May 18, 2022 | Latest, Value of collections articles
Article by Nicklaus Kruger Museums aren’t just musty buildings for storing boring old stuff. They have the power to teach us about our past and open our minds to new ideas — and to transform the world around us. On International Museum Day 2022, we’re celebrating that...
May 16, 2022 | Latest, New Species
Simon van Noort, Research and Exhibitions Department, Iziko Museums of South Africa The ongoing exploration and documentation of the huge diversity of unknown wasp species in Africa has recently led to the description of new species of rare parasitoid wasp species,...
May 16, 2022 | Latest, Outreach
Fulufhelo Tambani, NSCF Hub How learners were introduced to natural science collections at a science outreach event in rural South Africa. The NSCF team, consisting of myself (Fulufhelo Tambani), Grace Kwinda from the ARC, Siphamandla Mceleli from SAIAB and Phistos...
Mar 3, 2022 | Latest, Value of Collections, Value of collections articles
Written by: Nicklaus Kruger South Africa has an estimated 100 natural science collections at approximately 40 institutions – museums, herbaria, universities, and so on. Together, they provide over 18 million objects or specimens representing about 100,000...
Feb 22, 2022 | Latest, Opportunities
The sixth annual Digital Data in Biodiversity Research Conference will be held virtually on 23-25 May 2022, hosted by the Field Museum in collaboration with iDigBio and the Natural Science Collections Alliance. In this conference you will explore digital data tools,...
Feb 22, 2022 | Latest, Opportunities
This training session for NSCF scientists will focus on using OpenRefine for cleaning data. Scientists work with data routinely during their research, whether data they’ve collected themselves or data from other sources. That includes specimen data too. And before...
