ADBC Summit 2020
This year's ADBC Summit has been abbreviated to accommodate virtual attendance. The event will be held via Zoom (room information will be distributed closer to the event) September 23-25, 2020 with orientation for new TCN's on September 22nd.
Conference Resources
Zoom Information
- 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.
- Daily Zoom room information is posted below. You must register for each day of the conference to attend.
Pre-conference COVID-19 mini-series
September 15-17: Taking the Pulse of Natural History Collections During COVID-19 Series: Where are we now?
Join iDigBio, NSCA, BCON, NSF, and SPNHC for a mini-series to discuss the climate of natural history collections during COVID. What is the community experiencing? How are they coping? How do we persevere?
September 15 (2:00 - 3:30 Eastern): Review Results of BCON’s Community Survey & Break-out room discussion
Speaker: Barbara Thiers
September 16 (2:00 - 3:30 Eastern): Collections Perspectives & Break-out room discussion
Speakers: John Bates, Emily Braker, Brian Atkinson, Mare Nazaire
September 17 (2:00 - 3:30 Eastern): Moving Forward: Communities Response and Opportunities for the Future: Presentations and Panel Discussion/Q&A
Speakers: Rob Gropp, Pam Soltis, Scott Miller, Roland Roberts
Zoom link for series: https://ufl.zoom.us/j/93561818170?pwd=eVRxU1RWQWE2VGFhTi91enV6WWJvdz09
See webinar series wiki page for more details.
Additional Summit Related Activities
- Wednesday, September 23, 2020 - 3:30pm to 4:30pm EDT: Open Office Hours hosted by the API User Group (R-based). This week, Open Office Hours will feature an introduction to APIs and an example of how to review iDigBio data quality flags using the API.
- Thursday, October 01, 2020 - 11:00am to 12:00pm EDT: Education, Outreach, Diversity and Inclusion Open Office Hours
- Thursday, October 08, 2020 - 11:00am to 12:00pm EDT: Paleo Digitization Happy Hour
Conference Agenda
Tuesday, September 22
| Day One - Orientation | |
| 1:00 – 4:30 ET | |
| Time | Zoom Registration link: https://ufl.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJclde6uqTMrE9ffr3x-yUtBr76mkGDSh1co |
| 1:00 – 1:45 | Orientation for New TCNs & PENs |
| 1:45 – 2:30 | Break-out Session |
| 2:30 – 3:00 | Break |
| 3:00 – 4:30 | Meet and Greet for New TCNs and PENs |
| 4:30 - 5:00 | Break |
| 5:00 - 6:00 | EAB |
Wednesday, September 23
| Day Two | |
| 1:00 – 3:00 ET | |
| Time | Zoom Registration link: https://ufl.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_2PoRcOEEQnyqGgnHTzp0Cw |
| 1:00 – 2:00 | Keynote Speakers Ian Owens, Deputy Director at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History Rebecca Johnson, Associate Director for Science and Chief Scientist at the National Museum of Natural History |
| 2:00 – 2:15 | Building a global consortium of bryophytes and lichens: keystones of cryptobiotic communities (Jessica Budke & Matt von Konrat) |
| 2:15 – 2:30 | Mobilizing Millions of Marine Mollusks of the Eastern Seaboard |
| 2:30 – 2:45 | Documenting Marine Biodiversity through Digitization of Invertebrate Collections (DigIn) |
Thursday, September 24
| Day Three – TCN Presentations | |
| 1:00 – 3:00 ET | |
| Time | Zoom Registration link: https://ufl.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_EPccHF1qQRuHwJZlA9lo1g |
| 1:00 – 1:10 | TPT (Jen Zaspel) |
| 1:10 – 1:20 | TORCH (Diego Barroso) |
| 1:20 – 1:30 | PILSBRY (Norine Yeung) |
| 1:30 - 1:40 | Break |
| 1:40 – 1:45 | California Phenology (Jenn Yost) |
| 1:45 - 1:50 | Cretaceous World (Jonathan Hendricks) |
| 1:50 - 1:55 | Endless Forms |
| 1:55 - 2:00 | EPICC (Charles Marshall) |
| 2:00 - 2:05 | InvertEBase |
| 2:05 - 2:15 | LepNet/SCAN (Neil Cobb) |
| 2:15 - 2:25 | Break |
| 2:25 - 2:30 | Microfungi (Scott T. Bates) |
| 2:30 - 2:35 | Mid-Atlantic Megalopolis (Cindy Skema) |
| 2:35 - 2:40 | oVert (David Blackburn) |
| 2:40 - 2:45 | Pteridological |
| 2:45 - 2:50 | SERNEC |
| 2:50 - 2:55 | SoRo (Ryan Allen) |
| 2:55 - 3:05 | CSBR project (Shirley Pomponi) |
Friday, September 25
| Day Four | |
| 1:00 - 4:00 ET | |
| Time | Zoom Registration link: https://ufl.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMlfu-vpzsiG9ZhF_soRH2MNd2k_I5DYPqT |
| 1:00 – 1:10 | Pre-Conference Mini-Series Discussion Results |
| 1:10 – 1:40 | Review of NAS Report |
| 1:40 - 2:10 | Looking forward with NSF |
| 2:10 - 2:40 | Break-out group discussions/ question generation |
| 2:40 - 3:10 | Break |
| 3:10 - 4:10 | Panel response to questions |