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_Action_Center.

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.

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