The Value of Natural Science Collections

Principal Investigators: Karen Kajiwara, Natural Science Collections Alliance and Clifford Siegfried, New York State Museum.

The Natural Science Collections Alliance (NSCA), with funding assistance from BRI, has completed the project titled Dinosaurs to DNA: The Power of Natural Science Collections. This project highlights the values of natural science collections and how they help us to understand our world. To help increase awareness of these values, NSCA has developed an advocacy toolkit which includes the following:

• A booklet titled Collective Knowledge: The Value of Natural Science Collections.
• PowerPoint Presentation.
• Web Gallery.

These materials are available from the Natural Science Collections Alliance.

BRI Grant Funding History:
Original Title of Proposal: Dinosaurs to DNA: The Power of Natural Science Collections
Principal Investigator: Roberta Faul-Zeitler, Natural Sciences Collections Alliance
Fiscal Year of Award: 2002–2003

Original Title of Proposal: Natural Science Collections: Toward a Distributed Research Tool
Principal Investigators: Karen Kajiwara, Natural Science Collections Alliance and Clifford Siegfried, New York State Museum
Fiscal Year of Award: 2004–2005