During its inaugural year, the Worldwide Engagement for Digitizing Biocollections Event, WeDigBio 2015, engaged thousands of citizen scientists from >50 countries in transcribing specimen labels over four days.
The Manger for Scientific Research Collections and Laboratory Analyses is responsible for planning, implementing and overseeing the archiving and analysis of biological (including tissues, specimens, and blood), physical, and chemical samples collected as part of the observations of the National Ecological Observatory Network (NEON). This position will coordinate and collaborate with NEON scientists to determine, document and establish archiving and analytical needs, develop and/or modify Statements of Work (SOWs) for those services, and support contract management. This person will actively engage with analytical laboratory and archive facilities and related science institutions for the purpose of maintaining a network of capability to serve NEON's collections and lab analysis service requirements and laboratory service. This position will also assist with the development and maintenance of required interfaces with other NEON teams, including working with the NEON Cyberinfrastructure team to develop and maintain the Sample Management System.
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The Florida Museum of Natural History recently released their 2014-2015 Annual Report that highlights the museum's research, outreach, and other achievements from the year. The report includes a two page spread on iDigBio which includes a summary of the project's outcomes, activites, and achievements from the past five years. The section can be found on pages 14 and 15 of the report.
Special Issue on Sustainability in Biobanking With guest editors Marianne Henderson, Daniel Simeon-Dubach, and Monique Albert.
From the Official Journal of the International Society for Biological and Environmental Repositories.
The issue includes ten articles with free access through February 1, 2016.
-- Contributed by Charlotte Germain-Aubrey
Using distribution models are crucial for estimating levels of biodiversity at the landscape level. Museum specimens are a significant source of information for these models as they witness current but also past habitats...read more here.
Image courtesy of Jim Kuhn
iDigBio and the Small Collections Network (SCNet) are pleased to announce the upcoming Small Collections Symposium at SPNHC 2016, to be held in Berlin, June 20-25.
Gehen Sie zu der SPNHC 2016 Konferenz? Are you going to the Society for Preservation of Natural History Collection's (SPNHC) 2016 Conference? It's in Berlin this year, from June 20 - 25, 2016.
