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Illinois State University

GBIF publisher since
11 October 2010

Description

The John Wesley Powell and Dale Birkenholz natural history collections consists of approximately 6000 birds and mammals from the Midwest and around the world. It is housed in the School of Biological Sciences and includes study skins, skels, frozen tissues, and stomach contents.

Contacts

ADMINISTRATIVE_POINT_OF_CONTACT
Gretchen Knapp
position: Collections Manager
Telephone: 309-438-5556
email: geknapp@ilstu.edu
TECHNICAL_POINT_OF_CONTACT
David Bloom
position: VertNet Programmer
Telephone: +01 785 813-1496
email: dbloom@vertnet.org
TECHNICAL_POINT_OF_CONTACT
John Wieczorek
position: Information Architect
Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkeley
Telephone: +01 510 642 5409
email: tuco@berkeley.edu
TECHNICAL_POINT_OF_CONTACT
David Bloom
position: VertNet Coordinator
Telephone: +01 510 643 1620
email: Dbloom@vertnet.org
Illinois State University
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61790-4120
Illinois
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