Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections September 2017 - 16

Society Reports
3. We are going to being investing our financial overage
(75% annually) to help provide year-to-year financial
stability and to create the basis for a fund that will help
us offer travel scholarships to students so they can attend
our meetings or another collections related meeting of
their choosing.
4. We reported on the first Entomological Collections Management workshop that was co-sponsored by the ECN
and the Entomological Society of America, hosted at the
Smithsonian from July 17-19, 2016. The second iteration
of the workshop [was] held this July at the Milwaukee
Public Museum and the Field Museum of Natural History, July 17-20, 2017. Thanks to a grant from NSF, we
were able to offer financial assistance last year to participants that couldn't afford to come or that lacked institutional support, and this year we were able to offer 16 participants $1000 travel grants to attend. We are hoping to
have our third workshop (and the last one planned in this
series at the moment) out west, perhaps at the California
Academy of Sciences or one of the University of California campuses that have entomological collections.
5. We had Dr. May Berenbaum, ESA President, speak to the
group about the importance of collections to the rest of
Entomological Science, and Dr. Reed Beaman from the
National Science Foundation came and answered questions about the proposed CSBR program hiatus.
Our next annual meeting is in the process of being planned
and is set for November 4-5, at the Denver Convention
Center in Denver, Colorado, USA. The program is still in
process but registration for that meeting is open. SPNHC
members are welcome to follow the program as it develops
by checking our website at http://ecnweb.org/default.asp. We
look forward to another great meeting and a smooth transition
to the new officers in the coming year. To aid in representing ECN to our new partner organizations, I am designating representatives to attend meetings on my behalf, report
back to the ECN membership at our meetings, and to speak
on behalf of the organization when I am unavailable. I am
pleased to report that I have designated Dr. Daniel Young,
University of Wisconsin-Madison, as the ECN Representative
to SPNHC. He will be attending the SPNHC annual meeting
later this month and will be giving a report on the history of
ECN and ESA. He will also be our primary point person for a
planned ECN symposium or panel-led discussion group at a
future SPNHC meeting. We look forward to continued work
promoting collections, advocating on behalf of collections,
educating young members of both our organizations on best
practices for collections, and maintaining a long and mutually
beneficial partnership with SPNHC.
16 * SPNHC Connection

Author,
Floyd W. Shockley, ECN President (2015-17)
It should also be noted that the [2nd] Entomological Collections Management workshop alluded to in point 4 of the
above report did take place as scheduled, July 17-20, 2017,
at the Milwaukee Public Museum and the Field Museum of
Natural History. I was asked to provide workshop participants with an overview of and introduction to SPNHC, and
I strongly encouraged them to consider joining us. A third
workshop is planned next year for a western venue.
Respectfully submitted,
Daniel K. Young, SPNHC representative to ECN

Geological Society of America
As an associated society of GSA,
SPNHC was represented at the 2016
annual meeting which took place in
Denver, Colorado, September 25-28.
Several sessions were were sponsored
in part by SPNHC.
Special thanks to Tiffany Adrain, Jessica Cundiff, Talia Karim and others,
who ensured that the booth arrived, and helped to install,
deconstruct and populate it. The booth is booked for this
fall GSA meeting in Seattle, Washington, October 22-25,
2017. SPNHC is again sponsoring a session, T143, "Curating
Physical Samples in a Digital World." We welcome any help
from SPNHC members nearby. Please connect with Tiffany
Adrain (tiffany-adrain@uiowa.edu) if you are able to help.
We act as mentors to new student members of GSA and this
provides an opportunity to introduce geologists to the mission
and importance of SPNHC.
Respectfully submitted,
Ann Molineux, SPNHC representative to GSA

Global Biodiversity Information Facility
SPNHC is an organizational Associate
Participant in the Global Biodiversity
Information Facility. James Macklin
is the GBIF "Head of Delegation" for
SPNHC and also currently serves as the
Canadian Node Manager.
GBIF (www.gbif.org) will soon release
a new version of their data portal which
will provide greater functionality and enhanced searching
capability. If you have not looked at the country-level pages, I

http://ecnweb.org/default.asp http://www.gbif.org

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