[Taxacom] No firing of taxonomists at SNM

[Henrik Enghoff]

The Natural History Museum of Denmark is an institute of its own under the Faculty of Sciences, University of Copenhagen. The museum employs the vast majority of the university's taxonomists s.l. (i.e., including systematists). The University has two further units employing taxonomists s.l.: The Department of Biology and The Faculty of Life Sciences. The latter two have, unlike the museum, lost a number of taxonomists s.l. during recent rounds of sacking, meaning that the University's taxonomic expertise is now even more concentrated in the museum.

on behalf of the Natural History Museum of Denmark

Henrik Enghoff 

Director of Collections,
Professor of Zoological Systematics and Zoogeography. - Curator of Myriapoda and Heteroptera
Director, DanBIF. - Editor-in-chief, International Journal of Myriapodology
NATURAL HISTORY MUSEUM OF DENMARK
University of Copenhagen, Universitetsparken 15, DK-2100 Koebenhavn OE, DANMARK.
Telephone +45 35 32 10 67 (direct) / +45 35 32 10 01 (switchboard)/+45 27 14 10 36 (mobile)
Fax +45 35 32 10 10. E-mail henghoff at snm.ku.dk. - www.snm.ku.dk/people/henghoff                                                                                                                             
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Fra: taxacom-bounces at mailman.nhm.ku.edu [mailto:taxacom-bounces at mailman.nhm.ku.edu] På vegne af Lyn.Craven at csiro.au
Sendt: 15. januar 2010 03:39
Til: Thomas Pape; taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu
Emne: Re: [Taxacom] No firing of taxonomists at SNM


 

With respect, Meldgaard's email does not clarify the issue.     Are any systematists, taxonomists, etc of the institute (in the broad sense) affected?     I would have expected that the Biology department would have such scientists on its staff.     There may in fact be very few systematists and taxonomists on the Museum's staff per se.

Lyn Craven



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From: taxacom-bounces at mailman.nhm.ku.edu [mailto:taxacom-bounces at mailman.nhm.ku.edu] On Behalf Of Thomas Pape
Sent: Friday, 15 January 2010 2:48 AM
To: taxacom at mailman.nhm.ku.edu
Subject: [Taxacom] No firing of taxonomists at SNM

Forwarded message:

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Dear Poul Kirk,

 

I was informed by Thomas Pape that you were under the impression that we were sacking people at the Natural History Museum of Denmark. Even though the museum has a strained economy, this is not the case. The reduction of personnel is concentrated at the dept of Biology and the dept of Geography and Geology - which is bad enough.

 

Sincerely

 

Morten Meldgaard

 

 

Morten Meldgaard

Director, Natural History Museum of Denmark

 

Faculty of Science

 

DIR +45 35 32 29 78

MOB +45 28 75 10 36

mmeldgaard at snm.ku.dk

 

 

 

 

 

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