Published: September 4, 2018 Announcements, News
The Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections (SPNHC) expresses shock and sorrow at the devastation of Museu Nacional in Rio de Janeiro due to fire on the evening of 2 September, 2018. The largest museum in Latin America and the fifth largest museum in the world, the Museu Nacional is celebrating its 200th anniversary this year. Holdings…
Published: May 22, 2018 Announcements, News
The SPNHC recognition and Grants Committee is inviting nominations for the following: The Carolyn L. Rose Award is our Society’s highest honor and is given to a practitioner (SPNHC membership is not required) whose work and efforts have promoted the values and objectives of the Society. Nominations should include a letter of nomination, a current curriculum…
Published: May 11, 2018 Announcements, Deadlines, News
As the Local Organizing Committee for SPNHC and TDWG extended the closing date for abstract submissions, we will now extend the early bird rates for conference registration to Thursday, May 31st, 2018. We have had an extraordinary number of submissions for talks and posters with over 300 now in the mix for the conference program.…
Published: March 12, 2018 Announcements, Deadlines, News
The Local Organising Committee is pleased to announce that Early Bird Registration for the 2018 conference in Dunedin, New Zealand opens March 12th. PLEASE REGISTER HERE Please note that registration includes a membership fee. Be sure that your membership is up to date before registering for the conference. Membership will incur a fee of US$75…
Published: February 21, 2018 Announcements, Deadlines, News
ExpiredThe Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections (SPNHC) has a Travel Grant program designed to assist members with the costs of attending the Society’s annual meeting. Grants will be available for attendance at the 2018meeting of the Society in Dunedin, New Zealand, August 25 – September 1, 2018. Meeting information can be found…
Published: February 13, 2018 Announcements, News
The Sustainability Excellence Award is an AAM PIC Green signature program that educates, facilitates, and encourages green practices in museums. Started in 2014, the award recognizes sustainability efforts in facilities, programming, and exhibits in both large and small institutions. PIC Green views the award as an opportunity to share sustainability stories and encourage museums and other cultural…
Published: January 29, 2018 Announcements, News
The Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections (www.spnhc.org) is proud to announce the results of the 2018 Elections. Join us in congratulating the following members who were elected to the open SPNHC positions: PRESIDENT-ELECT: Debra Trock, California Academy of Sciences SECRETARY: Cindy Opitz, University of Iowa Museum of Natural History MEMBER-AT-LARGE: Talia Karim,…
Published: January 18, 2018 Announcements, News
The Emerging Professionals Committee has been working on a survey for SPNHC members who consider themselves emerging professionals (EPs). If this is your case, please complete this survey. If this is not your case, please spread this information. This way we can get to know our members better and improve our service to the…
Published: January 3, 2018 Announcements, News
The SPNHC Recognition and Grants Committee is inviting nominations for the following: The Carolyn L. Rose Award is our Society’s highest honor and is given to a practitioner (SPNHC membership is not required) whose work and efforts have promoted the values and objectives of the Society. Nominations should include a letter of nomination, a current curriculum…
Published: December 20, 2017 Announcements, News
Dear Colleagues, The local organizing committee, a partnership between the Otago Museum and the University of Otago, is honored to host the 33rd annual meeting of the Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections, August 25 – September 1, 2018. For the first time the meeting will be held in the Southern Hemisphere in Dunedin, New…
Published: October 19, 2017 Announcements, News
The mission of the SPNHC Travel Grants program is to assist members with the costs of attending the Society’s annual meetings. Given the costs of attending a meeting in New Zealand and in conjunction with a new initiative to expand the travel grant program, the Society is holding a fundraising drive to support the program. …
Published: September 20, 2017 Announcements, News
The fall edition of the SPNHC Connection newsletter is here! SPNHC members log in to view the SPNHC Connection online at http://www.spnhc.org/75/current-issues If you’re not a member, what are you waiting for? Join us at http://www.spnhc.org/members/signup
Published: July 6, 2017 Announcements, News
TDWG invites you to submit an abstract to the TDWG 2017 symposium “Bridging Gaps between Biodiversity Informaticians and Collections Professionals.” See description below. Registration and Abstract Submission for the meeting are now open. The deadline for initial submission is July 14th. For more information please see the call for abstracts found here https://tdwg.github.io/conferences/2017/call-for-abstracts/. Example topics for…
Published: July 3, 2017 Announcements, News
The SPNHC Recognition and Grants Committee requests proposals for the Faber Research Grant, a cash grant of up to $1000, to support an innovative project addressing issues on the management, care, conservation, or use of natural history collections. Applicants for this Grant must be SPNHC members in good standing for at least one year prior…
Published: July 3, 2017 Announcements, News
The SPNHC recognition and Grants Committee is inviting nominations for the following: The Carolyn L. Rose Award is our Society’s highest honor and is given to a practitioner (SPNHC membership is not required) whose work and efforts have promoted the values and objectives of the Society. Nominations should include a letter of nomination, a current curriculum…
Published: May 25, 2017 Announcements, Deadlines, News
The Natural History Collections Club Network (NHCCN) has received funding from NSF to bring 14 individuals from 7 universities to SPNHC 2017 to attend the NHCCN workshop on Sunday, June 18 and to attend the rest of the SPNHC annual meeting from Sunday, June 18-Friday, June 23. We are seeking student and faculty pairs from universities…
Published: May 11, 2017 Announcements, Deadlines, News
The Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections is pleased to announce that it is once again joining with the American Institute of Biological Sciences to sponsor the 9th annual Biological Sciences Congressional District Visits event. This national initiative is an opportunity for scientists across the country to meet with their federal or state…
Published: February 7, 2017 Announcements, Deadlines, News
The STASHc editorial committee is pleased to announce that the SPNHC 32nd Annual Meeting in Denver, CO will include a STASH Flash session on Friday, June 23. The session will begin with an introduction to Preventive Conservation: Collection Storage, a new volume edited by Lisa Elkin and Christopher Norris (expected publication summer 2017) that is…
Published: November 7, 2016 Announcements, News
Natural Science Collections Association annual conference & AGM Evolving Ideas: provocative new ways of working with collections 20 & 21 April 2017 University Museum of Zoology, Cambridge #NatSCA2017 CALL FOR PAPERS: http://www.natsca.org/conference2017
Published: November 2, 2016 Announcements, Deadlines, News
The local organizing committee, a partnership between the Denver Museum of Nature & Science and Denver Botanic Gardens, is honored to host the 32nd annual meeting of the Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections, June 18-24, 2017, in Denver Colorado. The theme of the meeting is “The Next Generation in Best Practices.” This…
Published: August 19, 2016 Announcements, News
We are pleased to announce that as of today, the Entomological Collections Network (ECN) and the Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections (SPNHC) are officially organizational partners through a Memorandum of Understanding between the two organizations. Under the auspices of the MoU, ECN and SPNHC have agreed to automatically grant a place on…
Published: August 10, 2016 Announcements, News
WASHINGTON, D.C., August 10, 2016 — A blue-ribbon coalition of fifty-six leading U.S. nonpartisan organizations, representing more than 10 million scientists and engineers, are calling on U.S. Presidential candidates to address a set of twenty major issues in science, engineering, technology, health and the environment, and encouraging journalists and voters to press the candidates on…
Published: August 8, 2016 Announcements, News
SPNHC has a new leaflet available: An Alternative to Gelatine Capsules in Natural History Collections by Paul Calloman, Department of Malacology, Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University. You can read all of our leaflets on our website at http://www.spnhc.org/26/leaflets
Published: June 1, 2016 Announcements, News
The full conference programs for SPNHC 2016 and GGBN 2016 have been published! SPNHC: http://www.spnhc2016.berlin/page05.html GGBN: http://tinyurl.com/gs3xenf (Please note: Registration is still possible until 15th of June!) The Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum and the Museum für Naturkunde are honored to be hosting the 31st Annual Meeting of the Society for the Preservation of…
Published: March 17, 2016 Announcements, News
The spring edition of the SPNHC Connection newsletter is here! SPNHC members log in to view the SPNHC Connection online at http://www.spnhc.org/75/current-issues If you’re not a member, what are you waiting for? Join us at http://www.spnhc.org/members/signup
Published: February 17, 2016 Announcements, News
Dear SPNHC Member, It is my great pleasure to give you the results of the SPNHC 2016 elections for President-Elect, Secretary and two Members-at-Large. PRESIDENT-ELECT Barbara Thiers, New York Botanic Gardens, NY, US SECRETARY Cindy Opitz, University of Iowa Museum of Natural History, Iowa, US MEMBER AT LARGE Miranda Lowe, The Natural History…
Published: February 11, 2016 Announcements, News
Submissions of proposals are solicited for the DemoCamp session at the SPNHC conference in Berlin, hosted by the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin and the Botanischer Garten und Botanisches Museum Berlin. DemoCamp provides a venue for creators to promote their technological solutions to advance the field of museum curation with broad applications for biology and biodiversity informatics. This is a…
Published: January 7, 2016 Announcements, Deadlines, News
iDigBio (https://www.idigbio.org/) and the Small Collections Network (SCNet: http://smallcollections.net/) are pleased to announce the upcoming Small Collections Symposium at SPNHC 2016 (http://www.spnhc2016.berlin/), to be held in Berlin, June 20-25. The 2016 Small Collections Symposium is entitled: Blending the Educational Resources of Small and Large Collections for Training the Next Generation of Museum Professionals. We invite…
Published: December 4, 2015 Announcements, News
The Museum für Naturkunde and the Botanischer Garten und Botanisches Museum Berlin are honored to be hosting the 31st Annual Meeting for the Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections (SPNHC) in Berlin from June, 19 to June, 26, 2016. The conference sessions will be held at the andel’s Hotel Berlin Landsberger Allee, workshops…
Published: July 24, 2015 Announcements, Deadlines, News
The deadline to make a nomination is August 31, 2015. Please remember that the SPNHC can only remain a relevant and valuable society if there is a strong and dedicated Council. If you know of someone you think would be suitable to one of these positions, please nominate today! Bethany Palumbo will contact those nominated after…
