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Published: 11-05-2020
Contributed by: Molly Phillips
The iDigBio team was fully immersed in this year’s Virtual SACNAS National Diversity in STEM Conference hosting a virtual BioBlitz, symposium session, and conference exhibit! Our participation began by organizing a virtual SACNAS BioBlitz the week before the conference. The BioBlitz was hosted through iNaturalist and co-organized by iDigBio...
Published: 11-02-2020
Comparing the use of species occurrence data and information systems by academics and government professionals
Contributed by: Elizabeth Martín, Shari Ellis, Larry Page
Over the past 20 years with increased use of the web, we have seen the proliferation of web-based information systems that provide access to biodiversity data, primarily species...
Published: 10-15-2020
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.
All collection types (...
Published: 10-08-2020
Unlocking the secret histories of bats in natural history collections
Article by: Caitlin J.Campbell, Graduate Assistant at the UF Department of Biology
Animal migration connects biodiversity with the function and structure of ecosystems at a global scale. Despite having profound and far-reaching effects (affecting the movement of nutrients, energy, and parasites; and altering...
Published: 10-06-2020
Contributed by Cat Chapman
Have you ever been out on a walk through nature, or even in your neighborhood, and saw what appeared to be a clump of tiny leaves, debris, or lichen… only to see it move?
Upon closer inspection of this mysteriously motile clump of detritus, you may see that it has tiny little legs underneath it. It’s alive!
Meet the trash bug!
A...
Published: 09-08-2020
Welcome to all of the newly NSF-funded Advancing Digitization of Biodiversity Collections (ADBC) projects. This year we have three new Thematic Collections Networks (TCNs) and 13 Partners to Existing Networks (PENs) joining the community.
2020 TCNs:
Building a global consortium of bryophytes and lichens: keystones of cryptobiotic communities
Mobilizing Millions of Marine Mollusks of...
Published: 09-04-2020
iDigBio and BiotaPhy, an NSF-funded project to link iDigBio data, the Open Tree of Life, and Lifemapper and other analytical platforms to enable biodiversity research, held a training workshop at Botany 2020 – Virtual! on July 31. The full-day online workshop, entitled, “Using Digitized Herbarium Data in Research: Applications for Ecology, Phylogenetics, and...
Published: 09-02-2020
In our series, "Scientist in the Spotlight" we’ll sit down with the ADBC (Advancing Digitization of Biodiversity Collections) program's best and brightest to learn more about what makes them tick. This month, we had a chance to speak with Diego Barroso. He works at the Botanical Research Institute of Texas as the project manager of the TORCH TCN....
Published: 09-01-2020
Written by Erica Krimmel.
You may have read about in the news, or experienced for yourself, the recent massive fires in California. The SCU and LNU lightning complexes that ignited in August of this year currently stand as the second and third largest fires that the state of California has seen since accurate recording began in 1932. Over one hundred thousand residents had to evacuate...
Published: 08-31-2020
Contributed by: Kayce C. Bell, Assistant Curator of Terrestrial Mammals at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
Urban evolutionary research has accelerated in recent years as we recognize the value of understanding how evolution is occurring in these human-made landscapes. Research has revealed that urban-living populations have not just ecological, but...