Registration Open for Fall 2023 Strategic Planning for Biodiversity Collections Course
Dear Colleagues,
iDigBio is pleased to announce an 8-week "Strategic Planning for Biodiversity Collections” online course!
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Registration Open for Spring 2023 Strategic Planning for Herbaria Course
Dear Colleagues,
The Society of Herbarium Curators and iDigBio are pleased to announce an 8-week "Strategic Planning for Herbaria” online course.
Job Opening: Biodiversity Software Engineer
Arizona State University is hiring a part-time biodiversity software engineer. Inquiries to nico.franz@asu.edu are welcome.
Complete details are available here: https://sjobs.brassring.com/TGnewUI/Search/Home/Home?partnerid=25620&sit...
Job Advertisement for iDigBio Deputy Project Manager
Job Advertisement for iDigBio Project Assistant
Job Advertisement for iDigBio EODI Coordinator
Registration Open for Fall 2022 Strategic Planning for Biodiversity Collections Course
Dear Colleagues,
iDigBio is pleased to announce an 8-week "Strategic Planning for Biodiversity Collections” online course.
Take this opportunity to introduce new purpose and excitement into your organization. Prepare to relate your collection’s compelling vision to stakeholders and discuss long-term goals and strategies with administrators.
2022 Strategic Planning for Herbaria Online Course
Dear Colleagues,
The Society of Herbarium Curators and iDigBio are pleased to announce an 8-week "Strategic Planning for Herbaria” online course.
Take this opportunity to introduce new purpose and excitement into your organization. Prepare to relate your herbarium’s compelling vision to stakeholders and discuss long-term goals and strategies with administrators.
iDigBio Digitization Academy: Introduction to Biodiversity Specimen Digitization course
We are excited to introduce the first professional development opportunity offered by the iDigBio Digitization Academy: Introduction to Biodiversity Specimen Digitization.
This free, online course is focused on introducing the creation of digital data about biodiversity specimens to those who are just beginning this activity.
Strategic Planning for Biodiversity Collections Online Course
Dear Colleagues,
iDigBio is pleased to announce a 7-week "Strategic Planning for Biodiversity Collections” online course.
Take this opportunity to introduce new purpose and excitement into your organization. Prepare to relate your collection’s compelling vision to stakeholders and discuss long-term goals and strategies with administrators.
Seeking Postdocs: Stengl-Wyer Postdoctoral Scholars Program
[From the website. Postdoc opportunity posted at request of Dean Hendrickson, University of Texas at Austin].
Space Limitations in UT’s Fluid-preserved Fish Collection – An Opportunistic Test of a Space-efficient Shelving Strategy
By: Adam Cohen, Dean Hendrickson and Melissa Casarez
Job Posting: Data Manager TORCH TCN at Oklahoma State University
Data Questions? Data Help Desk has the Answers
Originally published by the Ecological Society of America, Ecotone Blog (after ESA/USSEE 2019 Conference). Reposted with permission from ESA.
Amber E. Budden, Megan Carter, Jeanette Clark, Kyle Copas, Stevan Earl, Megan A. Jones, Margaret O’Brien, Deborah L Paul, Dmitry Schigel, Kristin Vanderbilt, Rebekah Wallace
iDigBio Conference Manager
The National Center for Digitization of Biodiversity Collections (iDigBio), centered at the Florida Museum of Natural History is searching for a Conference/Event Manager.
For more information and to apply, please visit: http://explore.jobs.ufl.edu/cw/en-us/job/512018/idigbio-conference-manager
Specific duties include:
Purdue leading effort to digitize North American parasite collections
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Parasites play significant roles in human health, wildlife conservation and livestock productivity. But getting an accurate picture of their distributions and associations with hosts is difficult because the specimens and their location data are often hidden away in vials and on microscope slides in research collections all over the country.
Application Deadline: Edward W. Rose Postdoctoral Fellowship Cornell Lab of Ornithology
The Cornell Lab of Ornithology invites applications for our Edward W. Rose Postdoctoral Fellowships. These competitive postdoctoral fellowship awards (www.birds.cornell.edu/postdoc ) support innovative, independent research by early career scholars of exceptional promise.
Funding from JRS Foundation for those from Africa to get to Biodiversity Next - Apply Now!
If you are an African and you want to attend Biodiversity Next -- please see this opportunity to apply for some travel funding
Job Opp @iDigBio with the Digitization/Workforce Training Team @FSU
UPDATE: The application process is closed, candidate review is underway.
UPDATE: There's still time - one week left to apply!
iDigBio is seeking a new team member for the Digitization and Workforce Development branch of the project. The group is located at Florida State University in Tallahassee.
Position Announcement: iDigBio Biodiversity Informatics Coordinator
The National Center for Digitization of Biodiversity Collections (iDigBio), centered at the Florida Museum of Natural History and funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation, is developing an integrated national infrastructure for digitization of biodiversity collections housed in U.S. institutions. The resource provides access to information critical to scientific research and education, including that designed to understand biodiversity and societal consequences of global change and other environmental issues.
BCoN Report: Extending U.S. Biodiversity Collections to Promote Research and Education
I. Executive Summary
Job Opportunity at iDigBio with the Digitization/Workforce Training Team at FSU
UPDATE: There's still time - one week left to apply!
iDigBio is seeking a new team member for the Digitization and Workforce Development branch of the project. The group is located at Florida State University in Tallahassee.
American Museum of Natural History Releases Open Source Software Tool to Count Objects in Images
The American Museum of Natural History’s Center for Biodiversity and Conservation (CBC) has released an open source tool to assist with manually counting objects in images called DotDotGoose. This purpose-built tool was created since most conservation researchers and practitioners working on counting objects in images were using software such as Adobe Photoshop and ImageJ which are not ideally suited for many conservation applications.
Application Deadline for the 2019 NEON-ESA Early Career Scholars (NECS) Program
The application deadline for this program is 1:00 PM MDT on June 17, 2019.
Presenting research findings and participating in scientific dialogue are important experiences in the career development of researchers. To support their growth as effective scientists and communicators, the NEON project and the Ecological Society of America (ESA) are pleased to announce a 2019 NEON-ESA Early Career Scholars (NECS) program funded by the National Science Foundation to help cultivate and support a diverse group of early career scholars and practitioners.
Update: Registration is open for the 3rd Annual Digital Data in Biodiversity Research Conference
Yale Peabody Museum in collaboration with iDigBio, the Natural Sciences Collections Alliance, and Ecological Society of America is pleased to update our announcement of the third annual Digital Data in Biodiversity Research conference, to be held 10-12 June 2019 at Yale University, New Haven, CT.
Mycology is an ever-expanding field
March 7, 2019
NSC Alliance Announces New Partnership
Dear NSC Alliance Members,
It is with great pleasure that I write to let you know about another exciting new development from the Natural Science Collections Alliance (NSC Alliance).
The NSC Alliance has just signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the University of Florida (iDigBio) to “promote the sustainable implementation of a national digital data meeting.”
Idaho Museum of Natural History researchers receive grant to digitally scan bones of California blue whale
Fay A. MacFadden Herbarium Comes Alive Through Digitizing Dried Plant Collection
Above, plant biology student Kassandra Rodriguez and her faculty mentor Joshua Der examine the Dicentra formosa, an historic specimen collected by botanist Fay A. MacFadden and part of the herbarium collection.
CSUF News Service
February 25, 2019
Call for Abstracts biodiveristy_next
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