Press Releases
Published: 08-21-2015
Alex Kuhn (of the University of Illinois) instructs Patty Kaishian (of Syracuse University) on how to enter label data from microfungi specimens. Their work is part of the Microfungi Collections Consortium, funded through the ADBC program. Credit: Andrew N. Miller, Illinois Natural History Survey, University of Illinois
NSF has announced the fifth round of awards through the...
Published: 08-11-2015
"The localities and dates of collection associated with these vouchered specimens provide the only large-scale, verifiable data available on native distributions of organisms and how those distributions have changed over time."
iDigBio PIs Lawrence M. Page, Bruce J. MAcFadden, Jose A, Fortes, Pamela S. Soltis, and Greg Riccardi coauthored a recently published article...
Published: 08-06-2015
Notice of Funding Opportunity: National Conservation Assessment Program
June 29, 2015
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Notice of Funding Opportunity: National Conservation Assessment Program
IMLS Seeks a Cooperator for National Program
Washington, DC—The Institute of Museum and Library Services (...
Published: 08-04-2015
Laura Maihofer, electronic imaging technician, imaging the specimen note cards of Edwin B. Mains, who was a prominent mycologist at U-M who served as director of the Herbarium, president of the Mycological Society of America, and described many new fungi among other achievements. Image credit: Matthew Foltz.
University of Michigan’s Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Department...
Published: 07-17-2015
Timothy Beardsley recently published a note in BioScience entitled “Notes on Changing Practices in Data Publication” that summarized discussions from an AIBS workshop held last December. The workshop began with a talk from Michael Stebbins, assistant director for biotechnology at the White House's Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), who urged scientists to make...
Published: 06-25-2015
Photo by Rob Hoffman
Press release from Delta High School at Cabrillo College:
Aptos, CA June 23, 2015 - Sage McGraw, a 12th grader at Delta High School, presented to a group of 60 scientists and K-21 educators at the University of Florida on June 15, 2015. The group gathered to attend a workshop titled "3D Digitization of Fossils for Educators & Citizen Scientists...
Published: 06-19-2015
A new University of Florida and Duke University collaboration aims to do for the tree of life what Google Earth did for navigation.
Photo courtesy of Reed Beaman.
A National Science Foundation grant of nearly $1 million will fund a three-year project to develop software that will make the context of every named and unnamed organism accessible online to scientists and...
Published: 06-04-2015
Program Solicitation: NSF 15-576 Replaces Document(s): NSF 13-569
National Science Foundation
Directorate for Biological Sciences
Division of Biological Infrastructure
Directorate for Geosciences
Division of Earth Sciences
Full Proposal Deadline(s) (due by 5 p.m. proposer's local...
Published: 06-03-2015
See below for an invitation from the NSC Alliance:
Dear NSC Alliance Membership,
The NSC Alliance is cosponsoring with the Biodiversity Collections Network (BCoN) a Collections Communications Workshop this September 1-2. The workshop will be held at The Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, Illinois.
The BCoN (recently renamed from NIBA Research Coordination Network) is...
Published: 06-02-2015
Each year, the American Institute of Biological Sciences (AIBS) organizes an opportunity for scientists to inform the nation's science policy. The Biological Sciences Congressional District Visits event enables scientists to meet with their federal or state elected officials, and allows policymakers to learn first-hand about the science and research facilities in their district......
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