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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.15pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#606060">The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine's<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://nas.us8.list-manage.com/track/click?u=18fe6f8f25ec0bc7509e65e97&id=eb0f5c4840&e=a271cda812" target="_blank"><b><span style="color:#006794">Board
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For this task, the expert committee will focus on living stocks (organisms) and preserved repositories of biodiversity specimens and materials that are financially supported in full or in part by the National Science Foundation. The committee will describe
the major advances in the use of collections over the last decade; envision future innovative ways in which biological collections can be utilized; describe the greatest challenges to maintaining biological collections; and suggest a range of long-term strategies
that could be used for their sustained support, individually or in groups, of research and education. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.15pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#606060">BLS is seeking nominees for experts that reflect the<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><strong><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">diversity
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.15pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#606060">Ideal candidates also will have expertise in one or more of the following:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">Financial administration<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#606060;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:13.15pt;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">
<span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">Broad knowledge of biological collections and their use in research and education <o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:13.15pt"><strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#606060">Self-nominations are accepted. Nominations are requested no later than Friday, September 21, 2018.</span></strong><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:#606060"><br>
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