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When: Thu, Sep 29, 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Where: https://plus.google.com/events/ck2pmdceheg1a8d6b6pgli6apts/p>
Hosted by: A. Townsend Peterson
Title: History of Biodiversity Informatics: Citizen Science a Cornell Lab of Ornithology Perspective
Steve Kelling, Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology
We continue our "history of biodiversity informatics" series with this seminar on citizen science contributions to the field. Steve Kelling is Senior Director of Information Science & Technology at the Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology, and has been at the center of many of the exciting recent advances in 'building out' biodiversity informatics in citizen-science dimensions.
Sept. 8, 2016
Writer: Emily Mavrakis, swriterintern@flmnh.ufl.edu
Source: Larry Page, lpage@flmnh.ufl.edu
Media contact: Paul Ramey, pramey@flmnh.ufl.edu
PlantingScience has finally moved to a new improved platform! We’re excited by the new features and the increased potential for growth we’ve been waiting for. We have a really large session for fall with about 70 teachers planning to participate with their students. I anticipate we’ll have around 800-1000 student teams this fall. So, we’ll need all the new mentors we can get!
iDigBio’s fourth annual retreat was held on August 26, 2016. The event was held at Camp Weed in Live Oak, FL, which was conveniently located midway between UF and FSU. The retreat provided an opportunity for the diverse staff at iDigBio to celebrate the past year’s accomplishments, develop plans for the future, and get to know one another better.
This was originally a guest post from PLOS Ecology Reporting Fellow, Caitlin McDonough, on research from the Ecological Society of America Scientific Meeting in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, August 7-11, 2016 on the PLOS Ecology Community blog.
Friday, October 14: 8:30-12:30
https://www.asist.org/events/annual-meeting/annual-meeting-2016/seminars...
Research in disciplines such as the earth and biological sciences depends on the availability of representative physical samples that have been collected at substantial cost and effort and some are irreplaceable. The EarthCube iSamples (Internet of Samples in the Earth Sciences) RCN (Research Coordination Network), funded by the National Science Foundation, aims to connect physical samples and sample collections across the Earth Sciences with digital data infrastructures to revolutionize their utility in the support of science. The goal of this workshop is to attract a broad audience comprising of biologists, earth scientists and those working with physical samples, data curators, along with computer and information scientists to learn from each other about the requirements of physical as well as digital sample and collection management. We are hosting a first workshop in this series in conjunction with the ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries 2016. A specific objective in conducting the proposed workshop is to connect sample-related communities in Europe and the USA.
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-- Contributed by Katie Peterson, PhD Student, Parent Lab, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Idaho
I am currently a third year PhD student at the University of Idaho in the Parent Lab. The Parent Lab studies the biodiversity and evolution of organisms that have recently colonized novel, “blank slate”, environments on islands....read more here.
