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 Natural Science Collections Alliance has prepared a short report on how fossils are used in scientific research. “Celebrating the Knowledge and the Mystery of Fossils†shows how researchers use fossils to understand evolution of species and reconstruct Earth’s ancient climate. “Fossil collections are extremely important for those of us who study evolutionary biology because […]
Applications are now being accepted for the 2014 AIBS Emerging Public Policy Leadership Award. This award recognizes graduate students in the biological sciences who have demonstrated initiative and leadership in science policy. Recipients receive first-hand experience at the interface of science and public policy. Winners receive: A trip to Washington, DC, to participate in the […]
The Directorate for Biological Sciences at the National Science Foundation is advertising for a program officer position to manage the program Advances in Digitization of Biological Collections (ADBC). For information about the scope of the program, visit the program web site at http://www.nsf.gov/funding/pgm_summ.jsp?pims_id=503559&org=EF&from=home. The ADBC program began in 2010 as a result of the community […]
The Department of the Interior has proposed new procedures for the disposition of unclaimed human remains, funerary objects, sacred objects, or objects of cultural patrimony discovered on federal lands after 16 November 1990. The rule would only apply to remains and objects whose disposition of ownership or control has not occurred because no claimant has […]
Today, the National Science Foundation (NSF) posted a new solicitation for core proposals to the Division of Environmental Biology. The solicitation, 14-503, is available at http://www.nsf.gov/pubs/2014/nsf14503/nsf14503.htm. NSF also issued a reminder to proposers that a revised version of the NSF Proposal & Award Policies & Procedures Guide (PAPPG), NSF 13-1, was issued on October 4, 2012 […]
To Potential Applicants to the NSF Advancing Digitization of Biological Collections Program: The U.S. National Science Foundation has extended the deadline for applications to the Advancing Digitization of Biological Collections program. Please see the note below from Dr. Judy Skog at NSF. Hi, all. As you know, with the government shutdown, the deadline for ADBC […]
On 11 October 2013, the elections for the new NSC Alliance Board of Directors closed. The results are: President Larry Page, University of Florida Museum of Natural History Vice President Scott Schaefer, American Museum of Natural History Treasurer James Croft, The Field Museum Secretary Scott Gardner, University of Nebraska State Museum Director-At-Large Barbara Thiers, New […]
The American Institute of Biological Sciences (AIBS) is conducting a survey of individuals who are leading large-scale educational change efforts at the undergraduate level. Â If you play a leadership role in undergraduate biology education reform, you are invited and encouraged to participate in the online Faculty Leadership Development Survey: http://surveys.aibs.org/index.php?sid=51136&lang=en The survey will be open […]
Most government offices have been closed for more than a week as the result of a congressional impasse over funding the Affordable Care Act (i.e. Obamacare). Conservative Republicans have sought to defund the law by adding riders to legislation that would provide fiscal year 2014 funding to keep the government open.  Thus far, both chambers […]
The Encyclopedia of Life has created a new game for mobile phone users that mimics global exploration and the discovery of new species. Users explore species classification and develop an understanding of each species through descriptions, images, and the IUCN conservation status. The game is available on iTunes and Google Play.