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 | ||
9:45-10:00 | Using “Digital Specimens” to explore the behavioral phenotype | Mike Webster, Cornell Laboratory of Ornithology | ||
10:00-10:15 | Preserving Evidence of Biodiversity Patterns: GBIF and Persistent Biodiversity Data Management | Donald Hobern, GBIF Executive Secretary | ||
10:15-10:45 | Break - The League Second Floor Concourse | |||
Concurrent Session I - The League Ballroom | ||||
10:45-11:00 | Natural History Data Pipelines: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly | Andy Bentley, University of Kansas Biodiversity Institute | ||
11:00-11:15 | Paleobiology Database: A community based data service for research, education, and museums | Mark Uhen, George Mason University | ||
11:15-11:30 | MorphoSource: A Virtual Museum and Digital Repository for 3D Specimen Data | Doug Boyer, Duke University | ||
11:30-11:45 | ePANDDA: enhancing Paleontological and Neontological Data Discovery API | Susan Butts, Yale University | ||
11:45-Noon | The importance and challenges of database integration: MorphoBank, MorphoSource, and the Paleobiology Database | Julie Winchester, Duke University | ||
Concurrent Session II - ??? | ||||
10:45-11:00 | Integrating relevant hydrologic measures with digitized biodiversity data to investigate climate change impacts on freshwater fishes | Jason Knoft, Saint Louis University | ||
11:00-11:15 | Biogeographic filtering and the assembly of Neotropical rainforests: insights using ecological traits derived from digital biodiversity data | Jordan Bemmels, University of Michigan | ||
11:15-11:30 | Supporting research pipelines through the creation of stratigraphic and taxonomic concordances | Erica Clites, University of California Museum of Paleontology | ||
11:30-11:45 | Taxonomic data quality in GBIF: a case study of aquatic macroinvertebrate groups | Joan Dameros, Field Museum of Natural History | ||
11:45-Noon | Automating tropical pollen counts using convolutional neural nets: from image acquisition to identification | Derek Haselhorst, Program in Ecology, Evolution and Conservation Biology, University of Illinois | ||
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 | ||
Leaders: Bob Hanner, Stinger Guala, James Macklin Presentations Digital Data and the North American Nodes of the Global Biodiversity Information Facility Biodiversity Information Serving Our Nation (BISON): Connections and Cooperation (Stinger Guala) National and Regional Coordination Roles within GBIF (Donald Hobern) The Canadian Biodiversity Information Facility (CBIF) (James Macklin) Canadensys: revealing the biodiversity of Canada (Anne Bruneau) Overview of the Biodiversity Heritage Library Recent Activities (Martin Kalfatovic) The Catalogue of Life: Infrastructure for Science (Tom Orrell) Global Genome Biodiversity Network – Infrastructure for Genomic Research (Jon Coddington) iDigBio, National Coordinating Center for NSF's ADBC Program (Larry Page) Discussion Q&A |
Leaders: Pascal Title and Alison Davis Rabosky Automated species range map construction through aggregated global museum records |
Leaders: Dan Rabosky, Jonathan Mitchell Computational Macroevolution: Analysis and Visualization of Complex Evolutionary Dynamics on Phylogenies | ||
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 | |||
Concurrent Session III - The League Ballroom | ||||
10:45-11:00 | Using Statistical Analysis to Calculate the Size of Biodiversity Literature | Alicia Esquivel, Chicago Botanic Garden | ||
11:00-11:15 | Illustrating value added in databasing historical collections: Entered, proofed, and done (or not!) | Tony Reznicek, University of Michigan Herbarium | ||
11:15-11:30 | The Encyclopedia of Life v3: constructing a linked data model | Jennifer Hammock, Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History | ||
11:30-11:45 | Encyclopedia of Life Version 3: New Tools for the Exploration of Biodiversity Knowledge | Katja Schulz, Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History | ||
11:45-12:00 | How do people see biodiversity? Using a digital identification key in a citizen science program | Mathilde Delaunay, Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris, France | ||
12:00-12:15 | Supporting the Biological Collections Community with Specify Software for the Long Run | Jim Beach, University of Kansas Biodiversity Institute | ||
12:00-12:15 | Hole-y Plant Databases! Understanding and Preventing Biases in Botanical Big Data | Katelin D. Pearson, Florida State University | ||
Concurrent Session IV - ??? | ||||
10:45-11:00 | Reconstructing the extinction dynamics of Picea critchfieldii – the application of computer vision to fossil pollen analysis | Surangi Punyasena, University of Illinois | ||
11:00-11:15 | The application of optical supperresolution microscopy to the study of pollen morphology | Michael Urban, University of Illinois - Urbana Champaign | ||
11:15-11:30 | Developing an Enterprise GIS to support collections management, teaching, and research | Michael Kost, University of Michigan, Matthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum | ||
11:30-11:45 | How Digitizing and Tagging Helped Solve the Tully Monster Mystery | Paul Mayer, Field Museum of Natural History | ||
11:45-12:00 | Open Source Tools for Digitization Workflows | Mark Metz, USDA ARS SEL | ||
12:15-12:30 | iDigBio and the Digital Humanities | Maura Flannery, St. John's University, NY | ||
12:15-12:30 | Emily Sandall, Penn State University | |||
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.) | ||||
Sharing Research Data: “I need to store and share data, and get recognition” | Danielle Descoteaux, Publisher, Ecology & Biodiversity Elsevier | |||
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 | |||
BioBeacon: An Online Field Guide to Digital Biodiversity Information Resources | Bob Hanner, University of Guelph, Biodiversity Institute of Ontario | |||
Taxonomic Concept Mapping in Support of Floristic Studies | Thea Jaster Oregon State University | |||
The Potential Within a Modern Flora | 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 |