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1st Announcement
SPNHC 2004: Emergency Preparedness, Response & Salvage
19th annual meeting of the Society for the
Preservation of Natural History Collections
Next spring the American Museum of Natural History will host the 19th
annual meeting of the Society for the Preservation of Natural History
Collections May 11-16, 2004. The theme of the 19th Annual meeting is
Emergency Preparedness, Response and Salvage and as part of this
year's activity we will be devoting one day of the conference's
technical sessions to talks focusing on issues relating to emergency
preparedness and response. In addition, a one-day workshop that deals
with practical issues encountered in responding to the first 24 hours
after a disaster, the most critical time period, will follow the
meeting.
The International Society for Biological and Environmental
Repositories (ISBER) will join SPNHC and organize a specialty session
covering issues related to biomaterials, partnerships with zoos and
other live collections and setting up tissue repositories. Several talks
within this session will also deal with Emergency Response and Salvage
efforts specific to these novel collections.
Founded in 1869, the American Museum of Natural History is one of the
world's largest repositories of natural history specimens. Occupying
four city blocks on Manhattan's Upper West Side, its collections of
natural science specimens and anthropological artifacts are global in
scope. AMNH is home to some 200 scientific staff, including more than 40
curators who carry out research in anthropology, biology, earth
sciences, astrophysics, molecular systematic, and paleontology. The
meeting promises to be anexciting week with collection tours, workshops,
discussion groups,and a trip to Yale's new Environmental Science Center.
For more information, visit www.spnhc.org and follow the links to SPNHC
2004, or contact Chris Norris, Department of Paleontology, American
Museum of Natural History, Central Park West at 79th Street, New York,
New York 10024;[log in to unmask]
We hope to see you next May!
Tim
Tim White, Senior Collection Manager Yale University
Division of Invertebrate Paleontology 170 Whitney Ave., PO Box
208118
Peabody Museum of Natural History New Haven, CT 06520-8118
203.432.3767 (voice); 203.432.9816 (fax)
[log in to unmask] (email); www.peabody.yale.edu (www)
NHCOLL-L List Owner
Paleontological Society Special Publications Editor
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