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Collection Projects

Seaweed Collections Online is project which aims to gather, analyse and share data on the seaweed species of the British Isles by mobilising collections data from a network of national and regional museums.

The project was funded by the Esmee Fairbairn, Collections Fund: Museums Association.

Contact: Ms Jo Wilbraham  Senior Curator, Algae, Life Sciences department, Genomics and Microbial Biodiversity Division, Natural History Museum here 

SYNTHESYS: is a European Union-funded Integrated Activities grant. It is a four year project which began in September 2013 comprises 18 European natural history museums, Universities and botanic gardens, & research organisations. It aims to create an integrated European infrastructure for researchers in the natural sciences. SYNTHESYS is split into three activities: Access, Networking and Joint Research Activities.  

Contacts can be found here

Putting natural history collections on the map
Natural History Near You is a crowdsourcing project that aims to enable people who work with natural science collections to put them on the map.
This exercise will help researchers to find collections that they might use in their local area, or to plan more effective research trips to other regions. It will help schools to plan visits and provide the public with information about collections they may want to visit.
It will also allow NatSCA to keep track of the state of natural history collections in Britain and Ireland, to get a better understanding of the changing sector and to offer advocacy support where it might be needed.
Find out more about this project, view the current map and submit new listings here.

Image: Heatmap of UK collections at http://www.natsca.org/NaturalHistoryNearYou

   

Scratchpads developed and conceived by (alphabetical): Ed Baker, Katherine Bouton Alice Heaton Dimitris Koureas, Laurence Livermore, Dave Roberts, Simon Rycroft, Ben Scott, Vince Smith