Press Releases
Published: 06-05-2018
Katherine Unger Baillie
Penn State Today
Densely populated and developed, the region encompassing Washington, D.C., Baltimore, Philadelphia, and New York City is one dominated by the presence of humans. Often referred to as a megalopolis, the mid-Atlantic’s urban influence is felt on all life forms, plants included.
How can these effects be documented...
Published: 04-02-2018
Contributed by Ana Dal Molin, INCT-Hympar/CAPES postdoctoral fellow at Laboratório de Biodiversidade de Insetos, Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo. All images from Ana Dal Molin
iDigBio was present, even if remotely, at the first Meeting for the Integration of Zoological Collections (Encontro para Integração das Coleções Zoológicas)...
Published: 03-29-2018
by Deborah Paul (iDigBio) and Isla Gladstone (Senior Curator of Natural Sciences, Bristol Culture)
The heroes. Our natural sciences collections, collections staff, the planet and all the players worldwide (thanks Shakespeare).
Some of the heroes’ dilemmas. Need for online access to collection specimen data for research, dwindling habitat, damaged planet resources, one-of-a-...
Published: 03-13-2018
from Deb Paul at iDigBio
The short version.
It is an exciting time to watch as Europe gets ready to launch an interconnected cloud of scientific collections across the continent and beyond. If funded (we will know in June 2018), the Distributed System of Scientific Collections (DiSSCo) plans to build a European scientific research infrastructure to support collections, researcher access to...
Published: 03-01-2018
iDigBio is hiring a systems programmer at the ACIS lab in the Electrical Engineering department! Come join our 4 person team working on our data infrastructure and build out new systems around data quality, taxonomy, annotations, 3-D media, and linked open data.
This is a grant-funded position.
Applications *MUST* be submitted through the University of Florida jobs website:
http://explore....
Published: 02-27-2018
The Berkeley Natural History Museums, the Berkeley Initiative for Global Change Biology, and iDigBio are pleased to announce the second annual Digital Data in Biodiversity Research Conference, to be held in Berkeley, CA, 4-6 June 2018.
The rapid mobilization of digitized biodiversity data, led largely in the United States by the National Science Foundation’s Advancing...
Published: 02-24-2018
iDigBio has partnered with the Biodiversity Collections Network in its annual survey of the collections and digitization communities. Community input helps both organizations better serve and advocate for collections and digitization. Please complete the survey at https://tinyurl.com/iDigBioBCon2018Survey
Published: 02-24-2018
The Society of Herbarium Curators and iDigBio are pleased to announce a 7-week "Strategic Planning for Herbaria” 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...
Published: 02-16-2018
ELC, ePANDDA, EarthRates Demo Derby
May 15-17, 2018
Memorial Union, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Deadline for applications: Monday March 12th
Are you a paleogeoscientist, macro-scale biologist, data scientist, programmer, or educator interested in learning how to access and harness large paleobiodiversity databases for your research, teaching, and public...
Published: 01-18-2018
During the Worldwide Engagement for Digitizing Biocollections, thousands of citizen scientists around the world completed over 50,000 digitization tasks. NHMLA Crustacea Collections Manager Adam Wall assists volunteers with digitization, closely supervised by a zebra specimen in the NHMLA Age of Mammals Exhibit.
Los Angeles, CA, January 17, 2018 — In an effort to make...