We invite you to submit a proposal for an organized session or workshop (Google form) at SPNHC 2025 that reflects the work of SPNHC, and collections standards and best practices that contribute to our understanding and documentation of biodiversity. Organized sessions can be symposia, panel discussions, lightning sessions, and other formats whose primary purpose is to convey…
Published: December 10, 2024 Announcements, Deadlines, News
Application Deadline: January 31, 2025, Close of Business (COB) Your Local Time The Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections (SPNHC) is offering travel grants for the 2025 SPNHC Annual Meeting, https://spnhc2025.ku.edu/travel-grants. Applicants must be members of the Society or apply for membership before the application will be accepted. While any SPNHC member may apply, preference…
Published: November 18, 2024 Announcements, Deadlines, News
The University of Kansas Biodiversity Institute and Natural History Museum are pleased to host the 40th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections (SPNHC) from May 27-31, 2025. We look forward to welcoming you to Lawrence, Kansas, USA. We are aware that these are not the originally advertised dates and that…
Earlybird registration ends July 8, 2024. Register now to catch the discount rate! SPNHC MEMBER IN-PERSON FULL REGISTRATIONSpecial Earlybird registration $575Standard member rate, after 8 July $675 NON-MEMBER: Special Earlybird registration $675; Standard rate, after 8 July $775. Join SPNHC here! Students, post-docs, not-working, low/middle-income economy countries – see special discount rates for in-person and virtual.Spread the word: virtual registration is free to those…
The forms for the 2024 SPNHC travel grants are now available. Deadline to apply is May 31, 2024! The Fitzgerald Travel and Christine Allen Travel Grants are awarded each year and provide cash disbursement to support travel to the SPNHC annual meeting. PURPOSE: These grants financially assist the attendance of members, primarily studentsand emerging professionals,…
Published: April 24, 2024 Announcements, Deadlines, News
The Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections Education Sessional Committee is hosting a virtual Natural History Education DemoCamp. The goal is to share, discover, and discuss educational materials that have a framework in natural history. This is building upon our previous iterations of the ‘education share fair’ that were hosted at the annual…
Published: March 5, 2024 Announcements, Deadlines, News
The SPNHC-TDWG 2024 Call for Abstracts is out! Everything is you need to know is now on the conference site. https://www.tdwg.org/conferences/2024/call-for-abstracts/ At this time, we invite you to submit abstracts for 15-minute oral presentations, poster presentations, and lightning talks. Content may be presented in-person or pre-recorded. We are working on providing the technology to support remote…
Last Call for nominations for Carolyn L. Rose Award, President’s Award, Vendor Recognition Award, Early Career Award, and Honorary Memberships 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…
Published: December 5, 2022 Announcements, Deadlines, News
The Recognition and Grants Committee is looking for nominations for this year’s: · The PRESIDENT’S AWARD · THE EARLY CAREER AWARD · THE FABER INNOVATION GRANT · SPECIAL SERVICE AWARD If you know someone who is deserving of one of these awards (or any SPNHC award) please visit these SPNHC websites for more details. · https://spnhc.org/what-spnhc-does/awards-and-grants/ · https://spnhc.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/1503325677_SPNHCAwardsandGrants2.pdf Nominations will be…
Published: October 3, 2022 Deadlines
ISBER is currently accepting abstract submissions and workshop proposals for ourc Annual Meeting, scheduled for May 3-6 in Seattle, USA. The deadline for submissions is November 7. The ISBER annual meeting has been the premier event in biobanking education for over 20 years and is the only truly global event in biobanking. Year after year,…
Published: September 26, 2022 Announcements, Deadlines, News
The deadline to submit your proposals for Workshops and Symposia for SPNHC 2023 has been extended to September 30, 2022. We are also pleased to announce Workshop and Symposium facilitators from countries and communities not recently well represented at SPNHC (self identifying) will receive a discount at the time of registration. Submitters will be asked…
It’s not too early to start planning for our next meeting!Hosted by the California Academy of Sciences, the next meeting of the Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections (SPNHC) will be held in San Francisco, California, US, from May 28 to June 2, 2023. Though the future seems exceptionally uncertain these days, the…
Published: September 3, 2022 Announcements, Deadlines, News
Latin American and Caribbean Natural Science Collections: Active, visible and well-connected Join us to celebrate the wealth and diversity of Latin American and Caribbean natural history collections and their contributions to societies’ challenges and research needs, discuss future opportunities and developments, and connect with the diversity of existing collection networks in the region. Building capacity…
Published: June 30, 2022 Announcements, Deadlines
Each year, the American Institute of Biological Sciences (AIBS) organizes an opportunity for scientists to inform the nation’s science policy. The Biological Sciences Congressional District Visits event enables scientists to meet with their federal or state elected officials in their home state – not in Washington, DC – and allows policymakers to learn first-hand about…
Early registration for SPNHC 2022 ends on Friday 8th April 2022. To guarantee your spot at the early bird rate, make sure to register before the deadline. We have a fantastic programme of presentations, keynotes, workshops, field trips and collections tours. In addition our evening social programme will ensure you have ample opportunity to connect…
SPNHC 2022 ONLY 24 HOURS UNTIL ABSTRACT SUBMISSION CLOSES! Abstract Submission will close tomorrow, 28th of January 2022 at 23:59 GMT. There is only 24 HOURS remaining to submit your abstract to present at the meeting of the Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections (SPNHC), International Partner BHL (Biodiversity Heritage Library) and National Partner – NatSCA (Natural Sciences Collections Association) in the…
Published: March 29, 2021 Announcements, Deadlines, News
TDWG 2021—A Virtual Conference Connecting the world of biodiversity data: uniting people, processes and tools. October 18-22, 2021 Call for organized sessions The Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG) annual conference will again be virtual in 2021. Essential early information has been posted on the conference website. Additional information will be posted there as it becomes available. We invite…
Published: January 13, 2021 Announcements, Deadlines, News
Application Deadline Extended to March 9, 2021 The Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections (SPNHC) is offering grants to cover conference registration for the 2021 AIC and SPNHC Joint Virtual Annual Meeting, https://www.culturalheritage.org/events/annual-meeting/current-meeting. The joint conference will be held May 3-7, 2021 (pre-sessions and workshops) and May 10 to June 24, 2021 (main conference). Any SPNHC member who works in fields…
Published: October 6, 2020 Announcements, Deadlines, News
The SPNHC Recognition and Grants Committee invites nominations for the following: The Carolyn L. Rose Award – Our Society’s highest honor, given to a practitioner (SPNHC membership 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 vitae and letters of…
Published: August 25, 2020 Announcements, Deadlines, News
Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections (SPNHC)36th Annual Meeting Held jointly with the American Institute for Conservation May 11th to the 15, 2021 Hyatt Regency Jacksonville Riverfront in Jacksonville, Florida. Call for Proposals You are cordially invited to submit proposals for Symposia, Field trips, and Workshops for the 2021 annual meeting of SPNHC which will be held in…
Published: August 19, 2020 Announcements, Deadlines, News
The SPNHC Recognition and Grants Committee requests proposals for the Faber Innovation Grant, a cash grant of up to $1000, to support a project addressing issues relating to 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: August 19, 2020 Announcements, Deadlines, News
Closing: November 15, 2020
THE SPNHC Recognition and Grants Committee invites 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 vitae and letters…
Published: April 16, 2020 Announcements, Deadlines, News
Dear SPNHC/ICOM-NATHIST membership We are pleased to announce that SPNHC and ICOM-NATHIST have decided to hold a virtual conference in lieu of the cancelled physical conference that was due to be held in Edinburgh, Scotland. We have a virtual conference organizing committee that has been set up to organize the event and planning is underway. …
Published: December 3, 2019 Announcements, Deadlines, News
Closing: February 14, 2019
We are delighted to inform you that we are now accepting abstract submissions. Submissions are invited in to many different open symposia and you can find the full list of them at http://www.spnhc-icomnathist2020.com/symposia/
Published: December 3, 2019 Announcements, Deadlines, News
Closing: December 23, 2019
ISBER is Accepting Abstracts for the ISBER 2020 Annual Meeting & Exhibits
Submission Deadline: December 23, 2019
For more information: http://meetings.isber.org/2020/
Published: September 27, 2019 Announcements, Deadlines, News
The deadline for submitting proposals for symposia and workshops for the SPNHC & ICOM NATHIST 2020 conference has now been extended to the 25th October 2019. However, we would still encourage people to submit proposals as soon as possible. We already have a number of symposia and workshops submitted and it will help our planning…
Published: July 31, 2019 Announcements, Deadlines, News
Closing: February 1, 2020
The SPNHC Recognition and Grants Committee requests proposals for the Faber Innovation Grant, a cash grant of up to $1000, to support a 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 to…
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.…
The deadline for abstracts has been extended for two weeks. The new deadline is: 26 March, 2018, 23:59 UTC This deadline is for all contributions to SPNHC and TDWG sessions at the joint SPNHC-TDWG annual conference in Dunedin, New Zealand. Abstracts are required for oral presentations (including those in symposia and workshops), computer demonstrations, and posters. Abstracts will be published in Biodiversity Information Science and…
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…
