Biodiversity Next 2019: vision, inspiration, action for our collective future
Deborah L Paul, Capacity Development Manager
Featured
October 2019 Biodiversity Spotlight
Being Loved To Death – A Third of Cacti at Risk of Extinction
Article contributed by: Lin Li, Project Manager, Endless Forms TCN
ADBC Summit 2019 Report
Data Questions? Data Help Desk has the Answers
Originally published by the Ecological Society of America, Ecotone Blog (after ESA/USSEE 2019 Conference). Reposted with permission from ESA.
Amber E. Budden, Megan Carter, Jeanette Clark, Kyle Copas, Stevan Earl, Megan A. Jones, Margaret O’Brien, Deborah L Paul, Dmitry Schigel, Kristin Vanderbilt, Rebekah Wallace
2019 TCN and PEN Awards
Welcome to all of the newly NSF-funded Advancing Digitization of Biodiversity Collections (ADBC) projects. This year we have three new Thematic Collections Networks (TCNs) and six Partners to Existing Networks (PENs) joining the community.
2019 TCNs:
oVert Workshop: 3D Vertebrates, From Museum Shelves to Classrooms
Article contributed by Julie Bokor (UF Center for Precollegiate Education and Training)
SoRo Mountain TCN Field to Digital Object Workshop introduces undergraduate students to museum careers
Contributed by: J Ryan Allen, Dina Clark and Erin Tripp (University of Colorado)
BioQUEST and QUBES Summer Workshop 2019
Contributed by: Molly Phillips, iDigBio's Education, Outreach & Diversity Coordinator
Images courtesy of Adam Fagen
July 2019 Biodiversity Spotlight
Yellow-billed Cuckoo, Coccyzus americanus
Article and photos contributed by Natasza Fontaine
American Society of Mammalogists (ASM) 2019
The 99th Annual Meeting and Centennial Celebration of the American Society of Mammalogists took place 28 June to 2 July 2019, at the birthplace of ASM, Washington, DC. iDigBio helped to mark this important milestone through organizing a session on broadening representation in mammalogy as well organizing the first ever Data Help Desk at ASM.
Third Annual Digital Data in Biodiversity Research Conference: Methods, Protocols, and Analytical Tools for Specimen-based Research in the Biological Sciences
Research Spotlight: June 2019
Developing a vocabulary and ontology for modeling insect natural history data
This article was contributed by Brian Stucky, Florida Museum of Natural History.
Figure1: A specimen of the cicada Hadoa duryi, available on the iDigBio portal.
June 2019 Biodiversity Spotlight
Article contributed by David Blackburn, Catherine Early, and Ed Stanley from the oVert TCN.
Research Spotlight: May 2019
Conservation Focus: New Insights for Conservation from Expansion of Physical‐Collection Digital Data
Libby Ellwood, Pam Soltis, and Mary Klein
May 2019 Biodiversity Spotlight
Photo courtesy of: David Keil
Article contributed by: Katelin Pearson
iDigBio Hosts the Life Discovery Conference
Bioblitz group photo (Florida Museum Photo Department)
Biodiversity Data Dialogues: a Special Session at Ecological Society of America 2019
This year, GBIF, NEON, and iDigBio join together to bring a special session called "Biodiversity Data Dialogues" to the Ecological Society of America/USSEE* 2019 Joint Meeting.
From the abstract:
iDigBio at SPNHC 2019: Making the Case for Natural History Collections
The SPNHC 2019 theme: Making the Case for Natural History Collections offers everyone a chance to share the value of collections for society and science. iDigBio staff look forward to contributing to this story and visiting the Field Museum who are hosting this year's SPNHC meeting.
Some of the events iDigBio is organizing or participating in include:
iDigBio in The Digital Future of Entomology - Symposium and Panel at Eastern EntSoc 2019
UPDATE: See the wiki for talks. Slides to be uploaded to wiki soon. Blog post in April 2019.
iDigBio Update from 2018
Research Spotlight: October 2018
Metabolic rates, climate, and macroevolution: a case study using Neogene molluscs
Luke C. Strotz, Erin E. Saupe, Julien Kimmig and Bruce S. Lieberman
Darwin Core Hour: An Attribution Darwin Core Extension - What Would That Look Like?
UPDATE: Recording and Slides available at the following links.
Title: An Attribution Darwin Core Extension - What Would That Look Like?
Date: Monday, 29 October 2018
ADBC Summit 2018 Report
Summit 2018 group photo
September 2018 Biodiversity Spotlight
Research Spotlight: September 2018
Utilising publicly available species occurrence records to generate contemporary estimates of medically important snake species distributions
Contributed by: Joshua Longbottom, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine
Shining a New Light on the World’s Collections
Drawers, Jars and Databases: A Workshop for North Carolina Educators
Workshop Group Photo
MyCoPortal helps save life!
Contributed by: Timothy J. Baroni & Andrew N. Miller
State University of New York, Cortland, NY and University of Illinois, Champaign, IL
Chlorophyllum molybdites (Image courtesy of Roy Halling)
July 2018 Biodiversity Spotlight
Rattails and Grenadiers (Family Macrouridae)
Images courtesy of NOAA Okeanos Explorer
Contributed by Randy Singer
Research Spotlight: July 2018
Digital Coyote; an online archive of skulls
Contributed by: Osrica Mclean and Declan McCabe
How can you provide an authentic opportunity for undergraduate students to study geographical variation without hauling them to major metropolitan museums and arranging access to valuable specimens? This question started a slightly obsessive odyssey that began with a single coyote skull and now stands at 125 skulls….and counting.
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