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Call for the 2nd Ranges Imaging Mini-Awards. DEADLINE 8 Jan 2025 11:59pm PT. Visit ranges-network.org/awards/ to learn how you can win $$ to produce new images of mammal specimens, extend your research and collect trait data.
SPNHC-TDWG 2024 Call for Abstracts is out! You are invited to submit now. Learn more: tdwg.org/conferences/2024/ca…
Urge Duke University to Reconsider Closing Their Herbarium - Sign the Petition! chng.it/V9gPtTyg via @Change
SPNHC-TDWG 2024 Call for Organized Sessions. You are to submit a proposal for an organized session. Deadline: February 16, 2024. See more, forms.gle/xBRq5A7JGzKgPSRK8
DEADLINE EXTENDED: Due to the high level of interest, as well as high levels of author stress, the deadline for the Ranges Imaging Mini-Awards has been extended 48 hours. FINAL DEADLINE is now January 12, 2024, 11:59pm Pacific Time. ranges-network.org/awards/
REMINDER: Upcoming Deadline for the Ranges Imaging Mini-Awards. Applications must be submitted by January 10, 2024, 11:59pm Pacific Time. ranges-network.org/awards/
The TDWG Exec Comm is pleased to announce that the Public Review of the Latimer Core (LtC) is now open. The Task Group will endeavor to resolve all issues received by 12 January 2024. Jump in! tdwg.org/news/2023/latimer-c…
Are you interested to join the planning of the 2024 SPNHC-TDWG Joint Conference in Okinawa as a member of the Program Committee? Now is your chance! Let us know if you are interested. forms.gle/6mACShHGATZ3eMPt9
Funding opportunity for trait-focussed mammal research in need of CT or other scanning. Check out the Ranges Imagine Mini Awards. ranges-network.org/awards/
VertNet Project retweeted
Is the Humboldt Extension for Ecologcial inventories important to your work? Take the opportunity and contribute to the latest review!⌛️Deadline is approaching! tdwg.github.io/hc/.
VertNet Project retweeted
Public review is open for proposed changes to #DarwinCore: of note, the introduction of the MaterialEntity class and the materialEntityID, which help people talk about records based on evidence from physical material: tdwg.org/news/2023/public-re…
h/t @tdwg Material Sample Taskgroup
The @tdwg Material Sample Taskgroup did their job! Now its your turn, @GBIF @SPNHC @DiSSCoEU @IcomNathist and others, to review the proposed changes to darwin core #pubic #review #standards tdwg.org/news/2023/public-re…
We can help you too. Yes. You! 🫵
Be like Amanda - get your institutions biodiversity data into @GBIF! Yes I know it's a challenge, yes I know you don't have staff or resources. Do it anyway. Do it for the planet & the folk attempting to change local, state & international policies. Help save #biodiversity.
Next @GBIF data model webinar - Camera Trap Data. Register: gbif.org/event/f68927-b5c1-4…
Join us tmrw (Friday) @ 11:40am EST; 8:40am PST for a Facebook Live with @FrickWinifred & @jonrflanders as they talk about how they found the lost Hill's horseshoe bat.
RSVP --> facebook.com/events/12955659…
Awesome, BCI! So good to work with you to get these data into the world.
AFTER 40 YEARS, WE'VE REDISCOVERED HILL'S HORSESHOE BAT (𝘙𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘱𝘩𝘶𝘴 𝘩𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘪), A "LOST SPECIES" THOUGHT TO HAVE POSSIBLY BEEN EXTINCT.
batcon.org/press/conservatio…
📷 Dr. Jon Flanders, Bat Conservation International
VertNet Project retweeted
New guide and DwC extension: Publishing DNA-derived data through biodiversity data platforms doi.org/10.35035/doc-vf1a-nr…
Thanks to all contributing experts! 🇸🇪🇳🇴🇩🇰🇪🇪🇦🇺
ALT Velvet shank (Flammulina velutipes) by Oleg Ryzhkov - https://www.gbif.org/occurrence/2550027893 (CC BY-NC 4.0)
All of us at VertNet wish to recognize Dave Wake and his support of the VertNet project and vision. Our hearts are with Marvalee and his families at home and the @MVZUCB. May he continue to dance with the ensatina and plethodontidae wherever he roams.
10 Years Old! The VertNet IPT has been up for a decade. 290 datasets with more on the way! If this doesn't make you feel old, you haven't been doing this long enough. Thanks @GBIF We raise our glass in celebration.
VertNet Project retweeted
Call for nominations for 2021 GBIF #YoungResearchers Award is OPEN:
gbif.org/news/6SrTuANNJyRweO…
This annual programme recognizes innovative research & discovery in #biodiversity informatics by two early-career researchers.
Global deadline🗓️: 21 June 2021 (local deadlines apply)
ALT Holacanthella paucispinosa—a short-legged springtail—observed in Mokoreta, Southland, New Zealand. Photo 2020 Damien Brouste via iNaturalist Research-grade Observations, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial 4.0.
And one more to send you off into a fantastic 2021! Thanks @GBIF! 3/3
And last but not least, the Georeferencing Calculator Manual, by @dabblepop @atucotuco & @PaulaZermoglio, which provides instructions for using a browser-base tool created to assist in the georeferencing of descriptive localities:
doi.org/10.35035/gdwq-3v93
ALT Western bobcat (Lynx rufus subsp. fasciatus), Sonoma County, California, United States. Photo 2019 Sonoma Ecology Center–Research Department via iNaturalist research-grade observations, licensed under CC BY-NC 4.0.