Georeferencing: The Polygon Method
Georeferencing: The Polygon Method - a guest blog by Michael Yost, Macrofungi Collection Consortium (MaCC) Project Assistant at the Denver Botanic Gardens and active member of the iDigBio GWG.
Georeferencing: The Polygon Method - a guest blog by Michael Yost, Macrofungi Collection Consortium (MaCC) Project Assistant at the Denver Botanic Gardens and active member of the iDigBio GWG.

Photo courtesy of Philippe Henry
Pikas are small mammals in the order Lagomorpha. They belong to the family Ochotonidae, which comprises one extant genus (Ochotona) and 30 species. The majority of pika species occur in Asia, 24 of which are found in China.
We (D
eb Paul, Cathy Bester, and Molly Phillips) had a fun and productive time staffing the iDigBio exhibit at the 95th Annual meeting of the American Society of Mammalogists Conference in Jacksonville, Florida, June 12-15, 2015. We set up the 10’ exhibit with the TV displaying the iDigBio Explore Research video series (thank you to Kevin Love and Chris Baker for helping us set up!).

Photo by Rob Hoffman
A new University of Florida and Duke University collaboration aims to do for the tree of life what Google Earth did for navigation.

Photo courtesy of Reed Beaman.
June 3-5, 2015 (iDigBio API Hackathon) – Team Media Ingestion blog, by Ben Anhalt (University of Kansas/Specify), Benjamin Brandt (Arizona State University/Symbiota), Caitlin Chapman (Nort