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IAPT Travel Grants for Students - XIX IBC (Shenzhen)

The International Association for Plant Taxonomy (IAPT) opens a short round for travel grant applications to attend the International Botanical Congress at Shenzhen (July 2017) and present an oral communication or a poster.

The call will be open only for one week in order to comply with the deadlines for presentation of oral abstracts at the IBC.

Applicants should be students and recipients of an IAPT Research Grant in the last years.

Applications should include an abstract to be presented at the IBC and general information (name of applicant, institution, country, title of the communication, prospective budget)

The application period is open until Jan. 18 2017

Twenty grants are available and the maximum amount for each grant is US$1,000.

The projects are to be submitted to: Dipl.-Ing. Eva Senková Managing Secretary IAPT office@iapt-taxon.org

TDWG Biodiversity Data Quality Interest Group seeks data use stories

The TDWG Biodiversity Data Quality (BDQ) Interest Group, a collaboration between data aggregators including iDigBio, researchers and collections data managers, is working towards developing standardized terminology and tools for assessing the research fitness-for-use for biodiversity data.  

The Interest Group wishes to capture data user stories in a practical, plain language in order to better understand the specific needs of biodiversity data users. Past and present, successful and failed biodiversity data use attempts are equally welcome. The ultimate goal is to improve the research and collection community's data use experiences and to do this,  a public collection of data use examples - or stories - needs to be gathered that would be helpful for data providers, data aggregators, and for you, the user, to demonstrate the spectrum of data relevance, purpose, and analyses of primary biodiversity data.

Do you have a biodiversity data use story to tell?  Help with the development of data quality and fitness-for-use metrics by submitting your User Stories so that the team can better understand the specific needs of the community of biodiversity data users.

Questions or interested in heping further?  Contact the BDQ Use Cases Task Group.

Finding Federal Scientific Collections Just Got Easier

Federal agencies have taken steps to improve the management and accessibility of scientific collections

Scientific collections—collections of physical specimens such as animal and plant specimens and their tissue and DNA, microbes, geological minerals and moonrocks, even air and water samples—are a vital part of the infrastructure for science in the United States and globally. They also play important roles in supporting public health and safety, agriculture, homeland security, trade and economic development, medical research, and environmental monitoring. Federal departments and agencies own and maintain hundreds of diverse scientific collections, many of which are being used for applications beyond their original use. Many of these collections grow at regular, predictable rates, and all require ongoing maintenance to preserve their value and utility.

Read more here!

BITC Global Online Seminar #28: Citizen Science

 

When: Thu, Sep 29, 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM

Where: https://plus.google.com/events/ck2pmdceheg1a8d6b6pgli6apts/p>

Hosted by: A. Townsend Peterson

Title: History of Biodiversity Informatics: Citizen Science a Cornell Lab of Ornithology Perspective

Steve Kelling, Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology
We continue our "history of biodiversity informatics" series with this seminar on citizen science contributions to the field. Steve Kelling is Senior Director of Information Science & Technology at the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology, and has been at the center of many of the exciting recent advances in 'building out' biodiversity informatics in citizen-science dimensions.

Call for PlantingScience Mentors!

PlantingScience has finally moved to a new improved platform! We’re excited by the new features and the increased potential for growth we’ve been waiting for. We have a really large session for fall with about 70 teachers planning to participate with their students. I anticipate we’ll have around 800-1000 student teams this fall. So, we’ll need all the new mentors we can get!

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