5th Annual Digital Data Conference, Florida Museum of Natural History

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Conference Resources

• Virtual Meeting Resources
• iDigBio's Code of Conduct
• Update your Zoom client to 5.0 for the latest security enhancements Older versions of the Zoom client will be required to update before users can join these webinars in the Digital Data conference!
• Digital Data Presenter Guide
• Moderator Tech Support Document

Conference Registration

For those who would like to support the sustainability of in-person Digital Data Conferences, registration fees are $100.00 for professionals, $50.00 for students. Those who wish not to make a financial contribution to the conference may select the free option.

Registration will open February 1st. Visit Eventbrite to register: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/5th-annual-digital-data-in-biodiversity-research-conference-tickets-114279218218.

Abstract Submissions

Options for submission include: discussion, oral, or poster presentations.

You must register to submit an abstract. The abstract submission link will be sent to you in your registration confirmation email.

Abstract submission deadline: 23 April 2021

The conference will be structured to allow live presentations among different time zones. Recording of presentations are additionally being requested to be posted on the wiki to ensure their availability to any timezone.

Posters

All posters will be electronic and linked to this wiki page. We are requesting that poster presenters provide a recorded description with their poster presentation. We hope to incorporate a live component this year. Details to be decided.

Oral Presentations

Each oral presentation will be presented live. Pre-recorded presentations are posted on the wiki page. In the live sessions an additional 5 minutes will be given for questions.
It is best to open all links to pre-recorded presentations and posters in a new tab. The easiest way to do this is to hold COMMAND (Mac) or Control (Windows) while simultaneously clicking the link. Click here to view last year’s agenda for example presentations

Digital Data Presenter Guide
Moderator Tech Support Document

Discussion sessions

Discussion sessions can be between 30 and 75 minutes. The structure should be determined by the panelists. These may begin with a presentation or introduction followed by discussion or may be completely devoted to open discussion. No prerecording is required.

Conference Abstracts

Submitted abstracts will be posted here.

Zoom Information

• Make sure you have upgraded your Zoom client.
• We suggest the desktop client or mobile app, which use less bandwidth than Zoom in your browser. See Zoom help for more: https://bit.ly/2RM0rzQ.
• Please use the Q&A feature if you have questions for the presenters. The chat function will only be used for discussion
• When joining a session from the wiki, a quick “registration” will let you into the session. Please just “register” for the Zoom webinar sessions that you’re interested in attending.
• After you submit your name and email (in an effort to reduce bot/Zoombomber discovery), you’ll be taken directly to the webinar.
• Up to 4 presentations are scheduled in each concurrent session “room,” so you won’t need to switch “rooms” if you’re hoping to join presentations by people in the same session (e.g. Concurrent Session 6), but you’ll need to switch to a different Zoom “room” if you want to jump from Concurrent Session 6 over to Discussion Session 5.

Conference Agenda

Monday, 7 June 2021

Day One - Block One
9:00AM - 12:00PM EDT / 1:00PM - 4:00PM UTC
Plenary Session 9:00 - 9:30 a.m.
Time	Room 1	Room 2	Room 3
9:00 - 9:30	Welcome – Doug Jones, Director, Florida Museum of Natural History Logistics - Gil Nelson Conference Framing - Jill Goodwin
9:30 - 10:00	Label your data with this one weird trick: methods for addressing the digital data labeling bottleneck Alina Zare, Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the University of Florida
10:00 - 10:30	Data to Decisions: How WRBU Provides Data on Global Vector Threats to Inform Public Health Decision Making David Pecor, Museum Specialist, Walter Reed Biosystematics Unit
10:30 - 11:00	Break
Concurrent Sessions 1-3 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
11:00 - 11:15	Concurrent Session 1 Digital human-nature interactions: trends of popularity and seasonal interest in plants Reut Vardi, Ben-Gurion University; Uri Roll, Ben-Gurion University	Concurrent Session 2 Identifying and clustering similar occurrences across collections using GBIF tools Joe Miller, GBIF; Nicky Nicolson, RBG Kew; Tim Robertson, GBIF	Concurrent Session 3 Counting collections in: towards quantifying collections’ contributions for national bio-economic accounting and the United Nations post-2020 biodiversity monitoring Jutta Buschbom, Statistical Genetics; Alina Freire-Fierro, Universidad Regional Amazonica Ikiam; Elizabeth R. Ellwood, iDigBio, Florida Museum of Natural History; Usman Atique, Chungnam National University; Austin Mast, iDigBio, Florida State University
11:15 – 11:30	Concurrent Session 1 Using herbarium specimen data to further understand the species of Pavonia Cav. in the FSA region Ashton Welcome, South African National Biodiversity Institute; Janine Victor, South African National Biodiversity Institute	Concurrent Session 2 Individual-level trait-bases for small mammal phenology research Bryan McLean, University of North Carolina Greensboro; Robert Guralnick, Florida Museum of Natural History	Concurrent Session 3 The Biodiversity Collections Network: What is next for extended specimens John Bates, The Field Museum; Jyotsna Pandey, Natural Science Collections Alliance
11:30 – 11:45	Concurrent Session 1 Herbarium phenology data and iNaturalist data outperform citizen science data in detecting response of flowering time to climate change Natalie Iwanycki Ahlstrand, Natural History Museum Denmark; Richard B. Primack, Anders P. Tøttrup	Concurrent Session 2 Assessing organismal color pattern variation using museum collections, computer vision modeling, and web-based community science images Maggie Hantak, Florida Museum of Natural History; Robert Guralnick, Florida Museum of Natural History; Brian Stucky, University of Florida; David Blackburn, Florida Museum of Natural History	Concurrent Session 1 Material citations: a powerful aide to connect biodiversity data Donat Agosti, Plazi; Marcus Guidoti, Plazi
11:45 – 12:00	Concurrent Session 1 Biodiversity data management from field collection to integration Sara Hansen, Central Michigan University; Blake Cahill, Central Michigan University; Rachel Hackett, Michigan Natural Features Inventory; Michael Monfils, Michigan Natural Features Inventory; Anna Monfils, Central Michigan University	Concurrent Session 2 BELS Global Gazetteer of Georeferences Paula Zermoglio, VertNet; Julia Allen, University of Nevada, Reno; Raphael LaFrance, Florida Museum of Natural History; Robert Guralnick, Florida Museum of Natural History; John Wieczorek, VertNet

Day One - Block Two
1:00PM - 4:00PM EDT / 5:00PM - 9:00PM UTC
Discussion Sessions 1&2
Time	Room 1
1:00 - 2:00	Discussion Session 1 Digital collections for all: Creating inclusive educational resources with digital natural history collections Molly Phillips, Florida Museum of Natural History, iDigBio; Adania Flemming, Florida Museum of Natural History, iDigBio; Alnycea Blackwell, Florida Museum of Natural History, iDigBio; Elizabeth Ellwood, Florida Museum of Natural History, iDigBio; David Blackburn, Florida Museum of Natural History
2:00 – 2:30	Break - Kumospace
2:30 -3:45	Discussion Session 2 Digital imagery for natural history knowledge National Museum of Natural History

Day One - Block Three
4:30 – 6:10 EDT / UTC
Behind the Scenes Tours of Florida Museum of Natural History Collections
Time	Room 1	Room 2
4:30 – 5:00
5:00 - 5:30
5:30 - 6:00
6:00 - 6:30

Tuesday, 8 June 2021

Day Two - Block One
9:00AM - 12:00PM EDT / 1:00PM - 4:00PM UTC
Discussion Session 3&4
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Time	Room 1
9:00 - 10:00	Discussion Session 3 Linking and Leveraging Biological Collections: Zoos and Natural History Museums Sinlan Poo, Memphis Zoo; Steven Whitfield, Zoo Miami; Gregory Watkins-Colwell, Yale Peabody Museum; Alex Shepack, University of Notre Dame; Jennifer D’Agostino, Oklahoma City Zoo
10:00 - 10:30	Break
10:30 – 11:45	Discussion Session 4 Building a Taxonomic Framework for Biological Collections Digitization: Challenges and Opportunities for Digital Data Delivery and Use Teresa Mayfield-Meyer, Milwaukee Public Museum; Vijay Barve, Purdue University; Nicolas Dowdy, Milwaukee Public Museum; Kathryn Sullivan, Milwaukee Public Museum; Julie Allen, University of Nevada, Reno; Jennifer Zaspel, Milwaukee Public Museum

Day Two - Block Two
1:00PM - 4:00PM EDT / 5:00PM - 8:00PM UTC
Plenary Session 1:00 - 2:00 p.m.
Time	Room 1	Room 2	Room 3
1:00 - 1:30	Brian Stucky, Florida Museum of Natural History
1:30 - 2:00	🐝 interacts with 🌼 Katja C. Seltmann, Cheadle Center for Biodiversity and Ecological Restoration, University of California, Santa Barbara
2:00 – 2:30	Break
Concurrent Sessions 1-6 2:15 - 4:00 p.m.
2:15 - 2:30	Concurrent Session 1 Data from museum specimens in conservation action: two case studies from New Mexico. Tom Giermakowski, University of New Mexico; John P. Leonard, University of New Mexico; Richard J. Norwood, University of New Mexico	Concurrent Session 2 Broadening access to the digital herbarium through community- and user-centered design processes Rashleigh E. Patrick, Brown University Library; Tim Whitfeld, University of Minnesota; Rebecca Y. Kartzinel, Brown University	Concurrent Session 5 The archives are half-empty: an assessment of the availability of microbial community sequencing data Stephanie Jurburg, German Centre for Integrative Biodiversity Research (Halle-Jena-Leipzig); Maximilian Konzack, iDiv; Nico Eisenhauer, iDiv; Anna Heintz-Buschart, iDiv
2:30 -2:45	Concurrent Session 1 Fossil-Augmented Species Distribution Models Recontextualize Introduced Turkey Ecology in California Ashwin Sivakumar, Flintridge Preparatory School; Alexis Mychajliw, Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT	Concurrent Session 2 Standardized Value APIs: The Next Step in the Evolution of Biodiversity Data Sharing Ben Norton, North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences	Concurrent Session 5 Bridging the gap between natural history specimens and their microbial communities Kouete Marcel, University of Florida; Molly C. Bletz, University of Massachusetts Boston; Brandon C. LaBumbard, University of Massachusetts Boston; Douglas C. Woodhams, University of Massachusetts Boston; David C. Blackburn, Florida Museum of Natural History
2:45 – 3:00		Concurrent Session 2 Digitization of Smithsonian’s AntLab Legacy Database Using Open Source Software Jessica Bird, Smithsonian, NMNH Department of Entomology; Baadshah Verma, Develop for Good; Michelle Li, Develop for Good; Yian Wang, Develop for Good; Ralph Lee, Develop for Good; Varun Murphy, Develop for Good; Tahmina Ahmad, Develop for Good
3:00 – 3:15	Concurrent Session 4 Trailblazing Rapid Biodiversity Data Enhancement to Address Emergent Crises and the Case Study of Horseshoe Bats Austin Mast, Florida State University; Deborah Paul, FSU and Illinois Natural History Survey; Nelson Rios, Yale University; Erica Krimmel, FSU; Robert Bruhn, FSU; Aja Sherman, FSU; Katelin Pearson, FSU; Trevor Dalton, FSU; David Shorthouse, Bionomia; Nancy Simmons, American Museum of Natural History; Pam Soltis, University of Florida; Nathan Upham, Arizona State University	Concurrent Session 2 Extending Specify for a New Biological Collections Computing Paradigm Andrew Bentley Specify Collections Consortium, University of Kansas; Specify Collections Consortium Staff	Concurrent Session 6 Bringing digitized data to the dome. Nicole Gunter, Cleveland Museum of Natural History
3:15 – 3:30	Concurrent Session 4 Completing a National Bee Inventory for the Conterminous United States (Chessire AZ 12:00)	Concurrent Session 2 Evaluating the Image Quality of Digitized Biodiversity Collections’ Specimens Yasin Bakış, Tulane University Biodiversity Research Institute; Xiaojun Wang, Tulane University Biodiversity Research Institute; Henry L. Bart Jr., Tulane University Biodiversity Research Institute	Concurrent Session 6 Looking for marginalized students use of Natural History Collections data Adania Flemming, University of Florida; Molly Phillips, University of Florida; Temi Alao, University of Florida
3:30 – 3:45	Concurrent Session 4 Taxonomic concept mapping among historical floras of Alaska: decision-making and digital implementation Kimberly Cook, Indiana University; Stefanie M. Ickert-Bond, University of Alaska Museum of the North; Campbell O. Webb University of Alaska Museum of the North	Concurrent Session 2 Minnesota’s Biodiversity Atlas: an online portal for activating natural history data and facilitating collaboration Timothy Whitfeld, Bell Museum, University of Minnesota; George Weiblen, Bell Museum University of Minnesota

Day Three - Block Three
4:30 – 6:10 EDT / UTC
Behind the Scenes Tours of Florida Museum of Natural History Collections
Time	Room 1	Room 2
4:30 – 5:00
5:00 - 5:30
5:30 - 6:00
6:00 - 6:30

Wednesday, 9 June 2021

Day Three - Block One
9:00AM - 12:00PM EDT / 1:00PM - 4:00PM UTC
Discussion Sessions 5-7
Time	Room 1
9:00 - 10:00	Discussion Session 5 The discovery of legacy tropical forest datasets Sheila Ward, Independent; Gillian Petrokofsky, University of Oxford; Jenny Wong, Wild Resources, Ltd., UK; Hans Juergen Boehmer, Technical University of Munich; Wan Rasidah Kadir, Forest Research Institute of Malaysia
10:00 - 10:15	Break
10:15 - 11:00	Discussion session 6 BCEENET: Connecting collections with CURE educators and students Janice Krumm, Widener University; Carly N. Jordan, The George Washington University; Cecily D. Bronson, Portland State University; Elizabeth K. Shea, Delaware Museum of Natural History; Jean L. Woods, Delaware Museum of Natural History
11:00 - 11:45	Discussion Session 7 Botanical Images Field Extraction with Machine Learning Lin Ros, Tolstoy; Alok Elashoff, Tolstoy/Berkeley

Day Three - Block Two
1:00PM - 4:00PM EDT / 5:00PM - 9:00PM UTC
Discussion Sessions 8&9
Time	Room 1
1:00 - 2:00	Discussion Session 8 Leveraging AI to Extend Specimen Networks Sen Atriya, University of New Orleans; Nico Franz, Arizona State University; Beckett Sterner, Arizona State University; Nathan S. Upham, Arizona State University; Prashant Gupta, Arizona State University; Caleb Powel, Arizona State University
2:00 - 2:15	Break
2:15 - 3:15	Poster Session - Kumospace

Day Three - Block Three
4:30PM - 6:30PM EDT / 8:30PM - 10:30PM UTC
Plenary Session 4:30 - 5:30 p.m.
Time	Room 1	Room 2	Room 3
4:30 - 5:00	Matthew D. Kane, Program Director, Division of Environmental Biology, National Science Foundation
5:00 - 5:30	Challenges and Opportunities in Biodiversity Data Cyberinfrastructure José A.B. Fortes AT&T Eminent Scholar and Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Florida, Director of the Advanced Computing and Information Systems Laboratory, iDigBio PI
5:30 - 5:45	Break
Concurrent Sessions 5:45 - 6:30 p.m.
5:45 - 6:00	Concurrent Session 7 Detecting iridescent feather nanostructures with polarization imaging Klara Nordén, Princeton University; Mary Caswell Stoddard, Princeton University	Concurrent Session 2 An Introduction to Digital Data with NEON Melissa Benedict, National Ecological Observatory Network	Concurrent Session 8 Quantifying Morphology Using Digital Images: A Tale of Two Symbionts Kristin Hultgren, Seattle University; Christine Foxx, Iowa State University
6:00 - 6:15	Concurrent Session 7 Digitization of Unstructured Text in Entomology Specimen Labels Using Machine Learning Luis J. Villanueva, Smithsonian Institution	Concurrent Session 2 New Tools to Score, View, and Download (Phenological) Trait Data in a Symbiota Portal Katie Pearson, California Polytechnic State University; Edward Gilbert, Arizona State University; Christopher Tyrrell, Milwaukee Public Museum; Nico Franz, Arizona State University; Jenn Yost, California Polytechnic State University	Concurrent Session 8 Improving the Efficiency of DNA extractions for Avian Climate Change Research Noelle Mason, Colorado State University; Ruegg, Kristen; Rodriguez, Marina; Schweizer, Teia
6:15 - 6:30	Concurrent Session 7 Digitizing Insect Specimen Photographs with an OCR and Machine-Learning Enabled Information Extraction Pipeline Neha Kumar, University of California, Berkeley; Suhas Gupta, UCB; Shweta Sen, UCB; Apik Zorian, UCB; Fred Nugen, UCB; Alberto Todeschini, UCB; Peter T Oboyski, UCB	Concurrent Session 2 The broad reach of the NEON extended specimen Katherine LeVan, Battelle / National Ecological Observatory Network