Posters

Temporary Tacky Cushioning Dots – A “Gem” of an idea A Creative Conservation Solution to a tiny Display Challenge

Arctos: A Community-Driven Collection Management Solution

Increasing Discoverability: A Challenge in Managing Microfossil Bulk Collections

First usage of open data for the revision of the regional Red List in Northwestern Siberia

The potential problems of AESUB sublimating scanning sprays for 3D scanning in conservation.

Integrated collection and publication of sample metadata in JAMSTEC: a system maximizing the sample values and assisting the sample management.

Combining taxonomic keys and computer vision

Imaging a Fungarium

Fighting Fraud in the Forest – World Forest ID at Kew; a georeferenced collection of wood and forest risk commodities.

Fishes, amphibians, and reptiles in the Illinois Natural History Survey Biological Collections.

Downstream Tools and Contributions to Biodiversity Data Standards within the Terrestrial Parasite Tracker Thematic Collections Network

Object location tracking in the Malacology Collection at the Museum of Comparative Zoology

History of the Yale Peabody Museum Invertebrate Paleontology Collection

Earth system’s biology Data FAIRification: Mobilizing SGN Collection Data for the BITS terminology service in Earth System Science

Bird specimens transferred from overseas museums to national museums of Japan in the 1800s: the Tokyo Imperial Household Museum collection

Taxidermy Mounts into the Future: Methods for evaluating and contextualizing taxidermy specimens to ensure their continued exhibition value Steven Sullivan, Wesley “Skip” Skidmore

The First Reported Instance of Pyrite Decay and Mitigation from Late Pleistocene Mammal Fossils at Rancho La Brea Stephany Potze, Cornelia Clarke, Aisling Farrell, Mariana Di Giacomo, Aaron Celestian, Gary Takeuchi

Caecilians, Skinks, the Seychelles, and 007 Josh Pletcher

Risk Assessment Spawns New Project Suzanne McLaren, Gretchen Anderson

An Elephant from the Trenches: an interdisciplinary provenance project Catarina Madruga, Annie Antonites, Daniele Ansidei

Managing the spirit collection during the redevelopment of Canterbury Museum Rebecca Le Grice, Johnathon Ridden

Comparing the stability of tissue collections maintained in different environments at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences Lily C. Hughes, Gabriela M. Hogue

Carcass Club: a merit-badge system for encouraging specimen prep skill development (or: how to keep volunteers with lots of stickers) Angela Hornsby

Puzzle pieces: Digitizing millions of marine invertebrates Caroline Haymaker

Teeth, Beaks, and Bones: New Size Access in Interdisciplinary Collaborations for 3D Models Elizabeth Wommack, Shadow Taylor Abbott, Chad Hutchens

Extending EMu: Toward capturing standardized trait and ecological data at The New York Botanical Garden Kimberly Watson, James C. Lendemer

Minimizing digitization errors with L.A. Burry’s Florida Keys mollusks Michelle Tang

Ground Truthing the Canadian National Mycological Herbarium Inventory Jennifer Wilkinson

Mining Scholarly Publications for Museum Collections: Delving Into a Data Science Fellowship in Libraries at the Smithsonian Libraries and Archives Richard Naples, Martin Kalfatovic, Kathleen Forrest, Allie Tatarian

In with the Old, In with the New: Interdigitating Museum Collections and Equipment Maureen DaRos White, Lynn Jones

Night at the Museum: Engaging the local community through undergraduate student produced education outreach events Gemma Bertain, Beatrice Bugos, Sadie Stone

Arthropod Biodiversity in an Urban Green Park in Reno, Nevada Kaitlyn Schneider, Megan Lahti, Cecilia Vigil

Strengths and limitations and of iNaturalist for plant research
Jordi López-Pujol, Neus Nualart, Neus Ibáñez

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Musings of a paleontology community of practice at the Museum of Comparative Zoology
Christina J. Byrd, Crystal A. Maier, Jessica D. Cundiff

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PyrΔTE: an AI-based pyrite tarnish probability generator
Kathryn Royce, Morgan Davis, Ben Leyland

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Vascular plants from North Africa deposited in the BC herbarium
Noemí Montes-Moreno, Neus Ibáñez, Neus Nualart

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Georeferencing and Mapping Fossil Vertebrate Localities into the Bureau of Land Management’s Colorado Statewide Locality Database
Jacob Van Veldhuizen, Chelsea Trenbeath, Chelsea Herbertson

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Arctos – GloBI Collaboration Update: Continuing to Extend Digital Records across Communities, Platforms, Collections, and Institutions
Jorrit H. Poelen, Teresa J. Mayfield-Meyer, Andrew C. Doll

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Platycerium bifurcatum – one of the world’s oldest houseplants?
Yvette Harvey

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“Shell games”: A case study of storage and rehousing paleontological and geological specimens after critical infrastructure upgrades to a collection space
Lisa Boucher, Liath Appleton

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‘The Art of Observation of things’: Agostino Scilla’s (1629-1700) fossil shark-toothed dolphin (Squalodon melitensis) jaw from the Woodwardian Collection at the Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge
Dan Pemberton

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Using OpenRefine for natural history collections data
Erica Krimmel, Lindsay Walker

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State of the Arch: The recent removal, conservation, 3D scanning and reinstatement of the large 135-year-old ‘double’ whalebone arch located in The Meadows in Edinburgh, UK
Nigel Larkin, Steven Dey

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Mussel memory: Digitization of the Unionida at the Buffalo Museum of Science
Paige Langle, Marisa Turk, Isabel Hannes

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Arctos: Community-Based Collaborative Collection Management for Natural and Cultural History Data
Mariel Campbell, Emily Braker, Carla Cicero, Andrew Doll, Kyndall Hildebrandt, Lindsey Frederick, Michelle Koo, Angela Linn,Teresa Mayfield-Meyer, Carol Spencer, Christopher Witt, Elizabeth Wommack

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Outside the box; Specimens of the Malacology Department, at Harvard’s Museum of Comparative Zoology
Jennifer Trimble

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Caught between a Rock and a Pandemic: Finishing an Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) Fossil Digitization Project during the Covid-19 Pandemic
Paul Mayer

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Specimen Discovery through Community Science Efforts at the Botanical Research Institute of Texas
Ashley Bordelon, Jessica Lane, Tiana Rehman

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WSY Herbarium – Our Digital Future
Mandeep Matharu, Lydia Walles, Sian Tyrrell

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How dangerous is the oldest stuffed tuna in the world?
Mike Rutherford

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EarthCape – highly configurable and extensible collection management platform for natural history collections
Evgeniy Meyke

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Extant and Extraordinary: The Recent Brachiopod Collection At The Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History
Vanessa Delnavaz

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Converging Content Between Archives and Museums Using Existing Resources: T.D.A. Cockerell and the Florissant Fossils
Sean Babbs, Helen Baer, Talia Karim, Barbara Losoff

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Celebrating an herbarium milestone: CONN’s 200,000th databased specimen
Sarah Taylor, Michelle Hernandez, Bernard Goffinet

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Leveraging collaborations to increase digitization efforts in small museums
Alexandra Coconis, Rebecca Glasgow, Nathan Gerth, Chris Feldman

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The Mineral Susceptibility Database: a new tool for mineral preservation’
Kathryn Royce

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Taxa proposed by Pourret based on the specimens conserved in Salvador Herbarium (18th century)
Laura Gavioli, Neus Nualart, Neus Ibáñez

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Increasing knowledge across collections by example of the Valdivia Expedition
Edda Aßel, Christine Zorn

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Twenty-five Years of Anthropology Collection Movement and Management at the Yale Peabody Museum
Roger Colten

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The Beinn Bhreac Boulder
Emily Brown

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What’s hidden in your herbarium? The undiscovered names of the Lacistemataceae
Fi Young

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Playing for Learning in the Museum: A Case for Understanding Human-Nature relationship through Game-Based Learning
Gil Olivira, Nicolas Kramar

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A Rocking Revamp: How an IMLS Grant Brought a Fresh Look to the Sternberg Museum Geology Collection
Christina Byrd, Alexa Franks, Laura Wilson

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Contraction of Flowering Phenology in Greenland Herbarium Specimens but not Field Observations
Maude Grenier, Isla Myers-Smith, Gergaga Daskalova, Ally Phillimore, Elspeth Haston

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Capturing the Flowers of the Sierra Nevada Mountains: The Contribution of the Fresno State Herbarium (FSC) to the California Phenology Network
Katherine Waselkov, Reece Riley, Maria Peña, Katelin Pearson, Jenn Yost

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Sowing SEEDS: A model for museum-based teacher certification and environmental outreach programs
Julia Robinson

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Collections at the Swedish Museum of Natural History – case studies for innovative palaeoecological outcomes
Vivi Vajda , Christian Skovsted, Cecilia Larsson

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Living fossils, as an icon for understanding the past and current climate changes
Atsushi Yabe

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Moving 6 million specimens 6 kilometers: the monstrous move and systematics switcheroo of the Dutch Herbaria of L, U, WAG and AMD
Marnel Scherrenberg, Roxali Bijmoer

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Split decisions. A herbarium specimen conservation project
Erika Gardner

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The MICRO (Microfossils In Collections for Research and Outreach) Project at La Brea Tar Pits, Los Angeles, California- Gaining Mega Information from Micro Collections
Christine Mazzello

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Here today, gone… [date unknown]: Databasing a historic accession and deaccession record
Eva Biedron

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The evolution of databasing at the INHS Insect Collection: lessons learned from migrating three decades of digital data into TaxonWorks
Thomas C. McElrath

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Identifying, documenting and digitizing types: a priority program in collections management at MUSE – Science Museum of Trento (Italy)
Maria Chiara Deflorian

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Ancient LA: Connecting collections and communities with ArcGIS Story Maps
Daniel Markbreiter, Austin Hendy, Jorge Velez-Juarbe, Kamal Hamdan

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Arctos: A Collaborative Collection Management Solution
Emily M. Braker, Mariel Campbell, Carla Cicero, John R. Demboski, Andrew Doll, Kyndall Hildebrandt, Michelle Koo, Angela Linn, Teresa J. Mayfield-Meyer, Carol Spencer

Curation of the Florida Museum of Natural History’s Fluid-Preserved Mammal Collection: Lessons Learned for Future Curation Effort
Verity Mathis

Entomology Backlog Flats Digitization Project – California Academy of Sciences
Alice E. Fornari, Christopher C. Grinter

Improved Specimen Preservation through Digitization at Canada’s National Collection of Vascular Plants
Shannon Asencio, Heather A. Cole

Crustacea: Restoring and Recoloring Crustacean Specimens for Permanent Display
Madison Erin Mayfield, Alison Douglas

How to See the Story: Visualizing Specimen Data to Read the Scope and Status of a Collection of Mesa Verde Vertebrates
Jessica Mailhot

BHL and Specimen Collection Data: The Needle in the Festuca Stack
Martin R. Kalfatovic, Constance Rinaldo

Canadian Collection of Fungal Cultures: Contraction, Construction and Containment
Tara L. Rintoul, Benoit Goulet, Zeinab Robleh Djama, Catherine Robidas

Digitization -The Backbone of a Strategy to Increase Accessibility to Vertebrate Collections
Stéphanie Tessier, Kamal Khidas

Making a Large Impact on a Small Herbarium: The Impacts of an NSF CSBR Grant on a Regional Herbarium
Andrea Appleton, Colleen Evans, John J. Schenk

Workflows for Sampling Museum Specimens and Cataloging Genetic Samples
Katie F. Ahlfeld, Lisa M. Comer, Mark P. Lehtonen, William E. Moser

Strategies for Associating the Dissociated at the National Collection of Vascular Plants (DAO)
Kelsey Joustra, Emily Ranahan, Shannon Asencio, Heather Cole

Trapping High School Students with Fossils: Utilizing Science Outreach to Curate Natural Trap Cave Fossils and Inspire the Pursuit of STEM Careers
Cory M. Redman, Susumu Tomiya, Kathleen Bitterman, Julie Meachen, Kacia Cain

Capturing the perfect digital specimen – An overview of vertebrate imaging techniques
Marie-Hélène Hubert, Stéphanie Tessier, Kamal Khidas

Unossified Skeletal Preparation: Challenges and Applications
Andrea M. Carrillo, Julie M. Thomas, Jeff Stephenson, Michelle L. Sauther, Frank Cuozzo

Osteological Ink: Comparing pens for use in Osteology Collections
Jacki Whisenant, Emily Halverson