Steering Committee
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Curator and Section Head, Life Sciences
Negaunee Integrative Research Center
The Field Museum of Natural History
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Collection Manager, Ichthyology
Biodiversity Research Institute
University of Kansas
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Curator of Paleobotany
Perot Museum of Nature and Science
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Global Collaborations Manager, iDigBio
La Brea Tar Pits Research Fellow
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Professor and Director of Biocollections
School of Life Sciences
Arizona State University
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Senior Research Scientist, Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences
Director, National Center for Marine Algae (NCMA)
East Boothbay, ME
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Associate Professor and Director, CMU Herbarium
Institute for Great Lakes Research
Department of Biology
Central Michigan University
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Supervisory Museum Specialist, Collection Manager
Department of Invertebrate Zoology
National Museum of Natural History
Smithsonian Institution
Washington, DC
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President, NSC Alliance
Director, Integrated Digitized Biocollections (iDigBio)
Florida Museum of Natural History
University of Florida
Gainesville, FL
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Director of Public Policy,
American Institute of Biological Sciences
Executive Director, Natural Science Collections Alliance
Washington, DC
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Research Scientist, Department of Conservation and Research
Memphis Zoo
Memphis, TN
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Director Emerita and Honorary Curator, William and Lynda Steere Herbarium
The New York Botanical Garden Research Adjunct, Denver Botanic Gardens
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Senior Collections Manager,
Vertebrate Zoology, Herpetology, Ichthyology
Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History
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Robert G. Engel Professor of Ornithology
Director, Macaulay Library, Cornell Lab of Ornithology
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY
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Director, Collections Operations
Museum of Comparative Zoology
Harvard University
Cambridge, MA
Emerging and Early Career Professional Members
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Ph.D. Candidate, Interdisciplinary Bioscience and Biotechnology, Biology Department, Clarkson University, New York
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Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Plant Biology, Ecology, and Evolution at Oklahoma State University
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Data Curation Scientist, Phoenix Bioinformatics
ADVANCE Project Coordinator, South Dakota Mines
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Assistant Collections Manager of Vertebrate Zoology, Denver Museum of Nature & Science
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Research Associate, Center for Biodiversity and Global Change, Yale University
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Collections Assistant, Denver Botanic Gardens