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.
February 18, 2009 Dear Colleague: We are initiating a national search for the National Science Foundation’s Assistant Director for Biological Sciences (BIO) and seek your assistance in the identification of candidates. Dr. James Collins has served in this position with great distinction since October 2005. The Assistant Director, BIO, leads a Directorate comprised of five […]
The NSC Alliance thanks all collections that completed the recent survey on the impacts of the current global economic condition on natural science collections. Survey data are being analyzed and a short report will be released before the end of the year.
The Stockholm Biodiversity Informatics Symposium 2008, will be held at the Swedish Museum of Natural History, Stockholm, Sweden, 1-4 December 2008. The Symposium is co-organized by the Swedish Global Biodiversity Information Facility (BGIF) Node, the Swedish FishBase Secretariat, and the Swedish Museum of Natural History, and provides a broad coverage of Biodiversity Informatics and beyond […]
The National Science Foundation is accepting nominations for their highest honor, the 2009 Alan T. Waterman Award. Since being established by Congress in 1975, the Alan T. Waterman Award has been bestowed upon outstanding scientists and engineers who have demonstrated exceptional individual achievement, placing them at the forefront of their peers.   The annual awardee is […]
NEWS RELEASE For release: 27 October 2008 Contact: Robert Gropp, 202-628-1500 Natural Science Collections Group Working to Identify Impacts of Negative Economy on Scientific Research, Education Institutions Washington, DC – The Natural Science Collections Alliance (NSC Alliance), the United States’ leading nonprofit association serving natural science collections, their human resources, and the institutions that house […]
NSCA would like to thank all those who took the time to fill out the collections and economy survey. The survey is now closed. A report outlining survey results is forthcoming and will be posted to the NSCA website.
The National Institutes of Health (NIH), the National Science Foundation (NSF), and the United States Department of Energy (DOE) are accepting applications to establish or continue the International Cooperative Biodiversity Groups (ICBG) program. The program would address the “interdependence of biodiversity exploration for potential applications in health and energy, with investments in research capacity that […]
This Request for Proposals (RfP) seeks proposals from institutions that house high-quality information and data at the Species level, that is, scientific descriptions that characterize species of organisms. It does not seek proposals to digitize specimen level information (descriptions of specimens or field observations). Proposals that are accepted will be awarded seed grants to make […]
The increasingly negative economic conditions facing the United States and the world certainly are no longer news. Although huge swings in the financial markets still garner headlines, news reports are increasingly focused on how the negative economic climate is impacting governments and other institutions.
In 2007, a dozen U.S. federal agencies formed a group, under the support of the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program, to discuss guidelines, methods, and best practices for digitizing historical data. These agencies shared a common conviction that establishing digitization guidelines “will enhance the exchange of research results and developments, encourage collaborative digitization […]