Biographie de John Simmons
John E. Simmons has a BA in systematics and ecology and an MA in historical administration and museum studies. In 1987, he completed the Collections Care Pilot Training Program (funded by the Bay foundation) to become one of thirty people in the country to receive specialized training in natural history conservation and collections care. He has spent a total of thirty years as collections manager in two of the largest collections of fluid-preserved specimens in the United States the California Academy of Sciences and the Biodiversity Research Center at the University of Kansas).
He has published extensively on collections care topics and conducted seminars, workshops, and training programs in the United States, Latin America, Asia, the Middle East, and Europe an the care of natural history collections this previous publications include the AAM standard reference on collections management policies).
