Sustaining Living Collections |
Welcome!
Welcome to The Ecological Society of America’s survey on Sustaining Living Collections!
The objectives of this survey are to:
1) Assess the current state of living collections in the United States, and
2) Identify the most important sustainability concerns and needs of the living collections community now and in the future.
This survey was developed and distributed by the following team:
• Dr. Kevin McCluskey, Curator, Fungal Genetics Stock Center, Kansas State University
• Dr. Clifford Duke, Director of Science Programs, Ecological Society of America
• Ms. Jill Petraglia Parsons, Science Programs Manager, Ecological Society of America
• Ms. Kimberly Quach, Science Programs Assistant, Ecological Society of America
The anticipated research outcome:
We plan to discuss the results of this survey in a paper on sustaining living collections, which will be submitted to a peer-reviewed scientific journal for publication. We hope this publication will help communicate needs of the living collections community to a wide audience, as well as advocate for continued federal support of living collections. We thank you in advance for your participation in this effort.
Administrative contact information:
If you have any questions or concerns, please contact Jill Parsons at: jill@esa.org or call 202-833-8773 ext. 209.
About the survey:
• Most of the questions are multiple choice. We anticipate that you may spend around 20-60 minutes completing the survey, depending on the level of detail of your answers to some of the free response questions.
• No questions are mandatory.
• You will be able to complete part of the questions and resume the survey later, providing you are accessing the survey from the same IP address.
• This survey is specifically aimed at managers and directors of US-based living collections (no responses from collections based outside of the US, please). Please only submit one response per collection.
• You will be able to make your submission anonymous.
• Participation in this survey is entirely voluntary and can be terminated at any time without penalty.
Confidentiality strategy:
If you chose to disclose your name and contact information at the conclusion of the survey, we will be able to keep you directly informed of the outcomes and anticipated publication that will result from this research. We will maintain digital records only in a password-protected folder on ESA's secure server.
If you wish to remain anonymous, you can periodically check the ESA Science Office webpage for updates on survey outcomes: http://www.esa.org/esa/science/
The objectives of this survey are to:
1) Assess the current state of living collections in the United States, and
2) Identify the most important sustainability concerns and needs of the living collections community now and in the future.
This survey was developed and distributed by the following team:
• Dr. Kevin McCluskey, Curator, Fungal Genetics Stock Center, Kansas State University
• Dr. Clifford Duke, Director of Science Programs, Ecological Society of America
• Ms. Jill Petraglia Parsons, Science Programs Manager, Ecological Society of America
• Ms. Kimberly Quach, Science Programs Assistant, Ecological Society of America
The anticipated research outcome:
We plan to discuss the results of this survey in a paper on sustaining living collections, which will be submitted to a peer-reviewed scientific journal for publication. We hope this publication will help communicate needs of the living collections community to a wide audience, as well as advocate for continued federal support of living collections. We thank you in advance for your participation in this effort.
Administrative contact information:
If you have any questions or concerns, please contact Jill Parsons at: jill@esa.org or call 202-833-8773 ext. 209.
About the survey:
• Most of the questions are multiple choice. We anticipate that you may spend around 20-60 minutes completing the survey, depending on the level of detail of your answers to some of the free response questions.
• No questions are mandatory.
• You will be able to complete part of the questions and resume the survey later, providing you are accessing the survey from the same IP address.
• This survey is specifically aimed at managers and directors of US-based living collections (no responses from collections based outside of the US, please). Please only submit one response per collection.
• You will be able to make your submission anonymous.
• Participation in this survey is entirely voluntary and can be terminated at any time without penalty.
Confidentiality strategy:
If you chose to disclose your name and contact information at the conclusion of the survey, we will be able to keep you directly informed of the outcomes and anticipated publication that will result from this research. We will maintain digital records only in a password-protected folder on ESA's secure server.
If you wish to remain anonymous, you can periodically check the ESA Science Office webpage for updates on survey outcomes: http://www.esa.org/esa/science/