You are invited to a series of webinars focused on Envisioning a Biological Collections Action Center as proposed in the recent NASEM report (see list of organizers below) and authorized by the CHIPS and Science Act passed by the U.S. Congress last summer. The webinars are scheduled for 7, 14, and 21 March 2023. See below for details.
All webinars will be held from 1-2 p.m. Eastern. Webinars will be open to all and will be recorded. Recordings will be posted here following the event: https://www.idigbio.org/wiki/index.php/Envisioning_a_Biological_Collections_....
Webinar 1: March 7, 2023 Visions of an Action Center from NASEM Report Authors: Pam Soltis (moderator), Andy Bentley, and Barbara Thiers Webinar 2: March 14, 2023 Visions of an Action Center from NASEM Report Authors: Pam Soltis (moderator), Joe Cook, Scott Edwards, Talia Karim, Shirley Pomponi Webinar 3: March 21, 2023 Responses to the NASEM report with presentations from the Interagency Working Group on Scientific Collections (IWGSC), AIBS, and BCoN Speakers include: Scott Miller, Kevin Hackett, and Diane DiEuliis (IWGSC), Jyotsna Pandey (AIBS), and Breda Zimkus (BCoN).
Registration Webinars will be held via Zoom.
Register here: https://ufl.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_YYB5rbCOR3WKHxkYMQh3Ng#/registration
Organizers: John Bates, Carol Butler, Matt Borths, Joe Cook, Libby Ellwood, Jillian Goodwin, David Jennings, Gil Nelson, Jyotsna Pandey, Emily Sessa, Pam Soltis, Breda Zimkus
Gil Nelson, PhD Director, Integrated Digitized Biocollections (iDigBio) President, Natural Science Collections Alliance (NSCA) Florida Museum of Natural History University of Florida gnelson@floridamuseum.ufl.edu