Press Releases
Published: 01-07-2014
Canada's Museum of Nature is part of an international movement to put archives online for researchers. CLICK HERE to read full article on CBC News site.
By Max Paris Environment Unit, CBC News Posted: Jan 05, 2014 9:00 PM ET Last Updated: Jan 05, 2014 12:21 PM ET
Published: 09-25-2013
Harnessing the Power of Big Data in Biological Research
AIBS Washington Watch, September 2013
Eve S. McCulloch
From the dawn of civilization to 2003, humankind generated five exabytes [5 billion gigabytes] of data. Now we produce five exabytes every two days ... and the pace is accelerating.
—Eric Schmidt, executive chairman at Google, quoted in R. Smolan and J. Erwitt, eds...
Published: 07-25-2013
Press Release 13-135
NSF Awards Third Round of Grants to Advance Digitization of Biodiversity Collections
Funding will shed light on "dark data," and integrate organismal, vocal, fossil, and ecological information
Rapid Image Processing with Voice Recognition aids steps in specimen processing.
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Published: 06-26-2013
CONTACTS
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Email
Phone
Maureen Kearney
biodigit@nsf.gov
(703) 292-7187
H. Richard Lane
biodigit@nsf.gov
703-292-4730
Anne M. Maglia
biodigit@nsf.gov
(703) 292-8470
Lisa E....
Published: 06-13-2013
Senate Committee Passes Education Legislation, Make Sure Congress Considers Museums
This afternoon, the Senate committee with jurisdiction over education policy passed legislation overhauling the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), also known as No Child Left Behind (NCLB). The proposal would allow states more flexibility in setting...
Published: 04-16-2013
The National Science Foundation has recently published its Collections in Support of Biological Research(CSBR) Solicitation.
The Collections in Support of Biological Research (CSBR) Program provides funds: 1) for improvements to secure, improve, and organize collections that are significant to the NSF BIO-funded research community; 2) to secure collections-related data for sustained,...
Published: 06-12-2012
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has announced the availability of funding to enhance and expand digitization of and access to existing biological and paleontological collections in the United States.
The Advancing Digitization of Biodiversity Collections is seeking full proposals for its third round of funding. Proposals will be accepted for new research themes (Thematic Collections...
Published: 05-02-2012
May 1, 2012
Centuries of exploration and discovery have documented the diversity of life on Earth. Records of that biodiversity are, for the most part, distributed widely across varied and distinct natural history collections. Until now, that has made assessing the information in these collections a difficult task. Last year, the National Science Foundation (NSF), through its...
Published: 03-20-2012
On 19 March, NSC Alliance submitted testimony to the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies. The testimony was in support of funding the National Science Foundation (NSF) at $7.373 billion in fiscal year (FY) 2013. This funding level would represent a 4.8 percent increase for the agency over the FY 2012 enacted budget.
The testimony...
Published: 12-07-2011
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Six months after receiving $10 million from the National Science Foundation to organize digitization of the nation’s biological collections, University of Florida researchers welcomed participants to Gainesville this week for the project’s kick-off symposium.
Researchers from 31 institutions, project collaborators and five program officers from NSF are...
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