Dear Colleague Letter: Expanding the NSF INCLUDES National Network
February 19, 2019
Dear Colleague:
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American Society of Plant Taxonomists (ASPT) Updates "Herbarium Practices and Ethics"
The Systematics Collections Committee of the American Society of Plant Taxonomists has updated the recommendations on herbarium practices and ethics that were previously published by the Society in 1958 and 1973. The recommendations and considerations presented here are intended to provide a set of guidelines for proper management and care of herbarium collections.
Read the recommendations at https://doi.org/10.1600/036364419X697840
Research Spotlight: February 2019 (Phylogenetics)
Spatial Phylogenetics of Florida Vascular Plants: The Effects of Calibration and Uncertainty on Diversity Estimates
SPNHC Travel Grants - NHCCN
The Natural History Collections Club Network (NHCCN) plans to host a workshop at the annual meeting of the Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections (SPNHC) in Chicago, IL. We are seeking participants to apply for a travel grant to attend the meeting and the workshop. The meeting dates are May 26-31, 2019. Qualified individuals should be affiliated with a college or university within the US and interested in starting a natural history collections club at that institution. Preference will be given to faculty and student pairs. NHCCN is made of several clubs that are curator-advised, student-driven organizations aimed at enhancing local natural history collections by helping to train student volunteers to assist in curating and managing them. The network represents clubs from all types of universities but seems to most benefit those with small collections as a way to protect and raise enthusiasm for their collections. We are particularly interested in institutions with small collections and/or minority serving institutions but anyone is welcome to apply.
Deadline to apply: February 24, 2019
Link to Application: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfgPbZJFy0u7oEBMOw1TEeXwcm6Zr5txyPVdexkM7111cxyWw/viewform
Please contact Kari Harris at kharris@astate.edu for more information.
February 2019 Biodiversity Spotlight
Wood Turtle, Glyptemys insculpta
Photo courtesy of: John White - Virginia Herpetological Society
To understand the ocean - we need to get wet
by Deborah Paul (iDigBio), Gustav Paulay (UF, FLMNH) from #DigIn Workshop
Dr Joe Miller named new GBIF Executive Secretary
Evolutionary researcher and administrator to take over in Copenhagen on 15 March
Registration Now Open for 3rd Digital Data in Biodiversity Research Conference, Yale Peabody Museum
The Peabody Museum at Yale University and iDigBio at the Florida Museum, University of Florida, in association with the Natural Sciences Collections Alliance are delighted to announce that registration is now open for the 2019 Digital Data in Biodiversity Research Conference, this year hosted on the Yale campus, New Haven, CT, 10-12 June. The theme for this year’s event is Methods, Protocols, and Analytical Tools for Specimen-based Research in the Biological Sciences.
Registration is now open! https://www.idigbio.org/
The conference planning team is extremely pleased to also collaborate with the Ecological Society of America (ESA) on its popular and successful Sustaining Biological Infrastructure: Strategies for Success course, to be held 12-14 June in conjunction with the conference.
This year’s conference will again offer opportunities to submit abstracts for hosting discussion sessions ranging in length from 30 to 75 minutes, a very popular activity begun last year, as well as abstracts for oral and poster presentations.
New this year will be the opportunity to submit abstracts for half or full-day workshops and symposia to be held on Wednesday the 12th. Although workshops during the previous two conferences were well attended with positive responses, the planning team believes that opening up workshop submission opportunities to a wider range of participants will result in even more relevant topics. Those who want to submit a workshop or symposium abstract will need to register early as workshop/symposia proposals are due by 23 March. Those who want to submit discussion, oral, or poster presentation abstracts must register before the 30 April abstract deadline. You will receive a link to the abstract submission page with your registration confirmation.
Registration is now open and closes 17 May.
To register and learn more: https://www.idigbio.org/
2019 Ebbe Nielsen Challenge
Are you an open data champion? The 2019 Ebbe Nielsen Challenge will award up to €34,000 in prizes to the most innovative entries that leverage biodiversity data and tools from the GBIF network to advance open science.
Between 23 January and 1 August, individuals and teams can prepare tools and techniques that improve the access, usefulness and quality of open biodiversity data and submit them to this open-ended incentive competition.
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