[NHCOLL-L:3074] updates on SPNHC-NSCA 2006 joint meeting

[Cindy A Ramotnik]

The conference time is fast approaching so get on “The 
Road to Productive Partnerships” and join us in 
Albuquerque, New Mexico, for the Joint Annual Meeting of 
the Society for the Preservation of Natural History 
Collections (SPNHC) and the Natural Science Collections 
Alliance (NSCA), 23-27 May 2006.

For those who haven’t yet registered for the conference, 
there is still time to do so but don’t delay.  There are a 
few openings for the pre-conference field trips and the 
Thursday evening banquet.  And for those who have signed 
up for field trips, you will be contacted soon by the trip 
organizers with additional information about meeting times 
and places.

Accommodations: the SPNHC-NSCA block of reserved rooms at 
the headquarters hotel, the Hotel Albuquerque, has been 
filled. We recommend the Best Western Rio Grande Inn 
Albuquerque, only 0.2 miles away, or one of the other 
hotel options listed on the meeting website 
<http://www.msb.unm.edu/meetings/SPNHC-NSCA2006/hotel.html>. 
Not listed but another option is the Econo Lodge Old Town 
(2321 Central Avenue NW; 505-243-8475). It's less than a 
10 minute walk to the headquarters hotel and reasonably 
priced with good-sized rooms (thanks A. Pinzl).

Workshops: The morning workshops on Data quality and data 
cleaning (workshop #1) and the Ins and outs of imaging for 
museum collections (workshop #2) have been filled but 
there are a few seats left in the afternoon sessions as 
well as in the morning workshop on Arctos: a biodiversity 
informatics tool. The all-day workshop on Becoming a GBIF 
provider has been cancelled (workshop #4).

For those making presentations (talks or posters) please 
go to the Abstracts and Presentation link 
<http://www.msb.unm.edu/meetings/SPNHC-NSCA2006/talks.html> 
for additional information.

Please check out the conference website to see the 
schedule and titles for all talks and poster 
presentations. Additional information on the special 
sessions is found at 
<http://www.msb.unm.edu/meetings/SPNHC-NSCA2006/sessions.html>. 
A list of vendors attending the Tradeshow and map of the 
booth locations can be found on the Tradeshow link.

We look forward to seeing you in Albuquerque! Happy 
travels.

Conference website: 
http://www.msb.unm.edu/meetings/SPNHC-NSCA2006/index.html

Cindy Ramotnik
co-host SPNHC-NSCA 2006

U.S. Geological Survey
Department of Biology
MSC03 2020
1 University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, NM 87131-0001
505-277-5369