Category: News

SPNHC election results for 2016

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…

DemoCamp 2016 Call for Abstracts!

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…

SPNHC 2016 Call for Abstracts from iDigBio and SCNet

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…

SPNHC 2016 Berlin – Registration now open!

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…

Annual Meeting 2016

Published: November 17, 2015    Meetings, News

This year’s meeting evaluates green thinking in collections, museums and botanical gardens.

Nominations from the membership for the positions of PRESIDENT-ELECT and 2 MEMBERS-AT-LARGE are now open!

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…