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Entomology 2017 will be held November 5-8, 2017 at the Denver Convention Center in Denver, Colorado. The theme "Ignite. Inspire. Innovate." highlights a vision to increase science communication within the research community. iDigBio will be leading a symposium: Big Data and Bugs: How Massively Collected Biodiversity Data Are Changing the Way We Do Insect Science. Pamela Soltis, iDigBio's Research PI will present a talk: "Using specimens and linked data in ecological and evolutionary research" in this symposium. The lineup of talks includes speakers from the US, South America, and the EU and several graduate students will be presenting their research. | <p>Entomology 2017 will be held November 5-8, 2017 at the Denver Convention Center in Denver, Colorado. The theme "Ignite. Inspire. Innovate." highlights a vision to increase science communication within the research community. iDigBio will be leading a symposium: Big Data and Bugs: How Massively Collected Biodiversity Data Are Changing the Way We Do Insect Science. Pamela Soltis, iDigBio's Research PI will present a talk: "Using specimens and linked data in ecological and evolutionary research" in this symposium. The lineup of talks includes speakers from the US, South America, and the EU and several graduate students will be presenting their research.</p> | ||
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== Abstract == | |||
With potentially 3-4 billion museum specimens available globally and perhaps 1-2 billion in the US, the world’s natural history collections offer huge treasure troves of ecologically relevant information. Until recently, this information was locked away in museum cabinets and unavailable for most scientific inquiry. In the last decade, the exponential growth of a number of biodiversity databases has made an unprecedented amount of information available to researchers around the world. With over 95 million specimen records available online to date, and an ever-increasing number captured by collections and by citizen scientists, these data provide excellent information on species distributions, phenology, morphology, and more. Biodiversity data can help not only in the documentation of new species, but also to detect when key species are going extinct, predict distribution of economically and medically important ones, as well as how they can change over time. It is important to ensure the future of these resources by raising awareness of the many projects and research that rely on the information made available thanks to them. In this symposium, we have invited and encourage submissions by researchers and educators that have been using biodiversity data in their projects. Our speakers talks cover topics of interest to P-IE, SysEB, PBT, and MUVE sections of ESA. We also want to encourage the exchange of ideas, taking advantage of the opportunity to host a panel after the presentations. This dialog will include discussion of cyber-infrastructure needs, promote development of tools and hopefully inspire more researchers to explore the wealth and potential of data in digitized natural history collections. | |||
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