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Fwd: PSA: Position Available at Harbor Branch Oceanographic: Research Collections Manager
by Anne Thessen 18 Sep '18

18 Sep '18

Thought this might be of interest to the TDWG community. -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: PSA: Position Available at Harbor Branch Oceanographic: Research Collections Manager Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2018 21:54:14 +0000 From: Dennis Hanisak via PSA <psa(a)lists.spu.edu> Reply-To: Dennis Hanisak <dhanisak(a)fau.edu> To: psa(a)lists.spu.edu <psa(a)lists.spu.edu> Colleagues: Here is an opportunity for someone who is interested in managing a unique collection of specimens, many of them sampled from deeper waters with our research submersibles. While the majority of the collections are animals, there are about 7,000 macroalgal specimens catalogued (and may more waiting), so I thought I would send this out to the phycological realm for consideration. And feel free to distribute to you non-algal colleagues, too! Thanks Dennis *Florida Atlantic University* *Harbor Branch Oceanographic* *Ft. Pierce, FL* ** *Research Collections Manager: REQ04453* ** *Position Summary: *** Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute is seeking a Research Collections Manager. The Research Collections Manager is responsible for the development, management, and care of specimen-based collections at Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute, including, but not limited to, the Harbor Branch Oceanographic Museum (HBOM) and the Marine Biotechnology Reference Collection (MBRC). Responsible for ensuring the proper storage, care and preservation of biological and geological samples held by HBOI. Primary responsibilities are management and oversight of daily operations, curation, and research activities of the HBOM and MBRC. *Summary of Responsibilities:* * Works with HBOI collection curators to help set collections policy, goals, and guidelines. * Assigns accession numbers, compiles accession records, classifies, and physically numbers museum specimens. This will initially involve bar-code labelling the MBRC collections. * Performs data entry, including annotation of videos related to specimen collections. * Manages and assures accuracy, security, and retrievability of collection databases. * Conducts regular inventories of collections and performs reconciliation with databases. This will initially involve review and revision of specimen-based collection databases, including the HBOM and MBRC, and involve manual comparison of field notes and other documentation with existing databases. * Performs routine curation of specimens. * Manages, orders supplies for, and upgrades storage, maintenance, care, and preventive conservation of collections. * Works with the collection curators regarding possible deaccessions and manages documentation and disposal according to collections policy. * Manages collection-related budget in consultation with supervisor. * Assists with development of proposals for collections use, management and care. * Oversees development, maintenance, security, and upgrades of collections database. * Provides limited access to collections in response to requests for loans, research, and specimen information, consistent with HBOI collections policies. * Retrieves and prepares specimens for research, education, outreach, and other museum needs. * Handles arrangements, condition reporting, packing, shipping, and insurance for both incoming and outgoing loans and assures that sample shipments are in compliance with hazardous materials and CITES requirements. * Trains and oversees part-time and volunteer personnel in clerical work, collection duties, and collections care. * Assists faculty, students, staff, and collaborators with questions on identification of specimens. * Responds to collection-related inquiries, surveys, etc., from museums, researchers, and students. * Tracks publication citations of collections and provides data as requested. * Presents information on collection-related topics as needed. * Evaluates current practices, stays current with professional standards, and develops new practices in collections management and care in order to develop multiple access systems, meet the needs of a diverse audience, make use of changing technology, address legal issues of collections, and plan for changing needs of staff and the public. * Ensures research and facility compliance with all institutional and occupational requirements. * Develops reports for the collection curators, HBOI, Division of Research or others as needed. * Oversees issues of intellectual property and rights which pertain to collections. * Performs other duties as assigned. ** ** *Minimum Qualifications:*** * Master’s degree in biology or a related field from an accredited institution; or a Bachelor’s degree in biology or a related field from an accredited institution and at least two years of applicable experience in a museum, including work with collections required. * Prior experience working in a biological specimen museum preferred. * Working knowledge of principles, and practices of collections management, care, documentation, and classifications required. * Experience with Microsoft Office software (Word, Excel, Powerpoint) and general office equipment required. * Skilled in use of Microsoft Office Access database and WoRMS required. * Working knowledge of collections conservation required. * Ability to work in a team-oriented environment and ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with volunteers, assistants, supervisor, and the public required. * Ability to communicate effectively, verbally and in writing required. * Skilled in use of ArcGIS preferred. * Ability to travel between office location and on-site collections locations required. * A valid driver’s license is required. *To Apply* To be considered, you must apply on the FAU Career site, _https://fau.edu/jobs/apply/_. *Special Instructions to Applicant: *** Final candidate will be required to have official, sealed transcripts and original NACES evaluation, if applicable, sent from their educational institution to Human Resources prior to the start of employment. Successful completion of a background check, which may include a motor vehicle check, credit check, fingerprinting or additional screening, is required for the selected candidate prior to the start date. FAU is an equal opportunity/affirmative action institution and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veterans’ status or any other characteristic protected by law. Individuals with disabilities requiring accommodation, please call 561-297-6057, TTY/TDD 711.

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Director, Atlas of Living Australia – CSIRO, Canberra, Australia
by Corinna.Paeper＠csiro.au 07 Sep '18

07 Sep '18

CSIRO is seeking a suitably qualified and experienced person for the prestigious role of Director for the Atlas of Living Australia (ALA). As the Director you will be responsible for providing the vision, direction and leadership in the delivery of the ALA to and for Government, industry and community stakeholders. The Director is also responsible for leadership and the professional management of the ALA’s talented people, as well as the associated infrastructure and financial resources. The Atlas of the Living Australia is Australia’s national biodiversity database. It provides free, online access to information about Australia's amazing biodiversity. It supports research, environmental monitoring, conservation planning, education, and biosecurity activities. ALA has a significant track record of achievement in providing critical infrastructure to a wider Australian research community. ALA has aggregated over 75 million records representing vouchered specimens in Australian Biological collections as well as human observations from a range of institutions and organisations around Australia. The Atlas is a world leading system that allows for the storage, discovery, visualisation and analysis of biodiversity information, and is a component of the national research data infrastructure fabric. The job announcement and application instructions can be found on the CSIRO website (applications must be submitted through this site): https://jobs.csiro.au/job/Canberra%2C-ACT-Director%2C-Atlas-of-Living-Austr… For further information about this role, please contact: Michelle Hamilton, michelle.hamilton(a)csiro.au<mailto:michelle.hamilton@csiro.au>

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Taxonomic Names and Concepts Interest Group reconvened
by Niels Klazenga 06 Sep '18

06 Sep '18

Dear all, At the joint SPNHC-TDWG conference last week we had a 'Names for Biodiversity' workshop where we decided to re-activate the Taxonomic Names and Concepts Interest Group (TNC). There will be a new charter before the end of the year, but the group's first order of business will be to work on a replacement - or new version - of the Taxonomic Names and Concepts Transfer Schema (TCS) that (i) is compliant with the TDWG Standards Documentation Standard<https://github.com/tdwg/vocab/tree/master/sds> and Vocabulary Maintenance Standard<https://github.com/tdwg/vocab/tree/master/vms>; (ii) provides for the needs of the various types of users and use cases of Taxonomic Names (and Concepts) in the biodiversity informatics space and (iii) as much as possible synthesises and takes benefit of the work that has been done in the TDWG community so far. The work of the Interest Group will mostly take place in our GitHub repository, https://github.com/tdwg/tnc, and I invite everyone with an interest in the subject to watch this repository. A very interesting discussion<https://github.com/tdwg/tnc/issues/1> has already been developing since the workshop and we, the participants of that discussion, feel that we are making good progress towards pinning down some of the core concepts. As with other TDWG Interest Groups, everybody watching the repository will be considered a member of the TNC. In order to keep the momentum going we'll have monthly phone meetings. As the current membership is spread all over the world, including some members pretty close to and on either side of the international date line, we'll have two meetings at different times within a 24 hour period each time, similar to what the TDWG council does. Meetings will be announced in GitHub issues. I plan to organise the first meeting(s) next week or the week after. Best wishes, Niels Niels Klazenga Biodiversity Informatics Developer Information Services [cid:logo_2_ff30248f-6e61-4c33-bb0b-a09cbc61c8a311111111111.gif] Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria Birdwood Avenue Melbourne Victoria 3004 T +61 3 9252 2346<tel:+61%203%209252%202346> Niels.Klazenga(a)rbg.vic.gov.au<mailto:Niels.Klazenga@rbg.vic.gov.au> rbg.vic.gov.au<http://www.rbg.vic.gov.au/> [cid:Facebook_56f147cd-6adf-4dcf-ab69-636c71e80d6611111111111.gif]<https://www.facebook.com/BotanicGardensVictoria/> [cid:Twitter-icon_6b9fc726-60b7-4e37-9e1b-12706c452eaf11111111111.gif] <https://twitter.com/RBG_Victoria> [cid:Instagram_792da4d9-4dfc-45ac-befa-d6559151cde511111111111.gif] <https://www.instagram.com/royalbotanicgardensvic/> We acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of the land on which we work and learn, the peoples of the Kulin (Koolin) Nation, and pay our respects to their Elders past, present and future. This email and any attachments may contain information that is personal, confidential, legally privileged and/or copyright. No part of it should be reproduced, adapted or communicated without the prior written consent of the sender and/or copyright owner. It is the responsibility of the recipient to check for and remove viruses. If you have received this email in error, please notify the sender by return email, delete it from your system and destroy any copies. You are not authorised to use, communicate or rely on the information contained in this email. Please consider the environment before printing this email.

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Two NEON Biorepository positions remain open for applications at Arizona State University
by Nico Franz 05 Sep '18

05 Sep '18

Dear TDWG community: Both of the below positions remain open for a short time still and we are looking to expand the candidate pool. We believe that these are attractive, potentially long-term collections/research/biodiversity informatics positions, serving a key role in the success of the National Ecological Observatory Network, and situated in a vibrant and growing collections environment (https://tinyurl.com/asubiorepository). 1. NEON Biorepository Cryo-Collections Manager http://life.mcmaster.ca/~brian/evoldir/Jobs/ArizonaStateU.Cr yoCollectionsManager 2. NEON Biorepository Cryo-Collections Manager http://life.mcmaster.ca/~brian/evoldir/Jobs/ArizonaStateU.Bi odiversityInformatician E-mail inquiries welcome. Nico Nico M. Franz, Ph.D. School of Life Sciences, PO Box 874108 Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287-4108 E-mail: nico.franz(a)asu.edu Web: https://isearch.asu.edu/profile/1804402

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