BOARD OF ADVISORS
GEORGE A. DANTE, JR. B.A., FLS, FINHA
President and Founder
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Wildlife Preservations, LLC
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George Dante Studios, LLC
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The Institute for Natural History Arts
STEPHEN C. QUINN, SAA, AFC, FINHA
Senior Project Manager & Exhibit Artist (Retired)
American Museum of Natural History
Artist, naturalist, and author Stephen C. Quinn has spent a lifetime exploring the natural world and working in a career at the intersection of art and science...
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DARRIN LUNDE, B.S., M.A., FINHA
Mammalogist, Field Biologist, Author
Mammal Collection Manager
Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History
Darrin Lunde is a Mammologist and field biologist with more than thirty years of experience as the Mammal Collection Manager for both the ...
PETER CAPAINOLO,BA,
MPhil,PhD,FLS,
FINHA
Senior Museum Specialist III
Division of Vertebrate Zoology-Ornithology
American Museum of Natural History
People and Wildlife Research Group
School of Biological Sciences
University of Reading
Whiteknights, Reading RG6 6AS, United Kingdom
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BETHANY PALUMBO, ACR, B.A., M.A., FINHA
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Conservator specializing in Natural History Collections
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Head of Conservation Unit at the Natural History Museum of Denmark
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Accredited by the UK Institute for Conservation
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Conservator of Life Collections at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History (2012-2019)
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Trustee for the Natural Science Collections Association (NatSCA)
UTKU PERKTAS, B.S., M.S., Ph.D., FLS, FINHA
Ornithologist and Evolutionary Biologist
Department of Biology (Zoology Section)
Faculty of Science
Hacettepe University -Turkey
Research Associate
Department of Ornithology
Division of Vertebrate Zoology
American Museum of Natural History
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LOUIS N. SORKIN, BA, MS, BCE, FINHA
Entomologist, Arachnologist, Myriapodologist
Insect Cuisine & Entomophagy Research
Division of Invertebrate Zoology, American Museum of Natural History, (Retired)
President and Forensic Entomologist
Entsult Associates, Inc.
The New York Entomological Society, Inc.
Treasurer & Monthly Meeting Organizer
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WALTER E. MESHAKA, JR. BA, MS, PhD, FINHA
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Senior Curator of Zoology and Botany
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State Museum of Pennsylvania
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MICHAEL ANDERSON, FINHA
Preparator, Artist, Author, and Diorama Historian (Retired)
Peabody Museum of Natural History at Yale University
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JOYCE CLOUGHLY, B.S., FINHA
Exhibit Artist (Retired)
Exhibition Department
American Museum of Natural History