Digital Data in Biodiversity Research Conference, Berkeley

Lodging and Logistics

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Conference Streaming and Recording

To the extent possible, the Conference sessions will be broadcast and recorded using Adobe Connect. Meeting hosts will monitor the chat to address questions/concerns. To connect, go to https://idigbio.adobeconnect.com/digitaldataberkeley, select “Enter as a Guest”, enter your first name and surname and click “Enter Room.” For more information, remote participants are strongly encouraged to visit the iDigBio Web Conferencing Wiki prior to connecting: https://www.idigbio.org/wiki/index.php/Web_Conferencing.

Agenda: Monday, 4 June 2018

Wireless link:
Twitter: #digibiodata

Day One
Breakfast (On your own) 7:00-8:00 a.m.
Registration - ???
Keynote Session {Location} 8:00 - 10:15 a.m. Moderator: Larry Page???
Time	Title		Presenter(s)
8:00-8:15	Welcome and Introduction Introduction to iDigBio and ADBC		??? Larry Page, Director of iDigBio and Curator of Fishes, Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida
8:15-8:45			James Hanken, Director, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University
8:45-9:15			David Blackburn, Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida
9:15-9:45
9:45-10:15	Break - {Location}
Concurrent Session I - {Location} (10:15 a.m. - Noon) Moderator: Theme:
10:15-10:35
10:35-10:55
10:55-11:15
11:15-11:35
11:35-11:55
Concurrent Session II - {Location} (10:15 a.m. - Noon) Moderator:
10:15-10:35
10:35-10:55
10:55-11:15
11:15-11:35
11:35-11:55
12:00-1:30	Lunch (On your own) - See page ## of {Link to logistics document} for restaurant suggestions
Concurrent Session III - {Location} (1:30 p.m. - 3:10 p.m.) Moderator:
1:30-1:50
1:50-2:10
2:10-2:30
2:30-2:50
2:50-3:10
Concurrent Session IV - {Location} (1:30 p.m. - 3:10 p.m.) Moderator:
1:30-1:50
1:50-2:10
2:10-2:30
2:30-2:50
2:50-3:10
3:10-3:40	Break - {Location}
Poster Session - {Location} (3:40 - 5:00 p.m.)
Dinner (On your own) - 4:30 - 5:30
Reception and Collections Tours at the Collections Research Facility, Varsity Drive (6:00-9:00 p.m.) Busses departing Hill Auditorium 5:30 p.m.; loading for return at 8:30 p.m., with one return bus also going to Hampton Inn Ann Arbor South

Tuesday, 6 June 2017

Wireless link: http://its.umich.edu/enterprise/wifi-networks/wifi

Day Two
Breakfast (On your own) 7:00 - 8:00 a.m.
Registration 7:00 - 8:00 a.m.
Plenary Session - The League Ballroom (8:00 - 10:15 a.m.) Session Recording Moderator: Katelin D. Pearson
Time	Title	Presenter(s)
8:00-8:30	Big Data, Museum Specimens, Access and Archiving - Lessons from #scanAllFish			Adam Summers, University of Washington
8:30-9:00	Video Data and Motion Analysis in Comparative Biomechanics Research			Beth Brainerd, Brown University
9:00-9:30	The PREDICTS Project: Projecting Responses of Ecological Diversity In Changing Terrestrial Systems			Adriana De Palma, Natural History Museum, London
9:30-10:00	Field Collections to Digital Data: A Workflow for Fossils and the Use of Digital Data for Reconstructing Ancient Forests			Dori Contreras, University of California Museum of Paleontology
10:00-10:15	Natural History Data Pipelines: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly			Andy Bentley, University of Kansas Biodiversity Institute
10:15-10:45	Break - The League Second Floor Concourse
Concurrent Session III - The League Ballroom (10:45 a.m. - Noon) Session Recording Moderator: Katelin D. Pearson
10:45-11:00	Using Statistical Analysis to Calculate the Size of Biodiversity Literature			Alicia Esquivel, Chicago Botanic Garden
11:00-11:15	Illustrating Value Added in Databasing Historical Collections: Entered, Proofed, and Done (or Not!)			Tony Reznicek, University of Michigan Herbarium
11:15-11:30	The Encyclopedia of Life v3: Constructing a Linked Data Model			Jennifer Hammock, Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History
11:30-11:45	Encyclopedia of Life Version 3: New Tools for the Exploration of Biodiversity Knowledge			Katja Schulz, Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History
11:45-12:00	How do People see Biodiversity? Using a Digital Identification Key in a Citizen Science Program			Mathilde Delaunay, Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris, France
12:00-12:15	Taxonomic Data Quality in GBIF: A Case Study of Aquatic Macroinvertebrate Groups		Joan Damerow, Field Museum of Natural History
12:15-12:30	Hole-y Plant Databases! Understanding and Preventing Biases in Botanical Big Data			Katelin D. Pearson, Florida State University
Concurrent Session IV - The League Hussey Room (10:45 a.m. - Noon) Session Recording Moderator: Priscilla Tucker
10:45-11:00	Reconstructing the Extinction Dynamics of Picea critchfieldii – The Application of Computer Vision to Fossil Pollen Analysis			Surangi Punyasena, University of Illinois
11:00-11:15	The Application of Optical Supperresolution Microscopy to the Study of Pollen Morphology			Michael Urban, University of Illinois - Urbana Champaign
11:15-11:30	Developing an Enterprise GIS to Support Collections Management, Teaching, and Research			Michael Kost, University of Michigan, Matthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum
11:30-11:45	How Digitizing and Tagging Helped Solve the Tully Monster Mystery			Paul Mayer, Field Museum of Natural History
11:45-12:00	Open Source Tools for Digitization Workflows			Mark Metz, USDA ARS SEL
12:00-12:15	iDigBio and the Digital Humanities			Maura Flannery, St. John's University, NY
12:15-12:30	Importance of Life Stage Capture in Dragonfly Specimen Digitization			Emily Sandall, Frost Entomological Museum, Penn State University
12:30-1:45	Lunch (On your own) - See page 3 of logistics document for restaurant suggestions
3:30-4:00	Break - The League Second Floor Concourse
Capstone Session Session Recording Moderator: Gil Nelson
4:00-4:30	Prospects for the Use of Digitized Specimens in Studies of Plant Diversity and Evolution			Michael Donoghue, Patrick Sweeney, and Beth Spriggs, Yale University
4:30-5:00	A Vision for a National Cyberinfrastructure for Biodiversity Research and what NSF can do Enable it			Peter McCartney, National Science Foundation