oVert Workshop: 3D Vertebrates, From Museum Shelves to Classrooms
Article contributed by Julie Bokor (UF Center for Precollegiate Education and Training)
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Application Deadline: Edward W. Rose Postdoctoral Fellowship Cornell Lab of Ornithology
The Cornell Lab of Ornithology invites applications for our Edward W. Rose Postdoctoral Fellowships. These competitive postdoctoral fellowship awards (www.birds.cornell.edu/postdoc ) support innovative, independent research by early career scholars of exceptional promise.
SoRo Mountain TCN Field to Digital Object Workshop introduces undergraduate students to museum careers
Contributed by: J Ryan Allen, Dina Clark and Erin Tripp (University of Colorado)
BioQUEST and QUBES Summer Workshop 2019
Contributed by: Molly Phillips, iDigBio's Education, Outreach & Diversity Coordinator
Images courtesy of Adam Fagen
July 2019 Biodiversity Spotlight
Yellow-billed Cuckoo, Coccyzus americanus
Article and photos contributed by Natasza Fontaine
Position Opening for Biological Collections Specialist Digitizing Aquatic Insect and Fish Collections Montana State University
Position Opening for Biological Collections Specialist Digitizing Aquatic Insect and Fish Collections _Montana State University
Biological Collections Specialist (Aquatics)
Brief Position Overview: Individual will be involved in handling, curation, cataloging, digitization and database management for a very large number of aquatic biological specimens contained in the Montana Entomology Collection and MSU vertebrate museum. Extensive paper documentation will be linked to these specimens and databased.
This grant funded position is full-time and runs for two years. For further information, see:
https://jobs.montana.edu/postings/17023
Questions may be directed to:
Michael Ivie
(406) 994-4610
mivie@montana.edu (preferred)
American Society of Mammalogists (ASM) 2019
The 99th Annual Meeting and Centennial Celebration of the American Society of Mammalogists took place 28 June to 2 July 2019, at the birthplace of ASM, Washington, DC. iDigBio helped to mark this important milestone through organizing a session on broadening representation in mammalogy as well organizing the first ever Data Help Desk at ASM.
Funding from JRS Foundation for those from Africa to get to Biodiversity Next - Apply Now!
If you are an African and you want to attend Biodiversity Next -- please see this opportunity to apply for some travel funding
Research Spotlight: June 2019
Developing a vocabulary and ontology for modeling insect natural history data
This article was contributed by Brian Stucky, Florida Museum of Natural History.
Figure1: A specimen of the cicada Hadoa duryi, available on the iDigBio portal.
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