South-Central California Collection and Data Network

Overview

The South-Central California Collection and Data Network goals are:

• Provide support of our regional natural history collections, larger and smaller.
• Develop multi-institution grant proposals to support the digitization and curation of scientific collections in South Central California.
• Establish methods of sharing information about ongoing regional and national initiatives where others may wish to participate.
• Provide support toward sustainable data sharing, digitization, and long term natural history collection infrastructure.
• Share collection protocols, methods, resource opportunities, and ideas.

Meetings

Past Meetings

• 1 February 2016: Establishing a Regional Natural History Collection and Data Network for South Central California
  • Minutes (Lynn McLaren, recorder)
  • Presentations
    • Creating a Natural History Collection and Data Network for South Central California (Katja Seltmann)
    • An Introduction to iDigBio and Background about Other Digitization Networks, the ADBC and CSBR National Science Foundation Programs (Gil Nelson)
    • Biodiversity Informatics Projects at the Berkeley Natural History Museums (David Baxter)
    • Cal Poly Collections, Phenology and Specimens (Jenn Yost)
    • Digitization at the Western Foundation of Vertebrate Zoology (Linnea Hall)
    • RSA-POM Herbarium: Projects, Resources, and Student Participation (Mare Nazaire)
    • The Past and Future of Digitization at the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden (Matt Guilliams)
    • NHM Wet Collections Social Engineering (Dean Pentcheff)
  • Resources
    • Needs of participating institutions
    • Meeting brainstorming
    • Google Drive folder

• 2 August 2016: Natural History Collections Documents Workshop: Physical Preservation, Metadata, and Document Databasing
  • Minutes (Lynn McLaren, recorder)
  • Presentations
    • Challenges and Opportunities in Creating an Archive for the UC Natural Reserve System (Peter Alagona)
    • Processing archives from research field stations: cataloging material and digitizing data for integration and visualization with other biotic collection data (Michelle Koo and Christina Fidler)
    • Issues in photographic conservation: examples from the UCSB Library (Jon Jablonski)
    • Expanding Access to Biodiversity Literature: Metadata and the Biodiversity Heritage Library (Patrick Randall and Mariah Lewis)
  • Resources
    • Google Drive folder

Members

• Peter Alagona, UCSB - History
• David Baxter, UCB - The University and Jepson Herbaria
• Mireia Beas-Moix, CCBER - UCSB
• Carol Blanchette, Valentine Eastern Sierra Reserve - UCSB
• Kevin Browne, University of California Natural Reserve System
• Jenn Caselle, UCSB Fish Collection
• Henry Chaney, SBMNH - Malacology
• David Chapman, CCBER - UCSB
• Paul Collins, SBMNH - Vertebrate Zoology
• Rene Corado, Western Foundation of Vertebrate Zoology
• Frank Davis, NCEAS - UCSB
• Marla Daily, Santa Cruz Island Foundation
• Tom Dudley, UCSB
• Krista Fahy, SBMNH - Vertebrate Zoology
• Becca Fenwick, ISEECI - UCSC
• Ed Gilbert, Symbiota
• Matthew Gimmel, SBMNH - Entomology
• Matt Guilliams, SBBG
• Linnea Hall, Western Foundation of Vertebrate Zoology
• Cause Hanna, Santa Rosa Island Research Station - CSUCI
• Laurie Hannah, SBMNH - Volunteer
• Doug Jenzen, Guadalupe-Nipomo Dunes Center
• Laura Kirn, Channel Islands National Park - NPS
• Denise Knapp, SBBG
• John Knapp, The Nature Conservancy
• Kristen LaBonte, UCSB Library
• Sara Lafia, UCSB
• Sean Lahmeyer, Pasadena City College Herbarium
• Adam Lambert, MSI-Cheadle
• Lyndal Laughrin, Santa Cruz Island Reserve - UCSB
• Tara Longwell, Coal Oil Point Reserve - UCSB
• Jim Markham, CCBER - UCSB
• Susan Mazer, UCSB
• Kate McCurdy, Sedgwick Reserve - UCSB
• Lynn McLaren, Santa Cruz Island Reserve - UCSB
• William Meyst, Guadalupe-Nipomo Dunes Center
• Mare Nazaire, RSA-POM Herbarium
• Jessica Nielsen, Coal Oil Point Reserve - UCSB
• Gil Nelson, iDigBio / Florida State University
• Dean Pentcheff, NHMLA
• John Perrine, Cal Poly - Mammalogy Collection
• Roland Roberts, NSF
• Cris Sandoval, Coal Oil Point Reserve - UCSB
• Mark Schildhauer, NCEAS - UCSB
• Katja Seltmann, CCBER - UCSB
• Gareth Seward, UCSB Earth Science
• Robyn Shea, Santa Rosa Island Research Station - CSUCI
• Emily Taylor, Cal Poly - Herpetology Collection
• Jennifer Thorsch, CCBER - UCSB
• Shirley Tucker, CCBER - UCSB
• Paul Valentich-Scott, SBMNH - Malacology
• Lotus Vermeer, The Nature Conservancy
• Francis Villablanca, Cal Poly - Mammalogy & Bird Collections
• Larisa Vredevoe, Cal Poly - Entomology Collection
• Bob Warner, UCSB - Fish Collection
• Dieter Wilken, SBBG
• Hillary Young, UCSB CCBER Mammal curator
• ‎Jenn Yost, Cal Poly - Robert F. Hoover Herbarium