June 2021 Biodiversity Spotlight
"If their lives are short, they are merry," and "they still continue on singing till they die." - Benjamin Banneker
Photo by lalo_pangue on Flickr.
Outreach
May 2021 Biodiversity Spotlight
Phlox
Contributed by: Molly Phillips
Phlox drummondii found on the roadside in Florida this spring. Photo contributed by Shari Ellis.
2021 Digital Data Conference Mentoring Program
Virtual Mentoring: Since we are virtual again this year we created a way to digitize some of that organic mentoring magic that happens at every conference through a new initiative: the Digital Data Mentorship Program. We will pair biodiversity professionals as mentors with emerging professionals and students as mentees and arrange an opportunity for them to speak informally about research, academia, careers, and beyond!
Collections Education Coffee Break Series
2021 Digital Data Bioblitz
How many species can YOU find?
The 2021 Digital Data BioBlitz will be conducted virtually Jun 5-9, 2021. To participate, all you need is a smartphone, tablet, or a camera and computer.
To participate all you have to do is:
The Natural History Education DemoCamp
March 2021 Biodiversity Spotlight
STEM Inclusive Teaching Practices Webinar Series: The Biocultural Labels Initiative
A Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Reading List, with Special Emphasis on Natural Sciences and Natural History Museums
As the hub for digitization of U.S. natural history collections, iDigBio aims to engage our community in promoting a more diverse, equitable, inclusive, and actively anti-racist community. To that end, the iDigBio team focused on issues of Education, Outreach, Diversity, and Inclusion has compiled this reading list to begin conversations in the classroom, in museum collections, and among colleagues.
February 2021 Biodiversity Spotlight
Photo courtesy of Jeffrey Weinell, University of Kansas Biodiversity Institute and Natural History Museum
iDigBio Natural History Collections Summer Internship 2021
WeDigBio 2020
Contributed by: Libby Ellwood, Austin Mast, Robert Bruhn and Kevin Love
Scientist in the Spotlight: Noé De La Sancha
In our series, "Scientist in the Spotlight" we’ll sit down with the ADBC (Advancing Digitization of Biodiversity Collections) program's best and brightest to learn more about what makes them tick. This month, we had a chance to speak with Noé De La Sancha. He is a part of the oVert TCN.
Where are you from?
November 2020 Biodiversity Spotlight
2020 SACNAS National Diversity in STEM Conference
Contributed by: Molly Phillips
October 2020 Biodiversity Spotlight
Contributed by Cat Chapman
Have you ever been out on a walk through nature, or even in your neighborhood, and saw what appeared to be a clump of tiny leaves, debris, or lichen… only to see it move?
Upon closer inspection of this mysteriously motile clump of detritus, you may see that it has tiny little legs underneath it. It’s alive!
Meet the trash bug!
Biodiversity Spotlight: September 2020
Written by Erica Krimmel.
An Introduction for Educators to the WeDigBio Event, a Global Data Creation Campaign
Botany Students Study Effects of Climate Change — Using 100-Year-Old Plants
What can 120-year-old flower buds neatly pressed to paper teach you about climate change? As it turns out, a lot.
Nineteen botany students had the chance to dive into more than a century of California’s plant data this spring in an exploration of the nuances plant life using computer programming and statistical analyses.
Biodiversity Spotlight: August 2020
Written by: Alnycea Blackwell and Cat Chapman
SPNHC 2020 Educational Materials Share Session
Biodiversity Spotlight: July 2020
Article by: Caitlin J.Campbell, Graduate Assistant at the UF Department of Biology
STEM Inclusive Teaching Practices Episode Four
Episode Four
Title: Beyond Techniques: A Phenomenological Approach to Inclusive Teaching
May 2020 Biodiversity Spotlight
Article by: Nattapol Kraisitudomsook, PhD student from the Smith Lab at the University of Florida
Webinar: Introduction to Arctos for Teaching Collections
Title: Introduction to Arctos for Teaching Collections
Date: Tuesday, April 14, 2020
Time: 3pm ET
Where: https://idigbio.adobeconnect.com/room
Presenter: Anna Chinn (Assistant Collections Manager, Chicago Academy of Sciences / Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum)
April 2020: Biodiversity Spotlight
Margay
STEM Inclusive Teaching Practices Webinar Series: Episode Two
EDSINFirst SciComm 101 Workshop
STEM Inclusive Teaching Practices Webinar Series: Episode One
New version of fossil-recognition app now works on Android smartphones and includes Cretaceous period
LAWRENCE — In 2015, when researchers at the University of Kansas Biodiversity Institute and Natural History Museum released the free Digital Atlas of Ancient Life app, they didn’t know what kind of reception the smartphone-based field guide might receive.
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