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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">The SPNHC Conservation Committee is hosting a symposium at SPNHC 2025 at Lawrence KS, and welcomes your expertise!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Please consider submitting an abstract for the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for the Conservation of Natural History Collections, due March 3, 2025. The conference will take place in Lawrence
KS, May 27-30, 2025. Arrangements have been made to accommodate virtual attendance.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Instructions and links to the
<a href="https://spnhc2025.ku.edu/oa-abstract-submission-guidelines">abstract submission guidelines and online submission form here</a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Symposium 4 (SYM04): Challenges and Opportunities in the Conservation of Natural History Collections<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">The Conservation Committee invites submission of abstracts for talks on conservation treatment and conservation-related topics. In fitting with the meeting theme, we welcome talks on the topic
of sustainable conservation materials and practices and are also interested in general preservation topics that would benefit all of SPNHC membership.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Symposium organizers:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Cindy Opitz (University of Iowa)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Irene Finkelde (Tasmanian Museum of Art Gallery)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Katy Corneli (Prehistoric Museum at USU Eastern)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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