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Published: 11-12-2021
The same team that brought us the 2021 virtual summer SACNAS BioBlitz also organized a workshop entitled Engaging Communities in Science Research Using BioBlitzes during the 2021 SACNAS National Diversity in STEM virtual conference on October 28, 2021.
At the beginning of the workshop, Ph.D. student Adania Flemming introduced the concept of ...
Published: 11-04-2021
Contributed by Molly Phillips
Photo by Cletus Lee
The end of 2021 is now on the horizon but, if you are like me, your schedule is as busy as ever! I have been thinking about how nice it would be to roll into a ball and block out the world for a little while, which made me think of the marvelous pillbug.
The pillbug, (Armadillidium vulgare) is neither pill nor...
Published: 10-18-2021
We are excited to announce that the iDigTRIO Biology Career Conference and Fair will be taking place throughout the week of February 21st, 2022. The iDigTRIO conference is aimed at collegiate and pre-collegiate students associated with TRIO programs around the United States (but is open to all students). The mission of the iDigTRIO Conference is to provide...
Published: 10-01-2021
As of September 1, 2021, iDigBio is now in Phase 3 of its history, thanks to very generous support from NSF through the Sustaining Infrastructure for Biological Research (Sustaining) program. As the program title suggests, NSF is charging the collections community to continue the successes and progress in digitization, workforce development, data mobilization and use, and education and...
Published: 10-01-2021
Ghost Jelly (Cyanea nozakii)
Contributed by Lauren Bradley (University of Florida Student and 2021 iDigBio Summer Intern)
Happy October! Halloween will be here sooner than we think. I love Halloween, but every year I have all these great ideas for costumes that end up either not happening or thrown together last minute because I procrastinate the whole month and then freak...
Published: 09-30-2021
Museum Collections Predict Species Abundance in the Wild
Scientists develop method to estimate wildlife numbers from museum records
Can the number of museum specimens of small mammals, fish, insects, amphibians, trees, or wildflowers tell us how many of those animals and plants are living in the wild? A surprising new study published in the journal, Methods in Ecology and...
Published: 09-03-2021
Dead Leaf Butterfly! (Kallima inachus)
Contributed by: Lauren Bradley
Autumn is right around the corner, and what a beautiful season it is! Here in Florida, we see the occasional red or yellow leaf during the autumn months, but really, all we can hope for is some cooler weather, and even that isn’t guaranteed. The Kallima inachus seems to agree with us humans in admiring the...
Published: 08-11-2021
Digitized paleontological collections recontextualize the ecology of introduced turkeys in California
Contributed by: Ashwin Sivakumar & Alexis Mychajliw
Managing invasive species is a central challenge in conservation biology. Quaternary fossil records and zooarchaeological assemblages are revealing that many of today’s introduced species may have more complicated...
Published: 08-10-2021
Contributed by: Molly Phillips
Boing! Photo: Allan Hack
Fox squirrels (Sciurus niger) are medium-sized tree squirrels with a long, full tail. They exhibit a variety of coat colors and patterns from pale grey to black though the most common color is reddish-brown (seen above). They are found in a diversity of deciduous and mixed-forest habitats and depend on trees for both food...
Published: 08-06-2021
iDigBio launched its new Digitization Academy this summer with an inaugural course, Introduction to Biodiversity Specimen Digitization. This free, online course focuses on introducing the creation of digital data about biodiversity specimens to those who are just beginning this activity. Instructors Michael Denslow, Erica Krimmel, and Austin Mast taught this course for the first time July 12-15,...