Discover the fundamentals of herbarium work with our one-day hands-on course. Study how to collect, prepare, mount and incorporate plants into your collection using professional techniques and materials. Gain knowledge of how to clean, maintain and repair historic herbarium specimens. Perfect for beginners, students and non-specialist Natural History curators, this basic course will guide you through the entire process—from curation, maintenance, field collection to creating well-preserved specimens for scientific study and conservation (non-IUCN kind!).
- Basics of Natural Science Collections
- Mobilising specimen biodiversity data
- Natural Science Collections and Environmental Action
- Decolonising Natural Science Collections
- Collections and the Law
- Intro to Georeferencing
- NatSCA 2023
- NatSCA 2024
- NatSCA 2025
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- Awards and Bursaries
- CryoArks Biobank
- Advocacy
- Insect Collection Managers Group
- Regional Museum Networks
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- FENSCORE