Inaugural Digital Data in Biodiversity Research Conference Agenda

Monday, 5 June 2017

Day One
Breakfast (On your own) 7:00-8:00 a.m.
Registration - The League Second Floor Concourse
Keynote Session I The League Ballroom 8:00 - 9:45 a.m.
Time			Title	Presenter(s)
8:00-8:15		Welcome and Introduction		Priscilla Tucker, University of Michigan Museum of Zoology
8:15-8:45		The Utility of Large-scale Phylogenetic Analyses for Understanding the Evolution of Biodiversity		Stephen Smith, University of Michigan
8:45-9:15		Expanding the Power of Natural History Knowledge: Frontiers in Research and Collections at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History		Maureen Kearney, Smithsonian Institution
9:15-9:45		Linking Heterogeneous Data in Biodiversity Research		Pam Soltis, Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida
9:45-10:15		Break - The League Second Floor Concourse
Plenary Session I - The League Ballroom
10:15-10:30		Using “Digital Specimens” to explore the behavioral phenotype		Mike Webster, Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology
10:30-10:45		Preserving Evidence of Biodiversity Patterns: GBIF and Persistent Biodiversity Data Management		Donald Hobern, GBIF Executive Secretary
10:45-11:00
11:00-11:15
11:15-11:30
11:30-11:45
11:45-Noon
12:00-1:30		Lunch (On your own) - See wiki for restaurant suggestions
Afternoon Workshops - The League Second Floor (1:30-4:30)
Room			Room	Room
Digital Data and the North American Nodes of the Global Biodiversity Information Facility Leaders: Bob Hanner, Stinger Guala, James Macklin			Automated species range map construction through aggregated global museum records Leaders: Pascal Title and Alison Davis Rabosky	Computational Macroevolution: Analysis and Visualization of Complex Evolutionary Dynamics on Phylogenies Leaders: Dan Rabosky, Jonathan Mitchell
Reception and Collections Tours at the Collections Research Facility, Varsity Drive (7:00-9:00 p.m.) Busses departing The League 6:15-6:30 p.m.
Dinner (On your own)

Tuesday, 6 June 2017

Day Two
Breakfast (On your own) 7:00 - 8:00 a.m.
Registration 7:00 - 8:00 a.m.
Keynote Session II - The League Ballroom
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
10:00-10:30	Break - The League Second Floor Concourse
Plenary Session II - The League Ballroom
10:30-10:45	3D Surface Models in Paleontology and Archaeology			Dan Fisher, University of Michigan Museum of Paleontology
10:45-11:00
11:00-11:15
11:15-11:30
11:30-11:45
11:45-12:00
12:00-12:15
12:15-12:30
12:30-2:00	Lunch (On your own) - See wiki for restaurant suggestions
Poster Session - The League Vandenberg Room (2:00 - 3:30 p.m.)
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11:00-11:15
11:15-11:30
11:30-11:45
11:45-12:00
12:00-12:15
12:15-12:30
10:45-11:00
11:00-11:15
11:15-11:30
11:30-11:45
11:45-12:00
12:00-12:15
12:15-12:30
3:30-4:00	Break - The League Second Floor Concourse
Capstone Session
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