News Articles
Published: 06-04-2020
The Paleo Digitization Working Group held a virtual workshop, Georeferencing for Paleo: Refreshing the approach to fossil localities, on April 28-29, 2020 with 52 participants based at 29 institutions. These participants represented a mix of institutions (museums, university collections, and agencies) as well as careers (collections professionals, researchers, informatics professionals) and...
Published: 05-04-2020
Article by: Nattapol Kraisitudomsook, PhD student from the Smith Lab at the University of Florida
Despite the name, bird’s nest fungi have little to do with birds or nests. In fact, these tiny mushrooms got their common name from their resemblance to bird’s nests. You might have seen them in your backyard or come across them on your hiking trails. Bird...
Published: 04-24-2020
Professor and AT&T Eminent Scholar José A. B. Fortes was recently notified in a letter from University of Florida President Kent Fuchs that he is the recipient of the 2019-20 Teacher/Scholar of the Year Award, the highest faculty honor at UF. The annual award is given in recognition of excellence in teaching and distinction in scholarly activity.
The award is made upon...
Published: 04-03-2020
Many things have changed rapidly and these are unprecedented and stressful times, but one positive for our team now all working remotely are all of the new coworkers!
Due to the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic, many iDigBio-associated events are being re-designed for online participation (or postponed), so iDigBio staff are shifting focus to how we can support the community online....
Published: 03-30-2020
Contributed by Luis D. Verde Arregoitia.
Find him on Twitter @LuisDVerde or on his Website.
Ecomorphological research relates what species look like with where they live, how they move, and what they eat. Therefore, we need to characterize them morphologically, and natural history collections represent the most important source of such data, which can also help us understand their...
Published: 03-24-2020
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Article by: Nicholas Gengler, PhD student from UF School of Natural Resources and the Environment
Early European explorers called the jungles of South America a “green desert”. Despite the abundance of plant growth, finding fruit or prey for food in the jungle can be next to impossible. The wildlife that live in these hostile environments...
Published: 02-20-2020
Photo credit: David Haring, Duke Lemur Center
Aye-aye, Daubentonia madagascariensis
Lemurs are the most endangered group of mammals on earth. Endemic to Madagascar, these primates evolved in isolation from monkeys and apes. Lemurs are highly diverse, divided into eight families consisting of 15 living genera and about 100 living species. Madagascar is one of the poorest countries in the...
Published: 12-08-2019
Deborah L Paul, Capacity Development Manager
Erica Krimmel, Digitization Resource Coordinator
Caitlin Chapman, Biodiversity Informatics Coordinator
Overview.
It took an intense 14 months and an international team of over 40 people (Steering Board, Program Committee, professional meeting organizers, local hosts at Naturalis, and conference supporters) to...
Published: 08-21-2019
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 six Partners to Existing Networks (PENs) joining the community.
2019 TCNs:
Digitizing collections to trace parasite-host associations and predict the spread of vector-borne disease (TPT),
American Crossroads:...
Published: 08-15-2019
Article contributed by Julie Bokor (UF Center for Precollegiate Education and Training)
Using three-dimensional imaging as part of the openVertebrate project (or oVert) funded by the US National Science Foundation, scientists are creating digital specimens that can be viewed in the classroom, digitally dissected, 3D-printed, and more. In June, 2019 the oVert project partnered with nine...