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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.”
BIOSPEX—A Crowdsourcing Management System
The BIOSPEX Management System—Provision, Advertise, and Lead Crowdsourcing Projects
University of Texas Proves an Excellent Venue for Paleo Imaging Workshop
There may be no place better than the University of Texas to conduct a broad-based paleo imaging workshop. This certainly seemed the consensus the week of 29 April at the co-sponsored iDigBio and Jackson School of Geosciences imaging event.
Students Shadow Scientists at the Florida Museum of Natural History
Fifteen undergraduate students from seven Florida colleges and universities converged on the Florida Museum of Natural History April 17-19 for an all-expense-paid opportunity to shadow museum professionals and explore careers in the biological sciences.
Recruiting, Supporting, and Retaining Small Collections Workshop: A Student’s Perspective
by Abigail Hollingsworth
Women in Science and Engineering Science Spring Camp
Studies show that as girls transfer from middle to high school, they can perceive science as ‘uncool’ and subsequently loose interest in scientific careers. iDigBio postdoctoral associate Dr. Charlotte Germain-Aubrey, external vice-president of the Women in Science and Engineering (WiSE) at the University of Florida, created the WiSE Girlz Spring Science Camp to contradict this notion.
Biological Collections Digitization in the Pacific
Fossils, Seeds, and Space Rocks: Improving the Management of and Access to the Nation’s Scientific Collections
In a memorandum released today, OSTP Director John P.
Digitizing Source Materials Workshop: A Step Toward Best Practices
The source materials associated with biodiversity collections often contain the most complete and sometimes most accurate descriptions of localities, collecting events, and even the collection objects themselves of any extant documentation.
IDigBio Initiatives for Small Natural History Collections
iDigBio participates in several initiatives designed to serve, support, and connect small natural history collections.
Recruiting Young Biologists at the Florida Undergraduate Research Conference
Biodiversity Collections Digitization in the Pacific
Digitizing Original Source Materials Workshop
Careers and Graduate Study in the Biological Sciences
Weekend Digitization Blitz Yields 4,276 Specimen Images for Archbold Biological Station
iDigBio, Archbold Biological Station, Tall Timbers Research Station (TTRS), and the Godfrey Herbarium at Florida State University (FSU) teamed up the weekend of January 18th and part of the following week to image Archbold’s entire herbarium collection. Gil Nelson and Joanna McCaffrey hauled a carload of contributed technology, including camera stations and equipment provided by TTRS and FSU as well as iDigBio’s new OR Technologies light box to the south-central Florida field station for the event.
Education & Outreach Workshop
The Education and Outreach Workshop, held in Gainesville, FL from January 15-17, 2014, brought together representatives from each TCN to broaden our knowledge of E&O opportunities, resources, and strategies. Education and outreach are critical components of iDigBio TCNs. These activities are as wide-ranging and diverse as the TCNs themselves, and have likewise engaged a variety of students.
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