Call for Nominations:

Biological Collections: 

Their Past, Present, and Future Contributions and Options for Sustaining Them

For this task, the expert committee will focus on living stocks (organisms) and preserved repositories of biodiversity specimens and materials that are financially supported in full or in part by the National Science Foundation. The committee will describe the major advances in the use of collections over the last decade; envision future innovative ways in which biological collections can be utilized; describe the greatest challenges to maintaining biological collections; and suggest a range of long-term strategies that could be used for their sustained support, individually or in groups, of research and education. 

• Biodiversity
• Marine Science
• Ecology
• Environmental Science
• Evolutionary Biology 

Ideal candidates also will have expertise in one or more of the following:

• Collection curation and management
• Data management and storage
• Imaging technologies
• Formal and informal education
• Financial administration
• Broad knowledge of biological collections and their use in research and education 

Self-nominations are accepted. Nominations are requested no later than Friday, September 21, 2018.

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