Research Spotlight: July 2020
Contributed by: Aaron Goodman, Graduate Student Department of Entomology, California Academy of Sciences.
Contributed by: Aaron Goodman, Graduate Student Department of Entomology, California Academy of Sciences.
Article by: Zoliswa Nhleko, PhD candidate at the UF School of Natural Resources and Enviroment
Article by: Nattapol Kraisitudomsook, PhD student from the Smith Lab at the University of Florida
UPDATE:
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Many things have changed rapidly and these are unprecedented and stressful times, but one positive for our team now all working remotely are all of the new coworkers!
Contributed by Luis D. Verde Arregoitia.
Find him on Twitter @LuisDVerde or on his Website.
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Title: BioCASe Provider Software and ABCD: A Universal Approach for Biodiversity Collection Data
Date: Thursday, 16 April 2020
Where: https://fsu.zoom.us/j/962488863
Time (1 Hour): 11 AM EDT, 17:00 CEST, 15:00 GMT
Register now: 3-day Training to Develop a Sustainability Plan
The Sustaining Biological Infrastructure (SBI) Training Initiative is offering a spring session of their 3 day Strategies for Success course.
Reposting: Advancing the Catalogue of the World’s Natural History Collections from GBIF under the auspices of the Alliance for Biodiversity Knowledge and the SYNTHESYS+ project.
Release date: 2020-02-24 v1.0
Reposting: Does Biodiversity Informatics Love Wikidata? by Quentin Groom and Deborah Paul
Release date: 2020-02-21
UPDATE: Webinar Recording via Zoom.
See Survey Link in Webinar to provide your feedback!
Deborah L Paul, Capacity Development Manager
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
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:
Article contributed by Julie Bokor (UF Center for Precollegiate Education and Training)
Contributed by: J Ryan Allen, Dina Clark and Erin Tripp (University of Colorado)
Contributed by: Molly Phillips, iDigBio's Education, Outreach & Diversity Coordinator
Images courtesy of Adam Fagen
Article and photos contributed by Natasza Fontaine
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.