[Nhcoll-l] NSC Alliance Releases New Resources on Importance of Collections to Climate Research

[Julie Palakovich Carr]

The Natural Science Collections Alliance has prepared two short reports on
how natural history collections contribute to climate change research.

“How Thoreau, Walden, and Herbarium Specimens Informed Research” shows how
plant collections at the Arnold Arboretum have been used to document
changes in the timing of flowering. Since the late 1800’s, plants are
blooming eight days earlier in the Boston area. Over the same time period,
temperatures warmed by 1.5 degrees Celsius. Download a free copy of the
issue brief at
https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__nscalliance.org_wordpress_wp-2Dcontent_uploads_2016_06_nsca-5Fclimate-5Fthoreau.pdf&d=CwIFaQ&c=-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=CLFZJ3fvGSmDp7xK1dNZfh6uGV_h-8NVlo3fXNoRNzI&m=MnkGVMcOs0AJgv_W_uIX9lqGOOuWZm_5I-n0Vci1ofw&s=6XmyBydFqLJfP1BITQat1TwtQCRHGm0T31oODc9Zq8I&e= 
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“Museum Collections Document a Century of Change” documents the lasting
legacy of biological specimens, photographs, and field notes collected by
the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology at the University of California, Berkeley
during the early twentieth century. These resources have been used in
present-day research to understand how warming temperatures are impacting
species ranges. Down a copy of the issue brief at
https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__nscalliance.org_wordpress_wp-2Dcontent_uploads_2016_06_nsca-2Dclimate-2Dgrinnell.pdf&d=CwIFaQ&c=-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=CLFZJ3fvGSmDp7xK1dNZfh6uGV_h-8NVlo3fXNoRNzI&m=MnkGVMcOs0AJgv_W_uIX9lqGOOuWZm_5I-n0Vci1ofw&s=iqAEqASHu0CEInJQvWEAE8vGvQIVDZGdgBOhaLYqVdk&e= 
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Access other reports in NSC Alliance’s series “On the Importance of
Scientific Collections” at https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__nscalliance.org_-3Fpage-5Fid-3D10&d=CwIFaQ&c=-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=CLFZJ3fvGSmDp7xK1dNZfh6uGV_h-8NVlo3fXNoRNzI&m=MnkGVMcOs0AJgv_W_uIX9lqGOOuWZm_5I-n0Vci1ofw&s=BQzeBRd53plVAi_Ri3jtttfPWJYiVyZP2YsFhKpN-vc&e= .

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Julie Palakovich Carr
Public Policy Manager
American Institute of Biological Sciences
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