Paleonet: Second Update: Inaugural Digital Data in Biodiversity Research Conference

[Gil Nelson]

*Second Update: Inaugural Digital Data in Biodiversity Research 
Conference, 5-6 June 2017, Ann Arbor, Michigan.* Conference sponsors 
include iDigBio, the University of Michigan Museum of Zoology, the 
University of Michigan Herbarium, and the University of Michigan Museum 
of Paleontology. The conference planning team is here announcing two 
important program updates as well as information about registration fees 
and deadlines.

*NEW CONTENT!*

*Digital Data and the North American Nodes of the Global Biodiversity 
Information Facility*
Leaders: Bob Hanner, Stinger Guala, James Macklin
We are especially pleased to announce that the North American Nodes of 
the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF) are joining the 
conference program. GBIF (http://www.gbif.org) serves as the global 
aggregator of species occurrence data and succeeds through the 
cooperation of a massive global network of regional nodes and other 
collaborators. GBIF leaders will host an afternoon, town hall style 
session that will clarify and discuss the relationships, contributions, 
collaborations, and immediate plans for cooperative work across the 
Canadian (http://www.cbif.gc.ca/eng/home/?id=1370403266262) and US 
(https://bison.usgs.gov/) country nodes, the North American Node, and 
collaborators such as the Integrated Taxonomic Information System 
(http://www.itis.gov), the ITIS/Species2000 Catalogue of Life 
(http://www.catalogueoflife.org) and iDigBio (https://www.idigbio.org). 
The use of GBIF data in biodiversity research will be featured.

*Automated species range map construction through aggregated global 
museum records*
Leaders: Pascal Title and Alison Davis Rabosky
This afternoon workshop will teach participants how use automated 
pipelines in the R software environment to create, standardize, quality 
check, and curate species range polygons for any terrestrial vertebrate 
species that is represented in digitized museum collections.  We will 
explore batch processing for hundreds to thousands of species at once, 
using tests of spatial co-occurrence hypotheses as a framework for the 
ecological questions that can be answered through these methods. We will 
also examine the rapid generation of high quality figures demonstrating 
a) range overlap, and b) diversity “heat maps” for both research and 
teaching uses.

*Registration and abstract submission will open 15 January 2017.* The 
registration fee for non-student professionals will be $50.00. Student 
registration is $20.00. A list of hotels at various prices will also be 
provided at the time registration opens. The deadline for abstracts 
(with completed registration) will be 15 April. The deadline for 
registration will be 15 May. The conference is capped at 200 participants.

*The planning team for the conference includes:*Chris Dick, Dan Fisher, 
Rich Rabeler, Alison Davis Rabosky, Dan Rabosky, Adam Rountrey, Cody 
Thompson, and Priscilla Tucker from the University of Michigan, and Gil 
Nelson, Larry Page, Pam Soltis, and Alex Thompson from iDigBio.

A copy of the complete announcement is at:: 
https://www.idigbio.org/content/second-update-inaugural-digital-data-biodiversity-research-conference-5-6-june-2017-ann.

For further information or to ensure that you are on the email list, 
please contact Gil Nelson at iDigBio (gnelson at bio.fsu.edu 
<mailto:gnelson at bio.fsu.edu>).


-- 
Gil Nelson, PhD
Assistant Professor/Research
iDigBio Steering Committee
Integrated Digitized Biocollections
Institute for Digital Information and Scientific Communication
College of Communication and Information

Courtesy Professor
Department of Biological Sciences
Robert K. Godfrey Herbarium
Florida State University
gnelson at bio.fsu.edu

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