The Florida Museum of Natural History (FLMNH) hosted its Earth Day Exploration event on Saturday, April 16th 2016. An annual celebration of Earth Day, the event showcased biological diversity and cultural heritage displays and provided activities, and a pollinator-friendly plant sale for those in attendance. The FLMNH Front Desk counted 954 people – 714 adults and 240 children and they had over 100 exhibitors.
As part of iDigBio’s exhibit, staff explained the importance of digitization for making natural history collection resources accessible, and how anyone can help digitize specimens by participating in online citizen science and crowd sourcing initiatives like Notes from Nature and the Biodiversity Heritage Library's Beanstalk game. Visitors also got to explore and take home specimens from around the country with the Libraries of Life Augmented Reality Cards.
Thanks to Shari Ellis, Jillian Goodwin, David Jennings, Molly Phillips, and Randy Singer for staffing the exhibit for the day!
