iDigBio will be celebrating Earth Day at the Florida Museum, which will be hosting hands-on activities and a large pollinator-friendly plant sale. Check the Florida Museum website for the latest information as the Museum prepares for a better Earth Day celebration than ever before.
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.
Title: Make the Worldwide Engagement for Digitizing Biocollections (WeDigBio) Event an Exciting Part of your Institution’s Education and Outreach Activities
Moderator: Austin Mast (FSU Associate Professor)
Presenters: Libby Ellwood (FSU Post-Doctoral Researcher), and Paul Kimberly (NMNH Digitization Manager)
Date: February 17, 2016
Time: 12 -1 pm EDT
Location: http://idigbio.adobeconnect.com/eo
WiSE Girlz Science Camp is happening March 21-25, 2016.
For Whom: up to 12 selected 6th and 7th grader middle school girls
What: experience exciting real-world science during spring break and become science advocates in the community.
Cost: $10 per day fee, financial aid available to cover the $50.
The Education and Outreach Working Group and the Small Collections Network are collaborating on this webinar with the goal to increase awareness of WeDigBio 2016 in small collections across the country.
Title: A Small-collections On-Ramp for Participation in the 2016 Worldwide Engagement for Digitizing Biocollections (WeDigBio) Event
Presenter: Austin Mast (Florida State University, iDigBio)
The Education and Outreach Working Group is organizing a series of webinars on E&O related topics for 2016. The purpose of the series will be to share resources, tools, and expertise centered on E&O activities for ADBC partners and the collections community.
This is the fifth webinar in the series.
Title: Connecting Students to Citizen Science and Curated Collections: www.collectionseducation.org
Image courtesy of Jim Kuhn
The Education and Outreach Working Group is organizing a series of webinars on E&O related topics for 2016. The purpose of the series will be to share resources, tools, and expertise centered on E&O activities for ADBC partners and the collections community.
This is the third webinar in the series.
Title: iPlant's DNA Subway
Presenter: Jason Williams, Education, Outreach & Training (EOT) Lead for iPlant
The Education and Outreach Working Group is organizing a series of webinars on E&O related topics for 2016. The purpose of the series will be to share resources, tools, and expertise centered on E&O activities for ADBC partners and the collections community.
This is the second webinar in the series.
Title: Social Media and Telepresence to Engage the Public
The Education and Outreach Working Group Spring Meeting will take place February 8, 2016, from 2:30 pm until 4:00 pm EDT.
The meeting will be be held virtually using Adobe Connect
http://idigbio.adobeconnect.com/eo
Meeting Agenda will be posted soon.
Learn more about the E&O Working Group by visiting the Wiki. Email mphillips@flmnh.ufl.edu to join the working group.
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 H
Liberate centuries of data about life on earth! Contribute online either at a museum party or from a computer anywhere on the planet during the event. For more info, visit wedigbio.org.
Photo courtesy of Court Whelan
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.
Photo by Rob Hoffman
Male on the left and female on the right. Zachary S. Randall / FLMNH
Photo: Minky Faber (ALA)
Photo courtesy of Lary Reeves
Photo provided by FLMNH Invertebrate Zoology
Denver Museum of Nature & Science - photos by Chris Grinter
Photo courtesy of Gill Nelson.
The red maple (Acer rubrum) is a tree native to eastern North America. It is fast-growing with strong wood and can reach up to 75 feet in height. The red maple can tolerate a variety of soil types but naturally occurs in low, wet habitat (hence their other common name the swamp maple).
