News Articles
Published: 08-02-2019
Contributed by: J Ryan Allen, Dina Clark and Erin Tripp (University of Colorado)
This past May, the University of Colorado Herbarium in conjunction with the Navajo Herbarium, Northern Arizona University, San Juan College, and Fort Lewis College hosted a Field to Digital Object Workshop at San Juan College in Farmington, New Mexico. Nineteen students from the lead institutions, Dine...
Published: 07-22-2019
Contributed by: Molly Phillips, iDigBio's Education, Outreach & Diversity Coordinator
Images courtesy of Adam Fagen
I was fortunate to attend this year’s BioQuest/QUBES Summer Workshop, Evolution of Data in the Classroom: From Data to Data Science (SW 2019) July 14-19, 2019, hosted at William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia. The event kicked off with an afternoon poster...
Published: 07-09-2019
The 99th Annual Meeting and Centennial Celebration of the American Society of Mammalogists took place 28 June to 2 July 2019, at the birthplace of ASM, Washington, DC. iDigBio helped to mark this important milestone through organizing a session on broadening representation in mammalogy as well organizing the first ever Data Help Desk at ASM.
Session speakers from left to right: Danielle Lee...
Published: 04-15-2019
Climatic Niche Modeling for Beetleweed
(Galax urceolata, Diapensiaceae)
Contributed by: Shelly Gaynor
In the summer of 2017, I participated in the iDigBio mini-REU under Drs. Pamela Soltis and Douglas Soltis at the University of Florida, where I was mentored by graduate student Blaine Marchant. We investigated niche differentiation of polyploid populations from their diploid...
Published: 03-29-2019
Bioblitz group photo (Florida Museum Photo Department)
iDigBio was very proud to be this year’s meeting host for the 5th Life Discovery – Doing Science Biology Education Conference held in Gainesville, Florida, from March 21-23, 2019. This year’s theme was “microbiomes to ecosystems: evolution and biodiversity across scale, space, and time” which perfectly...
Published: 03-20-2019
Emerging frontiers in phenological research
Libby Ellwood, Katelin Pearson, and Gil Nelson
Herbarium specimens record phenology—the study of cyclical events in an organism's life cycle—with such features as young flower buds, senescing leaves, and even bare branches on an herbarium sheet. There are other ways of recording phenology, such as records of observations and...
Published: 02-28-2019
iDigBio and the Office of Academic Support (OAS) and Student Support Services (SSS)/TRIO Program at University of Florida (UF) co-organized a free Biology Career Conference and Fair on February 1-2, 2019 for undergraduate students. TRIO is a federally funded grant program to help first generation students, low income students and students with disabilities navigate and succeed in their...
Published: 02-18-2019
Spatial Phylogenetics of Florida Vascular Plants: The Effects of Calibration and Uncertainty on Diversity Estimates
By: Charlotte Germain-Aubrey and Julie Allen
With online repositories such as iDigBio growing rapidly in the number of specimen records available, we now have the ability to examine broad distributional patterns of plants and animals. While traditional...
Published: 02-15-2019
Mobilizing Mollusks: Digitizing the 2nd Largest Invertebrate Phylum
By Rüdiger Bieler, Gary Rosenberg, Elizabeth K. Shea, Petra Sierwald
“Because of their huge collections size, particularly in regard to mollusks from communities directly subject to pollution and disturbance, mollusk collections provide a massive international resource for environmental...
Published: 01-10-2019
2018 was an outstanding year for ADBC and, by extension, iDigBio. During this seventh year of NSF’s initiative, three new TCNs joined the twenty existing consortia, filling gaps, further spanning the paleo/neo divide, and expanding the potential for the development of new research protocols. The number of biodiversity records in the iDigBio Portal reached nearly 116...