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UF receives $1.97 million NSF grant to develop paleontology network
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — With the goal of promoting life-long learning, University of Florida researchers will use a four-year, $1.97 million National Science Foundation grant to create a nationwide network of amateur and professional paleontologists.
Weekend Digitization Blitz Yields 4,276 Specimen Images for Archbold Biological Station
iDigBio, Archbold Biological Station, Tall Timbers Research Station (TTRS), and the Godfrey Herbarium at Florida State University (FSU) teamed up the weekend of January 18th and part of the following week to image Archbold’s entire herbarium collection. Gil Nelson and Joanna McCaffrey hauled a carload of contributed technology, including camera stations and equipment provided by TTRS and FSU as well as iDigBio’s new OR Technologies light box to the south-central Florida field station for the event.
Education & Outreach Workshop
The Education and Outreach Workshop, held in Gainesville, FL from January 15-17, 2014, brought together representatives from each TCN to broaden our knowledge of E&O opportunities, resources, and strategies. Education and outreach are critical components of iDigBio TCNs. These activities are as wide-ranging and diverse as the TCNs themselves, and have likewise engaged a variety of students.
Applying Value to a Collection
Courtesy of the iDigBio Paleo Digitization Working Group
What price do you put on a holotype or paratype? What price do you put on extripated or extinct (recently living) species? What price do you put on specimens from sites that no longer exist and are not collectable?
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Two million species and counting: completing the catalogue of life
We have just returned from a month collecting insects in the National Heritage-listed Kimberley region of Western Australia. Together with the Wunambal Gaambera and Dambimangari Aboriginal Corporations and University of Western Australia, our team of scientists collected something in the order of 300,000 insect specimens. Read More.
Canada's Museum of Nature is Digitizing 3 Million Specimens. Part of an international movement to put archives online for researchers.
Canada's Museum of Nature is part of an international movement to put archives online for researchers. CLICK HERE to read full article on CBC News site.
By Max Paris Environment Unit, CBC News Posted: Jan 05, 2014 9:00 PM ET Last Updated: Jan 05, 2014 12:21 PM ET
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