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<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:#002060">As SPNHC President, I am appointing three sessional committees for the next year, as described below. If you are a SPNHC member in good standing and would like
to serve on one of these committees, please contact the chair. The committees will meet virtually during the year, through email, SPNHC’s new Slack feature, or through video conference, with an-person meeting at the Edinburgh conference next June.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;overflow-wrap: break-word"><span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:#002060"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;overflow-wrap: break-word"><strong><span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:#002060">Education Committee</span></strong><span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:#002060"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;overflow-wrap: break-word"><b><span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:#002060"> Chair:</span></b><span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:#002060"> Anna Monfils <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;overflow-wrap: break-word"><b><span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:#002060"> Charge:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#002060;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif"> Review SPNHC’s contributions to education, both formal, informal and workforce training; identify gaps<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#002060;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif"> Affirm the current committee structures and charges for EPG and Professional Development, and propose a modified structure, if the committee thinks this is warranted<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#002060;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1">
<span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif"> Propose short term and long term goals for SPNHC’s educational mission<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;overflow-wrap: break-word"><span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:#002060"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;overflow-wrap: break-word"><strong><span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:#002060">Collection Theft and Security Monitoring of Collections</span></strong><span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:#002060"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;overflow-wrap: break-word"><b><span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:#002060"> Chair</span></b><span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:#002060">: Paul Mayer and Rob Zschernitz
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;overflow-wrap: break-word"><b><span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:#002060">Charge</span></b><span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:#002060">:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#002060;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">
<span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif"> Plan a session on the subject for the Edinburgh conference<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#002060;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">
<span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif"> Determine the best strategy for SPNHC members to share information about potential threats<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#002060;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">
<span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif"> Develop a resource page for the website about collections security issues – there were a variety of suggestions of online monitoring tools at the SIG in Chicago that could be shared, for example<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#002060;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2">
<span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif"> Propose short and long term goals for involvement in this topic, if warranted<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;overflow-wrap: break-word"><span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:#002060"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;overflow-wrap: break-word"><strong><span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:#002060">Collections and the Biodiversity Crisis</span></strong><span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:#002060"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;overflow-wrap: break-word"><b><span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:#002060"> Chair:</span></b><span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:#002060"> Libby Elwood <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;overflow-wrap: break-word"><b><span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:#002060">Charge</span></b><span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:#002060">:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<ul type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#002060;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo3">
<span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif"> Consider what, if anything, SPNHC should do to raise the profile of collections in mitigating biodiversity loss, both scientific and public awareness aspects; make recommendations for activities that could accomplish
this.<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#002060;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo3">
<span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif"> Propose strategies to help collections highlight their own efforts in this area<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="color:#002060;mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo3">
<span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif"> Propose short and long term goals for involvement in this topic, if warranted<o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="overflow-wrap: break-word"><span style="color:#44546A"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Century",serif;color:#002060">Dr. Barbara M. Thiers<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Century",serif;color:#002060">Vice President<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Century",serif;color:#002060">Patricia K. Holmgren Director of the William and Lynda Steere Herbarium
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Century",serif;color:#002060">Curator of Bryophytes<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Century",serif;color:#002060">Editor,
<i>Index Herbariorum<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Century",serif;color:#002060">President, Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Century",serif;color:#002060">New York Botanical Garden<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Century",serif;color:#002060">Bronx, NY 10458-5126<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Century",serif;color:#002060"><a href="mailto:bthiers@nybg.org">bthiers@nybg.org</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Century",serif;color:#002060">718-817-8626<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Century",serif;color:#002060"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Century",serif;color:#002060">Download:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Cambria",serif;color:#44546A"><a href="http://sweetgum.nybg.org/science/docs/The_Worlds_Herbaria_2017_5_Jan_2018.pdf">The World’s Herbaria 2017</a></span><span style="color:#44546A">
</span><span style="font-family:"Century",serif;color:#002060"> (second Index Herbariorum annual report)</span><span style="color:#44546A"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Century",serif;color:#002060"><a href="http://sciweb.nybg.org/science2/IH_Questionnaire_2009.doc">Index Herbariorum Registration Form</a>
<br>
<a href="http://sciweb.nybg.org/science2/IH_Questionnaire_2009_example.doc">Index Herbariorum Registration Form Example</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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