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<span class="ContentPasted0" style="font-weight: 400; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">Please accept our invitation to a 3-part webinar series (March 7, 14, 21; 1:00 p.m. Eastern) focused on
</span><span class="ContentPasted0" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-weight: 700;">Envisioning a Biological Collections Action Center
</span><span class="ContentPasted0" style="font-weight: 400; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;">as proposed in the recent NASEM report (see list of organizers below) and authorized by the CHIPS and Science Act. The first
two webinars (7 and 14 March) will feature co-authors of the NASEM report, including Pam Soltis, Andy Bentley, Joe Cook, Scott Edwards, Talia Karim, Shirley Pomponi, and Barbara Thiers, sharing their personal visions for the Action Center. The third webinar
(21 March) will feature Scott Miller, Kevin Hackett, and Diane DiEuliis from the Interagency Working Group on Scientific Collections (IWGSC), Jyotsna Pandey (AIBS), and Breda Zimkus (BCoN, MCZ). We anticipate that the third webinar will be a response to the
NASEM report presentations and include several presentations followed by discussion/Q&A. All webinars will be held from 1-2 p.m. Eastern.</span><br>
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<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:#000000;font-weight:400" class="ContentPasted0">Webinar registration can be found here:
</span><a href="https://ufl.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_YYB5rbCOR3WKHxkYMQh3Ng" class="ContentPasted0"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:#1155cc;font-weight:400;text-decoration:underline;text-decoration-skip-ink:none">https://ufl.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_YYB5rbCOR3WKHxkYMQh3Ng</span></a></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:#000000;font-weight:400" class="ContentPasted0">John Bates, Field Museum of Natural History</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:#000000;font-weight:400" class="ContentPasted0">Matt Borths, Duke Lemur Center</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:#000000;font-weight:400" class="ContentPasted0">Gil Nelson, Natural Science Collections Alliance, Florida Museum of Natural History, iDigBio</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:#000000;font-weight:400" class="ContentPasted0">Jyotsna Pandey, American Institute of Biological Sciences, Natural Science Collections Alliance</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:#000000;font-weight:400" class="ContentPasted0">Emily Sessa, New York Botanical Garden</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:#000000;font-weight:400" class="ContentPasted0">Breda Zimkus, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Biological Collections Network </span></p>
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<div>Gil Nelson, PhD</div>
<div>Director, Integrated Digitized Biocollections (iDigBio)</div>
<div>President, Natural Science Collections Alliance (NSCA)</div>
<div>Florida Museum of Natural History</div>
<div>University of Florida</div>
<div>gnelson@floridamuseum.ufl.edu</div>
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