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Post-doc available

 
The Division of Invertebrate Paleontology in the University of Kansas Biodiversity Institute seeks a 2-year, full time, post-doctoral associate with experience and interest in invertebrate paleontology and bioinformatics to work on an Advancing the Digitization of Biodiversity Collections grant covering invertebrate fossils. Required qualifications include a PhD in geology, systematics, paleontology or closely related field, working knowledge of the taxonomy and identification of invertebrate fossils, experience databasing natural history collections, experience managing projects, and demonstrated communication skills. For additional information and complete application instructions visit https://jobs.ku.edu, position # 00209886 or contact Bruce S. Lieberman blieber@ku.edu . To apply complete the online application and attach cover letter, curriculum vitae, and contact information for 3 professional references. Review begins 1 Nov. 2012. Equal Opportunity Employer M/F/D/V.

NESCent Anatomy Ontologies workshop

The NESCent Academy is offering a five-day workshop in Anatomy Ontologies for Evolutionary Biology. Dates are July 30-August 3. The course covers a basic introduction to ontology design principles and usage, specific ontology considerations for anatomy, application of anatomy ontologies in the context of evolutionary phenotype comparison, and use of anatomy ontologies for image annotation in different taxa. There will be strong emphasis on hands-on exercises that will develop ontology skills and provide exposure to different software applications that are useful in variety of areas of evolutionary biology

InvertNet Spring Workshop

 

 

 

 

The ADBC Thematic Collections Network (TCN) InvertNet will be hosting a Spring Workshop.

This workshop will allow InvertNet collaborators to meet and discuss collection digitization techniques and strategies. A representative from each collaborating institution will give a brief overview of their collection, its history, strengths, and challenges. This will be followed by hands-on demonstrations of digitization equipment and workflows.

When: Saturday 14 April 2012, 8:00 AM - Sunday 15 April 2012, 12:00 PM

Where: University of Illinois Micro- and Nanotechnology Laboratory, Urbana

FSU Godfrey Herbarium Debuts a New Online Look

It is our pleasure to announce a new interface for the specimen databases of Florida State University's Robert K. Godfrey Herbarium and Tall Timbers Research Station's Robert K. Godfrey Herbarium. Both herbaria are named for Bob Godfrey (1911-2000), a respected expert on the flora of the southeastern U.S.  The website serves data and images for approximately 60,000 of FSU's 206,000 specimens and nearly all of Tall Timbers' 10,500 specimens.  These specimens document diversity in the East Gulf Coastal Plain ecoregion, one of North America's biotic hotspots, and also represent flora from other regions, especially the Neotropics. These databases can be accessed at http://herbarium.bio.fsu.edu. The new functionality allows new types of searches and results, including the following possibilities: (1) provide all specimens that were flowering in June in Leon County, Florida, irrespective of year, (2) map all specimens of invasive species collected in the past 10 years in Florida, and (3) provide only the desired set of fields about the specimens of interest in a tab-delimited file that can be opened in Excel or other spreadsheet programs. The search interface is also more convenient, with auto-fill of several fields (e.g., common name). The popular display of results as a page of thumbnails is now one of four available result formats.

Florida State University gratefully acknowledges funding from the National Science Foundation (Awards 0956372 and 0646222), the Florida Department of Environmental Protection, and the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission to support the digitization of its specimens and creation of the website. Tall Timbers Research Station gratefully acknowledges funding from the National Science Foundation (Award 0956343) to support the digitization of its specimens.
 
Feedback on the new interface is appreciated.  Please send comments or suggestions using the contact form found here: Austin Mast.
 
With best regards,
 
Austin Mast, Kevin Robertson, Alex Stuy, and Gil Nelson

 

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