10th Anniversary of Florida Museum of Natural History’s ButterflyFest
Education and Outreach
Florida State University Transcription Blitz with Florida Native Plant Society
On Friday, May 29, Florida State University held a transcription blitz for attendees of the Florida Native Plant Society Annual Conference. This was the third digitization blitz hosted by iDigBio, the Southeastern Regional Network of Expertise and Collections Thematic Collections Network, and FSU's Robert K. Godfrey Herbarium.
Call for Participants for Worldwide Engagement for Digitizing Biocollections Event
Call for Participants for Collections Communications Workshop
See below for an invitation from the NSC Alliance:
Dear NSC Alliance Membership,
The NSC Alliance is cosponsoring with the Biodiversity Collections Network (BCoN) a Collections Communications Workshop this September 1-2. The workshop will be held at The Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago, Illinois.
Sustainability and Social Media Conference Report
UF CAIRES (Center for Adaptive Innovation, Resilience, Ethics, and Science) sponsored a two-day Sustainability and Social Media Conference on Friday, April 17-18 2015, at the Levin School of Law. iDigBio graduate student Randy Singer was fortunate enough to be invited as a panelist for a session on Digitizing Nature.
iDigBio Postdoc presents to Middle School Science Teachers about STEM
Photo courtesy of Mike Lauterborn.
iDig’dBio@ FSU’s Herbarium Imaging Blitz a Success!
By the numbers:
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)
An Outsider’s view inside NSF: Trends and Tips
This article was generated from a webinar presented as an addendum to the iDigBio Education & Outreach Workshop held in Gainesville, FL, January 15-17, 2014. Participants were interested in finding out more about applying for grants available through the National Science Foundation (NSF) for Education and Outreach.
If you are targeting the National Science Foundation (NSF) for Education and Outreach funding, you may be looking for money in all the wrong places. With creativity and knowledge you can find the right places.
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