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Published: 03-01-2023
  Dear Colleagues, The Society of Herbarium Curators and iDigBio are pleased to announce an 8-week "Strategic Planning for Herbaria” online course. Take this opportunity to introduce new purpose and excitement into your organization. Prepare to relate your herbarium’s compelling vision to stakeholders and discuss long-term goals and strategies with administrators...
Published: 08-29-2022
  Dear Colleagues, iDigBio is pleased to announce an 8-week "Strategic Planning for Biodiversity Collections” online course. Take this opportunity to introduce new purpose and excitement into your organization. Prepare to relate your collection’s compelling vision to stakeholders and discuss long-term goals and strategies with administrators. The “Strategic...
Published: 08-13-2022
The Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections (SPNHC) Education Committee hosted the second virtual Natural History Education (NHE) DemoCamp on June 22-23, 2022.  The goal of the NHE DemoCamp is to share, discover, and discuss educational materials that have a framework in natural history. This is building upon our previous iterations of the 'education share fair...
Published: 06-15-2022
QUICK LINKS Event Registration Open Call Abstracts Draft Agenda   iDigBio is pleased to invite you to this year’s Biodiversity Digitization Conference (BioDigiCon) to be held virtually 27-29 September 2022. Event The 2022 event will focus on data generation and mobilization with special...
Published: 04-18-2022
Thirty participants gathered virtually for a workshop, Using wikidata to capture and share information about people in paleontology, on March 29-31, 2022. This workshop was a hands-on introduction to finding, editing, and using data in wikidata, using people associated with paleontology collections (e.g., collectors, researchers, collections staff) as subjects. Wikidata offers a centralized,...
Published: 04-12-2022
Since we are virtual again this year we created a way to digitize some of that organic mentoring magic that happens at every conference through the virtual Digital Data Mentorship Program. This program pairs biodiversity professionals as mentors with emerging professionals and students as mentees and helps them to arrange a time to speak informally about research,...
Published: 03-17-2022
  Three ways to introduce your biodiversity collections to the world during April’s WeDigBio event (Thursday–Sunday, April 7–10, 2022) and the broader Citizen Science Month!   Let us know your plans by Wednesday, March 23, so that your activities can appear on the calendar and we have enough time to get the WeDigBio stickers and tattoos to you for your...
Published: 03-15-2022
Draba verna flowering. Image taken from: https://awkwardbotany.com/2018/05/23/tiny-plants-draba-verna/ Every year around this time I think about Aldo Leopold’s ode to Draba, a tiny, inconspicuous plant that can serve as an early sign of spring in some areas for the extra observant.  Draba verna, also known as Spring whitlow-mustard, is native to Eurasia and introduced to...
Published: 03-15-2022
  Joshua Benjamin explains to participants what they are seeing when looking in the microscope at the Subalusky's Lab table during the Resource Fair.  The iDigTRIO Biology Career Conference recently took place at the University of Florida (UF) from February 21–March 3, 2022. The iDigTRIO conference is aimed at collegiate and pre-collegiate students associated with...
Published: 02-25-2022
Dear Colleagues, The Society of Herbarium Curators and iDigBio are pleased to announce an 8-week "Strategic Planning for Herbaria” online course.   Take this opportunity to introduce new purpose and excitement into your organization. Prepare to relate your herbarium’s compelling vision to stakeholders and discuss long-term goals and strategies with administrators...

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