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Webinar Alert: Genetic Considerations for Native Planting and Restoration

California is home to some of the most exceptional and threatened plant diversity in the world. In an attempt to protect and restore California natives from the devastating effects of environmental change and human development, major initiatives have been implemented to increase the use of California native plants everywhere from home gardens to industrial-scale plantings for landscaping and restoration. However, when executed without the necessary considerations, these efforts have the potential to further endanger our flora by disrupting the genetic integrity of unique species, ecotypes, and populations.

In order to address this issue, The California Native Plant Society (CNPS) is hosting a virtual, day-long symposium on October 16th, 2020 entitled Protecting California’s Diversity: Genetic Considerations for Native Planting and Restoration with the goal of bringing together leading experts in the biology, conservation, and management of the California flora to review the best available science on the genetic risks associated with moving native plants and explore innovative approaches for addressing these issues from a management perspective. Register at this link!

The symposium will have an opening and closing plenary and four main sessions:

Session 1: Local Variation and Cryptic Diversity

Session 2: Moving and Mixing

Session 3: Considerations for Rare Plants (concurrent)

Session 4: Scaling Up: Seed Collection, Increase and Transfer (concurrent)

Position Announcement: Bishop Museum, Director of Informatics

Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum is seeking a Director of Informatics to lead a major effort to consolidate, expand, and enable the Museum’s digital assets, including databases as well as tens of terabytes of digital images, videos, audio files and documents. The Director will oversee the architecture, development, testing, and implementation of a robust infrastructure for managing and sharing digital information at Bishop Museum in support of collections, research, data sharing and public outreach, such that the resulting infrastructure will improve efficiency and effectiveness of future data creation and maintenance into perpetuity.

For more information and to apply visit https://www.bishopmuseum.org/Careers/

Position Announcement: Biodiversity Informatics (Yale Peabody Museum)

The Division of Informatics at The Yale Peabody Museum is seeking a Biodiversity Informatics Software Developer to join our growing team of developers and scientists at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut.

Position Focus
Reporting to the Head of Biodiversity Informatics and Data Science of the Yale Peabody Museum, the Biodiversity Informatics Software Developer will assist in the research and development of technologies for the digitization, mobilization, and analysis of information from natural history collections. Focal areas of research include multi-view imaging and analysis (including 3D reconstruction), mass digitization pipelines, retrospective georeferencing, and distributed specimen data annotation and tracking.

Essential Duties

1. Develops programs or systems of small to moderate size and complexity. Modifies existing systems at all levels of difficulty. 2. Provides informational input into decisions concerning the development and delivery of applications, programs and systems. Defines and analyzes requirements to meet the expectations of stakeholders and intended end user needs, scheduled timeline, and budgetary targets. 3. Analyzes, defines and designs new systems and applications. Writes code in support of business solutions. 4. Responsible for the creation, definition, communication, and management of project plans which includes architectural design, technology selection and methodologies to apply. 5. Troubleshoots problems and provide ongoing maintenance and support for applications and systems. 6. Prepares documentation, user manuals and develops formal proposals for new systems and modifications to existing systems. Mentors technical staff and provide training for end users. 7. Contributes in the development of policies or modifications to exiting policies. 8. Applies and keeps current with existing and emerging technologies and methodologies. Provides ongoing input to the establishment of programming standards, procedures, and methodologies. 9. May perform other duties as assigned.

Required Education and Experience

Bachelor's Degree in a related field and two years of related work experience or an equivalent combination of education and experience.

To apply
Details of the position and how to apply can be found at: http://bit.ly/Yale_60122BR

Contact Nelson Rios (nelson.rios@yale.edu) if you have any questions.

Hebarium Collection Manager - Position Announcement

HERBARIUM COLLECTION MANAGER
http://jobs.usnh.edu/postings/34850
Albion Hodgdon Herbarium (NHA), University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH

The Albion Hodgdon Herbarium is seeking to hire a Collection Manager in the Department of Biological Sciences. The Collection Manager is responsible for the maintenance and organization of the collection, which involves oversight and documentation of all collection-related procedures, filing, labeling, and preparation of specimens. It also requires strong management skills. The Collection Manager is expected to maintain working knowledge of modern techniques in systematic botany, specimen digitization, database management, herbarium collection maintenance, and fieldwork. The building housing the herbarium is scheduled for expansion and renovation that will provide prominent new space for the collections. The Collection Manager will be responsible for coordinating and overseeing moving the collection into the new space and developing exhibits to highlight the collection. The Collection Manager, in conjunction with the herbarium director, will develop collection improvement grants. The Collection Manager reports to the Director, supervises and works closely with students, faculty, staff and volunteers, working in the collections. The Collection Manager will be expected to teach two undergraduate courses each year including Systematic Botany. Minimum qualifications include a Ph.D. in Biology (with an emphasis in Botany), four years experience in curatorial or closely related work (or an equivalent combination of education and experience), and prior supervisory and teaching experience.

The College of Life Science and Agriculture maintains the Albion Hodgdon Herbarium, which contains over 200,000 specimens of vascular plants (120,000), marine macroalgae (84,000), bryophytes (1,600) and lichens. The collection is a preserved, documented, and curated assemblage important to a wide array of research and teaching activities. The presence and growth of the collection at UNH is important to the University, New Hampshire, and New England because it is a readily available local resource of identified voucher specimens for the region, as well as being used in research at the national and international levels. Most of the collection (95%) has been digitized and is accessible through online portals.

The University of New Hampshire, located in Durham, is a Research Land, Sea and Space Grant University that has been recognized both nationally and internationally for research excellence and a commitment to sustainability. The College of Life Sciences and Agriculture is organized into four interacting academic units plus the state's Agricultural Experiment Station. UNH is the state's flagship public research university. Our 15,000 graduate and undergraduate students are served by a full-time faculty of about 600, offering 90 undergraduate and more than 70 graduate programs. The 188-acre campus is located in Durham, 60 miles north of Boston and 8 miles from the Atlantic coast. For additional information regarding all that UNH, Durham, and New Hampshire have to offer, please see www.unh.edu.

All applicants are required to apply online at http://jobs.usnh.edu/postings/34850. The online application will require a letter of application, current vitae, and names, addresses, email and phone number of three professional references. The candidate will be notified before any references are contacted. Review of applications will begin on 20 December 2019 and will continue until the position is filled. Please direct questions about this search to Lisa Buchalski <Lisa.Buchalski@unh.edu>.