Florida Museum professors receive international biology award
May 24, 2016
Writer: Elizabeth Brown, 352-273-2034, ebrown@flmnh.ufl.edu
Media contact: Paul Ramey, 352-273-2054, pramey@flmnh.ufl.edu
GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- Two Florida Museum of Natural History professors have received the 2016 Darwin-Wallace Medal from the Linnean Society of London, considered one of the top international awards given to researchers studying evolutionary biology.
From the Pensoft Editorial Team
-- Contributed by Lauren Gonzalez
I’m currently a graduate student in the Soltis Lab in the Florida Museum of Natural History, working on Polygonella(Polygonaceae), sometimes called the jointweeds....read more here.
Invitation to Symposium
Developing a Global Research Infrastructure (GRI) framework for bio-collections
Fri June 24 (Organised during the SPNHC meeting in Berlin, 20-25 June)
Dear all,
We would like to invite you to participate to the Symposium on developing a common framework for building a Global Research Infrastructure (GRI) on bio-collections. We are at a pivotal point where existing regional Research Infrastructures (RI) are assessing their international collaboration aspects, whilst for other regions new opportunities arise for the development of new RIs.
During this Symposium we will present current and under development regional and continental-wide initiatives for developing Research Infrastructures. Building on the work of the US based ADBC programme and its coordinating groups, like iDigBio, as well as the work of organisations and projects such as CETAF, GBIF, TDWG, NSCA and SYNTHESYS we aim to agree on the principles that as an international framework for developing a bio-collections GRI.
Please find the invite along with the agenda below
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B59nd-8PkyHYem9LaXhBeWdxWnM/view?usp=sh...
The symposium co-chairs,
Dimitris Koureas - Natural History Museum London
Ana Casino - Consortium of European Taxonomic Facilities
Photo courtesy of Phil Colclough
A Leopard Shark (Triakis semifasciata) was found in Samish Bay, Washington, making it the northern-most record for this species
This specimen comes from the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History (YPM). It was collected in 1929 by HR Mooney and donated to the YPM in 1930.
For optimum results, digitization of collections needs to go faster, right? Of course, this includes addressing data quality and completeness.
by Libby Ellwood and Austin Mast
-- Contributed by Shelley A James
Puerto Rico – warm Caribbean seas, high biodiversity, and coqui frogs. iDigBio was invited to NatureServe’s Biodiversity without Boundaries 2016 meeting in April 2016 to share ideas and resources with members of the conservation community....read more here.
