Natural Science Collections Alliance
Our members are part of an international community of museums, botanical gardens, herbariums, universities and other institutions that house natural science collections and utilize them in research, exhibitions, academic and informal science education, and outreach activities.
The Advisory Council for the Network Integrated Biocollections Alliance Research Coordination Network is undertaking a review of the Strategic and Implementation Plan for the Network Integrated Biocollections Alliance. The purpose of this review is to evaluate progress made to date and to identify potential gaps in these plans and priorities for future initiatives. To inform […]
The Department of the Interior is proposing to collect information from museums, university departments, and other curators of federal collections about their compliance with federal laws, regulations, and Departmental policy pertaining to the documentation, management, and preservation of Interior museum collections. The annual information collection is estimated to take 2 hours and 20 minutes per […]
The Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) is seeking nominations of natural and social scientists to serve on committees that will create regional and sub-regional assessments of biodiversity and ecosystem services. Groups are being convened for the Americas, Africa, Asia and Pacific, and Europe and Central Asia. The Ecological Society of America is […]
iDigBio, the Small Collections Network, and the Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections are conducting a survey of small natural history collections. If you are associated with what you define as a small collection in your domain, whether in a museum, academic institution, field or research station, or elsewhere, please take a few […]