Dear colleagues,
Registration is open for Transmitting Science’s live online course “Care and Management of Natural History Collections”, which may be of interest to people in this list.
Dates and schedule: Online live sessions on May 6th, 8th, 13th, 15th, 20th, and 22nd, 2025; from 16:00 to 20:30 (Madrid time zone).
Course Overview:
Using a combination of lectures, discussions, demonstrations, and readings, this course will teach participants how to better care for and manage all natural history collections (including botany, geosciences, and zoology).
The importance of the collections storage environment
is emphasized, as well as the identification and selection of inert
materials, testing locally available materials, adapting collections
care standards to particular environmental conditions, and good
management through sound policies and collection planning.
Rather
than the traditional discipline-based approach, the course teaches
collections care based on collection material and preparation type―dry
preparations, wet preparations, and documentation (including paper-based
and electronic media).
The
course will benefit individuals who already have experience in caring
for natural history collections, as well as those who intend to work
with natural history collections.
Best regards,
Sole
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Soledad De Esteban-Trivigno, PhD
Director
Transmitting Science
Twitter @SoleDeEsteban