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Thursday, May 25, 2006

Concurrent Special Session 1: Permitting Issues: How to comprehend, cope and comply

Moderator, Linda S. Ford, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University
1:30 pm - 3:00 pm, Alvarado E

Linda S. Ford, Manager of Collections Operations, Museum Comparative Zoology Harvard University Cambridge, MA.
Permitting Issues: How to comprehend, cope and comply.

Leonard P. Hirsch, Senior Policy Advisor, Office of International Relations Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC.
Research (and collection, movement, transfer, use, security) regulations and permits for natural history in the 21st Century.

Monica Farris, Senior Permit Biologist, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Division of Management Authority Branch of Permits, Arlington, VA.
Oh darn! Where's my permit?

Ellen Paul, Executive Director, The Ornithological Council, Chevy Chase, MD.
All about USDA wildlife import permits.

Discussion - open panel and question/answer period.

Concurrent Technical Session 1: Partnerships to improve the quality and relevance of museum collections

Moderator, Michael A. Mares, Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History
1:30 pm - 3:00 pm, Alvarado G-H

1:30 pm - 1:45 pm
Overbeck Laise, K. The State of Preservation of Natural Science Collections: A Report on the Heritage Health Index.

1:45 pm - 2:00 pm
Lewis, D. and L. Clark. Pitfalls on the Road to Productive Partnerships.

2:00 pm - 2:15 pm
James, D.L. The relevance of natural history collections to the USGS Status and Trends Program.

2:15 pm - 2:30 pm
Romero, A., T. McKay, T. Risch, and S. Trauth. Biodiversity Center Project at Arkansas State University.

2:30 pm - 2:45 pm
Brigham, A. Forging a Relation Between a Collections-Based Federal Assessment Program and the Museum Community.

2:45 pm - 3:00 pm
Kronthal, L., S. Standley, and D. Fenkart-Froeschl. Building partnerships to evaluate risk at the American Museum of Natural History.

Concurrent Special Session 2: Just What Do You Think You are Doing?

Moderator, John E. Simmons, University of Kansas Natural History Museum
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm, Alvarado E

3:30 pm - 3:45 pm
Stephen L. Williams, Assistant Professor, Department of Museum Studies, Baylor University, Waco, TX.
Challenges of Educating and Training Future Workers for Natural History Collections.

3:45 pm - 4:00 pm
Catherine Hawks, Private Conservator, Falls Church, VA.
Preventive Conservation Education in the Natural Sciences: Time, and Time Again?

4:00 pm - 4:15 pm
John E. Simmons, Director, Museum Studies Program, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS.
A short-term, intensive collections care training program.
4:15 pm - 5:00 pm
Discussion

Concurrent Technical Session 2: Consuming Issues: Keeping Collections Intact

Moderator, Laura Abraczinskas, Michigan State University Museum
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm, Alvarado G-H

3:30 pm - 3:45 pm
Monk, R., N. Duncan, L. Kronthal, C. Norris, and R. Perkins Arenstein. The Integrated Pest Management Working Group.

3:45 pm - 4:00 pm
Trock, D.K., M.E. Flannery, and J.E. DeMouthe. Pest management in a transitional facility: a case study.

4:00 pm - 4:15 pm
Purewal, V. and B. Colston. New approaches to the identification and treatment of contaminants in herbaria.

4:15 pm - 4:30 pm
Cushing, P.E., V. Pliler, C.S. Ware, and J. Stephenson. Effect of residual anti-parasitic compound in meat on museum dermestid beetle colony.

4:30 pm - 4:45 pm
Florian, M-L. The overlooked film of the biofilms: curatorial, collections management and conservation concerns.

4:45 pm - 5:00 pm
Gagnon, J-M., J. Bura, M. Draper, S. Forsyth, and D. Tran. When Byne's Disease Attacks Bryozoans...

Poster Session

5:00 pm - 6:00 pm, South Atrium
Meet with the Poster presenters. Posters are available for viewing 8:30 am - 5:30 pm Thursday and Friday. Posters must be removed no later than 7:00 pm Friday.

Albe, M. Berkeley Natural History Museums Consortium - Growth beyond old boundaries.

Allen, B.M., D.E. Pitassy, J.G. Mead, and C.W. Potter. Beaked Whale identification reference on the web: combining resources to create a virtual comparative collection.

Barringer, K. and P. Harwood. Ailanthus grows in Brooklyn: curation, data capture and presentation of herbarium specimens from New York, New Jersey and Connecticut.

Bart, H.L., J.W. Johansen, and N.E. Rios. Computerization and Curation of the Tulane Museum of Natural History Crayfish Collection.

DeMouthe, J.F. Partnerships with the amateur communities in natural science.

Dock E. and P. Purba. Cooperation and SYNTHESYS: key to progress?

Gilbert, E., R. Schroeder, L. Landrum, and C. Gries. Specimen Based Virtual Flora Model for Arizona.

Golpinar, D. Creating and maintaining intra-museum partnerships for a successful integrated pest management program.

Hardy, I.A. and B.J. Dougherty. Geoscience Cyberinfrastructure - A Virtual Repository Database for sample information online.

Hussaini, B. and C.A. Norris. The Fossil Invertebrate Digital Imaging Project at the American Museum of Natural History: A Case Study in Achieving Success with a Volunteer Staff.

Klise, L.S. and L.J. Hickey. Moving and Integrating a Paleobotany Collection.

Leiby, M., H. Perry, J. Shultz, and G. Parsons. Proposed Development of an Online Photo Library of Marine and Estuarine Fish and Invertebrates From the South Atlantic Bight, Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean

Milligan, B., R. Spellenberg, D. Richman, and J. Frey. Cooperating Organizations Document the Biodiversity of the Land of Enchantment: INRAM, CNHC, and NMSU Collections.

Newman, K.W. and J. Hatcher. Triangular Collaboration: A Case Study Bridging Public Education With Dinosaur Paleontology.

Peurach, S.C. Hair Identification: Applications and Collaborative Efforts.

Russell, R., W. Merrill, L. Hollenberg, and J. Whitacre. Ethnobotanical diversity in the border regions of U.S. and Mexico.

Schroeder, R., E. Gilbert, L. Landrum, and C. Gries. SEINet: The Southwest Environmental Information Network.

Striley, D. and K. Omura. Works for Me, Should Work for You: But Is It Science?

Vanderplank, S. The Society of Herbarium Curators - Won't You Join?

Waddington, J. Dinosaurs on the Move.

Friday, May 26, 2006

Concurrent Technical Session 3: Biodiversity Informatics I: Building our knowledge community

Moderator, Chris Frazier, Institute of Natural Resource Analysis and Management - Biodiversity Division
8:30 am - 10:15 am, Alvarado E

8:30 am - 8:45 am
Bart, H.L., M. Mares, L. Page, A. Prather, Q. Wheeler, and J. Woolley. Legacy Infrastructure Network for Natural Environments (LINNE).

8:45 am - 9:00 am
Butler, C., N. Thomson, D. Holland, B. Mathe, C. Rinaldo, and G. Waibel. Natural Collections Descriptions: Update on a joint project.

9:00 am - 9:15 am
Mosesso, J.P. The National Biological Information Infrastructure: Building Knowledge Through Partnerships.

9:15 am - 9:30 am
Cornish, L., C. Collins, R. Huxley, and S. Owens. SYNTHESYS Network activity C; Assessing standards in Nine European Natural History Collections Museums: outcome of the surveys and developing the methodology and outcome of the surveys.

9:30 am - 9:45 am
Morris, P.J., J.A. Macklin, and R.K. Rabeler. Filtered push: Exploring technical methods for efficient use of community knowledge to improve the quality of collections data.

9:45 am - 10:00 am
Macklin, J.A., R.K. Rabeler, and P.J. Morris, P.J. Herbarium Networks Part II: Developing a framework for exchange of botanical specimen data to reduce duplicative effort and improve quality using a "filtered push".

10:00 am - 10:15 am
Scotchmoor, J., D. Lindberg, T. White, J. Flynn, and R. Ross. The Paleontology Portal: a unique partnership.

Concurrent Technical Session 4: A Biodiversity of Topics

Moderator, Jean DeMouthe, California Academy of Sciences
8:30 am - 10:15 am, Alvarado G-H

8:30 am - 8:45 am
Bentley, A. Spirited away - shipping dangerous goods.

8:45 am - 9:00 am
Cosgrove, J.A. Voucher specimens - specimens you are paid to take.

9:00 am - 9:15 am
Kageyama, M. When Mammalogists Started Caring About Voucher Specimens: Journal of Mammalogy Content Research.

9:15 am - 9:30 am
Burke, M. The UC Davis Arboretum GATEways Project- Building on Academic Partnerships to Secure a Stable Future for University Collections.

9:30 am - 9:45 am
Flannery, M.E. Documenting the biodiversity of the Gaoligong Mountains, Yunnan, China: a multidisciplinary, international collaboration.

9:45 am - 10:00 am
Molineux, A., L. Benson, C. McCulloch, and S. Fitzsimons. Taking the acid test: hidden problems brewing within tightly gasketed metal cabinets.

10:00 am -10:15 am
Davis, P.G. The NHM's Collection Management Policy & Procedure Project: implementing best practice and standards in collection management.

Concurrent Special Session 3: Federally-associated collections in non-Federal Repositories

Moderator, Michael A. Bogan, U.S. Geological Survey
1:00 pm - 3:00 pm, Alvarado E

1:00 pm - 1:20 pm
Ronald C. Wilson, Interior Museum Program Manager, Department of Interior Museum Program, Washington, DC.
Changing Accountability Rules for Federally Associated Collections.

1:20 pm - 1:40 pm
Carolyn McClellan, Cultural Heritage and Paleontological Resources and Tribal Consultation Division Chief, Bureau of Land Management, Washington, DC.
The Challenges of Managing BLM's Natural History Collections.

1:40 pm - 2:00 pm
H. Greg McDonald, Senior Natural History Curator, National Park Service, Museum Management Program, Fort Collins, CO, USA.
National Park Service Natural History Collections and Partner Repositories: Commensal or Parasitic Symbiosis?

2:00 pm - 2:20 pm
Eric Scott, Curator of Paleontology, San Bernardino County Museum, Redlands, CA, USA and K. Springer, and J.C. Sagebiel.
Fossils from federal lands: partnering in preservation.

2:20 pm - 2:40 pm
James L. Patton, Emeritus Professor and Curator of Mammals, Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA
The legacy of Joseph Grinnell: a century of collaborative science on the public lands of California.

2:40 pm - 3:00 pm
Discussion

Concurrent Technical Session 5: Biodiversity Informatics II: Tools for the museum community

Moderator, J. Tom Giermakowski, Museum of Southwestern Biology
1:00 pm - 3:00 pm, Alvarado G-H

1:00 pm - 1:15 pm
Chapman, A., R. Hijmans, A. Marino, R. De Giovanni, and S. de Souza. Using the concept of "Outlierness" to identify suspect records in Primary Species Occurrence Data.

1:15 pm - 1:30 pm
Heidorn, P.B., W. Wu, H. Zhang, N. Cellinese, and R. Beaman. Machine Learning Specimen Metadata Digitization.

1:30 pm - 1:45 pm
Bentley, A. Specify 5.0 - Enabling Cyberinfrastructure for Biological Collections.

1:45 pm - 2:00 pm
Spears, R. Specify 6 - To Biodiversity and Beyond.

2:15 pm - 2:30 pm
Lapham, C. and S. Ginzbarg. SERNEC_LegacyConversion MS Access Application in Beta.

2:15 pm - 2:30 pm
Murrell, Z.E. Using partnerships to build a regional network of herbaria: SERNEC (SouthEast Regional Network of Expertise and Collections).

2:30 pm - 2:45 pm
Heidorn, P.B., H. Zhang, W. Wu, E. Chung, and J. Wieczorek, J. Machine Learning in BioGeomancer's Locality Specification.

2:45 pm - 3:00 pm
Liston, A., M. Boock, M. Chau, K. Mitchell, and T. Reese. Online access to specimen images and associated literature: a productive partnership between the Oregon State University Herbarium and Library.