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NSC Alliance Urges Senate Appropriators to Support FY 2020 Funding for NSF

By NSCAPosted on April 22, 2019Posted in News & Updates, Position Statements

The Natural Science Collections Alliance (NSC Alliance) provided testimony to the Senate Appropriations Committee, highlighting the importance and role of natural history collections. Natural science collections advance scientific research and education, and that informs actions to improve public health, agricultural productivity, natural resource management, biodiversity conservation, and American economic innovation. Current research involving natural science […]

Plan to Attend: 2019 Digital Data Conference

By NSCAPosted on April 19, 2019Posted in Activities & Events

The Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History in collaboration with iDigBio of the Florida Museum of Natural History, the Natural Science Collections Alliance, and Ecological Society of America is pleased to announce the third annual Digital Data in Biodiversity Research conference, to be held 10-12 June 2019 at Yale University, New Haven, CT. The 2019 […]

Action Alert: Ask Your Members of Congress to Support NSF

By NSCAPosted on April 19, 2019Posted in Activities & Events, News & Updates

Congress has begun work to set funding levels for federal programs for fiscal year (FY) 2020. Scientists interested in the National Science Foundation (NSF) should consider contacting their U.S. Representative and Senators to ask that they provide NSF with $9 billion in FY 2020. NSF is the primary federal funding source for discovery-driven research at […]

NSC Alliance Urges Senate Appropriators to Support Federal Funding for Collections

By NSCAPosted on April 10, 2019Posted in Activities & Events

The NSC Alliance provided testimony to the Senate Appropriations Committee regarding fiscal year (FY) 2020 funding for certain programs that curate natural history collections within the Department of the Interior and Smithsonian Institution. Scientific collections are critical infrastructure for our nation’s research enterprise and a national treasure. Research specimens connect us to the past, are […]

New Report from BCoN: Extending U.S. Biodiversity Collections to Promote Research and Education

By NSCAPosted on April 4, 2019Posted in Correspondence, News & Updates

The Biodiversity Collections Network (BCoN) has released its new report, Extending U.S. Biodiversity Collections to Promote Research and Education. You are invited to download and share the summary brochure and to review the longer report that provides additional detail about this vision for the future.. An excerpt from the report: “There is an urgent need […]

President Trump Proposes Large Budget Cuts for Science

By NSCAPosted on March 29, 2019Posted in News & Updates

The White House released the President’s Budget Request for fiscal year (FY) 2020 on March 11, 2019, proposing deep cuts to science funding for the third consecutive year. The proposal calls for significant cuts to many federal science agencies, including the National Science Foundation (NSF), the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the U.S. Geological Survey […]

Registration for Report Release

By NSCAPosted on March 25, 2019Posted in Activities & Events

The Biodiversity Collections Network is releasing its new report, Extending U.S. Biodiversity Collections to Promote Research and Education. at 9:00 AM EDT on April 4, 2019, at the National Press Club in Washington, DC. This National Agenda is a synthesis of scientific community recommendations from workshops and townhall-style discussions convened by the Biodiversity Collections Network […]

NSC Alliance Urges Congress to Support Federal Funding for Collections

By NSCAPosted on March 15, 2019Posted in Activities & Events, Correspondence, News & Updates, Position Statements

The NSC Alliance provided testimony to the House Appropriations Committee regarding fiscal year (FY) 2020 funding for certain programs that curate natural history collections within the Department of the Interior and Smithsonian Institution. Scientific collections, and the collections professionals and scientists who make, care for, and study these resources, are a vital component of our […]

NSC Alliance Announces New Partnership

By NSCAPosted on February 27, 2019Posted in Correspondence, News & Updates

The NSC Alliance has just signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the University of Florida (iDigBio) to promote the sustainable implementation of a national digital data meeting. In response to a request from iDigBio in 2018, the NSC Alliance Board of Directors has entered into an agreement that will result in the NSC Alliance becoming […]

Training Course for Biological Infrastructure Project Leaders

By NSCAPosted on February 12, 2019Posted in Activities & Events

Ecological Society of America’s (ESA) Sustaining Biological Infrastructure (SBI) training initiative is offering a short course, “Strategies for Success: Training for Project Directors”, on June 12-14, 2019 at Yale University, New Haven, CT. The course is co-located with the 3rd Annual Digital Data in Biodiversity Research Conference to be held on June 10-12, 2019 at […]