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