[Nhcoll-l] Reminder: Biological Collections Action Center Webinars

[Nelson,Gil]

You are invited to a series of webinars focused on Envisioning a Biological Collections Action Center as proposed in the recent NASEM report and authorized by the U.S. Congress in 2022 in the CHIPS and Science Act. The webinars are scheduled for 7, 14, and 21 March 2023. The first installment on 7 March, will feature Pam Soltis, Barbara Thiers, and Andy Bentley, three of the co-authors of the NASEM report.

All webinars will be from 1-2 p.m. Eastern, open to all, and will be recorded and posted following the event: https://www.idigbio.org/wiki/index.php/Envisioning_a_Biological_Collections_Action_Center<https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__www.idigbio.org_wiki_index.php_Envisioning-5Fa-5FBiological-5FCollections-5FAction-5FCenter&d=DwMFAw&c=WO-RGvefibhHBZq3fL85hQ&r=OMghTb2yEn_Ctp067yO647NBmCoOBPvKK_R0rVgBoPE&m=985Gtc3fJtUI3LTQs8RoKE8_VSM8qb6o1duWmgctPDV9SKwi_MCB37L7nD87rUbP&s=D07JoM9p2IRED1vHZOLZKnUMszyEMb_dFpamuyWMiqY&e=>.

Register here: https://ufl.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_YYB5rbCOR3WKHxkYMQh3Ng#/registration

Discussion, questions, and comments will be encouraged via chat, Q&A, and the Discourse online discussion platform: https://discourse.idigbio.org/c/discussiontopics/, which is now open for comment. Brief instructions for accessing and using Discourse are here: https://www.idigbio.org/wiki/images/7/78/DiscourseInstructions2023.pdf

Gil Nelson, PhD
Director, Integrated Digitized Biocollections (iDigBio)
President, Natural Science Collections Alliance (NSCA)
Florida Museum of Natural History
University of Florida
gnelson at floridamuseum.ufl.edu

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