March 2016 Biodiversity Spotlight
Red-Cockaded Woodpecker (Picoides borealis)
Outreach
February 2016 Biodiversity Spotlight
Madagascar
WeDigBio 2016 Call for Participation
During its inaugural year, the Worldwide Engagement for Digitizing Biocollections Event, WeDigBio 2015, engaged thousands of citizen scientists from >50 countries in transcribing specimen labels over four days.
January 2016 Biodiversity Spotlight
Graygreen Reindeer Moss (Cladonia rangiferina)
Image courtesy of Jim Kuhn
November 2015 Biodiversity Spotlight
Libraries of Life Launches at iDigBio Summit V
The Inaugural WeDigBio Event: Global Event Advances Digitization and Science Literacy
Hundreds of volunteers around the world transcribed >30,000 specimen labels at 25 events over four days (Oct 22–25, 2015) in the first Worldwide Engagement for Digitizing Biocollections (WeDigBio) event. Events spanned a range of formal and informal education
venues, from middle-school and undergraduate science classrooms to county libraries to museums, universities, and botanical gardens, such as the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural Histor
Undergraduate Resources
Collections-Based Online Resources for Undergraduate Students and Educators
October 2015 Biodiversity Spotlight
Monarch Butterfly Danaus plexippus
Photo courtesy of Court Whelan
Undergraduates Learn About Careers and Graduate Study in Biology at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences
September 2015 Biodiversity Spotlight
August 2015 Biodiversity Spotlight
July 2015 Biodiversity Spotlight
American pika (Ochotona princeps)
Photo courtesy of Philippe Henry
Pikas are small mammals in the order Lagomorpha. They belong to the family Ochotonidae, which comprises one extant genus (Ochotona) and 30 species. The majority of pika species occur in Asia, 24 of which are found in China.
Delta High School Student Presents to Scientists at 3D Digitization Workshop
Photo by Rob Hoffman
June 2015 Biodiversity Spotlight
May 2015 Biodiversity Spotlight
Fathead Minnow (Pimephales promelas)
Male on the left and female on the right. Zachary S. Randall / FLMNH
Digitization of Biological Collections: A Global Focus
Photo: Minky Faber (ALA)
April 2015 Biodiversity Spotlight
Dusky Pygmy Rattlesnake (Sistrurus miliarius barbouri)
Photo courtesy of Lary Reeves
March 2015 Biodiversity Spotlight
Lettuce Sea Slug (Elysia crispata)
Photo provided by FLMNH Invertebrate Zoology
February 2015 Biodiversity Spotlight
Festive Tiger Beetle: Cicindela scutellaris scutellaris
Denver Museum of Nature & Science - photos by Chris Grinter
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