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Natural History Collections Club Network Workshop

The Natural History Collections Club Network (NHCCN) will be hosting a half day workshop at the annual meeting of the Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections (SPNHC) in Denver, CO on Sunday, June 18th. The purpose of the workshop is to raise awareness of Natural History Collections Clubs and to recruit new clubs into the network. Content of the workshop will include guidelines and strategies for starting a new club and methods for becoming a part of NHCCN. We have funding to support two individuals each from seven institutions to attend the workshop and the SPNHC conference. This includes funding for your registration, room, and travel to SPNHC from June 17-June 24, 2017. The NHCCN is made of several clubs that are curator-advised, student-driven organizations aimed at enhancing local natural history collections by helping to train student volunteers to assist in curating and managing them. The network represents clubs from all types of universities but seems to most benefit those with small collections as a way to protect and raise enthusiasm for their collections. We are particularly interested in institutions with small collections and/or minority serving institutions but anyone is welcome to apply.

Link to Application: https://goo.gl/forms/zXtIv2kVM0TNYiou1

Please contact Kari Harris at kharris@astate.edu for more information.

Herbarium Manager Position at the University of Connecticut

The CONN Herbarium at the University of Connecticut is pleased to announce that we are now searching for a herbarium manager.  This is a full time position requires curatorial experience and a detailed knowledge of modern herbarium practices including digital specimen data basing, a master's degree in botany or a related field, a working knowledge of the eastern North American flora, and a strong background in taxonomy and nomenclature.  We appreciate your help in forwarding this email to anyone who might be interested in the position.   

 More details about the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at UConn can be found at: http://eeb.uconn.edu/

And for details about the EEB Collections Facility go to http://biodiversity.uconn.edu/.

For questions about the position, please contact Cindi Jones (cynthia.s.jones@Uconn.edu).

BITC's Global Online Seminar #31 - April 5

Biodiversity Informatic Training Curriculum: Global Online Seminar #31:

Estimating Range Shifts and Extinction Risk under Future Climate Change

Richard Pearson, University College of London

Richard Pearson is a longtime leader in the field of distributional ecology, and in the use of niche modeling approaches to assess various key questions in the field. He will discuss methodological advances in estimating future distribution shifts and extinction risk under changing climate, focusing on integrating the abiotic environment, biotic interactions and movement as factors that drive species distributions. His webpage is at http://www.ucl.ac.uk/cber/pearson, and his Google Scholar page is at https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=skfuobwAAAAJ&hl=en.

Tune in to Richard’s presentation at https://youtu.be/rdtRXQukwQY

5 April 2017 at 0900 hr GMT-5, = 1400 hr in London



Teacher Training Workshop

Do you know teachers in the Chicagoland area looking for summer learning opportunities? Please recommend The Morton Arboretum's herbarium themed teacher training workshop, Branching Out: Collections in the Classroom, June 26-30 at The Morton Arboretum. Please contact amiller@mortonarb.org or call 630-719-7963 with any questions. Applications are online at https://sites.google.com/mortonarb.org/branchingout

New GGBN-GGI Awards Program

The new GGBN-GGI Awards Program, which provides funding for projects that support the discoverability of new genetic collections through the Global Genome Biodiversity Network's Data Portal. The submission deadline for proposals this year is 1 May 2017. The proposal review committee will consider requests for up to 30,000 USD with clearly articulated budget justifications. All data from funded projects must be made available online on the GGBN Portal before 15 May 2018.

For information on how to apply, please see: http://wiki.ggbn.org/ggbn/Global_Genome_Biodiversity_Network-Global_Genome_Initiative_Awards_Program

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