Inaugural Digital Data in Biodiversity Research Conference Agenda
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Monday, 5 June 2017
| Day One | ||||
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| 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 | |||||
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| 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 | |||
| 10:00-10:15 | 3D Surface Models in Paleontology and Archaeology | Dan Fisher, University of Michigan Museum of Paleontology | |||
| 10:15-10:45 | Break - The League Second Floor Concourse | ||||
| Plenary Session II - The League Ballroom | |||||
| 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 | ||||
| Global Biotic Interactions: A Case Study in Ecological Data Aggregation | Jorrit Poelen Global Biotic Interactions | ||||
| Big Data Challenges in Ecological and Biodiversity Informatics: A Functional Trait Perspective | Vaughn Shirey The Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University | ||||
| A tutorial to generate herbarium labels from spreadsheet data using LaTeX | R. Sean Thackurdeen New York Botanical Garden | ||||
| Digitization of strepsirrhine primates from the Duke Lemur Center | Gabriel Yapuncich North Carolina State University | ||||
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| 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 | |||