[NHCOLL-L:2095] SPNHC 2004

[Tim White]

Please excuse the cross-posting

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1st Announcement
SPNHC 2004: Emergency Preparedness, Response & Salvage
19th annual meeting of the Society for the
Preservation of Natural History Collections

Next spring the American Museum of Natural History will host the 19th 
annual meeting of the Society for the Preservation of Natural History 
Collections May 11-16, 2004. The theme of the 19th Annual meeting is 
Emergency Preparedness, Response and Salvage and as part of this year's 
activity we will be devoting one day of the conference's technical sessions 
to talks focusing on issues relating to emergency preparedness and 
response.  In addition, a one-day workshop that deals with practical issues 
encountered in responding to the first 24 hours after a disaster, the most 
critical time period, will follow the meeting.

The International Society for Biological and Environmental Repositories 
(ISBER) will join SPNHC and organize a specialty session covering issues 
related to biomaterials, partnerships with zoos and other live collections 
and setting up tissue repositories. Several talks within this session will 
also deal with Emergency Response and Salvage efforts specific to these 
novel collections.

Founded in 1869, the American Museum of Natural History is one of the 
world's largest repositories of natural history specimens. Occupying four 
city blocks on Manhattan's Upper West Side, its collections of natural 
science specimens and anthropological artifacts are global in scope. AMNH 
is home to some 200 scientific staff, including more than 40 curators who 
carry out research in anthropology, biology, earth sciences, astrophysics, 
molecular systematic, and paleontology. The meeting promises to be an 
exciting week with collection tours, workshops, discussion groups, and a 
trip to Yale's new Environmental Science Center. For more information, 
visit www.spnhc.org and follow the links to SPNHC 2004, or contact Chris 
Norris, Department of Paleontology, American Museum of Natural History, 
Central Park West at 79th Street, New York, New York 10024; norris at amnh.org.

We hope to see you next May!  
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