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Final Announcement:
SPNHC 2004 at the AMNH, May 11-16.
SPNHC 2004 Museum SOS:
Strategies for Emergency Response & Salvage
The Society for the
Preservation of Natural History Collections (SPNHC) is holding its 19th
annual meeting in New York at the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH)
from May 11 through May 16.
The special technical session - Museum
SOS: Strategies for Emergency Response and Salvage - is a full day session
of invited speakers focusing on topics of widespread interest including
national and international alliances and response, preparedness and salvage
in the event of armed
conflict (with specific focus on Iraq), salvage
efforts in Czech Republic post-floods, recovery efforts at the Pentagon post
9/11, and much more. An additional one-day workshop will focus more
specifically on salvage techniques within the first 24 hours of an event.
The general technical sessions will focus on topics concerning bridge
building in natural sciences collections management and conservation,
archives, data management and research/technical studies.
Additional
highlights include a one-day field trip to the Yale Peabody museum, tours of
the AMNH collections, and a joint session with ISBER (International Society
for Biological and Environmental Repositories) focusing on frozen tissue
preservation.
Detailed programs and registration information can be
viewed at
http://www.peabody.yale.edu/other/spnhc/index.htm
Hope to
see you there.
Tim White
Assistant Director for Collections &
Operations
Peabody Museum of Natural History
Yale University
170 Whitney Ave., PO Box 208118
New Haven, CT 06520-8118
203.432.3767 (voice); 203.432.9816 (fax)
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www.peabody.yale.edu (www)
Paleontological Society Special
Publications Editor
http://www.paleontsoc.org
SPNHC 2004
Museum SOS: Strategies for Emergency Response & Salvage
http://www.peabody.yale.edu/other/spnhc/