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Data Carpentry - Please can we have some more?!
iDigBio and the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) co-hosted a Data Carpentry Workshop on Monday and Tuesday, September 29 – 30, 2014.
Workshop Opportunity: Strategies for Vertebrate Digitization
Florida Museum of Natural History ButterflyFest 2014
iDigBio staff participated in the Florida Museum of Natural History’s annual event ButterflyFest “A Celebration of Wings, Wildlife and Biodiversity”. The event was held Saturday, October 4, at the Florida Museum of Natural History in Gainesville Florida.
NSF's BIO Postdoctoral Program Has New Collections Research Area
NSF’s Directorate for Biological Sciences’ (BIO) Postdoctoral Research Fellowships in Biology (PRFB) Solicitation was recently published for 2015. The fellowships will be awarded to 40 recent recipients of their doctoral degree for research and training in three selected areas.
The three selected areas for fiscal year 2015 are:
A New Report of Recommendations for DNA Banking
The use of sequencing and other molecular data now plays a critical role in the majority of research across the fields of systematics, ecology, and evolutionary biology. In addition, DNA barcoding offers an efficient way to identify specimens for large efforts like biodiversity inventory projects or biological resource management.
iDig’dBio@ FSU’s Herbarium Imaging Blitz a Success!
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Short Course Announcement: Basics of CT Data Acquisition, Visualization, and Analysis
SHORT COURSE: Basics of CT Data Acquisition, Visualization, and Analysis
DATE: 22-26 February 2015 (22 and 26 are travel days)
Undergraduates Learn About Careers and Graduate Study in Biology at the Field Museum
About 50 undergraduates and recent graduates attended the Careers and Graduate Studies in the Biological Sciences workshop in Chicago, 6 September 2014.
iDigBio meets ESA
August 2014
Written by Libby Ellwood, iDigBio Postdoctorial Associate, Florida State University.
Deb Paul and I attended the Ecological Society of America conference in Sacramento, CA to represent iDigBio with an exhibitor booth. We set up our table with computers, brochures, posters, videos, newsletter sign-up sheets and, of course, enticing candy.
NSF awards $7.5 million to UF-led effort to digitize biodiversity collections
Florida Museum of Natural History research assistant Zachary Randall uses an imaging system to photograph a skin of Brandt’s Hedgehog, Paraechinus hypomelas, so the digitized specimen can be accessed online.
Florida Museum of Natural History photo by Rob Robins
New Initiative Will Improve Access to Biological Collections, Data
Scientists announce national effort to foster digitization of biodiversity collections
Writing a proposal for the ADBC program at NSF
August 2014
Often at iDigBio sponsored workshops, symposia, and outreach events, we are asked the question: “How can I write a successful ADBC proposal?”
Volunteering for the Summer at NYBG and AMNH
By Chelsea Fowler
iDigBio and NANSH Host Small Herbarium Digitization Workshop at Botany 2014
CPET Workshop Center for Pre-collegiate Educational Training
iDigBio Retreat 2014: Increasing Engagement and Strengthening Partnerships
Title: iDigBio Retreat 2014: Increasing Engagement and Strengthening Partnerships
Setting: Austin Cary Forest Campus
At the Helm: iDigBio's Project Manager, David Jennings
Members of the crew: iDigBio Staff
Out of the Darkness - Bringing Biological Collections into the 21st Century
Larry Page would like to get back to his fishes, the catfish and loaches he studies as a University of Florida ichthyologist, but first he and his colleagues have some work to do on plant, animal and fossil specimens — millions of them.
Page and an army of helpers are on year three of iDigBio, a 10-year, $12 million effort to digitize the biological specimens tucked away in museum collections across the country. He estimates there could be 1 billion nationally, representing the collected knowledge of biological diversity for vast swaths of the planet.
Graduate Course Announcement: Broader Impacts of Science on Society
Dr. Bruce J. MacFadden, Distinguished Professor and Curator, Florida Museum of Natural History, and Dr. David L. Reed, Professor and Curator, Florida Museum of Natural History, have announced a Graduate Course entitled “Broader Impacts of Science on Society.”
iDigBio Grad Student, Claudia Segovia, Awarded 2014 Lockhart Dissertation Fellowship
Claudia Segovia, a Graduate Student working with Dr. Pam Soltis on the iDigBio project, has been awarded the 2014 Association for Academic Women “Lockhart Dissertation Fellowship,” which honors an outstanding female graduate student. Claudia works in the Molecular Systematic and Evolutionary Genetics Lab at UF's Florida Museum of Natural History.
iDig'dBio@ Imaging Blitz
Portal Updated with the v4 Code
The v4 release of iDigBio's Specimen Portal includes a number of upgraded features that add to its functionality and usability. The IT Team has worked hard to provide the ability to display and query georeferenced data, including latitude and longitude, maximum and minimum elevation, and depth ranges, within bounding boxes.
Workshop Opportunity: Leveraging Digitization Practices Across Multiple Domains
Careers and Graduate Study in the Biological Sciences: A Workshop for Undergraduate Students
To be held at the Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, September 6, 2014.
Space for this workshop is limited and first-come, first-served. To register and ensure your spot, complete the online registration form at your earliest convenience.
Specify Workshop for Paleontologists and Collaborating to Make it Easier to Start Digitizing
by Deb Paul (on Twitter @idbdeb)
Have you used Specify? Or, are you looking for an easy way to install and try this collection management software?
Specify Paleo Collections Workshop - training, new technology, and data models
guest blog by Talia Karim (University of Colorado) and Una Farrell (University of Kansas)
iDigBio Digitization Workshop at TORCH 2014
by Deb Paul, Joanna McCaffrey, Kevin Love
Hands-On Learning: Fossils in the Classroom
CoGe: Collaborative Georeferencing Demo Webinar
by Deborah Paul for Nelson E. Rios
If you need to georeference hundreds of thousands of localities for millions of specimens, how will you get it done? On May 1st, 2014, 88 people logged in to find out more about how to use CoGe, or Collaborative Georeferencing using a suite of tools developed at Tulane Biodiversity Institute.
Collections for the 21st Century Report
“Those millions of bugs on pins, pressed plants, preserved animals and fossils hold a wealth of information about the adaptive abilities of our natural world, not to mention the DNA and curative uses yet to be discovered.”
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