Thanks Kate (and Mike) for your hard work on this.
Some weeks ago I set up a GCG blog on Wordpress to advertise the applications of Geological Collections. These Geodiversity Case studies would be ideal to feature as posts if people are happy to contribute? I
haven’t posted anything yet as I am having an ‘IT fail’ (my PC is being replaced next week) but it would be good to gather stories to feature once we are up and running.
I’m interested in any story that shows positive use of geological collections in any context and look forward to hearing from GCG members. I’ll send out a message to this list every time a new post is published.
All the best,
Giles
Hello,
Thanks to the people who have replied already and have asked what sort of case studies we are after.
The case studies are tied into the charter sections and what different sections of the public/business/academic/etc. sectors can do. The relevant sections of the charter (very much edited down so you don’t have
to read through it all!) to us are:
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Behaving responsibly and sustainably towards natural environments and identifying and recording new sites, including temporary exposures.
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Housing specimens from local sites: possibly temporary sites.
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Providing information to the public on sites of national, regional, and local importance.
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Inspiring teachers and students at all levels about England’s geodiversity and its wider relevance and links across the curriculum.
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Anything to do with funding for projects (especially if they weren’t just for purchase of specimens).
I think we do all of these things well, and a lot of people probably don’t realise what we actually do.
If you have anything that fits into any of the above please send it to me and I’ll send it to the person in charge – the more I send in the more choice he has and more we may get in.
Thanks
Kate
From: Riddington, Kathryn
Sent: 30 July 2013 12:02
To: 'The Geological Curator's Group mailing list'
Subject: England's Geodiversity Charter
Hi all,
Mike Howe and I – on behalf of GCG – have been going to the English Geodiversity Forum meetings recently, where they are writing ‘England’s Geodiversity Charter’. We’ve worked quite hard to get museums and geology collections in there.
They are currently looking for some images to go in: they are very keen on having a museum image in there, especially if it has a dinosaur on it. They are also looking for case studies to put in.
If you have any possible case studies we could use, could you send me a couple of sentences about them please, and I’ll send those on. And if you have any images, if you could send me a low-res image I’ll forward that on.
They are hoping to launch the charter at an all-party parliamentary briefing, and are asking David Attenborough and princes Charles/William to write the forward. It should be a great thing to help raise our profile.
If you’ve any questions I’m away until next Monday now, but I will get back to you then.
Thanks very much
Kate
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