Welcome and introductions: Larry Page-Director, iDigBio
Robert Gropp- Director Public Policy Office, Natural Science Collections Alliance
Doug Jones, Elise Le Compte- Local OLrganizer, spnhc 2015 meeting
I. Overviews
Scott Miller Smithsonian Institution- Why We Have Natural History Collections
Greg Riccardi- NIBA,ADBC and IDigBio: Transforming the Landscape,
II. Natural History Collections and Research
Pamela Soltis,FLMNH - Phylogenetics and Linking Molecular Data with Collections