Posters

Statement of Purpose

This page offers SPNHC members a permanent place to share posters from annual conferences to broaden the reach of usually-ephemeral posters and provide a lasting resource to the natural history community.

Realizing the import of collections and related materials , SPNHC recognizes the need to collaborate to develop, discover, disseminate and update best (better, current, recommended) practices for creating digital collections resources and publishing them for global access. Posters linked here represent the efforts of many collections worldwide. All in the collections and standards community are encouraged to contribute.

Poster Guidelines & Sharing

Interested in sharing a SPHNC poster presented at a past meeting? Best Practices committee members are soliciting copies of SPNHC posters from previous conference years to add to the SPNHC wiki. Authors should ensure that they have permissions to publicly share the images and information embedded in posters prior to publishing to the wiki.

In order to standardize content and maintain a web-friendly poster resolution, we ask that authors send digital copies of posters and relevant metadata to the Best Practices committee rather than upload directly to the wiki. Please provide the following information to Emily Braker:

• Conference year or venue (helpful for finding abstract)
• Author name(s) and affiliation(s)
• Keywords (up to 5)
• Poster formatted as a PDF, down-sampled to ~1500 pixel widths (if you are unfamiliar with resizing, a Best Practices member can do this for you). Full-resolution posters that are not down-sampled can very easily break the wiki since they can consume as much as 1GB memory to process.
• Optional: - email contact, ORCID ID, twitter handle (include only if you are willing share with wiki viewers).

Thank you to all poster contributors, and we encourage past SPNHC poster authors to consider sharing their work on the wiki so that it will continue to serve as a resource for others. Note that 2021 was a virtual conference year with no SPNHC poster submissions.

2022 Gallery

This table shares posters from the 37th SPNHC Annual Meeting held jointly with BHL and NatSCA, Edingburgh 2022.

Strengths and limitations and of iNaturalist for plant research Jordi López-Pujol, Neus Nualart, Neus Ibáñez	Musings of a paleontology community of practice at the Museum of Comparative Zoology Christina J. Byrd, Crystal A. Maier, Jessica D. Cundiff	Taxa proposed by Pourret based on the specimens conserved in Salvador Herbarium (18th century) Laura Gavioli, Neus Nualart, Neus Ibáñez	Vascular plants from North Africa deposited in the BC herbarium Noemí Montes-Moreno, Neus Ibáñez, Neus Nualart

Georeferencing and Mapping Fossil Vertebrate Localities into the Bureau of Land Management’s Colorado Statewide Locality Database Jacob Van Veldhuizen, Chelsea Trenbeath, Chelsea Herbertson	Arctos - GloBI Collaboration Update: Continuing to Extend Digital Records across Communities, Platforms, Collections, and Institutions Jorrit H. Poelen, Teresa J. Mayfield-Meyer, Andrew C. Doll	Extant and Extraordinary: The Recent Brachiopod Collection At The Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History Vanessa Delnavaz	"Shell games": A case study of storage and rehousing paleontological and geological specimens after critical infrastructure upgrades to a collection space Lisa Boucher, Liath Appleton

‘The Art of Observation of things’: Agostino Scilla’s (1629-1700) fossil shark-toothed dolphin (Squalodon melitensis) jaw from the Woodwardian Collection at the Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences, University of Cambridge Dan Pemberton	State of the Arch: The recent removal, conservation, 3D scanning and reinstatement of the large 135-year-old ‘double’ whalebone arch located in The Meadows in Edinburgh, UK Nigel Larkin, Steven Dey	Using OpenRefine for natural history collections data Erica Krimmel, Lindsay Walker	Mussel memory: Digitization of the Unionida at the Buffalo Museum of Science Paige Langle, Marisa Turk, Isabel Hannes

Arctos: Community-Based Collaborative Collection Management for Natural and Cultural History Data Mariel Campbell, Emily Braker, Carla Cicero, Andrew Doll, Kyndall Hildebrandt, Lindsey Frederick, Michelle Koo, Angela Linn,Teresa Mayfield-Meyer, Carol Spencer, Christopher Witt, Elizabeth Wommack	Outside the box; Specimens of the Malacology Department, at Harvard's Museum of Comparative Zoology Jennifer Trimble	Specimen Discovery through Community Science Efforts at the Botanical Research Institute of Texas Ashley Bordelon, Jessica Lane, Tiana Rehman	Caught between a Rock and a Pandemic: Finishing an Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) Fossil Digitization Project during the Covid-19 Pandemic Paul Mayer

WSY Herbarium - Our Digital Future Mandeep Matharu, Lydia Walles, Mrs Sian Tyrrell	How dangerous is the oldest stuffed tuna in the world? Mike Rutherford	Leveraging collaborations to increase digitization efforts in small museums Alexandra Coconis, Rebecca Glasgow, Nathan Gerth, Chris Feldman

2021 Gallery

The 36th SPNHC Annual Meeting held jointly with AIC was a virtual meeting due to the COVID pandemic, and no SPNHC members submitted electronic posters.

2020 Gallery

This table shares all posters as part of the SPNHC and ICOM NATHHIST Virtual 2020 Conference. Hover over images for poster keywords.

What's hidden in your herbarium? The undiscovered names of the Lacistemataceae Fi Young Abstract	Playing for Learning in the Museum: A Case for Understanding Human-Nature relationship through Game-Based Learning Gil Olivira, Nicolas Kramar Abstract	A Rocking Revamp: How an IMLS Grant Brought a Fresh Look to the Sternberg Museum Geology Collection Christina Byrd, Alexa Franks, Laura Wilson Abstract	Contraction of Flowering Phenology in Greenland Herbarium Specimens but not Field Observations Maude Grenier, Isla Myers-Smith, Gergaga Daskalova, Ally Phillimore, Elspeth Haston Abstract

Capturing the Flowers of the Sierra Nevada Mountains: The Contribution of the Fresno State Herbarium (FSC) to the California Phenology Network Katherine Waselkov, Reece Riley, Maria Peña, Katelin Pearson, Jenn Yost Abstract	Sowing SEEDS: A model for museum-based teacher certification and environmental outreach programs Julia Robinson Abstract	Collections at the Swedish Museum of Natural History - case studies for innovative palaeoecological outcomes Vivi Vajda , Christian Skovsted, Cecilia Larsson Abstract	Living fossils, as an icon for understanding the past and current climate changes Atsushi Yabe Abstract

Moving 6 million specimens 6 kilometers: the monstrous move and systematics switcheroo of the Dutch Herbaria of L, U, WAG and AMD Marnel Scherrenberg, Roxali Bijmoer Abstract	Split decisions. A herbarium specimen conservation project Erika Gardner Abstract	The MICRO (Microfossils In Collections for Research and Outreach) Project at La Brea Tar Pits, Los Angeles, California- Gaining Mega Information from Micro Collections Christine Mazzello Abstract	Here today, gone… [date unknown]: Databasing a historic accession and deaccession record Eva Biedron Abstract

The evolution of databasing at the INHS Insect Collection: lessons learned from migrating three decades of digital data into TaxonWorks Thomas C. McElrath Abstract	Identifying, documenting and digitizing types: a priority program in collections management at MUSE - Science Museum of Trento (Italy) Maria Chiara Deflorian Abstract	Ancient LA: Connecting collections and communities with ArcGIS Story Maps Daniel Markbreiter, Austin Hendy, Jorge Velez-Juarbe, Kamal Hamdan Abstract

2019 Gallery

This gallery shares a selection of posters from the SPNHC 2019 Conference hosted in Chicago. Hover over images for poster keywords. Posters in this gallery are part of a retrocapture project and therefore not all posters presented at the 2019 meeting are represented below. Poster authors interested in sharing digital versions of posters from previous SPNHC meetings should contact Emily Braker.

Arctos: A Collaborative Collection Management Solution Emily M. Braker, Mariel Campbell, Carla Cicero, John R. Demboski, Andrew Doll, Kyndall Hildebrandt, Michelle Koo, Angela Linn, Teresa J. Mayfield-Meyer, Carol Spencer	Curation of the Florida Museum of Natural History’s Fluid-Preserved Mammal Collection: Lessons Learned for Future Curation Effort Verity Mathis	Entomology Backlog Flats Digitization Project - California Academy of Sciences Alice E. Fornari, Christopher C. Grinter	Improved Specimen Preservation through Digitization at Canada’s National Collection of Vascular Plants Shannon Asencio, Heather A. Cole

Crustacea: Restoring and Recoloring Crustacean Specimens for Permanent Display Madison Erin Mayfield, Alison Douglas	How to See the Story: Visualizing Specimen Data to Read the Scope and Status of a Collection of Mesa Verde Vertebrates Jessica Mailhot	BHL and Specimen Collection Data: The Needle in the Festuca Stack Martin R. Kalfatovic, Constance Rinaldo	Strategies for Associating the Dissociated at the National Collection of Vascular Plants (DAO) Kelsey Joustra, Emily Ranahan, Shannon Asencio, Heather Cole

Digitization -The Backbone of a Strategy to Increase Accessibility to Vertebrate Collections Stéphanie Tessier, Kamal Khidas	Making a Large Impact on a Small Herbarium: The Impacts of an NSF CSBR Grant on a Regional Herbarium Andrea Appleton, Colleen Evans, John J. Schenk	Workflows for Sampling Museum Specimens and Cataloging Genetic Samples Katie F. Ahlfeld, Lisa M. Comer, Mark P. Lehtonen, William E. Moser	Canadian Collection of Fungal Cultures: Contraction, Construction and Containment Tara L. Rintoul, Benoit Goulet, Zeinab Robleh Djama, Catherine Robidas

Trapping High School Students with Fossils: Utilizing Science Outreach to Curate Natural Trap Cave Fossils and Inspire the Pursuit of STEM Careers Cory M. Redman, Susumu Tomiya, Kathleen Bitterman, Julie Meachen, Kacia Cain	Capturing the perfect digital specimen – An overview of vertebrate imaging techniques Marie-Hélène Hubert, Stéphanie Tessier, Kamal Khidas	Unossified Skeletal Preparation: Challenges and Applications Andrea M. Carrillo, Julie M. Thomas, Jeff Stephenson, Michelle L. Sauther, Frank Cuozzo	Osteological Ink: Comparing pens for use in Osteology Collections Jacki Whisenant, Emily Halverson

Contributors

Current content contributors: SPNHC members Emily Braker, Deborah Paul. We hope that others will add their names to this list as information is added and updated.