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July 2015 Biodiversity Spotlight
American pika (Ochotona princeps)
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.
Tales from the iDigBio Booth: American Society of Mammalogists Conference
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!).
Delta High School Student Presents to Scientists at 3D Digitization Workshop
Photo by Rob Hoffman
New NSF Project Aims to Help Scientists Navigate the Tree of Life
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.
SPNHC2015 Symposium: Specimens Full Circle: Collection to Digitization to Data Use
An overview. from Deb Paul, Dena Smith, and Vlad Blagoderov
Summary.
iDigBio API Hackathon Media Ingestion Group Report
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
Reproducible Science Workshop at iDigBio
By François Michonneau, @fmic_ (with editorial suggestions from Judit Ungvari-Martin)
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