[Herpnet] HerpNET Final Year 5 - Important Message

[carol spencer]

Dear HerpNET participants:

We are approaching the final year of funding. We have enjoyed working with
all of you the past 3.5 years, and hope to make this last year run smoothly.
To fulfill our final commitments to NSF, we have many tasks to finish in the
next year (although we have also done many more than originally promised,
including adding 17 institutions since the original grant!)

The person at KUCR who will be sending out the contracts to the financial
people at your institution is Aaron Crimm (amcrim at ku.edu)

One of the primary responsibilities for this year will be to make all the
collections available online on the Data portal.
http://herpnet.digir.net/PresentationServlet?action=home

A) The following institutions will be receiving their funding on Sept 1,
2006 for the final and fifth year of HerpNET:

Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia
Auburn University
Brigham Young University
McGill University - Redpath Museum
University of Georgia
University of Nevada
University of Oklahoma
Yale University - Peabody Museum
University of Puget Sound
University of Minnesota
University of Florida
University of Nebraska
Los Angeles County Museum

All of these institutions should purchase a server as soon as you receive
your funding  (if they don't already have one. We will be having a
programmer coming to visit your collection either this fall or early in
spring. The information on what kind of server to purchase is available at:
http://herpnet.org/documents/severspecs.html
With more information at:
http://olla.berkeley.edu/ornis/?q=node/61


B) The following institutions received funding prior to Year 5 but do not as
yet have a server installed. Please make sure that you have purchased a
server very soon,  we will be visiting your institutions in the next year
also. If you already have a server, but it is currently not
operational, *please
contact me or have your IT personnel contact me about why your server is
currently not working (if you have not already done so):

*UNAM
*California Academy of Sciences
*University of Texas at Arlington
*Smithsonian Institution - United States National Museum
Arizona State University
Carnegie Institution
Milwaukee Public Museum (to be installed at KU)
University of New Mexico
University of Arizona

c) The following institutions are currently available on the portal, I want
to thank them for purchasing their server in a timely manner, and making
their data available. We really appreciate this:

Bernice Bishop Museum
Cornell University
Field Museum of Natural History
Florida Museum of Natural History (UF)
Illinois Natural History Survey
University of Puget Sound - Slater Museum
Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History
Louisiana State University Museum of Natural Science
Michigan State University Museum
Museum of Comparative Zoology - Harvard University
Museum of Vertebrate Zoology
Royal Ontario Museum
San Diego Natural History Museum
Santa Barbara Natural History Museum
Sternberg Museum of Natural History
Texas Cooperative Wildlife Collection - Texas A&M
University of Alaska Museum of the North
University of Alberta
University of Colorado
University of Kansas
University of Minnesota Bell Museum
University of Nebraska
University of Texas at Austin - Texas Natural History Collection
University of Texas at El Paso

Cheers,
Carol
-- 
Carol L. Spencer, Ph.D.
Museum of Vertebrate Zoology
3101 Valley Life Sciences Building
University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA
94720-3160
atrox10 at gmail.com
atrox at berkeley.edu
phone 510-643-1620 /fax 510-643-8238
http://www.herpnet.org
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