South-Central California Collection and Data Network

Overview

The South-Central California Collection and Data Network goals are:

• Provide support of our regional natural history collections, larger and smaller.
• Develop multi-institution grant proposals to support the digitization and curation of scientific collections in South Central California.
• Establish methods of sharing information about ongoing regional and national initiatives where others may wish to participate.
• Provide support toward sustainable data sharing, digitization, and long term natural history collection infrastructure.
• Share collection protocols, methods, resource opportunities, and ideas.

Meetings

• 1 February 2016: Establishing a Regional Natural History Collection and Data Network for South Central California
  • Minutes (Lynn McLaren, recorder)
  • Presentations
    • Creating a Natural History Collection and Data Network for South Central California (Katja Seltmann)
    • NHM Wet Collections Social Engineering (Dean Pentcheff)
  • Resources
    • Needs of participating institutions
    • Meeting brainstorming
    • Google Drive folder