Our Community and Stakeholders

We represent a diverse collections community spanning the spectrum of experiences and institutions focused on biodiversity, from natural history collections to zoos, living collections, and citizen & community science initiatives. Our stakeholders include the biodiversity collections community: individuals who collect, care for, manage, and utilize in their research the broad range of collections and their associated data.

Supporting Organizations

The following 41 organizations share the goals and objectives of BCoN. Organizations interested in participating in and contributing to the development of a sustainable national community committed to realizing the Extended Specimen Network are invited to join us. Contact us to become part of our growing community.

• American Institute of Biological Sciences
• American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists
• American Society of Plant Taxonomists
• Angelo State Natural History Collections
• Biodiversity Institute, University of Kansas
• Biodiversity Knowledge Integration Center (BioKIC) and Biocollections, Arizona State University
• Bishop Museum
• C.A. Triplehorn Insect Collection, The Ohio State University
• Central Michigan University Herbarium
• Chicago Botanic Garden
• Denver Museum of Nature and Science
• Florida Museum of Natural History
• Florida State University, Institute for Digital Information & Scientific Communication
• Harvard University Museum of Comparative Zoology
• H.A. Stephens Herbarium, Emporia State University
• Herbaria 3.0
• iDigBio
• Illinois Natural History Survey Herbarium
• Memphis Zoo
• Milwaukee Public Museum
• Museum of Southwestern Biology, University of New Mexico
• Natural Science Collections Alliance
• New York Botanical Garden
• North American Network of Small Herbaria
• Robert K. Godfrey Herbarium, Florida State University
• Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History
• Small Collections Network
• Society for Preservation of Natural History Collections
• Society of Herbarium Curators
• SouthEast Regional Network of Expertise and Collections (SERNEC)
• SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry
• Symbiota Collections of Arthropods Network
• Systematics, Evolution, and Biodiversity section of the Entomological Society of America
• The Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University
• The Field Museum
• University of Alaska Museum of the North
• University of California Museum of Paleontology
• University of Florida, Biodiversity Institute
• University of Michigan Herbarium
• University of Wisconsin Insect Research Collection
• Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History