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Research Spotlight: July 2016
Jointweeds and Their Many Mating Systems!
-- 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.
Symposium - Global Research Infrastructure for bio-collections - June 24, Berlin
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
May 2016 Biodiversity Spotlight
Hellbender (Cryptobranchus alleganiensis)
Photo courtesy of Phil Colclough
Portal Curiosities: An Adventurous Shark
A Leopard Shark (Triakis semifasciata) was found in Samish Bay, Washington, making it the northern-most record for this species
Portal Curiosities: A Remarkable Woodchuck Skull
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.
From iDigBio - About the Cisco Pit Stop: Digitising the Natural History Museum’s collections
For optimum results, digitization of collections needs to go faster, right? Of course, this includes addressing data quality and completeness.
WeDigBio 2016 Starts to Take Shape
by Libby Ellwood and Austin Mast
Research Spotlight: May 2016
Playing with biological specimen data in iDigBio – limitations and solutions for research
-- 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.
Biodiversity without Boundaries 2016: iDigBio meets the NatureServe conservation network
Conservation. Endangered and rare species. Species distribution maps. Habitat and landscape integrity analysis. Observational data.
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