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.)
Visually Representing a Biodiversity Literature Collection Using Metadata and Full Text Analysis				Alicia Esquivel Chicago Botanic Garden
Consider the Source: A Case Study Using GBIF Data for Research on Entocytherid Ostracods				Raquel A. Fagundo North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences
Research and Management Applications of Online Collection Data: A Case Study of Prairie Fen Biodiversity				Rachel Hackett Central Michigan University
Taxonomic Concept Mapping in Support of Floristic Studies				Thea Jaster Oregon State University
The Potential Within a Modern FGlora				Thea Jaster Oregon State University
Exploring the Untapped Potential of CT Scanning in the Quantitative Analysis of Brachiopod Long Loops				Natalia Lopez Carranza University of California, Davis
	Biodiversity Literacy in Undergraduate Education (BLUE): Opportunities for Collaboration				Anna Monfils, Central Michigan University
10:45-11:00	Global Biotic Interactions: A Case Study in Ecological Data Aggregation
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