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Saint Louis Zoo: Advanced Access Management (AAM) continues to deliver on its original investment

For Saint Louis Zoo and other institutions, having animal keepers be frontline record keepers for husbandry information requires the addition of a new level of oversight. ZIMS Advanced Access Management (AAM) supports 120 keepers doing direct entry in in the husbandry module on a daily basis.

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ZIMS for Husbandry Roadmap: What’s already here, what lies ahead

May 7, 2020
Nannette Driver-Ruiz
Aquatics, Blog, Care and Welfare, husbandry, Most Read, Product Roadmap, ZIMS
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Every month, Species360 rolls out new features and enhancements to ZIMS for Husbandry and Aquatics, ZIMS for Medical, and ZIMS for Studbooks. Here is look at this year's releases, and what is ahead for ZIMS for Husbandry.

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Ask Adrienne: How many animals? How many species? Know how your institution impacts species knowledge.

April 20, 2020
Mary Ellen Amodeo
ask adrienne, Blog, husbandry, Most Read, Training, ZIMS
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As part of the global Species360 community, your teams contribute vital information on the animals in their care. That information is used by IUCN, CITES, and other conservation leaders, zoos, and aquariums worldwide to help improve the welfare of animals, advance medical treatments, and shape policies impacting species survival.

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Ask Adrienne: ZIMS provisional data entry improves accuracy, consistency

April 6, 2020
Mary Ellen Amodeo
COVID-19, husbandry, Support, Training, ZIMS
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As zoo and aquarium staff around the world adjust to working in shifts and taking some administrative work off-site, our members are asking for help with "Provisional" data entry. This setting allows a team member to enter animal husbandry or…

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Navarre Beach Sea Turtle Conservation Center Contributes Vital Data As Part of Species360

April 3, 2020
Mary Ellen Amodeo
Aquatics, Blog, Conservation, husbandry, Members, New Members, Press-release
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As a member of Species360, Navarre Beach Sea Turtle Conservation Center will curate and manage animal care and species information using the Zoological Information Management System (ZIMS). More than 100 zoos, aquariums, wildlife refuges, breeding and conservation centers joined Species360 in the past year.

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Ask Adrienne: Less clickety clicks, enrichment dropdown menus, and lists that last!

Sometimes, seemingly small changes can make a big difference. New enhancements to ZIMS -- such as dropdown menus that make it easier to record enrichment items for an animal -- are designed to save time for the animal care and record keeping teams at our more than 1,200 Species360 member institutions.

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Ask Adrienne: Help for an Aquarium Manager

January 27, 2020
Josh Courteau
Aquatics, ask adrienne, Blog, husbandry, Training, ZIMS
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ZIMS notifies aquarists when water measurements are outside your parameters for an enclosure, a life support system, a component.

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New for Aquariums: Making a change to the water in an enclosure? ZIMS tracks essential details

January 15, 2020
Mary Ellen Amodeo
Aquatics, Blog, Care and Welfare, husbandry, ZIMS
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More than 350 aquariums worldwide use ZIMS to manage their fish and coral collections, medical, and studbooks. Update: Also new in ZIMS, aquarists graph water change events vs water quality measurements with the Environmental Quality Graphing Tool and easily incorporate…

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From ZSL: The Rise of the Registrar

In this guest post, ZSL Zoological Registrar Hannah Jenkins addresses the changing role of zoo registrars, from recording day-to-day events to conducting the data analytics that inform species conservation worldwide. By Hannah Jenkins, Zoological Registrar, Zoological Society of London “And…

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Education: Mote Marine and Species360 Guest Lecture at San Jose State University

November 18, 2019
Josh Courteau
Aquatics, husbandry, LearnZIMS, Training, Uncategorized
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For San José State University Masters of Archives and Records Administration (MARA) students, a recent guest lecture with Mote Marine Laboratory and Aquarium Curator of Husbandry and Records Matt Seguin and Species360 Training Manager Josh Courteau introduced new and surprising opportunities.

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