In 2020, an ad hoc committee of the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine (NASEM) released its report Biological Collections: Ensuring Critical Research and Education for the 21st Century. Recommendation 8-1 of the report, included the establishment of a national Action Center for biological collections, which was codified into law by the U.S. Congress as part of the CHIPS and Science Act of 2022. In 2023, a series of webinars and national workshops was convened to envision the action center. The recommendations of these workshops are itemized in the attached white paper, Envisioning a Natural History Collections Action Center. A list of the participants in these workshops is included as the final pages of the white paper.
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The results of this survey, as well as the white paper, will be provided to the National Science Foundation.
