Data Capture and Analysis of Artifacts and Biological Specimens Using Multi-Channel Images
DATA CAPTURE AND ANALYSIS OF ARTIFACTS AND BIOLOGICAL SPECIMENS USING MULTI-CHANNEL IMAGES
Dr. Corey Toler-Franklin, iDigBio Visiting Scholar
Data Capture and Analysis of Artifacts and Biological Specimens Using Multi-Channel Images
DATA CAPTURE AND ANALYSIS OF ARTIFACTS AND BIOLOGICAL SPECIMENS USING MULTI-CHANNEL IMAGES
Dr. Corey Toler-Franklin, iDigBio Visiting Scholar
iDigBio Visiting Scholars Program Available at the University of Florida
The NSF-funded iDigBio project is pleased to announce the annual Visiting Scholars Program. This program is directed towards early-career collections and informatics-based professionals with demonstrated interest in digitization, particularly those who broaden representation within this academic and professional community.
First Ever Natural History Education DemoCamp
SACNAS Summer Virtual BioBlitz LIVE EVENT
Hey SACNistas! Come join us for a live, one-hour event at 9:00am PST/12:00pm EST in association with the SACNAS Summer Virtual BioBlitz on July 28th!
Biodiversity Spotlight: July 2021
Written by Erica Krimmel.
June 2021 Biodiversity Spotlight
"If their lives are short, they are merry," and "they still continue on singing till they die." - Benjamin Banneker
Photo by lalo_pangue on Flickr.
May 2021 Biodiversity Spotlight
Phlox
Contributed by: Molly Phillips
Phlox drummondii found on the roadside in Florida this spring. Photo contributed by Shari Ellis.
Collections Education Coffee Break Series
The Natural History Education DemoCamp
March 2021 Biodiversity Spotlight
STEM Inclusive Teaching Practices Webinar Series: The Biocultural Labels Initiative
A Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Reading List, with Special Emphasis on Natural Sciences and Natural History Museums
As the hub for digitization of U.S. natural history collections, iDigBio aims to engage our community in promoting a more diverse, equitable, inclusive, and actively anti-racist community. To that end, the iDigBio team focused on issues of Education, Outreach, Diversity, and Inclusion has compiled this reading list to begin conversations in the classroom, in museum collections, and among colleagues.
February 2021 Biodiversity Spotlight
Photo courtesy of Jeffrey Weinell, University of Kansas Biodiversity Institute and Natural History Museum
STEM Inclusive Teaching Practices Webinar Series: Socially Relevant Teaching in the Time of COVID-19
EDSIN (Environmental Data Science Inclusion Network),
iDigBio Natural History Collections Summer Internship 2021
WeDigBio 2020
Contributed by: Libby Ellwood, Austin Mast, Robert Bruhn and Kevin Love
November 2020 Biodiversity Spotlight
October 2020 Biodiversity Spotlight
Contributed by Cat Chapman
Have you ever been out on a walk through nature, or even in your neighborhood, and saw what appeared to be a clump of tiny leaves, debris, or lichen… only to see it move?
Upon closer inspection of this mysteriously motile clump of detritus, you may see that it has tiny little legs underneath it. It’s alive!
Meet the trash bug!
Scientist in the Spotlight: Diego Barroso
In our series, "Scientist in the Spotlight" we’ll sit down with the ADBC (Advancing Digitization of Biodiversity Collections) program's best and brightest to learn more about what makes them tick. This month, we had a chance to speak with Diego Barroso. He works at the Botanical Research Institute of Texas as the project manager of the TORCH TCN.
Biodiversity Spotlight: September 2020
Written by Erica Krimmel.
An Introduction for Educators to the WeDigBio Event, a Global Data Creation Campaign
Botany Students Study Effects of Climate Change — Using 100-Year-Old Plants
What can 120-year-old flower buds neatly pressed to paper teach you about climate change? As it turns out, a lot.
Nineteen botany students had the chance to dive into more than a century of California’s plant data this spring in an exploration of the nuances plant life using computer programming and statistical analyses.
Biodiversity Spotlight: August 2020
Written by: Alnycea Blackwell and Cat Chapman
Scientist in the Spotlight: Jennifer Zaspel
SPNHC 2020 Educational Materials Share Session
Biodiversity Spotlight: July 2020
Article by: Caitlin J.Campbell, Graduate Assistant at the UF Department of Biology
STEM Inclusive Teaching Practices Episode Four
Episode Four
Title: Beyond Techniques: A Phenomenological Approach to Inclusive Teaching
Scientist in the Spotlight
Biodiversity Spotlight: June 2020
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