iDigBio Interns go to Botany Conference with UF Soltis Lab
Written by: Makenize Mabry
Botany
iDigBio at BOTANY 2022
Join iDigBio staff at BOTANY 2022, the annual meeting of Botanical Society of America and its partners, to be held in Anchorage, Alaska. You can see more details about this event on the conference website here.
Biodiversity Spotlight: March 2022
Draba verna flowering. Image taken from: https://awkwardbotany.com/2018/05/23/tiny-plants-draba-verna/
Every year around this time I think about Aldo Leopold’s ode to Draba, a tiny, inconspicuous plant that can serve as an early sign of spring in some areas for the extra observant.
iDigBio at Botany 2021
iDigBio researchers and staff joined nearly 2000 other attendees from over 60 countries at the virtual Botany Conference, July 18-23, 2021. Talks throughout the conference showcased the essential role of herbaria–and digitized data associated with herbarium specimens–in the botanical sciences.
Colloquium: Enhancing Quality and Use of Herbarium Collection Data through Community Data Curation
Join iDigBio and colleagues from GBIF, Université de Montréal, New York Botanical Garden, and NHM London in a colloquium at the Botany 2021 conference highlighting the impact of and potential for community data curation on herbaria.
BOTANY 2020 Symposium: Biodiversity Research Collecting Is More Important Than Ever—Ushering in a Collecting Renaissance
Botany 2016
July 30 - August 3, 2016
International Trade and Convention Center
Savannah, Georgia
The annual Botany Conference is a multiple scientific society conference serving over 1,000 plant scientists and students whose research and practice span the globe. The conference encompasses the diverse scope of botanical study. Come visit us at the iDigBio Booth!
Webinar: Shaping the semantic layer by mining digitised data: an encounter between iDigBio's plant records and the Environment Ontology (ENVO)
Article Highlights Plant Blindness
"By not paying attention to this whole kingdom of life, we lose something really important -
I work every day to combat it," Christopher Martine
Dr. Lena Struwe working with graduate student Lauren Frazee (front), and undergraduate Alisha Sharma. (Rutgers University)
iDigBio Botany 2012 Digitization Workshop - Open Registration
Registration is open for the Specimen Digitization Tools and Practices Workshop at the Botany 2012 Conference. The workshop will introduce current and future biological and paleontological specimen collections staff to resources and workflows that can lead to greater efficiencies in the digitization of their collections. The workshop will be held from 8:00 AM – 5:30 PM on Thursday, July 12, the day after the conference at the conference facility. Note: you do NOT have to attend the conference to attend the workshop.
Workshop and Symposium at Botany 2012
It is our pleasure to announce the Specimen Digitization Tools and Practices Workshop at the Botany 2012 Conference. The workshop is designed to introduce current and future biological and paleontological specimen collections staff to resources and workflows that can lead to greater efficiencies in the digitization of their collections. The workshop is organized by iDigBio, the National Resource for Advancing Digitization of Biological Collections. It will be held from 8:00AM – 5:00PM on Thursday, July 12, the day after the conference at the conference facility. A dinner for workshop participants will follow.
