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Announcements Travel Grants Find Out More About SPNHC 2017 The Fitzgerald Travel grants are $750 each. Preference will be given to graduate students or emerging professionals in fields related to the management and preservation/conservation of natural history collections. A total of $3,000 is allocated to the program for this grant. Each year, the number of Fitzgerald grants awarded may vary, as determined by the members of the SPNHC Annual Meeting Travel Grant Program Committee depending on the number and quality of the applicants. Information about the conference can be found at www. spnhc2017denver.org Check the site often and look for updates on nhcoll-l. Key Dates and Deadlines The Christine Allen Travel Grant is a single grant of $750. This grant is dedicated to the memory of Christine Allen, who worked for University Products, Gaylord Brothers and Hollinger Metal Edge during her long career in museum support. She was a long time member and supporter of the Society and worked tirelessly with many of us to ensure that the products marketed by her companies reflected the needs articulated by the SPNHC membership. The grant is funded by her three former employers. Preference will be given to graduate students or emerging professionals who focus on physical care and preservation/conservation of natural history collections. * The call for abstracts will begin October 3, 2016 * The deadline for abstract and travel grant submission is January 13, 2017 * Speakers and travel grant recipients will be notified by March 15, 2017 * Early bird registration is January 1 - April 15, 2017 * Regular registration is April 16 - May 15, 2017 * Late and onsite registration is May 16 - June 20, 2017 Contact Kelly Tomajko SPNHC 2017 Local Organizing Committee Chair Denver Museum of Nature & Science 2001 Colorado Boulevard Denver, Colorado 80205 Office: 303-370-6401; SPNHC2017@dmns.org Digitizing the past and the present for the future iDigBio is the national coordinating center for the Advancing Digitization of Biodiversity Collections (ADBC) program funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation. iDigBio is enabling digitization of data and media for millions of biodiversity specimens from U.S. collections and is integrating those data to make them available online for the research community, government agencies, students, educators, citizen scientists, and the general public to promote understanding of biodiversity and societal consequences of environmental issues. Subscribe to the newsletter: idigbio.org/content/subscribe Visit idigbio.org for additional resources Follow us! iDigBio is funded by a grant from the National Science Foundation's Advancing Digitization of Biodiversity Collections Program. September 2016 * 25 http://www.spnhc2017denver.org http://www.spnhc2017denver.org http://www.idigbio.org/content/subscribe http://www.idigbio.org

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