps along a road that crosses a county line (e.g., we need to data capture three points along Hwy 380 between Bingham and Carrizozo, NM, and somewhere between those towns there is a county line between Socorro and Lincoln counties - but it's invisible). Yes, points mapping to a town or named place are generally fine, but points along roads often require a visual confirmation as to which side of a county line they are on, and that can't be done if Google Earth has permanently removed county lines from their display. I'm sure we're not alone in having made extensive use of this feature, and wanting to have it back. Short of a massive letter-writing campaign to Google Earth admins, does anyone know a fix for this? Thanks in advance, -- 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 _______________________________________________ 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. -- +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Derek S. Sikes, Curator of Insects, Professor of Entomology University of Alaska Museum (UAM), University of Alaska Fairbanks 1962 Yukon Drive, Fairbanks, AK 99775-6960 dssikes at alaska.edu phone: 907-474-6278 he/him/his University of Alaska Museum - search 357,704 digitized arthropod records +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Interested in Alaskan Entomology? Join the Alaska Entomological Society and / or sign up for the email listserv "Alaska Entomological Network" at http://www.akentsoc.org/contact_us -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From mnazaire at calbg.org Thu Jan 6 14:23:24 2022 From: mnazaire at calbg.org (Mare Nazaire) Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2022 11:23:24 -0800 Subject: [Nhcoll-l] Google Earth fix? In-Reply-To: References: <5e14f39b-214e-68d0-8414-238d612212b4@gmail.com> Message-ID: Hi Doug, It looks like you've already gotten some great responses to your question. At RSA we load all kinds of KML files to our Google Earth for georeferencing, which are readily available with searches on Google. Here's one that might help you: https://www.fcc.gov/media/radio/us-community-boundary-overlays-kml ~Mare On Thu, Jan 6, 2022 at 11:10 AM J Tom Giermakowski wrote: > Geo-locate is fantastic! Another very good resource that I use often is > https://caltopo.com > > > > The MapBuilder Topo and other layers there are very useful for federal > lands, trails and county lines. > > > > cheers, Tom > > > > > > > > J. Tom Giermakowski > > Division of Amphibians and Reptiles > > Museum of Southwestern Biology > > MSC03 2020, Dept Biology > > University of New Mexico > > Albuquerque, NM 87131-0001, USA > > > > Tel. 505-277-5130 http://msb.unm.edu/ > > > > > > > > > *From:* Nhcoll-l *On Behalf Of *Derek > Sikes > *Sent:* Thursday, January 6, 2022 11:53 > *To:* nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu > *Subject:* Re: [Nhcoll-l] Google Earth fix? > > > > * [EXTERNAL]* > > Geolocate allows many different map interfaces, including topo maps. This > might help. > > > > https://www.geo-locate.org/ > > > > -Derek > > > > On Thu, Jan 6, 2022 at 9:46 AM Douglas Yanega wrote: > > Hi, all. > > As part of our normal routine for georeferencing legacy material, I and > others here who work with specimen data capture use Google Earth. Much > of this activity was curtailed during the pandemic, and we're just now > getting back to some of this. It's come to my attention that - evidently > - Google Earth no longer shows the boundaries of counties in the US. > > State boundaries, yes, zip code boundaries, yes, but there used to be > county boundaries and county names, and they appear to be entirely gone > now. This promises to entail a significant addition to the time required > for us to properly capture data, and in some cases will make assignment > to county impossible, when a point maps along a road that crosses a > county line (e.g., we need to data capture three points along Hwy 380 > between Bingham and Carrizozo, NM, and somewhere between those towns > there is a county line between Socorro and Lincoln counties - but it's > invisible). Yes, points mapping to a town or named place are generally > fine, but points along roads often require a visual confirmation as to > which side of a county line they are on, and that can't be done if > Google Earth has permanently removed county lines from their display. > > I'm sure we're not alone in having made extensive use of this feature, > and wanting to have it back. Short of a massive letter-writing campaign > to Google Earth admins, does anyone know a fix for this? > > Thanks in advance, > > -- > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > 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. > > > > -- > > > +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > *Derek S. Sikes*, Curator of Insects, Professor of Entomology > University of Alaska Museum (UAM), University of Alaska Fairbanks > > 1962 Yukon Drive, Fairbanks, AK 99775-6960 > dssikes at alaska.edu phone: 907-474-6278 he/him/his > University of Alaska Museum > - search 357,704 digitized arthropod records > > +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > > Interested in Alaskan Entomology? Join the Alaska Entomological > Society and / or sign up for the email listserv "Alaska Entomological > Network" at > http://www.akentsoc.org/contact_us > _______________________________________________ > 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. > -- Mare Nazaire, Ph.D. Administrative Curator, Herbarium [RSA-POM] California Botanic Garden Research Assistant Professor, Claremont Graduate University 1500 North College Avenue Claremont, California 91711 909.625.8767 ext. 268 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dyanega at gmail.com Thu Jan 6 14:41:01 2022 From: dyanega at gmail.com (Douglas Yanega) Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2022 11:41:01 -0800 Subject: [Nhcoll-l] Google Earth fix? In-Reply-To: References: <5e14f39b-214e-68d0-8414-238d612212b4@gmail.com> Message-ID: <366e6168-471b-c6ad-7ecf-7a6e38f44026@gmail.com> On 1/6/22 11:03 AM, Marie Angel wrote: > Hi, > > In Geolocate?s collaborative georeferencing web client > (https://www.geo-locate.org/web/WebComGeoref.aspx), if you click on > the small blue and white plus sign on the right side, it will show > different base layers and overlays. Under ?overlays? there is an > option to show US counties. > > I hope this helps! Hi, Marie. Now that you point out where this feature is, it's good to see that they have it. However, what would help here is if GeoLocate had a more user-friendly interface. I can't see how you and other using GL can deal with specimen label data capture without introducing unnecessary uncertainty. Consider this specimen label: 17 mi W Carrizozo, Lincoln Co., NM Unless I'm missing something, GeoLocate does not have a tool to create a path that measures *exactly 17 road miles* W of Carrizozo. Google Earth does. It turns out, in fact, using Google Earth with the county lines layer restored, that this locality label is wrong, because if you drive 17 miles west from Carrizozo (there's only one road, and it goes mostly NW), you cross the county line into Socorro county at around 13 miles. I don't see a way to tell in GL how far that county line is from Carrizozo, the way you can using Google Earth. When I was researching georeferencing protocols for legacy specimens (anything without lat/long data on the label) for a major NSF grant, I did numerous side-by-side comparisons of various available tools, and while GeoLocate gave very rapid answers, it always underperformed in terms of accuracy, with a much higher error rate and uncertainty radius compared to manual lookups using Google Earth. Points generated using GL would often be several miles away from the actual location, so what one saved in time (admittedly substantial) was undermined by a very significant loss of accuracy. I can give very concrete examples, for anyone interested in nitpicky details. Thanks, -- 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 mnazaire at calbg.org Thu Jan 6 15:43:19 2022 From: mnazaire at calbg.org (Mare Nazaire) Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2022 12:43:19 -0800 Subject: [Nhcoll-l] Google Earth fix? In-Reply-To: <366e6168-471b-c6ad-7ecf-7a6e38f44026@gmail.com> References: <5e14f39b-214e-68d0-8414-238d612212b4@gmail.com> <366e6168-471b-c6ad-7ecf-7a6e38f44026@gmail.com> Message-ID: As I understand it, GeoLocate does have a measuring tool to measure road miles. I never just use one georeferencing program - I use GeoLocate and Google Earth together and make sure that I am getting consistent results, because you can run into discrepancies, as you have pointed out. ~Mare On Thu, Jan 6, 2022 at 11:43 AM Douglas Yanega wrote: > On 1/6/22 11:03 AM, Marie Angel wrote: > > Hi, > > In Geolocate?s collaborative georeferencing web client ( > https://www.geo-locate.org/web/WebComGeoref.aspx), if you click on the > small blue and white plus sign on the right side, it will show different > base layers and overlays. Under ?overlays? there is an option to show US > counties. > > I hope this helps! > > Hi, Marie. > > Now that you point out where this feature is, it's good to see that they > have it. However, what would help here is if GeoLocate had a more > user-friendly interface. I can't see how you and other using GL can deal > with specimen label data capture without introducing unnecessary > uncertainty. > > Consider this specimen label: > > 17 mi W Carrizozo, Lincoln Co., NM > > Unless I'm missing something, GeoLocate does not have a tool to create a > path that measures *exactly 17 road miles* W of Carrizozo. Google Earth > does. It turns out, in fact, using Google Earth with the county lines layer > restored, that this locality label is wrong, because if you drive 17 miles > west from Carrizozo (there's only one road, and it goes mostly NW), you > cross the county line into Socorro county at around 13 miles. I don't see a > way to tell in GL how far that county line is from Carrizozo, the way you > can using Google Earth. > > When I was researching georeferencing protocols for legacy specimens > (anything without lat/long data on the label) for a major NSF grant, I did > numerous side-by-side comparisons of various available tools, and while > GeoLocate gave very rapid answers, it always underperformed in terms of > accuracy, with a much higher error rate and uncertainty radius compared to > manual lookups using Google Earth. Points generated using GL would often be > several miles away from the actual location, so what one saved in time > (admittedly substantial) was undermined by a very significant loss of > accuracy. I can give very concrete examples, for anyone interested in > nitpicky details. > > Thanks, > > -- > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > 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. > -- Mare Nazaire, Ph.D. Administrative Curator, Herbarium [RSA-POM] California Botanic Garden Research Assistant Professor, Claremont Graduate University 1500 North College Avenue Claremont, California 91711 909.625.8767 ext. 268 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From neumann at snsb.de Thu Jan 6 15:46:56 2022 From: neumann at snsb.de (Dirk Neumann) Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2022 21:46:56 +0100 Subject: [Nhcoll-l] Google Earth fix? In-Reply-To: <5e14f39b-214e-68d0-8414-238d612212b4@gmail.com> References: <5e14f39b-214e-68d0-8414-238d612212b4@gmail.com> Message-ID: <29591486-b645-2b67-662f-b171779fafaa@snsb.de> ... GPS Visualizer and Geoplaner are also quite useful (latter allows also conversion between different geodetic systems); possible to switch between different maps, and satellite images on geoplaner are often clearer ... Am 06.01.2022 um 19:45 schrieb Douglas Yanega: > Hi, all. > > As part of our normal routine for georeferencing legacy material, I > and others here who work with specimen data capture use Google Earth. > Much of this activity was curtailed during the pandemic, and we're > just now getting back to some of this. It's come to my attention that > - evidently - Google Earth no longer shows the boundaries of counties > in the US. > > State boundaries, yes, zip code boundaries, yes, but there used to be > county boundaries and county names, and they appear to be entirely > gone now. This promises to entail a significant addition to the time > required for us to properly capture data, and in some cases will make > assignment to county impossible, when a point maps along a road that > crosses a county line (e.g., we need to data capture three points > along Hwy 380 between Bingham and Carrizozo, NM, and somewhere between > those towns there is a county line between Socorro and Lincoln > counties - but it's invisible). Yes, points mapping to a town or named > place are generally fine, but points along roads often require a > visual confirmation as to which side of a county line they are on, and > that can't be done if Google Earth has permanently removed county > lines from their display. > > I'm sure we're not alone in having made extensive use of this feature, > and wanting to have it back. Short of a massive letter-writing > campaign to Google Earth admins, does anyone know a fix for this? > > Thanks in advance, > -- 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... Name: 0oFHNVoMPzBkXg00.png Type: image/png Size: 23308 bytes Desc: not available URL: From neumann at snsb.de Thu Jan 6 16:45:31 2022 From: neumann at snsb.de (Dirk Neumann) Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2022 22:45:31 +0100 Subject: [Nhcoll-l] Google Earth fix? In-Reply-To: References: <5e14f39b-214e-68d0-8414-238d612212b4@gmail.com> <366e6168-471b-c6ad-7ecf-7a6e38f44026@gmail.com> Message-ID: ... doesn't the accuracy of the displayed results (besides internal algorithms for display) depend to some extant on the original satellite data? Back in mid 2000 we received absolutely weird results from our GPS devices standing by the river, while the GPS located us on the hill over there, even though we had good satellite coverage. Also, if tracing locations from historic maps or published locality maps and reverse georeferencing, you will always have some sort of imprecision. There is a risk of false accuracy, and it is worth noting (in databases and preferably on the remarks on jar labels), if online georeferencing were used (and which). Can be a challenge on insect labels, of course. Last autumn I (finally) found in a publication one of the lovely hand-drawn b/w station maps (one of those which kept authors busy with the India-ink pen for days) from the late 1970ies. When translating these dots back into GPS coordinates, getting as close as 5-10 miles was really good. Not directly connects to Doug's original post/question, but perhaps worth noting - of course you want to be as close as you can get and pin-point original locations as best as possible Dirk Am 06.01.2022 um 21:43 schrieb Mare Nazaire: > As I understand it, GeoLocate does have a measuring tool to measure > road miles. I never just use one georeferencing program - I use > GeoLocate and Google Earth together and make sure that I am getting > consistent results, because you can run into discrepancies, as you > have pointed out. > > ~Mare > > On Thu, Jan 6, 2022 at 11:43 AM Douglas Yanega wrote: > > On 1/6/22 11:03 AM, Marie Angel wrote: >> Hi, >> >> In Geolocate?s collaborative georeferencing web client >> (https://www.geo-locate.org/web/WebComGeoref.aspx), if you click >> on the small blue and white plus sign on the right side, it will >> show different base layers and overlays. Under ?overlays? there >> is an option to show US counties. >> >> I hope this helps! > > Hi, Marie. > > Now that you point out where this feature is, it's good to see > that they have it. However, what would help here is if GeoLocate > had a more user-friendly interface. I can't see how you and other > using GL can deal with specimen label data capture without > introducing unnecessary uncertainty. > > Consider this specimen label: > > 17 mi W Carrizozo, Lincoln Co., NM > > Unless I'm missing something, GeoLocate does not have a tool to > create a path that measures *exactly 17 road miles* W of > Carrizozo. Google Earth does. It turns out, in fact, using Google > Earth with the county lines layer restored, that this locality > label is wrong, because if you drive 17 miles west from Carrizozo > (there's only one road, and it goes mostly NW), you cross the > county line into Socorro county at around 13 miles. I don't see a > way to tell in GL how far that county line is from Carrizozo, the > way you can using Google Earth. > > When I was researching georeferencing protocols for legacy > specimens (anything without lat/long data on the label) for a > major NSF grant, I did numerous side-by-side comparisons of > various available tools, and while GeoLocate gave very rapid > answers, it always underperformed in terms of accuracy, with a > much higher error rate and uncertainty radius compared to manual > lookups using Google Earth. Points generated using GL would often > be several miles away from the actual location, so what one saved > in time (admittedly substantial) was undermined by a very > significant loss of accuracy. I can give very concrete examples, > for anyone interested in nitpicky details. > > Thanks, > > -- > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > 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. > > > > -- > Mare Nazaire,?Ph.D. > Administrative Curator, Herbarium [RSA-POM] > California Botanic Garden > Research Assistant Professor, Claremont Graduate University > 1500 North College Avenue > Claremont, California 91711 > 909.625.8767 ext. 268 > > _______________________________________________ > 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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Elana Benamy (she/her/hers) Curatorial Assistant, Botany Department The Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University 1900 Benjamin Franklin Parkway, Philadelphia, PA 19103 215-299-1137, eb468 at drexel.edu Visit: ansp.org Connect with us: Facebook | Twitter | Instagram [cid:a99e910d-c07b-4b15-a74e-ae738260144b] ________________________________ From: Nhcoll-l on behalf of Mare Nazaire Sent: Thursday, January 6, 2022 3:43 PM To: Douglas Yanega Cc: NHCOLL-new Subject: Re: [Nhcoll-l] Google Earth fix? External. As I understand it, GeoLocate does have a measuring tool to measure road miles. I never just use one georeferencing program - I use GeoLocate and Google Earth together and make sure that I am getting consistent results, because you can run into discrepancies, as you have pointed out. ~Mare On Thu, Jan 6, 2022 at 11:43 AM Douglas Yanega > wrote: On 1/6/22 11:03 AM, Marie Angel wrote: Hi, In Geolocate?s collaborative georeferencing web client (https://www.geo-locate.org/web/WebComGeoref.aspx), if you click on the small blue and white plus sign on the right side, it will show different base layers and overlays. Under ?overlays? there is an option to show US counties. I hope this helps! Hi, Marie. Now that you point out where this feature is, it's good to see that they have it. However, what would help here is if GeoLocate had a more user-friendly interface. I can't see how you and other using GL can deal with specimen label data capture without introducing unnecessary uncertainty. Consider this specimen label: 17 mi W Carrizozo, Lincoln Co., NM Unless I'm missing something, GeoLocate does not have a tool to create a path that measures exactly 17 road miles W of Carrizozo. Google Earth does. It turns out, in fact, using Google Earth with the county lines layer restored, that this locality label is wrong, because if you drive 17 miles west from Carrizozo (there's only one road, and it goes mostly NW), you cross the county line into Socorro county at around 13 miles. I don't see a way to tell in GL how far that county line is from Carrizozo, the way you can using Google Earth. When I was researching georeferencing protocols for legacy specimens (anything without lat/long data on the label) for a major NSF grant, I did numerous side-by-side comparisons of various available tools, and while GeoLocate gave very rapid answers, it always underperformed in terms of accuracy, with a much higher error rate and uncertainty radius compared to manual lookups using Google Earth. Points generated using GL would often be several miles away from the actual location, so what one saved in time (admittedly substantial) was undermined by a very significant loss of accuracy. I can give very concrete examples, for anyone interested in nitpicky details. Thanks, -- 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 _______________________________________________ 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. -- Mare Nazaire, Ph.D. Administrative Curator, Herbarium [RSA-POM] California Botanic Garden Research Assistant Professor, Claremont Graduate University 1500 North College Avenue Claremont, California 91711 909.625.8767 ext. 268 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: Outlook-ddv0vbkl.png Type: image/png Size: 167812 bytes Desc: Outlook-ddv0vbkl.png URL: From lisageiger at outlook.com Thu Jan 6 19:49:09 2022 From: lisageiger at outlook.com (Lisa Geiger) Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2022 00:49:09 +0000 Subject: [Nhcoll-l] Google Earth fix? In-Reply-To: <5e14f39b-214e-68d0-8414-238d612212b4@gmail.com> References: <5e14f39b-214e-68d0-8414-238d612212b4@gmail.com> Message-ID: Hi Douglas, I use KML files in Google Earth to define county boundaries. Reliable versions of these are usually available from individual state GIS portals (here's California's), the US Census Bureau (available here), and the FCC (here). You should be able to simply download the KML file and open it in Google Earth's desktop software, enable the layer, and click on the area within the boundaries to define the county name. These sources also usually have state and municipality boundaries in KML format as well. Best of luck! Lisa Geiger Cultural Resources Consultant She/Her | 609-760-4121 ________________________________ From: Nhcoll-l on behalf of Douglas Yanega Sent: Thursday, January 6, 2022 1:45 PM To: nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu Subject: [Nhcoll-l] Google Earth fix? Hi, all. As part of our normal routine for georeferencing legacy material, I and others here who work with specimen data capture use Google Earth. Much of this activity was curtailed during the pandemic, and we're just now getting back to some of this. It's come to my attention that - evidently - Google Earth no longer shows the boundaries of counties in the US. State boundaries, yes, zip code boundaries, yes, but there used to be county boundaries and county names, and they appear to be entirely gone now. This promises to entail a significant addition to the time required for us to properly capture data, and in some cases will make assignment to county impossible, when a point maps along a road that crosses a county line (e.g., we need to data capture three points along Hwy 380 between Bingham and Carrizozo, NM, and somewhere between those towns there is a county line between Socorro and Lincoln counties - but it's invisible). Yes, points mapping to a town or named place are generally fine, but points along roads often require a visual confirmation as to which side of a county line they are on, and that can't be done if Google Earth has permanently removed county lines from their display. I'm sure we're not alone in having made extensive use of this feature, and wanting to have it back. Short of a massive letter-writing campaign to Google Earth admins, does anyone know a fix for this? Thanks in advance, -- 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://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Ffaculty.ucr.edu%2F~heraty%2Fyanega.html&data=04%7C01%7C%7C12aa975b48f948c22beb08d9d144d26d%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637770915786010793%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&sdata=yu9gJRvxmgadqjMByX3tqWF5%2BQyd52dsqEnetcF8SDM%3D&reserved=0 "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness is the true method" - Herman Melville, Moby Dick, Chap. 82 _______________________________________________ Nhcoll-l mailing list Nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmailman.yale.edu%2Fmailman%2Flistinfo%2Fnhcoll-l&data=04%7C01%7C%7C12aa975b48f948c22beb08d9d144d26d%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C637770915786010793%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000&sdata=qbv9csnpvCOVR%2BrRHNxn%2BzUejG5S8Rsz7FcyQG3F98w%3D&reserved=0 _______________________________________________ NHCOLL-L is brought to you by the Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections (SPNHC), an international society whose mission is to improve the preservation, conservation and management of natural history collections to ensure their continuing value to society. 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This far I was convinced that powder coating is strong enough but maybe I should also go with the stainless-steel? At least I haven?t seen or no any cases of powder coating coming off in collections ? does anybody have seen something like this? Is galvanized metal mats better than certified rubber mats? Aren?t the galvanized matt more slippery and I have heard that there is a possible reactions for galvanization: there may be the chance of producing a local element combined with corrosion under certain conditions. Best! Lennart From: John E Simmons [mailto:simmons.johne at gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 5, 2022 5:49 PM To: Lennart Lennuk Cc: Callomon,Paul ; neumann at snsb.de; nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu Subject: Re: [Nhcoll-l] shelving in wet collection Lennart, I agree with the comments offered by Dirk and Paul, but there are a few more things that you need to to consider, based on my experiences working with an architect to write specifications for the shelving system used at the Biodiversity Research Center at the University of Kansas in 1996. 1. Load capacity--the amount of weight a shelf can support is calculated as an evenly distributed load, but of course jars on a shelf are not an even distribution of weight because some jars are bigger than others. For this reason, the load bearing capacity of the shelf should be determined by two factors, the total load and how much the shelf can flex (warp) with an uneven load. The largest jars we used on the shelves were one gallon jars (3.8 liters), and they weighed about 8 lbs (3.6 kg) each, depending on the type of jar and the weight of the specimens they contained. Our specifications were that the shelves could not flex more than 1/8 of an inch (0.32 cm) if loaded with gallon jars in the very center. We determined by experiment that when a 36 inch long shelf (91 cm) flexed more than this, the jars on it tended to slide to the center. When shelves flex, the jars on them tend to slide to the center and become unstable, so this is a very important factor. I have seen shelves in several fluid collections that had the proper weight bearing capacity but flexed so much that they were not usable. We required the shelving manufacturer to provide us with a sample set of shelves to test ourselves. 2. Coating--Keep in mind that the jars do not simply sit on the shelf. As they are removed and returned, they will slide across the surface and can scratch through many sorts of coatings. We tested powder coated and plastic coated metal shelving by simply rubbing a nickel coin (a soft metal) on the surface, which rapidly cut through both powder coated and plastic covered shelves, and meant that within a few years of use the shelves would begin to oxidize. For this reason, we opted to use stainless steel shelving. We were not allowed to use wooden shelves or wood-product shelves because of the fire danger they present. If sufficiently strong, wooden shelves are excellent because jars on them do not slide around as much as on metal shelves, but our local fire marshall ruled against wood because it easily burns and because a sprinkler system cannot penetrate through a solid wood shelf. If you are allowed to use wood, make sure you apply the same rule about flexing of the shelf. 3. Fire safety--we were required to have shelves that were at least 50% perforated to allow water from the sprinkle system to penetrate to the lowest shelf. For this reason, combined with the issues of weight and shelf flex, we selected stainless steel wire shelves. The problem with wire shelves, as you know, is that small jars are not stable on them due to the gaps between the wires. To cope with this issue, we made the decision that the smallest capacity jar that could sit directly on the shelf was 8 ounces (237 ml) because smaller jars are less stable. Specimens in smaller jars or vials had to be placed inside an 8 ounce jar. To make the shelf surface more even, a galvanized metal mat was placed on each shelf that was drilled out to 50% perforation. This provided a flat, stable surface from edge to edge across the shelf. The system we selected has been in use since 1997 and has proven to be extremely reliable and study, with no oxidation to the shelving or the metal mats, and no warping of the shelves when fully loaded. I have included a photo of a jar on the stainless steel wire shelf with galvanized mat with a size scale. --John [image.jpeg] John E. 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, Jan 5, 2022 at 9:59 AM Lennart Lennuk > wrote: Hi! Now we are back on wire shelving beacause the shelving company says that the wired ones are actually more stable and do not bend like perforated steel shelves. For me the picture of the shelve looks quite promising and its load-bearing capacity is 200kg! What do you think? [cid:image004.jpg at 01D803F5.D1474790] Best! Lennart From: Nhcoll-l [mailto:nhcoll-l-bounces at mailman.yale.edu] On Behalf Of Lennart Lennuk Sent: Wednesday, January 5, 2022 3:35 PM To: Callomon,Paul >; neumann at snsb.de Cc: nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu Subject: Re: [Nhcoll-l] shelving in wet collection Thank you all. We are then deciding to use perforated steel plate with powder coating. Have you any suggestions how the perforation could be done? Shelvng company is offering this kind but I am concerned again about the stability of little jars because the holes seem to be quite big [cid:image003.jpg at 01D80254.D5D4EF80] Best! Lennart From: Callomon,Paul [mailto:prc44 at drexel.edu] Sent: Wednesday, January 5, 2022 2:54 PM To: neumann at snsb.de; Lennart Lennuk > Cc: nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu Subject: RE: [Nhcoll-l] shelving in wet collection Another problem with ?fridge shelving? is that the plastic coating (which is usually not powder coating but hot-dip) can crack and fail in time, especially around welded joints that remain rigid while the bars bend slightly under the weight of their load. The metal underneath is unprimed mild steel, so it rusts fast. Bear in mind too that shelving made of rods does not bear loads evenly; a jar sitting near the edge, for example, will be better supported on one side than the other and will thus lean a bit. 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: Wednesday, January 5, 2022 7:06 AM To: Lennart Lennuk > Cc: nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu Subject: Re: [Nhcoll-l] shelving in wet collection External. I Lennart, I doubt that jars will be stable on this sort of shelves; also, how much would be the total allowed weight on such shelves? The design doesn't seem to be suited to carry huge weights. With best wishes Dirk Am 05.01.2022 um 12:17 schrieb Lennart Lennuk: Most of our fluid preserved collection is in 100, 300 and 500ml jars. This far I have been asking the shelving company for perforated steel shelf plates finished with powder coating but the company is trying to convince me to use the shelving shown on the picture in my previous letter. Best! Lennart From: Dirk Neumann [mailto:neumann at snsb.de] Sent: Wednesday, January 5, 2022 12:17 PM To: Lennart Lennuk Cc: nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu Subject: Re: [Nhcoll-l] shelving in wet collection Hi Lennart, to me this looks like storage for lab consumables, and even for this purpose you may need to prefer (closed) chemical cabinets instead of open storage (depending on the lab chemicals). For ordinary fluid preserved collections, the recommendation is not to go below 75 ml fluid volume per container. Depending on the quality of the closures and the environmental settings in the storage area, containers below 75 ml may dry up fast, if the seal/closure is bad. Depending on the number of jars, you would need to adjust your monitoring regime to spot evaporation losses and to prevent damage to objects stored in smaller containers. If you would need or want to store specimens in smaller volumes, it would make more sense to use closed cabinets with drawers. Ideally, as Simon recommends, the drawers are equipped with grids or boxes that stabilise the small vials or tubes. We have equipped our cool and refrigerated storage with such drawer-cabinets Hope this helps Dirk Am 05.01.2022 um 10:38 schrieb Lennart Lennuk: Hi Do you have any experience using this kind of shelving in wet collections? I am worried about load-bearing capacity and also the stability of little jars. Is it ok to place a rubber mat under little jars to maintain the stability? [mailbox:///C:/Mail/qk9hn92x.slt/Mail/mailin.lrz-muenchen.de/Inbox?number=336779710&header=quotebody&part=1.2&filename=image001.jpg] Best regards! Lennart Lennuk Head of collections Estonian Museum of Natural History +372 6603404, 56569916 _______________________________________________ Nhcoll-l mailing list Nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu https://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/nhcoll-l _______________________________________________ NHCOLL-L is brought to you by the Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections (SPNHC), an international society whose mission is to improve the preservation, conservation and management of natural history collections to ensure their continuing value to society. See http://www.spnhc.org for membership information. 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You can line steel or mesh shelves with Kydex or similar high-melting-point plastic sheet to protect the shelf and provide uniform rhesis (resistance to sliding). See: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/337950870_An_improved_design_for_the_storage_of_fluid-preserved_specimens_in_small_to_medium-sized_containers If the shelf has to be perforated for fire reasons, though, you will need to find a liner that allows through-flow. As long as it has a higher melting/flash point than your jar lids, it should pass inspection. 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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I got Erasmus+ scholarship for recent graduate traineeship for 4 months period (last opportunity for me to carry out the internship with full funding is from *beginning of February until the end of May*) But I am also up for a shorter period. Traineeship must be carried out in one of the EU member countries, incl. Iceland, Norway, Turkey, Liechtenstein, North Macedonia, Serbia, United Kingdom I graduated summer of 2021 with a Bachelor degree in Estonian Academy of Arts in the Cultural Heritage and Conservation department. My speciality was taxidermy conservation and my thesis was about fish mounts conservation. Therefore, I worked the whole year in the Estonian Museum of Natural History. My work with the fish mounts collection was nominated for the Estonian Museum Awards 2021 in the conservation category. Results will be published on 28th of January. Attached you can find a poster about my bachelor's thesis, my portfolio and my curriculum vitae. 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All you can do is decide whether you want to put the point 17 miles out in a different county or put it in the right county, but less than 17 miles down the road. Either way, the ?Uncertainty? field gets a big number. Dr. Kelly M. Cassidy, Curator, Conner Museum School of Biological Sciences Box 644236 Washington State University Pullman, WA 99164-4236 509-335-3515 From: Nhcoll-l On Behalf Of Douglas Yanega Sent: Thursday, January 6, 2022 11:41 AM To: nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu Subject: Re: [Nhcoll-l] Google Earth fix? On 1/6/22 11:03 AM, Marie Angel wrote: Hi, In Geolocate?s collaborative georeferencing web client (https://www.geo-locate.org/web/WebComGeoref.aspx), if you click on the small blue and white plus sign on the right side, it will show different base layers and overlays. Under ?overlays? there is an option to show US counties. I hope this helps! Hi, Marie. Now that you point out where this feature is, it's good to see that they have it. However, what would help here is if GeoLocate had a more user-friendly interface. I can't see how you and other using GL can deal with specimen label data capture without introducing unnecessary uncertainty. Consider this specimen label: 17 mi W Carrizozo, Lincoln Co., NM Unless I'm missing something, GeoLocate does not have a tool to create a path that measures exactly 17 road miles W of Carrizozo. Google Earth does. It turns out, in fact, using Google Earth with the county lines layer restored, that this locality label is wrong, because if you drive 17 miles west from Carrizozo (there's only one road, and it goes mostly NW), you cross the county line into Socorro county at around 13 miles. I don't see a way to tell in GL how far that county line is from Carrizozo, the way you can using Google Earth. When I was researching georeferencing protocols for legacy specimens (anything without lat/long data on the label) for a major NSF grant, I did numerous side-by-side comparisons of various available tools, and while GeoLocate gave very rapid answers, it always underperformed in terms of accuracy, with a much higher error rate and uncertainty radius compared to manual lookups using Google Earth. Points generated using GL would often be several miles away from the actual location, so what one saved in time (admittedly substantial) was undermined by a very significant loss of accuracy. I can give very concrete examples, for anyone interested in nitpicky details. Thanks, -- 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 prc44 at drexel.edu Tue Jan 11 16:25:49 2022 From: prc44 at drexel.edu (Callomon,Paul) Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2022 21:25:49 +0000 Subject: [Nhcoll-l] Google Earth fix? In-Reply-To: References: <5e14f39b-214e-68d0-8414-238d612212b4@gmail.com> <366e6168-471b-c6ad-7ecf-7a6e38f44026@gmail.com> Message-ID: It is always going to be a problem for geolocation in older collections that folks in the not-even-too-distant past had no more accurate way of localizing themselves in nature than a compass and maybe mile-markers on a road; and of course, as happens today, many would have recalled and recorded their collecting sites somewhat after the fact. Vagueness in, vagueness out. Paul Callomon Collection Manager, Malacology and General Invertebrates ________________________________ Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University, Philadelphia callomon at ansp.org Tel 215-405-5096 - Fax 215-299-1170 ________________________________ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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This collector was scrupulous in reading his trip odometer, and scrupulous about resetting the trip odometer whenever he left a town. Carrizozo is a town less than a mile from end to end. I assume that the resulting georeference is accurate to within a mile, accordingly (a half a mile error for the odometer, and at most a half a mile for the edge of the town). The uncertainty radius on most such labels is typically databased as 2 km, sometimes much less (e.g., "vic. Big Dune, 4.3 mi W jct Hwy 95 & 373" is accurate to within a few hundred meters). Many landmark features are small, and stable over very long time frames, if they are not associated with large sprawling urban areas. A label saying 17 mi W Carrizozo is *very* precise; a label saying?17 mi W Albuquerque is nearly useless. Entomologists in pre-GPS days (but after 1930 or so) often reported their odometer readings to the nearest 1/10 mile, and/or also gave elevation from altimeter readings. It is not at all a difficult thing to recreate a person's trip when you know that the way entomologists collect is to drive around, stop the car at the side of the road, collect nearby, and then get back in the car and go on to another stop. It's a *very* rare thing for a collecting locality to be somewhere from which one's parked car would not be visible. In fact, the error radius associated with how far a person might have wandered on foot from their parked car is probably nearly the same as the error associated with determining where they had to have been parked. Also, in those few circumstances where we DO have additional evidence to use as a check (field notes, records from more than one collector at the same site, direct questioning of collectors, etc.), the precision and accuracy of post-facto georeferencing *along roads* has proven to be pretty solid on the whole; I can't think of a single such case where the actual spot was not inside the error radius we'd assigned. That being said, labels made prior to the routine use of odometers are generally hopeless, as are labels that only give the names of cities or towns, or irregular or linear features like a lake, river, mountain, or canyon. THOSE records usually have a very large associated error radius. Conversely, there are a fair number of collectors who write down incorrect GPS values on their labels, or mis-transcribe things so you get nonsense entries like "33? 78.56" N", so even the access to technology doesn't prevent careless mistakes that require careful georeferencing. 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 Jeff.Stephenson at dmns.org Wed Jan 12 15:15:16 2022 From: Jeff.Stephenson at dmns.org (Jeff Stephenson) Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2022 20:15:16 +0000 Subject: [Nhcoll-l] April On-Line Course -- Transmitting Science Message-ID: Hello, Please see below for a compendium of on-line courses in Museum Studies and Collections Management. This list is provided by the Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections Professional Development Committee as a monthly service for nhcoll subscribers. Please contact the course providers or instructors for more information or questions. As a reminder, nhcoll is not open for advertising by individuals; however, if you would like to have your courses appear in this compendium, please feel free to submit your offerings to jeff.stephenson at dmns.org, and we??ll see that you get in. Thank you From Transmitting Science Dear colleagues, Registration is open for the online edition of the course Care and Management of Natural History Collections. Dates and schedule: Online live sessions (synchronous) on the 21st, 23rd, 25th, 28th, 30th of March and 1st of April, from 16:00 to 20:30 (Madrid time zone). The rest of the time will be taught with pre-recorded lectures to watch asynchronously. Instructors: John E. Simmons (Museologica, USA) and Dr. Greg McDonald (Bureau of Land Management, USA) Course Overview: Using a combination of lectures, discussions, demonstrations, and readings, this course will teach participants how to better care for and manage all natural history collections (including botany, geosciences, and zoology). The importance of the collections storage environment is emphasized, as well as the identification and selection of inert materials, testing locally available materials, adapting collections care standards to particular environmental conditions, and good management through sound policies and collection planning. Rather than the traditional discipline-based approach, the course teaches collections care based on collection material and preparation type?Ddry preparations, wet preparations, and documentation (including paper-based and electronic media). The course will benefit individuals who already have experience in caring for natural history collections, as well as those who intend to work with natural history collections. More information and registrations: https://www.transmittingscience.com/courses/museums-and-collections/care-management-natural-history-collections/ Best regards Juanvi -- Juan Vicente Bert?? Mengual Transmitting Science www.transmittingscience.com JEFF STEPHENSON COLLECTIONS MANAGER, ZOOLOGY DEPARTMENT [DMNS 2 Line RGB small.jpg] jeff.stephenson at dmns.org W 303.370.8319 F 303.331.6492 2001 Colorado Blvd., Denver CO 80205 preserve, present, inspire, explore www.dmns.org Meet live animals that manage to thrive in a world where large, strong and fast animals top the food chain in ??Survival of the Slowest,?? opening Oct. 22. 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What is a word for the act when an specimen in collection is destroyed and it needs to be maked that this specimen no longer exist in that collection? Best regards! Lennart Lennuk Head of collections Estonian Museum of Natural History +372 6603404, 56569916 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From nmonaghan at museum.ie Fri Jan 14 04:31:58 2022 From: nmonaghan at museum.ie (Monaghan, Nigel) Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2022 09:31:58 +0000 Subject: [Nhcoll-l] terminology question In-Reply-To: <026e6fd1dcc94d438f08dba1e621db20@loodusmuuseum.ee> References: <026e6fd1dcc94d438f08dba1e621db20@loodusmuuseum.ee> Message-ID: Lennart This is a very good guide to museum standards and is followed by many museums. The specific advice on disposal processes and how to document them is specified here: https://collectionstrust.org.uk/spectrum/procedures/deaccessioning-and-disposal-spectrum-5-0/ Nigel Mr Nigel T. Monaghan Keeper ? Natural History Division National Museum of Ireland ? Natural History, Merrion St. Dublin 2, Ireland. D02 F627 T: +353-1-6486-354 | M: +353-87-7985570 Website | @KeeperNH Museums are open but with restrictions, book online to arrange your visit The National Museum of Ireland ? Natural History remains closed for essential works Group Bookings have been suspended due to capacity ? see our website at www.museum.ie for details Research visitors must make appointments in advance of any proposed visit. Visit: Down to Earth ? Exploring Ireland?s Geology https://www.museum.ie/en-IE/Museums/Decorative-Arts-History/Exhibitions/Down-to-Earth Virtual Visit: See our 3D interiors at http://www.museum.ie/nh3d Watch: We are one of the Dublin stories on http://storymap.ie/dead-zoo also at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VunX2u_mQWw Read: Guide to the National Museum of Ireland - Natural History, ?5.95 from Museum Shops, free on our website From: Nhcoll-l On Behalf Of Lennart Lennuk Sent: Friday 14 January 2022 08:49 To: nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu Subject: [Nhcoll-l] terminology question Hi! Just a quick terminology question. What is a word for the act when an specimen in collection is destroyed and it needs to be maked that this specimen no longer exist in that collection? Best regards! 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Usually, you would refer to "destroyed", if there is proof. Otherwise , it is better to say "missing" or "lost since" if the specimen cannot be traced. We keep records for all (published) historic specimens from our collection in our database (not only the types), as we receive sporadically requests from scientists for these specimens. Examples for the different stages of "lost" missing" destroyed" are for example in our type catalogue Also, if a specimen is destroyed, e.g., as a result of destructive sampling (tissue samples that are entirely consumed with subsequently available DNA-data or DNA aliquots, or none of both, because extractions fail etc.), you would surely keep the records (in this case specifically, especially for collections in the EU, because of the 20-year reporting obligation in the EU ABS regulation). Even when deaccessioning material, you surely kept the files of this fact. So maybe this helps for you terminology question, but I am not quite sure. With best wishes Dirk Am 14.01.2022 um 09:49 schrieb Lennart Lennuk: > > Hi! > > Just a quick terminology question. > > What is a word for the act when an specimen in collection is destroyed > and it needs to be maked that this specimen no longer exist in that > collection? > > Best regards! > > Lennart Lennuk > > Head of collections > > Estonian Museum of Natural History > > +372 6603404, 56569916 > > > _______________________________________________ > Nhcoll-l mailing list > Nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu > https://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/nhcoll-l > > _______________________________________________ > NHCOLL-L is brought to you by the Society for the Preservation of > Natural History Collections (SPNHC), an international society whose > mission is to improve the preservation, conservation and management of > natural history collections to ensure their continuing value to > society. 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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Thanks in advance! Sergio -- ******************************** Sergio Montagud Alario Museu [UV] Hist?ria Natural Universitat de Val?ncia e-mail: sergio.montagud at uv.es ******************************** -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Lennart.Lennuk at loodusmuuseum.ee Fri Jan 14 08:33:25 2022 From: Lennart.Lennuk at loodusmuuseum.ee (Lennart Lennuk) Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2022 13:33:25 +0000 Subject: [Nhcoll-l] terminology question In-Reply-To: <3294fa96-10e3-0362-fdfa-6ce602bd0279@snsb.de> References: <026e6fd1dcc94d438f08dba1e621db20@loodusmuuseum.ee> <3294fa96-10e3-0362-fdfa-6ce602bd0279@snsb.de> Message-ID: <393d2665c1154acfa9cb007b9d133d06@loodusmuuseum.ee> Hi! Thank you all! Dirk, I ment the terminology for the act that has to be done when specimen is lost, destroyed, gifted to another museum etc. 'Deaccession' seems right to me. Head! Lennart From: Nhcoll-l [mailto:nhcoll-l-bounces at mailman.yale.edu] On Behalf Of Dirk Neumann Sent: Friday, January 14, 2022 11:59 AM To: nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu Subject: Re: [Nhcoll-l] terminology question Good morning Lennart, what exactly do you mean with "destroyed"? There may be different levels: Our collection had many losses during the Second World War, specimens were considered "destroyed", but some where apparently only "lost" and reappeared later and re-discovered, e.g. in the teaching collection of the university. Usually, you would refer to "destroyed", if there is proof. Otherwise , it is better to say "missing" or "lost since" if the specimen cannot be traced. We keep records for all (published) historic specimens from our collection in our database (not only the types), as we receive sporadically requests from scientists for these specimens. Examples for the different stages of "lost" missing" destroyed" are for example in our type catalogue Also, if a specimen is destroyed, e.g., as a result of destructive sampling (tissue samples that are entirely consumed with subsequently available DNA-data or DNA aliquots, or none of both, because extractions fail etc.), you would surely keep the records (in this case specifically, especially for collections in the EU, because of the 20-year reporting obligation in the EU ABS regulation). Even when deaccessioning material, you surely kept the files of this fact. So maybe this helps for you terminology question, but I am not quite sure. With best wishes Dirk Am 14.01.2022 um 09:49 schrieb Lennart Lennuk: Hi! Just a quick terminology question. What is a word for the act when an specimen in collection is destroyed and it needs to be maked that this specimen no longer exist in that collection? Best regards! Lennart Lennuk Head of collections Estonian Museum of Natural History +372 6603404, 56569916 _______________________________________________ Nhcoll-l mailing list Nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu https://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/nhcoll-l _______________________________________________ NHCOLL-L is brought to you by the Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections (SPNHC), an international society whose mission is to improve the preservation, conservation and management of natural history collections to ensure their continuing value to society. See http://www.spnhc.org for membership information. 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Specimen destroyed (destructive sampling, used up in the course of research, etc.) There is a good explanation of these in Museum Registration Methods 6th edition (Chapter 3I) (https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781538113110/Museum-Registration-Methods-Sixth-Edition) and Things Great and Small (Chapter 7) (https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781442277458/Things-Great-and-Small-Collections-Management-Policies-Second-Edition) which I highly recommend you purchase as references. I will send you PDF?s of these chapters offline A good database management system should be able to handle all of these scenarios and show the relationship between the cause and effect. 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 Lennart Lennuk Sent: Friday, January 14, 2022 2:49 AM To: nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu Subject: [Nhcoll-l] terminology question Hi! Just a quick terminology question. What is a word for the act when an specimen in collection is destroyed and it needs to be maked that this specimen no longer exist in that collection? Best regards! Lennart Lennuk Head of collections Estonian Museum of Natural History +372 6603404, 56569916 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From trombone at amnh.org Fri Jan 14 09:37:33 2022 From: trombone at amnh.org (Thomas J Trombone) Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2022 14:37:33 +0000 Subject: [Nhcoll-l] terminology question In-Reply-To: <393d2665c1154acfa9cb007b9d133d06@loodusmuuseum.ee> References: <026e6fd1dcc94d438f08dba1e621db20@loodusmuuseum.ee> <3294fa96-10e3-0362-fdfa-6ce602bd0279@snsb.de> <393d2665c1154acfa9cb007b9d133d06@loodusmuuseum.ee> Message-ID: Hi Lennart, We use the term "deaccessioning" to refer to the deliberate removal from our collection of a specimen for any reason. Nowadays, deaccessioning most often refers to specimens given (or exchanged) to another institution. When we deaccession a specimen, we create a permanent record of the act, and file it with our central Registrars office. This is the mirror image of accessioning, which is what we do when we formally acquire specimens. (Accession Records are also filed with and maintained by our Registrars Office.) One small problem I have with our terminology involves specimens that were removed from our collection many decades ago. I consider these to have been deaccessioned even though they may not have been formally recorded with the Registrars Office at the time. To me, the fact that they were deliberately removed from our collection constitutes their being deaccessioned. Regards, Tom Thomas J. Trombone | Data Manager | Department of Ornithology American Museum of Natural History | Central Park West @ 79th Street | New York, NY 10024-5192 (212) 313-7783 | trombone at amnh.org | http://www.amnh.org/our-research/vertebrate-zoology/ornithology From: Nhcoll-l On Behalf Of Lennart Lennuk Sent: Friday, 14 January 2022 8:33 AM To: neumann at snsb.de; nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu Subject: Re: [Nhcoll-l] terminology question EXTERNAL SENDER Hi! Thank you all! Dirk, I ment the terminology for the act that has to be done when specimen is lost, destroyed, gifted to another museum etc. 'Deaccession' seems right to me. Head! Lennart From: Nhcoll-l [mailto:nhcoll-l-bounces at mailman.yale.edu] On Behalf Of Dirk Neumann Sent: Friday, January 14, 2022 11:59 AM To: nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu Subject: Re: [Nhcoll-l] terminology question Good morning Lennart, what exactly do you mean with "destroyed"? There may be different levels: Our collection had many losses during the Second World War, specimens were considered "destroyed", but some where apparently only "lost" and reappeared later and re-discovered, e.g. in the teaching collection of the university. Usually, you would refer to "destroyed", if there is proof. Otherwise , it is better to say "missing" or "lost since" if the specimen cannot be traced. We keep records for all (published) historic specimens from our collection in our database (not only the types), as we receive sporadically requests from scientists for these specimens. Examples for the different stages of "lost" missing" destroyed" are for example in our type catalogue Also, if a specimen is destroyed, e.g., as a result of destructive sampling (tissue samples that are entirely consumed with subsequently available DNA-data or DNA aliquots, or none of both, because extractions fail etc.), you would surely keep the records (in this case specifically, especially for collections in the EU, because of the 20-year reporting obligation in the EU ABS regulation). Even when deaccessioning material, you surely kept the files of this fact. So maybe this helps for you terminology question, but I am not quite sure. With best wishes Dirk Am 14.01.2022 um 09:49 schrieb Lennart Lennuk: Hi! Just a quick terminology question. What is a word for the act when an specimen in collection is destroyed and it needs to be maked that this specimen no longer exist in that collection? Best regards! Lennart Lennuk Head of collections Estonian Museum of Natural History +372 6603404, 56569916 _______________________________________________ Nhcoll-l mailing list Nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu https://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/nhcoll-l _______________________________________________ NHCOLL-L is brought to you by the Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections (SPNHC), an international society whose mission is to improve the preservation, conservation and management of natural history collections to ensure their continuing value to society. See http://www.spnhc.org for membership information. 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Saludos, Mariana On Fri, Jan 14, 2022, 06:43 Sergio Montagud wrote: > > > Dear all, > > > > We are looking the best type of glue to use for assembly skeletons and > standarize a protocol. Many of our specimens come from students' work, who > have used mostly the Loctite glue (instant glue) for small animals like > birds, reptiles, rodents and bats. Other animals like large mammals or prey > raptors has been mounted with Epoxi glue, that mixed two components and > remains very fixed. But this mix is dark color. Other pieces in the > paleontology collection are join with Paraloid with high concentration. > > > > What cain of glue do you recommended for setting skeletons and join bones > as principal protocol? > > > > Is there any well-documented work or reference where all this information > is indicated? > > > > Thanks in advance! > > > > Sergio > > > > -- > ******************************** > Sergio Montagud Alario > Museu [UV] Hist?ria Natural > Universitat de Val?ncia > e-mail: sergio.montagud at uv.es > ******************************** > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 simmons.johne at gmail.com Fri Jan 14 12:01:37 2022 From: simmons.johne at gmail.com (John E Simmons) Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2022 12:01:37 -0500 Subject: [Nhcoll-l] terminology question In-Reply-To: <026e6fd1dcc94d438f08dba1e621db20@loodusmuuseum.ee> References: <026e6fd1dcc94d438f08dba1e621db20@loodusmuuseum.ee> Message-ID: Lennart, You have received some very good advice from Nigel, Dirk, and Andy, but just to make sure that your original question is addressed, a bit of clarification is in order: As Andy pointed out and the *Spectrum* standards recommended by Nigel state, if an *accessioned* specimen is permanently removed from the collection for any reason, you should indicate that it was *deaccessioned*, and the deaccessioning process must be thoroughly documented as well as the *disposal* process (disposal refers to how you get rid of the specimen, such as by exchanging it with another museum or giving it to another museum, destroying it completely, selling it, etc.). Remember that (1) only accessioned specimens can be deaccessioned; (2) the process should be well documented; and (3) you should not deaccession specimens that are lost or missing. The specimen record for deaccessioned specimens should be maintained in the museum--do not re-use catalog number of destroy any of the documentation about the specimen. The record is still valuable, even if the specimen no longer exists. As Dirk explained, a *lost* or *missing* specimen may turn up long after it has gone missing. For this reason, if you cannot find the specimen, you should not deaccession it, but rather indicate in the specimen record (e.g., the catalog or accession record) that it is lost or missing. In the 52+ years I have worked in natural history museums, I have seen a lot of lost or missing specimens suddenly turn up in the wrong container, in teaching collections, and in other museums by accident. As Dirk explained, even if you think specimens were lost in a war, you should not deaccession them but record them as lost or missing. If a specimen is used for *destructive sampling*, it can be deaccessioned as long as the process is documented, but as Dirk mentioned, frequently such specimens are not completely destroyed--there may be DNA or bones or skin or other parts that are not destroyed, in which case these should remain in the collection. Because each specimen is a record of the occurrence of a species or object at a particular place and time, saving parts of a damaged specimen is still important. Furthermore, in science museums we should keep in mind that we do not know what research use our specimens will have in the future. For example, the Earth and Mineral Sciences Museum & Art Gallery (where I volunteer) has many geoscience specimens that are rich in pyrite and over the years have crumbled to dust. At first glance, you might think that the pile of grit left behind is useless and should be thrown away, but recently, some researchers have asked specifically for that sort of material because they can extract rare earth metals, etc. from it. Similarly, the remaining parts of even heavily dissected specimens may have use in the future. The important thing is to document what was done to the specimen, when, by whom, and for what purpose. --John John E. 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 Fri, Jan 14, 2022 at 3:49 AM Lennart Lennuk < Lennart.Lennuk at loodusmuuseum.ee> wrote: > Hi! > > > > Just a quick terminology question. > > What is a word for the act when an specimen in collection is destroyed and > it needs to be maked that this specimen no longer exist in that collection? > > > > Best regards! > > Lennart Lennuk > > Head of collections > > Estonian Museum of Natural History > > +372 6603404, 56569916 > > > _______________________________________________ > Nhcoll-l mailing list > Nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu > https://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/nhcoll-l > > _______________________________________________ > NHCOLL-L is brought to you by the Society for the Preservation of > Natural History Collections (SPNHC), an international society whose > mission is to improve the preservation, conservation and management of > natural history collections to ensure their continuing value to > society. See http://www.spnhc.org for membership information. > Advertising on NH-COLL-L is inappropriate. > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From AndersonG at CarnegieMNH.Org Fri Jan 14 14:54:41 2022 From: AndersonG at CarnegieMNH.Org (Anderson, Gretchen) Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2022 19:54:41 +0000 Subject: [Nhcoll-l] Skeletons assembly In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Dear Sergio, I fully agree with Mariana?s recommendation of Paraloid B-72. As she notes cyanoacrylates and epoxies are too strong, with a tendency to discolor. Epoxies are difficult to reverse and remove. PVA?s (like white glue) are designed for paper and wood and will expand and contract with fluctuations in relative humidity. They have what is called cold flow, which means that they will shift as the environment changes. I am available to chat as well. But Mariana?s advice to find a local conservator who can advise you on local options is excellent. Good Luck! Gretchen Anderson Conservator, Carnegie Museum of Natural History Sent from Mail for Windows From: Mariana Di Giacomo Sent: Friday, January 14, 2022 11:00 AM To: Sergio Montagud Cc: NHCOLL-new Subject: Re: [Nhcoll-l] Skeletons assembly Dear Sergio, I would recommend the use of a museum-grade (also referred to as archival quality) adhesive for any museum related purposes. For this reason, Paraloid B72 is an excellent choice. There are others out there and we can continue to chat if you wish, but my other recommendation would be to speak to a local conservator who can guide you to find the best one(s) in your area. Adhesives such as cyanoacrylates and epoxies are too strong for recent bone and can cause damage in the long run. Let me know if you want to chat further. Saludos, Mariana On Fri, Jan 14, 2022, 06:43 Sergio Montagud > wrote: Dear all, We are looking the best type of glue to use for assembly skeletons and standarize a protocol. Many of our specimens come from students' work, who have used mostly the Loctite glue (instant glue) for small animals like birds, reptiles, rodents and bats. Other animals like large mammals or prey raptors has been mounted with Epoxi glue, that mixed two components and remains very fixed. But this mix is dark color. Other pieces in the paleontology collection are join with Paraloid with high concentration. What cain of glue do you recommended for setting skeletons and join bones as principal protocol? Is there any well-documented work or reference where all this information is indicated? Thanks in advance! Sergio -- ******************************** Sergio Montagud Alario Museu [UV] Hist?ria Natural Universitat de Val?ncia e-mail: sergio.montagud at uv.es ******************************** _______________________________________________ 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. 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. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the material from any system and destroy any copies. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From prc44 at drexel.edu Fri Jan 14 15:48:49 2022 From: prc44 at drexel.edu (Callomon,Paul) Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2022 20:48:49 +0000 Subject: [Nhcoll-l] Skeletons assembly In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Another nice quality of Paraloid B-72 is that you can mix it yourself from dry granules (we use acetone, though other solvents work too) so you can make a thin solution to act as a penetrating primer, then a thicker one to be the actual adhesive between the primed surfaces. If you have a clean break in something like bone, however, you can use a very thin solution as the adhesive and get an almost undetectable bond layer. I agree that PVA is not good for museum specimen work; apart from anything else, the A stands for Acetate, and it gives off acetic acid as it cures. It's great for bonding wood, though. 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 Anderson, Gretchen Sent: Friday, January 14, 2022 2:55 PM To: Mariana Di Giacomo ; Sergio Montagud Cc: NHCOLL-new Subject: Re: [Nhcoll-l] Skeletons assembly External. Dear Sergio, I fully agree with Mariana's recommendation of Paraloid B-72. As she notes cyanoacrylates and epoxies are too strong, with a tendency to discolor. Epoxies are difficult to reverse and remove. PVA's (like white glue) are designed for paper and wood and will expand and contract with fluctuations in relative humidity. They have what is called cold flow, which means that they will shift as the environment changes. I am available to chat as well. But Mariana's advice to find a local conservator who can advise you on local options is excellent. Good Luck! Gretchen Anderson Conservator, Carnegie Museum of Natural History Sent from Mail for Windows From: Mariana Di Giacomo Sent: Friday, January 14, 2022 11:00 AM To: Sergio Montagud Cc: NHCOLL-new Subject: Re: [Nhcoll-l] Skeletons assembly Dear Sergio, I would recommend the use of a museum-grade (also referred to as archival quality) adhesive for any museum related purposes. For this reason, Paraloid B72 is an excellent choice. There are others out there and we can continue to chat if you wish, but my other recommendation would be to speak to a local conservator who can guide you to find the best one(s) in your area. Adhesives such as cyanoacrylates and epoxies are too strong for recent bone and can cause damage in the long run. Let me know if you want to chat further. Saludos, Mariana On Fri, Jan 14, 2022, 06:43 Sergio Montagud > wrote: Dear all, We are looking the best type of glue to use for assembly skeletons and standarize a protocol. Many of our specimens come from students' work, who have used mostly the Loctite glue (instant glue) for small animals like birds, reptiles, rodents and bats. Other animals like large mammals or prey raptors has been mounted with Epoxi glue, that mixed two components and remains very fixed. But this mix is dark color. Other pieces in the paleontology collection are join with Paraloid with high concentration. What cain of glue do you recommended for setting skeletons and join bones as principal protocol? Is there any well-documented work or reference where all this information is indicated? Thanks in advance! Sergio -- ******************************** Sergio Montagud Alario Museu [UV] Hist?ria Natural Universitat de Val?ncia e-mail: sergio.montagud at uv.es ******************************** _______________________________________________ Nhcoll-l mailing list Nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu https://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/nhcoll-l _______________________________________________ NHCOLL-L is brought to you by the Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections (SPNHC), an international society whose mission is to improve the preservation, conservation and management of natural history collections to ensure their continuing value to society. See http://www.spnhc.org for membership information. Advertising on NH-COLL-L is inappropriate. 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I hope they are of help, Marilyn Marilyn Fox (marilyn.fox at yale.edu) Chief Preparator, Division of Vertebrate Paleontology Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History Collections Study Center 900 West Campus Drive, Room K224 West Haven CT 06516 (mailing address) P O Box 208118 New Haven CT USA 06520-8118 (http://www.peabody.yale.edu) 1-203-432-3747 From: Nhcoll-l on behalf of "Callomon,Paul" Date: Friday, January 14, 2022 at 3:49 PM To: "Anderson, Gretchen" , Mariana Di Giacomo , Sergio Montagud Cc: NHCOLL-new Subject: Re: [Nhcoll-l] Skeletons assembly Another nice quality of Paraloid B-72 is that you can mix it yourself from dry granules (we use acetone, though other solvents work too) so you can make a thin solution to act as a penetrating primer, then a thicker one to be the actual adhesive between the primed surfaces. If you have a clean break in something like bone, however, you can use a very thin solution as the adhesive and get an almost undetectable bond layer. I agree that PVA is not good for museum specimen work; apart from anything else, the A stands for Acetate, and it gives off acetic acid as it cures. It?s great for bonding wood, though. 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 Anderson, Gretchen Sent: Friday, January 14, 2022 2:55 PM To: Mariana Di Giacomo ; Sergio Montagud Cc: NHCOLL-new Subject: Re: [Nhcoll-l] Skeletons assembly External. Dear Sergio, I fully agree with Mariana?s recommendation of Paraloid B-72. As she notes cyanoacrylates and epoxies are too strong, with a tendency to discolor. Epoxies are difficult to reverse and remove. PVA?s (like white glue) are designed for paper and wood and will expand and contract with fluctuations in relative humidity. They have what is called cold flow, which means that they will shift as the environment changes. I am available to chat as well. But Mariana?s advice to find a local conservator who can advise you on local options is excellent. Good Luck! Gretchen Anderson Conservator, Carnegie Museum of Natural History Sent from Mail for Windows From: Mariana Di Giacomo Sent: Friday, January 14, 2022 11:00 AM To: Sergio Montagud Cc: NHCOLL-new Subject: Re: [Nhcoll-l] Skeletons assembly Dear Sergio, I would recommend the use of a museum-grade (also referred to as archival quality) adhesive for any museum related purposes. For this reason, Paraloid B72 is an excellent choice. There are others out there and we can continue to chat if you wish, but my other recommendation would be to speak to a local conservator who can guide you to find the best one(s) in your area. Adhesives such as cyanoacrylates and epoxies are too strong for recent bone and can cause damage in the long run. Let me know if you want to chat further. Saludos, Mariana On Fri, Jan 14, 2022, 06:43 Sergio Montagud > wrote: Dear all, We are looking the best type of glue to use for assembly skeletons and standarize a protocol. Many of our specimens come from students' work, who have used mostly the Loctite glue (instant glue) for small animals like birds, reptiles, rodents and bats. Other animals like large mammals or prey raptors has been mounted with Epoxi glue, that mixed two components and remains very fixed. But this mix is dark color. Other pieces in the paleontology collection are join with Paraloid with high concentration. What cain of glue do you recommended for setting skeletons and join bones as principal protocol? Is there any well-documented work or reference where all this information is indicated? Thanks in advance! 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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: From rw at protectheritage.com Mon Jan 17 10:57:35 2022 From: rw at protectheritage.com (Robert Waller) Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2022 15:57:35 +0000 Subject: [Nhcoll-l] Molecular sieve (Zeolite) for conservation In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Hi Marta, I assume here you are using the product for initial drying of material. For adsorbing water there should be no fundamental difference between silica gels (different ?grades?) and zeolites (different structures). In a practical sense, you want the largest sorption capacity between the starting relative humidity (I presume close to 100% for fresh material) and the desired relative humidity to be reached. You ought to be able to find that in the technical specifications for any of those products. If you are using the product for maintaining a lower than room ambient relative humidity in the long term, then characteristic of the packaging are likely more important then which desiccant you choose. Still, optimizing the choice of desiccant for that purpose would be a matter of choosing the highest sorption capacity between your initial closure relative humidity (very low?) and the collection space average annual relative humidity. Conceivably, there may be an issue of sorption of organic volatiles but it would be more challenging to identify differences between silica gels and zeolites from that perspective and it may not have any relevance to DNA preservation. If the product is to provide long-term low relative humidity control then you should consult with a conservator to determine how to match sorbent, packaging, and maintenance schedule to ensure success. Best, Rob Robert Waller, PhD, CAPC, FIIC President and Senior Risk Analyst Protect Heritage Corp. 622 Simoneau Way Ottawa ON K4A 1P4 email: rw at protectheritage.com internet: www.protectheritage.com phone: 613-883-2707 (Canada) phone: 303-872-9739 (USA) [cid:image001.gif at 01D80B90.E1C7E640]http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9500-4113 skype: rrwaller Research Associate, Canadian Museum of Nature Adjunct Assistant Professor, Queen?s University [iic_fellowship_logo_2019] [cid:image003.png at 01D80B90.E1C7E640] [cid:image004.png at 01D80B90.E1C7E640] [ProtectHeritage_logo] [QueensLogo_colour] [cmn_logo] [image007] [image009] From: Nhcoll-l On Behalf Of Marta P?rez Sent: Monday, January 17, 2022 10:36 AM To: nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu Subject: [Nhcoll-l] Molecular sieve (Zeolite) for conservation Hello, I don't know if my message went unnoticed or if nobody has an answer. I ask again, just in case! Does anyone have experience in preserving dry tissues with molecular sieve? We are considering testing it for our plant tissue bank instead of other substances previously used, like regular silica gel or Artsorb, because it appears to be more effective. We found this Zeolite molecular sieve, but maybe you are using other compositions. We are primarily concerned about possible interferences/contamination of this type of preservative in future DNA analysis. Thanks for your answers, Regards, 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... 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Zeolites are engineered materials that are designed to do specific things, so check with the manufacturer to understand how the zeolite you want to use will work for your particular application. Perhaps there are alternatives. Zeolites trap whatever they are designed to trap and hold it until they can no longer take up whatever that is - they do no re-release it, but they would become ineffective at some point. It would be important to know when that happens so you could change out the zeolite as needed. Hope that helps, Cathy Catharine Hawks (she/her/hers) Conservator Collections Program MRC 170 Rm M85-J National Museum of Natural History 10th Street & Constitution Ave NW Washington DC 20560 w 202.633.0835 or 4041 c 703 200 4370 hawksc at si.edu SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION NATIONAL MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY Facebook | Twitter | Instagram [PRICE logo2 signature (340x353) (2) (002)] From: Nhcoll-l On Behalf Of Robert Waller Sent: Monday, January 17, 2022 10:58 AM To: Marta P?rez ; nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu Subject: Re: [Nhcoll-l] Molecular sieve (Zeolite) for conservation External Email - Exercise Caution Hi Marta, I assume here you are using the product for initial drying of material. For adsorbing water there should be no fundamental difference between silica gels (different "grades") and zeolites (different structures). In a practical sense, you want the largest sorption capacity between the starting relative humidity (I presume close to 100% for fresh material) and the desired relative humidity to be reached. You ought to be able to find that in the technical specifications for any of those products. If you are using the product for maintaining a lower than room ambient relative humidity in the long term, then characteristic of the packaging are likely more important then which desiccant you choose. Still, optimizing the choice of desiccant for that purpose would be a matter of choosing the highest sorption capacity between your initial closure relative humidity (very low?) and the collection space average annual relative humidity. Conceivably, there may be an issue of sorption of organic volatiles but it would be more challenging to identify differences between silica gels and zeolites from that perspective and it may not have any relevance to DNA preservation. If the product is to provide long-term low relative humidity control then you should consult with a conservator to determine how to match sorbent, packaging, and maintenance schedule to ensure success. Best, Rob Robert Waller, PhD, CAPC, FIIC President and Senior Risk Analyst Protect Heritage Corp. 622 Simoneau Way Ottawa ON K4A 1P4 email: rw at protectheritage.com internet: www.protectheritage.com phone: 613-883-2707 (Canada) phone: 303-872-9739 (USA) [cid:image011.gif at 01D80C30.A4140A90]http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9500-4113 skype: rrwaller Research Associate, Canadian Museum of Nature Adjunct Assistant Professor, Queen's University [iic_fellowship_logo_2019] [cid:image013.jpg at 01D80C30.A4140A90] [cid:image014.png at 01D80C30.A4140A90] [ProtectHeritage_logo] [QueensLogo_colour] [cmn_logo] [image007] [image009] From: Nhcoll-l > On Behalf Of Marta P?rez Sent: Monday, January 17, 2022 10:36 AM To: nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu Subject: [Nhcoll-l] Molecular sieve (Zeolite) for conservation Hello, I don't know if my message went unnoticed or if nobody has an answer. I ask again, just in case! Does anyone have experience in preserving dry tissues with molecular sieve? We are considering testing it for our plant tissue bank instead of other substances previously used, like regular silica gel or Artsorb, because it appears to be more effective. We found this Zeolite molecular sieve, but maybe you are using other compositions. We are primarily concerned about possible interferences/contamination of this type of preservative in future DNA analysis. Thanks for your answers, Regards, 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... 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Contact email: communications at aamg-us.org [mailto:communications at aamg-us.org] Unsubscribe [http://aoamag.wildapricot.org/EmailTracker/LinkTracker.ashx?linkAndRecipientCode=7ntwOtQgNP6lntLa9FD%2bFNDb4Y5DGuCwGMfJn6p1cd65mNV6%2fP8MBaSdu9QU6nKkWMwDuLFEQMneDX2i9NzMWnfA%2b%2bbEUDkCa7wkJ%2btfZZ0%3d&up=%3fet%3dzb3SbTi1QnFQ96ZuXF9HGSfzaP2OdNKLUkIs07Cpm5hnA2YLbCrIqg4hg7l%252bOj2c7udh3rU8l3E4iOVTpyErFhPhzB2KH3pTH9bjKQQJcTiZ7LZ7Z63E08pSEulVZKmn807dSZwmY9sjFI4JmOTi0yc66THTFcmpZ2zPuueZ%252bouE5hAN] -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Jeff.Stephenson at dmns.org Tue Jan 18 14:59:26 2022 From: Jeff.Stephenson at dmns.org (Jeff Stephenson) Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2022 19:59:26 +0000 Subject: [Nhcoll-l] January - March On-Line Courses -- Northeast Document Conservation Center (NEDCC) Message-ID: Hello, Please see below for a compendium of on-line courses in Museum Studies and Collections Management. This list is provided by the Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections Professional Development Committee as a monthly service for nhcoll subscribers. Please contact the course providers or instructors for more information or questions. As a reminder, nhcoll is not open for advertising by individuals; however, if you would like to have your courses appear in this compendium, please feel free to submit your offerings to jeff.stephenson at dmns.org, and we'll see that you get in. Thank you >From Northeast Document Conservation Center (NEDCC) Dear colleagues, Jan/Feb Preservation Training Programs offered by NEDCC | Northeast Document Conservation Center (Listed in order of registration deadline!) - DIGITAL DIRECTIONS: Fundamentals of Creating and Managing Digital Collections (Feb 1-3) - reg deadline is Jan 14 - FUNDAMENTALS OF PHOTOGRAPH PRESERVATION (6 sessions, starts Jan 24) - reg deadline is Jan 19 - 10 PRACTICAL STEPS FOR GETTING STARTED WITH DIGITAL PRESERVATION (2 hrs, Jan 27) - reg deadline is Jan 25 - MOVING AND RENOVATION: COLLECTIONS CONCERNS (2 hrs, Feb 10) - reg deadline is Feb 8 - HISTORY OF THE BOOK AND ITS STRUCTURE (1 hr, Feb 15) - reg deadline is Feb 13 - DIGITIZATION: PLANNING FOR SUCCESS (2 hrs, Feb 17) - reg deadline is Feb 15 - CELEBRATING WITH COLLECTIONS! (Free, 1 hr, Mar 1) - reg deadline is Feb 27 REGISTRATION LINK: https://www.nedcc.org/preservation-training/training-currentlist QUESTIONS? Contact: mailto:info at nedcc.org INFO: http://www.nedcc.org --- Paper, photograph, and book conservation; audio preservation; and imaging services. ********************************* JEFF STEPHENSON COLLECTIONS MANAGER, ZOOLOGY DEPARTMENT [DMNS 2 Line RGB small.jpg] jeff.stephenson at dmns.org W 303.370.8319 F 303.331.6492 2001 Colorado Blvd., Denver CO 80205 preserve, present, inspire, explore www.dmns.org Meet live animals that manage to thrive in a world where large, strong and fast animals top the food chain in "Survival of the Slowest," opening Oct. 22. Conoce en vivo a las especies que logran prosperar en un mundo donde los animales grandes, fuertes y r?pidos encabezan la cadena alimentaria en "Survival of the Slowest", que se inaugura el 22 de octubre. The Denver Museum of Nature & Science salutes the citizens of metro Denver for helping fund arts, culture and science through their support of the Scientific and Cultural Facilities District (SCFD). -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: image001.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 2894 bytes Desc: image001.jpg URL: From cwthomp at umich.edu Tue Jan 18 15:14:05 2022 From: cwthomp at umich.edu (Cody Thompson) Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2022 15:14:05 -0500 Subject: [Nhcoll-l] Fwd: Job: UMichigan.EvolutionZoonoticPathogens In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Colleagues: Please see the announcement below for a new job posting at the University of Michigan. The job announcement is also found in the attached PDF for easy sharing with your friends and colleagues. Sincerely, Cody Cody W. Thompson, PhD Mammal Collections Manager & Assistant Research Scientist University of Michigan Museum of Zoology 3600 Varsity Drive Ann Arbor, Michigan 48108 Office: (734) 615-2810 Fax: (734) 763-4080 Email: cwthomp at umich.edu Website: codythompson.org "Museums have two main objectives: the increase of knowledge and the diffusion of knowledge." -Alexander Ruthven Begin forwarded message: *From:* evoldir at web.rhpcs.mcmaster.ca *Date:* January 18, 2022 at 3:26:35 AM EST *To:* codythompson51 at yahoo.com *Subject:* *Job: UMichigan.EvolutionZoonoticPathogens* *Reply-To:* tyjames at umich.edu ? Faculty Position in Ecology and Evolution of Zoonotic Pathogens Director of Pathogen Biorepository The Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (EEB) and the Michigan Center for Infectious Disease Threats (MCIDT) invite applications for a full-time tenured or tenure-track position at the intersection of ecology, evolution, and epidemiology of zoonotic pathogens. The anticipated start date will be August 29, 2022. The successful applicant will maintain a thriving research program and serve as the Director of a new Pathogen Biorepository (M-PABI). M-PABI is part of the broader campus-wide MCIDT initiative aimed at increasing capacity for, and coordination of studies of, emerging infectious diseases at the University of Michigan. Successful candidates will have research programs that engage a One Health approach to understanding and predicting emergent zoonotic threats and address disease ecology and evolution, relationships between environmental health, host biodiversity and epidemiology, host-pathogen interactions, and related areas. We specifically seek individuals with strengths in developing research coordination networks, acquiring and utilizing collections-based pathogen surveillance data, and quantitative methods for integrating such data with models for monitoring and predicting zoonotic emergence. Successful applicants will present a clear vision for the role of the new biorepository in studying emerging infectious diseases. The successful candidate, as a member of the EEB Museums, will have opportunities for curation and research using world-class biodiversity collections in a modern facility. The University of Michigan is located in Ann Arbor, a vibrant community with excellent schools and amenities, and proximity to both natural areas and the city of Detroit. All application materials should be submitted online through webapps.lsa.umich.edu/Apply/EEB. Materials should include a cover letter, CV, a concise (2-4 page) statement describing current and future research plans, a statement of teaching philosophy and experience, a statement of commitment and contributions to diversity, equity and inclusion in academia, and contact information for three references. Application review will begin February 15, 2022 and continue until the position is filled or until April 15, 2022. Questions about this search should be directed to Linda Garcia (garciall at umich.edu), Executive Secretary. EEB is committed to fostering diversity in its faculty, including with respect to race, ethnicity, gender, and disability status. Women and members of other groups underrepresented in science are particularly encouraged to apply. The university supports the needs of dual career couples. The University of Michigan is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. Offers for this appointment are contingent on successful completion of a background screening. COVID-19 vaccinations are now required for all University of Michigan students, faculty and staff across all three campuses, including Michigan Medicine, no later than one week before their first day of employment. This includes those working or learning remotely. More information on this policy is available on the Campus Blueprint website. 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The mission of the iDigTRIO Conference is to provide opportunities to explore careers and graduate programs in the biological sciences to first generation, limited income, and underrepresented students (Black, Latinx, Indigenous, other students of color, and students with disabilities). Through intentional programming and networking, we seek to create future leaders in science and build a sense of community for their academic, personal, and professional journeys. This event is completely FREE and open to everyone. iDigTRIO 2022 will be a hybrid experience. There is an in-person career shadowing and mentoring February 21-23 (now closed), as well as an in-person Resources and Opportunities Fair and Reception on Wednesday February 23rd on the University of Florida campus followed by a VIRTUAL 3-day conference February 24-26, 2022. Find the conference agenda here: https://www.idigtrio.org/2022-agenda UPDATES: In-person shadowing and mentoring is now closed and virtual mentoring opportunities are open! Here are all the awesome virtual mentoring opportunities we have on offer for 2022. Sign up for virtual mentoring here: https://ufl.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_3RcAE2bymI354gu Want to share your research? Sign up to do a poster (In-person and virtual options available). Important Links Conference Website 2022 Virtual Conference Agenda Virtual conference registration Virtual Mentoring Options Virtual Mentoring Sign-up Research poster registration In-person experiences registration (in-person shadowing is closed) Molly Phillips (she/her/hers) iDigBio Education, Outreach, Diversity and Inclusion Coordinator Florida Museum of Natural History University of Florida mphillips at flmnh.ufl.edu www.idigbio.org www.biodiversityliteracy.com www.idigtrio.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From AOAMAG at wildapricot.org Wed Jan 19 11:18:06 2022 From: AOAMAG at wildapricot.org (AAMG) Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2022 16:18:06 +0000 Subject: [Nhcoll-l] AAMG Annual Conference 2022: Call for Proposals DEADLINE EXTENDED TO JAN 28 Message-ID: <1.5dcffbf4ea6af7638af3@live-mail-2> Association of Academic Museums & Galleries Call for Proposals DEADLINE EXTENDED - 2022 AAMG Annual Conference Is time moving too fast for you too? Well, it is for us, so we've decided to EXTEND the deadline to submit for #AAMG2022 [http://aoamag.wildapricot.org/EmailTracker/LinkTracker.ashx?linkAndRecipientCode=d3RlvAe2nJwf8EPA3oOqC6FTHU4Y%2f7ELiOuKeOxj58H8zwyyHJXiy%2fMEIVqhrVg08601DjbZ53L7Yhk0x%2biaLgnWypJt0B%2fWPgW2GW%2bbPqg%3d]! Deadline is now: FRIDAY, JANUARY 28, 5PM MST Click here to submit your proposal! [http://aoamag.wildapricot.org/EmailTracker/LinkTracker.ashx?linkAndRecipientCode=hQVee2HRpCq308hvYbRA0YKdBYoCaYI0w7I8LYtTBrBI99bJwsi%2bdLz8Ywq5vTInPjTl6MAkdhBZee6vBi1W4rdZNG3UKup7q5v75IqfGQA%3d] AAMG?s 2022 annual conference will focus on how academic museums and galleries embrace resilience and an array of emergent forms of sustainability. Marking a return to gathering in person, AAMG will convene a first-ever hybrid conference that aims to continually expand equitable opportunities for participation parallel to a renewal of in-person collegiality. This year?s conference seeks diverse perspectives, ranging from nuanced philosophical ideas, and creative pragmatic solutions to thoughtful debates about leadership and our field, including: How are we transforming our missions and lived values to contribute to community wellbeing? How do climate change, power-imbalances, and social injustice force a reinterpretation of the meaning and care of collections, archives, and the communities we serve? How are museums and galleries promoting active and impactful citizenship and driving change for social, environmental, and economic action; what should we do, and do better, to lead in an evolving world? Possible proposal topics: Embedding sustainability across institutional strategy and leadership How to reconcile expanding our organizations with current climate/social/ethical forces How sustainability and resilience are woven into your institution?s diversity, equity, and inclusion policies and practices Changes made to prioritize sustainable practices How sustainability and resilience are used as interdisciplinary opportunities for campus and public programming Fundraising, membership and volunteer models for promoting sustainable and equitable practice Advocating for greater sustainability at the national and international levels Reclaiming civic leadership and advancing democratic ideals Student research and internship projects featuring conference themes and values We, of course, always welcome proposals having to do with general academic museum issues and practices, such as governance structures, membership strategies, collections management, and outreach/programming. Download Submission Guidelines PDF Here [http://aoamag.wildapricot.org/EmailTracker/LinkTracker.ashx?linkAndRecipientCode=%2f4d17yNDs3ewZpymcJOKXob%2faCIBaE5v4uU8ot%2fr9PMmtLV1LICi56hlHeBt3K3I6LAvUrx7bpEcuDYAir%2bGf%2bUL7mypSJkUECqp2BRQvOo%3d] Stay connected with AAMG through all our social channels. You can find us @AcademicMuseums on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook. Subscribe to our active listserv at groups.io/g/AAMG. Not currently a member of AAMG, but want to become one? Join us! Visit our site by clicking here [http://aoamag.wildapricot.org/EmailTracker/LinkTracker.ashx?linkAndRecipientCode=kc3yZEEboqvKAuRcd1wpEZrwFAT8KGIcbuWAL443jx8%2bmiEk5fjJi5TbpesVsYQFvBZLmENGdCZj5egz19wKvJcxtSZRMIO%2fQhIuTggX7LM%3d] and become a member today! Copyright ? 2022 Association of Academic Museums & Galleries All rights reserved. Contact email: communications at aamg-us.org [mailto:communications at aamg-us.org] Unsubscribe [http://aoamag.wildapricot.org/EmailTracker/LinkTracker.ashx?linkAndRecipientCode=3kwnQXjbfMw9vdihn59P9N%2b%2bkY7EPf1Emjw6KmBaqmjsj1y8EIM3yNmQvv90qFvHRjsxoEhDFaTcxHe4jJZYG2fpAsslY9cBiqtSIeIWmMM%3d&up=%3fet%3dFro%252bhLfJNR%252f6Clx7oBJYWidJbN37yLKnJF%252f3zuPzT9d1x418JdqHTyCp2q4D6OskVGj4KAsdqcPR4RNoQJaAoe3zIuoLCNkISNgkrgLwfsRKhqf255F9THDxMYrlfWSbrJWhM3xDwzLBE0ms001nUg9E0UL980mt9%252bxcwDeP4fT7Icfz] -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ntarnowsky at nybg.org Wed Jan 19 15:57:11 2022 From: ntarnowsky at nybg.org (Tarnowsky, Nicole) Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2022 20:57:11 +0000 Subject: [Nhcoll-l] Job post Message-ID: Dear colleagues, The New York Botanical Garden has posted a job description for Director of the William and Lynda Steere Herbarium. We would appreciate it if you would circulate this description among your contacts. For questions about the position, please contact NYBG Human Resources: HR at nybg.org. For specific questions about the Herbarium, please contact Rob Naczi (rnaczi at nybg.org) or Nicole Tarnowsky (ntarnowsky at nybg.org). Review of applications will begin 1 February 2022. All the best, The Hiring Committee Director of the William and Lynda Steere Herbarium Apply About the New York Botanical Garden (NYBG) The New York Botanical Garden is committed to studying, documenting, and conserving the rich diversity of plant, algal, and fungal life on Earth. NYBG pursues its mission through the dynamic biodiversity, systematics, conservation, ethnobotany, and genomics programs of the Science Division. A National Historic Landmark located in the Bronx, NYBG advances its mission through its role as a steward of living plant collections arranged in gardens and landscapes across its 250 acres and through its comprehensive educational programs in horticulture and plant science. NYBG pursues its mission in partnership with both local and global communities. NYBG actively works to foster an inclusive, diverse, equitable, and accessible work environment, and further recognizes that diversity in its workforce fosters excellence in its mission of advocating for the plants of the world. NYBG seeks applicants for the position of Director of the William and Lynda Steere Herbarium. For comprehensive information on NYBG, please visit www.nybg.org. William and Lynda Steere Herbarium The William and Lynda Steere Herbarium is the foundation of NYBG's scientific research programs. Holding 7.8 million specimens, the Herbarium is the third largest collection of its kind in the world. The collection is global in scope, with particular strengths in the Americas and Caribbean. It represents every major plant, algal, and fungal group, and has been well-curated throughout our 130-year history. The Herbarium serves as a leader in the global natural history collections community-providing data, sharing essential stewardship protocols with other institutions, and continually developing and streamlining digitization techniques. The Herbarium is staffed with 17+ members devoted to managing and maintaining the physical and digital collections. This is an extremely active herbarium, every year adding 40,000 specimens, providing 28,000 specimens on loan to researchers physically and digitally, and hosting 2,000 days of visiting scientists. Specimen digitization began in 1995. To date, 4.2 million specimens have been digitized, ?500,000 within the last two years. All digital collections and resources are freely available through the C.V. Starr Virtual Herbarium. The Herbarium is also competitive in grant funding, receiving 17 grants from NSF over the last ten years, in addition to grants from private funders such as Google and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. NYBG Science NYBG is a world leader in the research and conservation of plants, algae, and fungi, using both traditional and cutting-edge tools to discover, understand, and conserve Earth's vast botanical diversity. NYBG's Science Division comprises the Steere Herbarium, the Mertz Library, and the Pfizer Laboratory, along with an active group of botanical scientists. Currently, 17 curators, 3 postdocs, and 22 graduate students conduct research in NYBG's Science Division. Curators mentor Ph.D. and M.S. students from various institutions as well as undergraduate students and high school interns. Staff and affiliated scholars comprise a robust community of scientists who drive a diverse array of research programs. Active research topics include floristics, taxonomy, molecular systematics, genomics, bioinformatics, conservation, ethnobotany, and the effects of climate change. Our field research is based in many parts of the globe, e.g., the Neotropics, Southeast Asia, the Pacific, and throughout North America. Strategic Importance of the Herbarium and its Director In this era of global change, biodiversity collections such as the Steere Herbarium play essential and exciting roles of growing importance in addressing societal needs. The Herbarium Director will have the opportunity to vigorously advance both the programs and the profile of NYBG by serving the Science, Horticulture, and Education divisions of the Garden. The strategic importance of the Herbarium in the international biodiversity research and conservation communities will enable the Director to play a key role globally in demonstrating new uses for collections, innovating collections-based methodologies, driving applications of collections in data science, and promoting collections-based research agendas. In addition, through global science communications, the Director will be a key advocate for the continuing and critical importance of natural history collections in contemporary and future societies. The Position Reporting directly to the Dean of Science, the Herbarium Director will oversee the activities of the William and Lynda Steere Herbarium. The Director will be a champion of herbaria and must be able to lead the Herbarium on a global stage as well as within NYBG. Priorities and Responsibilities The Director will be expected to: ? Build on the strong foundation of NYBG's global profile by leading the Herbarium in strategic new directions, including novel applications for biodiversity data and innovative uses of the collections. ? Lead the continued growth and development of the Herbarium and its programs. ? Develop robust funding, drawing on the Director's international perspective and collaborations. ? Create a culture of inclusive excellence that advocates for Herbarium staff. ? Employ best practices for the curation and management of the collections, including sustaining and advancing Herbarium staff skills to ensure that NYBG remains a leader in the botanical collections community. ? Manage budgets and coordinate production of annual reports. ? Envision and implement activities for a wide range of audiences internally and externally, collaborating within NYBG as well as engaging the general public. ? Lead NYBG in collaborative projects with other institutions to advance biodiversity knowledge and leverage natural history collections to address issues of global importance, such as climate resilience. ? Participate in the development of policy standards in the natural history community relating to access and use of collections and their associated data. ? Hire, supervise, motivate, and evaluate staff in accordance with the NYBG's policies and best practices in human resources, including the Garden's IDEA goals. Requirements The ideal candidate will possess the following strengths and experience: ? Advanced degree in Botany, Biology, Museum Studies, or a comparable field and/or at least five years of experience managing natural history collections. ? Recognized leader in the natural history collections community, with a worldwide network of collaborators. ? Demonstrated experience with and commitment to collections-based research, including a broad understanding of the use of biodiversity data for research. ? Demonstrated team-building abilities, as well as ability to innovate and drive programs, both within NYBG and externally. ? Demonstrated experience in administration, including personnel management, budgeting, and program development. ? Evidence of ability to secure financial support from public and private sources; track record of fundraising, including grant writing. ? Commitment to a collegial and supportive work environment, with strong interpersonal skills and an adaptable temperament. ? Excellent written and verbal communication skills for engaging with scientific and lay audiences. ? Demonstrated advocacy for inclusion, diversity, equity, and accessibility (IDEA). ? Familiarity with collections management systems and metadata standards. ? History of participation in natural history collections organizations desired. Application Information To apply, please go to http://www.nybg.org/employment and submit the following materials: ? Cover letter indicating interest in this position ? Curriculum Vitae ? Statement on experience with natural history collections and vision for the future of the Steere Herbarium (limit of 2 pages) ? Statement on inclusion, diversity, equity, and accessibility, including overview of past accomplishments and vision for advancing IDEA in the Steere Herbarium (limit of 2 pages) ? Contact information for three references. The New York Botanical Garden is an Equal Opportunity Employer. It is the policy and practice of NYBG to provide equal employment opportunity to all employees and applicants. NYBG does not discriminate on the basis of race, creed, religion, color, national origin, citizenship status, sexual orientation, sex (including pregnancy), disability, gender (including gender identity), veteran status, marital status, age, military status, genetic predisposition or carrier status, alienage and partnership status, prior record of arrest or conviction, or victim of domestic violence, stalking or sex offenses. The Garden will make reasonable accommodations for employees with disabilities, for disabled veteran employees, and for bona fide religious beliefs and practices of employees. Applicants from underrepresented communities are encouraged to apply. Please be advised, as a term and condition of accepting a job offer the candidate for employment must submit proof of full vaccination. Candidates for employment unable to submit proof of full vaccination at the time of the offer will not be considered for employment. This policy is subject to the reasonable accommodation provisions of Title VII and the American for Disabilities Act (ADA) and other EEO consideration. If you believe that because of a disability or a sincerely held religious belief that you may be entitled to a reasonable accommodation or exemption to this policy please contact HR at nybg.org. If you require an accommodation for any part of the application process, please notify the Human Resources department at HR at nybg.org. EOC/BIPOC/F/Persons with Disabilities/Veteran Nicole Tarnowsky Interim Director of the William and Lynda Steere Herbarium The New York Botanical Garden 2900 Southern Boulevard Bronx, NY 10458 ntarnowsky at nybg.org 718-817-8812 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From membership at spnhc.org Thu Jan 20 16:40:06 2022 From: membership at spnhc.org (membership at spnhc.org) Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2022 16:40:06 -0500 (EST) Subject: [Nhcoll-l] SPNHC education initiatives - get involved! Message-ID: <1642714806.00720255@apps.rackspace.com> Dear Colleagues, The Education Committee will be meeting in the coming months and kicking off plans for 2022. Please consider joining us for a meeting to share on-going initiatives and brainstorm ideas for 2022 and beyond. We encourage anyone interested to join us for an informational and brainstorming meeting to help shape the future of SPNHC education initiatives, the Education Committee, and the SPNHC Natural History Education Demo-Camp. Participation is open and all members or potentially interested participants are welcome. We would love to hear what everyone is doing. So we will have some open time to share on-going initiatives in the broader community. Please consider joining us to share your ideas or recent initiatives. Please fill out the [ short survey ]( https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdbuigdupi3I9qkH6r6qP22dH0m-7wjQX_GyvFQX5mTksTBTg/viewform )if you are interested in learning more or being involved with the Education initiatives through SPNHC. A link is provided in the Google Form to indicate your availability. Please complete this form by January 28 so we can set a date and time. 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URL: From Jeff.Stephenson at dmns.org Mon Jan 24 13:58:16 2022 From: Jeff.Stephenson at dmns.org (Jeff Stephenson) Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2022 18:58:16 +0000 Subject: [Nhcoll-l] Division between the education collection and the permanent collection In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Dear Efrat, I would start by setting some parameters for what you want/need to accomplish through your Education Collection. A separate Education Collection needs to have clear policy and procedure, starting from the point that what needs to be in the Research Collections is the call of individual Curators in each Collection. Sometimes this means that no data specimens or multiples of specimens are kept for research or for reference; again, this is the call of the Research Curator involved. An Education Collection mainly differs from a Research Collection in terms of "shelf life": where we have a policy of maintaining Research Collections in perpetuity, an Education Collection has a measurable shelf life. This "shelf life" may last a few weeks or may last many decades, but this is not a permanent collection. There may be some specimens with data that could be used in an Education Collection (up to the Research Curators). Since a portion of an Education Collection may be "hands on", it is important to maintain safety for the people who may be touching these specimens. Chemical, physical, and biological hazards are something to avoid sharing. I would be happy to answer any further questions you may have; contact me if you would like. Cheers, Jeff JEFF STEPHENSON COLLECTIONS MANAGER, ZOOLOGY DEPARTMENT [DMNS 2 Line RGB small.jpg] jeff.stephenson at dmns.org W 303.370.8319 F 303.331.6492 2001 Colorado Blvd., Denver CO 80205 preserve, present, inspire, explore [www.dmns.org]www.dmns.org Meet live animals that manage to thrive in a world where large, strong and fast animals top the food chain in ?Survival of the Slowest,? opening Oct. 22. Conoce en vivo a las especies que logran prosperar en un mundo donde los animales grandes, fuertes y r?pidos encabezan la cadena alimentaria en "Survival of the Slowest", que se inaugura el 22 de octubre. The Denver Museum of Nature & Science salutes the citizens of metro Denver for helping fund arts, culture and science through their support of the Scientific and Cultural Facilities District (SCFD). ________________________________ From: Nhcoll-l on behalf of Efrat Haberman Sent: Sunday, January 23, 2022 1:17 PM To: nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu Subject: [Nhcoll-l] Division between the education collection and the permanent collection Hi everybody, I would like to consult with you about how do you make the division between the education collection and the permanent collection? What are the parameters for the decision if an object belongs to each of the collections? Does your criteria for putting an object in the educational collection are: 1. Lack of information 2. A specimen that you already have in the collection 3. Its condition Thanks, Efrat Efrat Haberman, Collection Manager Rishon Le-Zion Museum ???? ????? ????? ?????, ??????? ????? ????? 03-9537021 \ 054-4455780 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Basically, if we have good data on a specimen, it goes into the research collection and stays there. The small proportion of specimens that are exceptions are almost all category #2, common species for which we have large numbers of research-grade specimens. There is a VERY small number of specimens purchased strictly for display purposes that are research-grade but kept as displays (outreach). Nothing can be in more than one collection, as all three are physically separate. Damaged specimens may be kept in the research collection, but not in the others. 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... 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If you are going to be moving alcoholic collections you may also need special placarding etc. for the move for dangerous goods regulations. You may want to consult a fire marshal in that case. If you are going to be moving whole, full cases I would suggest providing the company with tilt limits to ensure that materials does not slide around while being moved from dolly to cart to truck for instance. Materials should ideally be stabilized against such events within cabinets anyway. Also, don't just think about the objects but also protect the exterior of cabinets from scraping and bumping (denting) with cushioning material (blankets, etc.) Accommodations for loading may be necessary if you do not have a loading dock - lift winches or palette jacks. Cushioning material for jars or other fragile objects. Just some ideas that come to mind. 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 Colleen Evans Sent: Monday, January 24, 2022 2:52 PM To: nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu Subject: [Nhcoll-l] budgeting for moving a collection Hi everyone, As my institution starts to plan for moving our natural science collections in a few years, does anyone have any guidance or advice for determining a budget for the physical move? Are there specific moving companies or types of movers I should look into? Non-obvious packing or transport supplies? Something else? Note that things such as construction costs and cabinetry are already accounted for. I'm talking the actual packing and transporting between locations. Thanks in advance! Responses can be sent off-list. Best, Colleen Colleen Evans [she/her/hers] Director of Natural Science Interpretation and Collections [cid:image008.png at 01D7D64D.BE91A1C0] 1000 Richmond Terrace, Bldg A Staten Island, NY 10301 P: (718) 483-7104 CEvans at StatenIslandMuseum.org [cid:45e33406-cd04-41e3-b7ed-8df3a3fdc882] [cid:67f585cc-7b4d-4bcb-b219-3cd339436b88] [cid:e616b54f-4647-4658-b831-532635caa6f2] The Staten Island Museum is open to visitors Friday - Sunday, 11am - 5pm. [Magicicada Signature 2021] -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: image001.png Type: image/png Size: 4059 bytes Desc: image001.png URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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To begin with, you should download a free copy of "Moving the Museum," which you can do here: https://www.smm.org/collections/moving You need to figure out what needs to be packed and how. I always recommend packing museum objects as if they will be packed long-term because too often things go wrong and the objects are packed away for a much longer period of time than anticipated. Don't cut corners. For example,there is a temptation to move cabinet contents by just wrapping the trays of specimens and objects (or worse, leaving them in the cabinets) which is a recipe for disaster such as the amount of vibration endured or what happens when a cabinet full of trays tips over. In general, museum objects and specimens must be packed with much more care than household or business goods. By evaluating the materials you need and the amount of objects or specimens to be moved, you should be able to make a rough prediction of the time needed and figure out whether you can train present staff or if you need to hire temporary staff and train them to do the packing. Consider also staging areas (space where boxes can be packed and stored), the volume of boxes and storage furniture to be moved, and the order than things should be moved in to avoid winding up with an unsorted jumble of boxes and storage furniture at the new location. I have been involved in a lot of collection moves, and based on my experience, once you get your rough estimate of supplies and time needed, increase each by at least 20% because these things always tend to get underestimated. Good luck! --John John E. 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 Mon, Jan 24, 2022 at 3:53 PM Colleen Evans wrote: > Hi everyone, > > > > As my institution starts to plan for moving our natural science > collections in a few years, does anyone have any guidance or advice for > determining a budget for the physical move? Are there specific moving > companies or types of movers I should look into? Non-obvious packing or > transport supplies? Something else? Note that things such as construction > costs and cabinetry are already accounted for. I?m talking the actual > packing and transporting between locations. > > > > Thanks in advance! Responses can be sent off-list. > > > > Best, > > Colleen > > > > Colleen Evans > > [she/her/hers] > > Director of Natural Science Interpretation and Collections > > [image: cid:image008.png at 01D7D64D.BE91A1C0] > > > *1000 Richmond Terrace, Bldg A* > *Staten Island, NY 10301* > > P: (718) 483-7104 > > CEvans at StatenIslandMuseum.org > > [image: cid:45e33406-cd04-41e3-b7ed-8df3a3fdc882] > [image: > cid:67f585cc-7b4d-4bcb-b219-3cd339436b88] > [image: > cid:e616b54f-4647-4658-b831-532635caa6f2] > > > *The Staten Island Museum is open to visitors Friday ? Sunday, 11am ? 5pm.* > > > > [image: Magicicada Signature 2021] > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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: image001.png Type: image/png Size: 4059 bytes Desc: not available URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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However, I do want to add one thing that was a critical error during the move of our collections, and that is to engage upper administration early to establish clear objectives and timelines. As an example, for our recent collections move, we were initially given a timeline of 4 months to move about 15 million specimens/objects across our anthropological, paleontological, and zoological collections. That timeline came from above and the curatorial staff was not consulted a priori on the logistics and funding needs. However, after substantial pushback and many meetings later, we established a more reasonable timeline of just over 2 years. I hope that helps! Take care, Cody Cody W. Thompson, PhD Mammal Collections Manager & Assistant Research Scientist University of Michigan Museum of Zoology 3600 Varsity Drive Ann Arbor, Michigan 48108 Office: (734) 615-2810 Fax: (734) 763-4080 Email: cwthomp at umich.edu Website: codythompson.org In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the UMMZ/Herbarium has limited personnel available working onsite. No loan returns should be shipped without prior notification, and collection visits, loan requests, gifts, exchanges, etc. should be coordinated with the appropriate curatorial staff. Please expect delayed responses. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause. On Mon, Jan 24, 2022 at 4:39 PM John E Simmons wrote: > It all depends on what you are moving and how far. To begin with, you > should download a free copy of "Moving the Museum," which you can do here: > https://www.smm.org/collections/moving > > You need to figure out what needs to be packed and how. I always recommend > packing museum objects as if they will be packed long-term because too > often things go wrong and the objects are packed away for a much longer > period of time than anticipated. Don't cut corners. For example,there is a > temptation to move cabinet contents by just wrapping the trays of specimens > and objects (or worse, leaving them in the cabinets) which is a recipe for > disaster such as the amount of vibration endured or what happens when a > cabinet full of trays tips over. In general, museum objects and specimens > must be packed with much more care than household or business goods. By > evaluating the materials you need and the amount of objects or specimens to > be moved, you should be able to make a rough prediction of the time needed > and figure out whether you can train present staff or if you need to hire > temporary staff and train them to do the packing. > > Consider also staging areas (space where boxes can be packed and stored), > the volume of boxes and storage furniture to be moved, and the order than > things should be moved in to avoid winding up with an unsorted jumble of > boxes and storage furniture at the new location. > > I have been involved in a lot of collection moves, and based on my > experience, once you get your rough estimate of supplies and time needed, > increase each by at least 20% because these things always tend to get > underestimated. > > Good luck! > > --John > > John E. 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 Mon, Jan 24, 2022 at 3:53 PM Colleen Evans < > cevans at statenislandmuseum.org> wrote: > >> Hi everyone, >> >> >> >> As my institution starts to plan for moving our natural science >> collections in a few years, does anyone have any guidance or advice for >> determining a budget for the physical move? Are there specific moving >> companies or types of movers I should look into? Non-obvious packing or >> transport supplies? Something else? Note that things such as construction >> costs and cabinetry are already accounted for. I?m talking the actual >> packing and transporting between locations. >> >> >> >> Thanks in advance! Responses can be sent off-list. >> >> >> >> Best, >> >> Colleen >> >> >> >> Colleen Evans >> >> [she/her/hers] >> >> Director of Natural Science Interpretation and Collections >> >> [image: cid:image008.png at 01D7D64D.BE91A1C0] >> >> >> *1000 Richmond Terrace, Bldg A* >> *Staten Island, NY 10301* >> >> P: (718) 483-7104 >> >> CEvans at StatenIslandMuseum.org >> >> [image: cid:45e33406-cd04-41e3-b7ed-8df3a3fdc882] >> [image: >> cid:67f585cc-7b4d-4bcb-b219-3cd339436b88] >> [image: >> cid:e616b54f-4647-4658-b831-532635caa6f2] >> >> >> *The Staten Island Museum is open to visitors Friday ? 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In order to extend the outcome of this symposium beyond SPNHC, the CETAF Collections group is preparing a Blueprint on Collection move . The idea behind this document is that it should be a live document, continuously receiving new information both regarding specific topics but also about use cases (as every move is different) and that it will be available for anyone looking for information. SPNHC 2022 - Moving collections: curse, blessing or ...? Moving collections is an integral part of day-to-day collection management activities in natural history collections. Besides frequent, short distance translocations of a few specimens or containers, from time to time large scale moves are required. Generally such large scale collection moves only take place with long intervals. Knowledge, experience and lessons learned from previous moves of the same collection are therefore often outdated or staff involved have left the organisation. Despite the ever increasing communication possibilities for institutes and their staff, exchanging information on collection moves is still a cumbersome process as information, both regarding content, as well as experienced institutes and people, is scattered. This symposium is organized by the CETAF Collections Group as part of an ongoing effort to establish a Blueprint Document on (large scale) collection moves for natural history collections. We like to elicit contributions linked to (large scale) collection moves tackling any of these themes: 1. Rationale: here we expect general reflections on the reasons behind collection moves, their necessity, the risks involved, the opportunities they offer. 2. Roadmap: here we welcome contributions zooming in on one or several aspects of a collection move from planning and budget to unpacking and evaluation. 3. Case studies: here we expect contributions from organisations that recently completed a collection move, are in the process of executing a collection move or are still in the planning phase. Sharing experiences and lessons learned is a key aspect of this symposium. 4. Innovative approaches: as a rule when planning a collection move there is no time to start introducing innovations. Still a key aspect of collection management is innovation and here we are looking for contributions that think out of the box and surprise us with innovative ideas or approaches for collection moves. Hope this helps. With Kind Regards Luc Willemse Senior Collection Manager Orthopteroids Chair CETAF Collections Group - +31638471668 luc.willemse at naturalis.nl - www.naturalis.nl Darwinweg 2, 2333 CR Leiden Postbus 9517, 2300 RA Leiden Op ma 24 jan. 2022 om 21:53 schreef Colleen Evans < cevans at statenislandmuseum.org>: > Hi everyone, > > > > As my institution starts to plan for moving our natural science > collections in a few years, does anyone have any guidance or advice for > determining a budget for the physical move? Are there specific moving > companies or types of movers I should look into? Non-obvious packing or > transport supplies? Something else? Note that things such as construction > costs and cabinetry are already accounted for. I?m talking the actual > packing and transporting between locations. > > > > Thanks in advance! Responses can be sent off-list. > > > > Best, > > Colleen > > > > Colleen Evans > > [she/her/hers] > > Director of Natural Science Interpretation and Collections > > [image: cid:image008.png at 01D7D64D.BE91A1C0] > > > *1000 Richmond Terrace, Bldg A* > *Staten Island, NY 10301* > > P: (718) 483-7104 > > CEvans at StatenIslandMuseum.org > > [image: cid:45e33406-cd04-41e3-b7ed-8df3a3fdc882] > [image: > cid:67f585cc-7b4d-4bcb-b219-3cd339436b88] > [image: > cid:e616b54f-4647-4658-b831-532635caa6f2] > > > *The Staten Island Museum is open to visitors Friday ? 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Our first idea was to send it to a professional taxidermist, but due to the special characteristic of the material, out of the traditional hunting mammals, we have doubts that taxidermists we known could done a good work. Also we think about the skeleton preparation, but some problems could appear with the dermic shell, not bony shell, as we hear. We would like to know if anybody have had experiences with this species and can help us and, of course, if anybody knows some references about skeleton preparation in this species. Thanks in advance! Sergio ******************************** Sergio Montagud Alario Museu [UV] Hist?ria Natural Universitat de Val?ncia e-mail: sergio.montagud at uv.es ******************************** -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Watkins-Colwell Sr. Collection Manager, Herpetology and Ichthyology Division of Vertebrate Zoology https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7789-9806 YALE PEABODY MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY Main Office: 203-432-3791; West Campus: 203-737-7568; Fax 203-432-9277 Package shipping address: Greg Watkins-Colwell Division of Vertebrate Zoology YALE PEABODY MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY 170-210 Whitney Avenue New Haven, CT 06511 USA 203-432-3791 ****************** From: Nhcoll-l On Behalf Of Sergio Montagud Sent: Tuesday, January 25, 2022 3:56 AM To: nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu Subject: [Nhcoll-l] Leatherback sea turtle Dear all, We have a freeze ex. of Leatherback sea turtle (Dermochelys coriacea) about 1,60 meters long. Our first idea was to send it to a professional taxidermist, but due to the special characteristic of the material, out of the traditional hunting mammals, we have doubts that taxidermists we known could done a good work. Also we think about the skeleton preparation, but some problems could appear with the dermic shell, not bony shell, as we hear. We would like to know if anybody have had experiences with this species and can help us and, of course, if anybody knows some references about skeleton preparation in this species. Thanks in advance! Sergio ******************************** Sergio Montagud Alario Museu [UV] Hist?ria Natural Universitat de Val?ncia e-mail: sergio.montagud at uv.es ******************************** -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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The conference has always provided an opportunity to network among peers, friends, and colleagues. Northeast Natural History Conference Home Page Announcing the 2022 Northeast Natural History Conference ... back in Albany and in-person!! After a long hiatus from the city where the conference originated, we are excited to return there for the 2022 NENHC and even more so as we will be holding it at the new Albany Capital Center. www.eaglehill.us The entire session will run a total of 90 minutes (twice that amount if we receive several submissions in which case we will divide into multiple sessions), with the general structure as follows: a few minutes for session overview and introduction then 20 minute presentations including two minutes for questions/answers. If you are interested, please contact (RSVP) me DIRECTLY at 508-494-8764 or jay.cordeiro at umb.edu and/or submit an abstract directly to me at that email address. I am setting an abstract SUBMISSION DEADLINE FOR THIS SESSION is February 16th, 2022 . Participation is first come- first served so get your abstract in early. Presenters must register for the conference and pay the applicable registration fee. Early registration is March 27th, which includes a 10% registration fee savings. Registration information can be found at: https://www.eaglehill.us/NENHC_2022/registration/registrationinfo.shtml along with a link to the registration form. Presentation guidelines are available at https://www.eaglehill.us/NENHC_2022/guidelines/oral-presentations.shtml. Please consider joining me at this regional meeting. I have been to this meeting every year since its founding and it is entertaining, informative, and fun. Also consider bringing your students along if you are an acadme We encourage student oral and poster presentation and registration is discounted for students. Please feel free to forward this announcement to others who might be interested. 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The boxes are buteo/duck size 8 ? x 3 ? x 3 size and barred owl size 5 ? x 3 ? x 3. I don't believe there is any minimum number to order but the larger the combined order the cheaper the boxes get [Quantity Description Price 100 5 ? x 3 ? Inside dimension shoulder box - Sh=3", Lid=1.125, base = 1.875 $ 25.60ea 500 Shoulder 38WV inside and tightwrapped outside acid free litho $ 8.47ea 1000 Base 50PC and Lid 50WV and tightwrapped outside Rainbow 80 Caf? $ 4.93ea 100 8 ? x 3 ? Inside dimension shoulder box - Sh=3", Lid=1.125, base = 1.875 $ 27.40ea 500 Shoulder 38WV inside and tightwrapped outside acid free litho $ 10.89ea 1000 Base 50PC and Lid 50WV and tightwrapped outside Rainbow 80 Caf? $ 6.49ea] Let me know if you have any interest. Charles Charles M. Dardia Collections Manager Cornell Museum of Vertebrates 159 Sapsucker Woods Road Ithaca, NY 14850 (607) 254-2161 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Note that registration is free, but you must enter the 'dcmi25' discount code when you register. https://www.dublincore.org/news/2022/10-08_webinar-natural-history-data-curation/ Webinar - Natural history data curation: maintaining infrastructures and turning documents into datasets *This webinar is scheduled for February 10, 2022, 16:00 UTC (convert this time to your local timezone here ) and is free for DCMI members.* This Webinar will be hosted by ASIS&T. Registration for DCMI webinars is currently free, *but you will need to use the discount code 'dcmi25'* when you register. *Register Here .* About the webinar Natural history collections constitute an important and complex knowledge infrastructure. The heterogeneous data in these collections include specimens, genomes, field notes, ecological monitoring data, and more -- all of which have huge potential for reuse in biodiversity, medicine, climate science, agriculture, and many other domains. However, facilitating this integrative reuse requires first maintaining the fragile infrastructures used to store and share these data, and second, novel approaches to migrating data from legacy (and often analog) formats into datasets that are more fit-for-use. In this webinar, Dr. Thomer will discuss findings from two projects tackling natural history data curation: one focusing on the maintenance and migration of natural history databases, and another on the digitization and mobilization of historical data. The webinar will be of interest to those working with similar collections, as well as those interested in the maintenance of knowledge organization, knowledge infrastructures and the integrative reuse of scientific data. This webinar is hosted by the DCMI Education Committee and will be moderated by Dr. Karen Wickett . Dr. Andrea Thomer is an Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan School of Information. 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I would also be curious, given your protocol, how compliant users are. (We do not have our specimens bar-coded, so this is not an option for tracking at this time.) I do record when specimens get re-shelved, but without knowing when they left the collection, I am unable to determine the amount of time (months, years, decades) that they were used. Therefore, my annual reporting statistics don't necessarily reflect actual specimen usage. Thanks, Sarah Sarah K. Huber, Ph.D. Curatorial Associate, VIMS Nunnally Ichthyology Collection Office 804.684.7104 | Collection 804.684.7285 skhuber at vims.edu | http://www.vims.edu/research/facilities/fishcollection/index.php PO Box 1346 | 1370 Greate Rd., Gloucester Pt., VA 23062 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From cjschmidt at fhsu.edu Fri Jan 28 12:17:09 2022 From: cjschmidt at fhsu.edu (Curtis Schmidt) Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2022 17:17:09 +0000 Subject: [Nhcoll-l] Tracking in-house specimen usage In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Sarah, We simply use the same loan forms, but they get temporarily stored in an "In-house Loans" folder. I have never had a problem with keeping track of such specimens. For example, we have several specimens that are in a traveling exhibit that we built. All of them are included on the loan form. I have a copy and our Exhibits Director has a copy. I hope that this is helpful. Curtis _________________________________ Curtis J. Schmidt Zoological Collections Manager Sternberg Museum of Natural History Instructor Department of Biological Sciences Fort Hays State University 3000 Sternberg Drive Hays, KS 67601 785-650-2447 (cell) ________________________________ ________________________________ From: Nhcoll-l on behalf of Sarah K. Huber Sent: Friday, January 28, 2022 11:05 AM To: nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu Subject: [Nhcoll-l] Tracking in-house specimen usage I would be curious how different collections track in-house usage of specimens. I have tried many different protocols for doing this in our collection, and none have been completely successful. I would also be curious, given your protocol, how compliant users are. (We do not have our specimens bar-coded, so this is not an option for tracking at this time.) I do record when specimens get re-shelved, but without knowing when they left the collection, I am unable to determine the amount of time (months, years, decades) that they were used. Therefore, my annual reporting statistics don?t necessarily reflect actual specimen usage. Thanks, Sarah Sarah K. Huber, Ph.D. Curatorial Associate, VIMS Nunnally Ichthyology Collection Office 804.684.7104 | Collection 804.684.7285 skhuber at vims.edu | http://www.vims.edu/research/facilities/fishcollection/index.php PO Box 1346 | 1370 Greate Rd., Gloucester Pt., VA 23062 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From simmons.johne at gmail.com Fri Jan 28 12:42:30 2022 From: simmons.johne at gmail.com (John E Simmons) Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2022 12:42:30 -0500 Subject: [Nhcoll-l] Tracking in-house specimen usage In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Sarah, Tracking in-house use is a pain... When I was herpetology collection manager at KU, I created two simple forms for this use, a withdrawal form (for collection use) and a change form. The withdrawal form was printed on yellow paper and asked for the user's name, specimen name, and catalog number(s) on the container and the date (keeping it as simple as possible). The user had to fill out the form (which took less than a minute) and put it in a jar of the same size as the one they were removing from the collection (this was both as a place-holder and to speed up re-shelving). Users had to return all specimen containers to the lab where either I or an assistant checked the fluid level, placement of label, and seal before the jar was reshelved. When the container was re-shelved, the yellow card went to my office where I could keep them on file and thus do an annual check on in-house use. Of course there were people who tried to sneak jars out of the collection (usually curators) so from time to time I would do an office check for such containers. The specimen data change form was printed on green paper and asked for the specimen name, catalog number, user name, and what the change was (these were typically re-identifications or corrections of locality data). Change forms were attached to the jar and returned to the lab so I could then decide (in consultation with the curators) which changes we were to make and which to ignore. The weakness in this system is getting everyone to comply. The key to success was not letting anyone re-shelve specimens except the collection manager or curatorial assistants (that way container integrity could be checked and jars were far less likely to be put in the wrong place). Once this system was initiated, we had far fewer instances of jars leaking in the collection and being shelved out-of-order. Examples of both forms can be found in the 3rd edition of Herpetological Collecting and Collections Management as figure 27 on page 124 (withdrawal form) and figure 29 on page 130 (specimen data change form). I will attach PDFs of both. I have no idea if the system is still in use there or not. --John John E. 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 Fri, Jan 28, 2022 at 12:05 PM Sarah K. Huber wrote: > I would be curious how different collections track in-house usage of > specimens. I have tried many different protocols for doing this in our > collection, and none have been completely successful. I would also be > curious, given your protocol, how compliant users are. (We do not have our > specimens bar-coded, so this is not an option for tracking at this time.) > > > > I do record when specimens get re-shelved, but without knowing when they > left the collection, I am unable to determine the amount of time (months, > years, decades) that they were used. Therefore, my annual reporting > statistics don?t necessarily reflect actual specimen usage. > > > > Thanks, > > Sarah > > > > Sarah K. Huber, Ph.D. > Curatorial Associate, VIMS Nunnally Ichthyology Collection > Office 804.684.7104 | Collection 804.684.7285 > skhuber at vims.edu | > http://www.vims.edu/research/facilities/fishcollection/index.php > > PO Box 1346 | 1370 Greate Rd., Gloucester Pt., VA 23062 > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 neumann at snsb.de Fri Jan 28 13:16:10 2022 From: neumann at snsb.de (Dirk Neumann) Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2022 19:16:10 +0100 Subject: [Nhcoll-l] Tracking in-house specimen usage In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Hi Sarah, we developed a standardised Excel-sheet for consumptive tissue sampling that also collect extraction and DNA data, or consumption of DNA samples, respectively. These support workflows for picking samples directly i.e., via simple print-outs with key data such as tube number, tube position on extraction plate, etc. that are conveyed from of the long Excel table with formulas to a second tab, which is supported by additional fields for required database updates to be done. Import schemes for our database are matching to respective field on the first tab containing all data, and thus, by running different import schemes over the same excel sheet, we can easily update database entries after tubes have been picked, DNA has been extracted, and DNA aliquots to be added to tissue tube entries after extraction. This made life a lot easier. Similar systems might be useful for other sorts of destructive sampling as well. For removal of jars, we started to add placeholder cards to shelves similar to those John suggested, however, we didn't standardise them so far, which resulted in that sort of "individualism" John mentioned and that you definitely want to avoid. Our bottleneck to record how many specimens were used is the returning of jars, when we record number of jars and included individuals, which are used for our annual report. Hope this helps Dirk Am 28.01.2022 um 18:05 schrieb Sarah K. Huber: > > I would be curious how different collections track in-house usage of > specimens. I have tried many different protocols for doing this in our > collection, and none have been completely successful. I would also be > curious, given your protocol, how compliant users are. (We do not have > our specimens bar-coded, so this is not an option for tracking at this > time.) > > I do record when specimens get re-shelved, but without knowing when > they left the collection, I am unable to determine the amount of time > (months, years, decades) that they were used. Therefore, my annual > reporting statistics don?t necessarily reflect actual specimen usage. > > Thanks, > > Sarah > > Sarah K. Huber, Ph.D. > Curatorial Associate, VIMS Nunnally?Ichthyology Collection > Office 804.684.7104?| Collection 804.684.7285 > skhuber at vims.edu ?| > http://www.vims.edu/research/facilities/fishcollection/index.php > > PO Box 1346 | 1370 Greate Rd., Gloucester Pt., VA 23062 > > > _______________________________________________ > 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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We have a matching yellow sign by each door outlining the in-house loan protocol as simply as possible, which boils down to (1) don't move specimens out of place without prior approval (basic training with me), (2) leave a completed loan slip in place of each specimen, (3) immediately email me the info on the loan slips (people often just send a picture of the slips, which I encourage), and (4) contact me to return the loan (don't refile it yourself). I enter the loan slip info as I receive it into an in-house loan spreadsheet, and I use that for tracking, reporting, following up etc. We deal mostly with dry birds and mammals, for context. Angela On Fri, Jan 28, 2022 at 11:17 AM Dirk Neumann wrote: > Hi Sarah, > > we developed a standardised Excel-sheet for consumptive tissue sampling > that also collect extraction and DNA data, or consumption of DNA samples, > respectively. These support workflows for picking samples directly i.e., > via simple print-outs with key data such as tube number, tube position on > extraction plate, etc. that are conveyed from of the long Excel table with > formulas to a second tab, which is supported by additional fields for > required database updates to be done. > > Import schemes for our database are matching to respective field on the > first tab containing all data, and thus, by running different import > schemes over the same excel sheet, we can easily update database entries > after tubes have been picked, DNA has been extracted, and DNA aliquots to > be added to tissue tube entries after extraction. > > This made life a lot easier. Similar systems might be useful for other > sorts of destructive sampling as well. > > For removal of jars, we started to add placeholder cards to shelves > similar to those John suggested, however, we didn't standardise them so > far, which resulted in that sort of "individualism" John mentioned and that > you definitely want to avoid. > > Our bottleneck to record how many specimens were used is the returning of > jars, when we record number of jars and included individuals, which are > used for our annual report. > > Hope this helps > Dirk > > > > > Am 28.01.2022 um 18:05 schrieb Sarah K. Huber: > > I would be curious how different collections track in-house usage of > specimens. I have tried many different protocols for doing this in our > collection, and none have been completely successful. I would also be > curious, given your protocol, how compliant users are. (We do not have our > specimens bar-coded, so this is not an option for tracking at this time.) > > > > I do record when specimens get re-shelved, but without knowing when they > left the collection, I am unable to determine the amount of time (months, > years, decades) that they were used. Therefore, my annual reporting > statistics don?t necessarily reflect actual specimen usage. > > > > Thanks, > > Sarah > > > > Sarah K. Huber, Ph.D. > Curatorial Associate, VIMS Nunnally Ichthyology Collection > Office 804.684.7104 | Collection 804.684.7285 > skhuber at vims.edu | > http://www.vims.edu/research/facilities/fishcollection/index.php > > PO Box 1346 | 1370 Greate Rd., Gloucester Pt., VA 23062 > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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/ > > _______________________________________________ > Nhcoll-l mailing list > Nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu > https://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/nhcoll-l > > _______________________________________________ > NHCOLL-L is brought to you by the Society for the Preservation of > Natural History Collections (SPNHC), an international society whose > mission is to improve the preservation, conservation and management of > natural history collections to ensure their continuing value to > society. 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I also create in-house loans for researchers that use the bird collections in the museum, if they are generating data or products from those specimens (genetic, morphological, isotopes, artwork, etc.). That way I can link the specimen usage to associated projects and publications resulting from that use. I don't create loans if someone visits the collection and is just browsing, that is too hard to track. Best, Carla On Fri, Jan 28, 2022 at 9:05 AM Sarah K. Huber wrote: > I would be curious how different collections track in-house usage of > specimens. I have tried many different protocols for doing this in our > collection, and none have been completely successful. I would also be > curious, given your protocol, how compliant users are. (We do not have our > specimens bar-coded, so this is not an option for tracking at this time.) > > > > I do record when specimens get re-shelved, but without knowing when they > left the collection, I am unable to determine the amount of time (months, > years, decades) that they were used. Therefore, my annual reporting > statistics don?t necessarily reflect actual specimen usage. > > > > Thanks, > > Sarah > > > > Sarah K. Huber, Ph.D. > Curatorial Associate, VIMS Nunnally Ichthyology Collection > Office 804.684.7104 | Collection 804.684.7285 > skhuber at vims.edu | > http://www.vims.edu/research/facilities/fishcollection/index.php > > PO Box 1346 | 1370 Greate Rd., Gloucester Pt., VA 23062 > > > _______________________________________________ > Nhcoll-l mailing list > Nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu > https://mailman.yale.edu/mailman/listinfo/nhcoll-l > > _______________________________________________ > NHCOLL-L is brought to you by the Society for the Preservation of > Natural History Collections (SPNHC), an international society whose > mission is to improve the preservation, conservation and management of > natural history collections to ensure their continuing value to > society. See http://www.spnhc.org for membership information. > Advertising on NH-COLL-L is inappropriate. > -- Carla Cicero, Ph.D Staff Curator of Birds Museum of Vertebrate Zoology 3101 Valley Life Sciences Building University of California Berkeley, CA 94720-3160 TEL: (510) 642-7868 FAX: (510) 643-8238 http://mvz.berkeley.edu https://carlacicero.net http://vertnet.org https://arctosdb.org http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bird_collections http://americanornithology.org/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From atrox10 at gmail.com Fri Jan 28 14:32:26 2022 From: atrox10 at gmail.com (Carol Spencer) Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2022 11:32:26 -0800 Subject: [Nhcoll-l] Tracking in-house specimen usage In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: I make a loan of these in Arctos (our collections management system) and print it after the person has used the animals. I rely on them to tell me what they used for whole animals, or for tissues, we subsample everything for them and make a loan at that time. -Carol On Fri, Jan 28, 2022 at 9:05 AM Sarah K. Huber wrote: > I would be curious how different collections track in-house usage of > specimens. I have tried many different protocols for doing this in our > collection, and none have been completely successful. I would also be > curious, given your protocol, how compliant users are. (We do not have our > specimens bar-coded, so this is not an option for tracking at this time.) > > > > I do record when specimens get re-shelved, but without knowing when they > left the collection, I am unable to determine the amount of time (months, > years, decades) that they were used. Therefore, my annual reporting > statistics don?t necessarily reflect actual specimen usage. > > > > Thanks, > > Sarah > > > > Sarah K. 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URL: From gnelson at floridamuseum.ufl.edu Mon Jan 31 09:05:08 2022 From: gnelson at floridamuseum.ufl.edu (Nelson,Gil) Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2022 14:05:08 +0000 Subject: [Nhcoll-l] Registration opens tomorrow: 6th Annual Digital Data Conference: May 23-25 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: [cid:00bd6e95-59f4-4f8a-b1ba-44cb41c63cb9] Sixth Annual Digital Data in Biodiversity Research Conference The Field Museum in collaboration with iDigBio and the Natural Science Collections Alliance is pleased to announce the sixth annual Digital Data in Biodiversity Research Conference, to be hosted May 23-25, 2022. This year's event with be a virtual meeting. The conference will again provide an important opportunity to explore digital data tools, techniques, research protocols, discoveries, and outcomes across all biodiversity research domains. Registration Digital Data Conference Registration Fees*: $100.00 for professionals $50.00 for students. *Registration fees are optional but encouraged. When registering, those who wish not to make a financial contribution to the conference will have that option. Although registration is optional, your registration information, even if you opt out of the fee, will allow us to keep you updated about conference activities. Registration fees will support the digital format technology, the editing and publication of abstracts, and keeping the conference sustainable. Registration will open February 1st. Visit Eventbrite to register: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/6th-annual-digital-data-in-biodiversity-research-conference-tickets-252120779037 Please watch for further announcements and program developments on the conference announcement page: https://www.idigbio.org/content/digital-data-2022-enhancing-advancing-quality-digitized-data For further information or to ensure that you are on the conference email list, please contact Gil Nelson (gnelson at floridamuseum.ufl.edu) or Jill Goodwin (jgoodwin at floridamuseum.ufl.edu) at iDigBio. 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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. We particularly encourage applications from students whose participation will add to the diversity of researchers in botanical science, including students from underrepresented groups and first-generation college students. For more information and for instructions on how to apply, please visit: https://www.torcherbaria.org/internship The application deadline has been EXTENDED to Monday, February 14th, 2022 (previously January 23rd). Diego Barroso | TORCH TCN Project Manager | Fort Worth Botanic Garden / Botanical Research Institute of Texas | dbarroso at brit.org | Ph. 817.332.4441 x 252 office, 817.463.4106 direct | BRIT.org & FWBG.org | 1700 University Dr., Fort Worth, TX 76107-3400 USA | Think Before You Print -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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