May 2020 Biodiversity Spotlight
Article by: Nattapol Kraisitudomsook, PhD student from the Smith Lab at the University of Florida
Article by: Nattapol Kraisitudomsook, PhD student from the Smith Lab at the University of Florida
Contributed by: Libby Ellwood, Austin Mast, Robert Bruhn and Kevin Love
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/
In our new world of virtual interactions and meetings, iDigBio wanted to provide some suggested guidelines and resources when hosting or attending an event.
Many things have changed rapidly and these are unprecedented and stressful times, but one positive for our team now all working remotely are all of the new coworkers!
Contributed by Luis D. Verde Arregoitia.
Find him on Twitter @LuisDVerde or on his Website.
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Article by: Nicholas Gengler, PhD student from UF School of Natural Resources and the Environment