Resources

Sustainable Futures: Challenges and Opportunities for Modern Collections Link: https://spnhc2025.ku.edu/ Date: May 27-31 2025 Location: University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, USA Host: University of Kansas Contact: spnhc2025@ku.edu

Link: https://www.tdwg.org/conferences/2024/ Date: September 2 – 6, 2024 Location: Okinawa Convention Center Host: SPNHC & TDWG Contact: TBA ABM: 2024-SPNHC-ABM-packet

Link: https://www.calacademy.org/spnhc-2023 Date: May 28 – June 2, 2023 Location: San Francisco, California, USA Host: California Academy of Sciences Contact: SPNHC2023questions@calacademy.org ABM: 2023-SPNHC-ABM-packet.pdf

Joint meeting with  International Partner – BHL (Biodiversity Heritage Library) and National Partner – NatSCA (Natural Sciences Collections Association) Date: June 4-10, 2022 Link: https://spnhc2022.com/ Location:  Edinburgh, Scotland, UK Host: National Museums Scotland and Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Theme: Through the door and through the web: releasing the power of natural history collections onsite and online. Chairs: Sankurie Pye…

Date: May 11 – 15, 2021 Location:  Virtual Host: American Institute for Conservation Theme: Transform 2021 Chairs: Suzanne Davis and Ruth Seyler ABM Packet: pdf download

Online Conference scheduled June 8-12, 2020. Webpage here https://spnhc.org/virtual-meeting-2020-program/ EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND RESCHEDULED FOR 2022 Date: June 7 – 13th, 2020 Location:  Edinburgh, Scotland Host: National Museums Scotland and Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Theme: The Role of Natural History Collections in Global Challenges Chairs: Sankurie Pye

File: 34th Annual Meeting Program and Abstracts File: Annual Business Meeting 2019 Date: May 25 – 31, 2019 Location: Chicago, Illinois, USA Host: Field Museum Chair: Paul Mayer

Annual Business Meeting Date: August 25 – September 1, 2018 Location: Dunedin, New Zealand Host: Otago Museum and the University of Otago Chair: Robert Morris

Annual Business Meeting Date: June 18-24, 2017 Location: Denver, Colorado Host: Denver Museum of Nature and Science and the Denver Botanic Gardens Chair: Kelly Tomajko

Annual Business Meeting Date: June 20-25, 2016 Location: Berlin, Germany Host: The Museum für Naturkunde and Botanischer Garten und Botanisches Museum Berlin Theme Chair: Christiane Quaisser

Annual Business Meeting Date: May 17-23, 2015 Location: Gainesville, Florida Host: Florida Museum of Natural History Chair: Elise Lecompte

[2014 ABM package, 2013 Financial draft] Date: June 22-27, 2014 Location: Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff, Wales, UK Host: Amgueddfa Cymru –Museum of Wales in partnership with the Natural Sciences Collections Association (NatSCA) Chair: Julian Carter

Date: June 17-22, 2013 Location: Rapid City, South Dakota Host: South Dakota School of Mines and Technology Chair: Sally Shelton

Date: Conference: June 11-16, 2012 Location: Yale University, Newhaven, Connecticut Host: Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History Chair: Tim White

Date: Conference: May 21- 28, 2011 Joint Conference SPNHC & NSCA Location: San Francisco, California Host: California Academy of Sciences Chair: Debra Trock

Date: Conference: May 31- June 5, 2010. SPNHC 25th Anniversary celebration Joint Conference SPNHC & CBA-ABC Location: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada Host: Canadian Museum of Nature Co-Chairs: Jean-Marc Gagnon and Judith Price

Date: Conference: May 31- June 5, 2009 Location: Leiden, The Netherlands Host: National Natural History Museum Naturalis and Leiden University Medical Centre (LUMC) Co-Chairs: Dr. R.W.R.J. Dekker and Andries van Dam

Date: Conference: May 13 – May 17, 2008 Location: Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Host: Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History Co-Chairs: Marcy Revelez and Janet Braun

Date: Conference: May 21-26, 2007 Location: St. Paul, Minnesota Host: Science Museum of Minnesota Co-Chairs: Gretchen Anderson and Jack Hoff

SPNHC-NSCA joint meeting Date: Conference: May 23-27, 2006 Location: Albuquerque, New Mexico Co-hosted by: The University of New Mexico Museum of Southwestern Biology and the U.S. Geological Arid Lands Field Station Meeting was held at the Sheraton Old Town Hotel Organizers: Cindy Ramotnik (SPNHC host) and Cheryl Parmenter (NSCA host)

Date: Conference: June 12 – 19, 2005 Website: REALISING STANDARDS Hosted by: The Natural History Museum, London, UK

Date: Conference: May 11 – 16, 2004 Hosted by: American Museum of Natural History New York, New York USA Chair: Chris Norris Workshop: Emergency Preparedness, Response & Salvage

Date: Conference: June 15-19, 2003 Workshop: June 20-21, 2003 Hosted by Museum of Texas Tech University Lubbock, Texas, USA Chair: Richard Monk

Date: May 8-13, 2002 Location: Redpath Museum, Montreal, PQ Canada Co-hosts: Canadian Museum of Nature and the Redpath Museum, McGill University Chairs: Jean-Marc Gagnon, Ingrid Birker Workshop: Emergency Responses and Mitigation

Location: San Francisco, California USA Date: June 21 – 26, 2001 Host: California Academy of Sciences Chair: Jean Demouth Workshop: Living Collections and Identifying Risks to Collections.

Date: July 10 – 14, 2000 Location: Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada Sponsors: Geological Survey of Canada and the Nova Scotia Museum of Natural History Coordinators: Iris Hardy and Alex Wilson Workshop: Permits

Hosts: Smithsonian Center for Materials Research and Education, Smithsonian Institution and SPNHC Date: June 28 – July 3, 1999 Location: Washington, DC, USA Coordinators: David von Endt, Elizabeth Merritt

University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada Date: May 25 – May 30, 1998 Location: University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB Canada Coordinator: Lisa Barty Co-Chairs: Frannie Blondheim, Leslie Latta-Guthrie Workshop: Moving Collections Special Interest Group Reports: Anthropology, Botany, Conservation, Geology, Paleontology, Zoology

Date: July 8 – July 14, 1997 Location: Department of Entomology, University of Wisconsin Madison, WI USA Organizer: Steven Krauth

Second World Conference on the Preservation and Conservation of Natural History Collections Date: August 20 – August 24, 1996 Location: University of Cambridge, England Organizing Committee: Chris Collins (England)