Digital Data in Biodiversity Research Conference, Berkeley

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Lodging and Logistics

For those seeking economy, we have secured a package deal at very low cost that includes 3 nights in a dorm-style room, shared bathroom, and 3 meals/day.
These rooms are in Unit 1 Residence Hall, 2650 Durant Avenue, Berkeley, CA 94720, located 1 block from campus, near many restaurants and shops,
a short 8 minute walk to the venue, and 10 blocks from BART.
Check in is Sunday June 3rd after 3pm.
Check out is Wednesday June 6th by 11:00 am.
For students: Single occupancy rate (including conference registration) is $308.73. Double occupancy rate (per person, including conference registration) is $239.10.
For non-students: Single occupancy rate (including conference registration) is $361.48. Double occupancy rate (per person, including conference registration) is $291.85.
Since these economy rates are a package deal, the check in and out dates are firm and cannot be changed on an individual basis.

Conference Registration

Registration opens 16 January 2018 and will be handled by Eventbrite.

PLEASE REGISTER EARLY. WE HAVE LIMITED CAPACITY AND MAY BE REQUIRED TO CLOSE REGISTRATION EARLY IF THE CONFERENCE FILLS UP.

Registration fees:

  • $100.00 for professionals,
  • $ 50.00 for students.

General registration deadline: 15 May 2018.

  • Registration deadline for those submitting an abstract: 30 April 2018.
  • Registration deadline for those taking advantage of the economy lodging option: 30 April 2018

To register: Click here

Conference Abstracts

This year we are offering attendees an opportunity to propose oral and poster presentations as well as to propose and lead an open discussion session about a critical topic in the research use of digital data. Each of these requires an abstract submission, all of which can be completed on a single abstract form. You may propose up to three sessions: oral, poster, and discussion. You will receive a link to the abstract submission form upon registering. Abstracts must be submitted by 30 April 2018. Only abstracts from previously registered attendees can be considered.

Conference Streaming and Recording

To the extent possible, the Conference sessions will be broadcast and recorded using Adobe Connect. Meeting hosts will monitor the chat to address questions/concerns. To connect, go to https://idigbio.adobeconnect.com/digitaldataberkeley, select “Enter as a Guest”, enter your first name and surname and click “Enter Room.” For more information, remote participants are strongly encouraged to visit the iDigBio Web Conferencing Wiki prior to connecting: https://www.idigbio.org/wiki/index.php/Web_Conferencing.


Preconference Invited Workshop

Sunday, 3 June 2018

Pre-conference Invited Workshop
Breakfast (On your own) 7:30 - 8:30 a.m.
{Location} (8:30 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.)

Biodiversity Literacy in Undergraduate Education: A Workshop to define competencies for the core undergraduate biology curriculum
Moderator: Anna Monfils


The NSF funded RCN-UBE Biodiversity Literacy in Undergraduate Education - Data Initiative (BLUE Data) is working to bring together communities of biodiversity, data, and education specialists to identify core biodiversity data competencies for undergraduates, develop strategies for integrating these competencies into the introductory biology curriculum, and build capacity for sustained development and implementation of biodiversity and data literacy education. This is the first of several invited workshops to generate community consensus on a core set of biodiversity data literacy skills. The goal of this specific meeting is to review the current landscape of data literacy competencies from k-12 to graduate education in biodiversity data science, identify gaps in student learning related to data and biodiversity science core skills, and begin to generate community consensus on defined biodiversity data literacy competencies. Results from this workshop will inform efforts to develop competencies, materials, and strategies designed to facilitate broad-scale adoption of transferrable data literacy competencies that can improve undergraduate biology training and meet increasing workforce demands in both data and biodiversity sciences.

Agenda: Monday, 4 June 2018

Wireless link:
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Day One
Breakfast (On your own) 7:30-8:30 a.m.
Registration - 7:30-8:30
Keynote Session
{Location}
8:00 - 10:15 a.m.
Moderator: David Ackerly
    Time  Title Presenter(s)
8:30-9:00 Welcome
Workshop Framing
Introduction to iDigBio and ADBC 		David Ackerly, Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley

Larry Page, Director of iDigBio and Curator of Fishes, Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida
9:00-9:30 James Hanken, Director, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University
9:30-10:00 David Blackburn, Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida
10:00-10:30 Paula M. Mabee, Professor of Biology, University of South Dakota, formerly Director of the Division of Environmental Biology in the NSF’s Directorate for Biological Sciences (BIO)
10:30-11:00 Break - {Location}
Concurrent Session I - {Location} (11:00 a.m. - Noon)
Moderator:
Theme:
11:00-11:20
11:20-11:40
11:40-Noon
Concurrent Session II - {Location} (11:00 a.m. - Noon)
Moderator:
Theme:
11:00-11:20
11:20-11:40
11:40-Noon
Discussion Sessions I - (11:00 a.m. - Noon)
11:00-Noon
11:00-Noon
11:00-Noon
12:00-1:30 Lunch (On your own) - See page ## of {Link to logistics document} for restaurant suggestions
Concurrent Session III - {Location} (1:30 p.m. - 3:10 p.m.)
Moderator:
Theme:
1:30-1:50
1:50-2:10
2:10-2:30
2:30-2:50
2:50-3:10
Concurrent Session IV - {Location} (1:30 p.m. - 3:10 p.m.)
Moderator:
Theme:
1:30-1:50
1:50-2:10
2:10-2:30
2:30-2:50
2:50-3:10
Discussion Sessions II - (1:30 p.m. - 3:10 p.m.)
1:30-3:00
1:30-3:00
1:30-3:00
1:30-3:00
1:30-3:00
3:10-3:40 Break - {Location}
Poster Session - {Location} (3:40 - 5:00 p.m.)
Dinner (On your own)

Tuesday, 5 June 2018

Day Two
Breakfast (On your own) 7:30 - 8:30 a.m.
Registration 7:30 - 8:30 a.m.
Plenary Session - {Location} (8:30 - 10:00 a.m.)
Moderator:
Time Title Presenter(s)
8:30-9:00 Robert J. Full, Professor, Dept. of Integrative Biology, University of California, Berkeley
9:00-9:30 Scott V. Edwards, Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, and Curator of Ornithology and Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology in the Museum of Comparative Zoology
9:30-10:00 Jeannine Cavender-Bares, Professor, Department of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, Institute on Environment Fellow, University of Minnesota
10:00-10:30 Break - {Location}
Concurrent Session V - {Location} (10:30 a.m. - 12:10 p.m.)
Moderator:
Theme:
10:30-10:50
10:50-11:10
11:10-11:30
11:30-11:50
11:50-12:10
Concurrent Session VI - {Location} (10:30 a.m. - 12:10 p.m.)
Moderator:
Theme:
10:30-10:50
10:50-11:10
11:10-11:30
11:30-11:50
11:50-12:10
12:10-1:30 Lunch (On your own) - See page ## of {Link to logistics document} for restaurant suggestions
Concurrent Session VII - {Location} (1:30 p.m. - 3:10 p.m.)
Moderator:
Theme:
1:30-1:50
1:50-2:10
2:10-2:30
2:30-2:50
2:50-3:10
Concurrent Session VIII - {Location} (1:30 p.m. - 3:10 p.m.)
Moderator:
Theme:
1:30-1:50
1:50-2:10
2:10-2:30
2:30-2:50
2:50-3:10
Discussion Session III - {Location} (1:30 p.m. - 3:10 p.m.)
Moderator:
Theme:
1:30-3:10 p.m. The Digital Data un-un-conference: Leveraging Data Science for Digital Biodiversity Carl Boettiger (University of California Berkeley)
Matt Collins (University of Florida)
Deb Paul (Florida State University)
3:10-3:40 Break - {Location}
Capstone Session
Moderator:
3:40-4:10 Dena Smith, Program Director, Division of Earth Sciences, Sedimentary Geology & Paleobiology Program, U.S. National Science Foundation
4:10-4:40 Cindy Schmidt, Associate Program Manager, Applied Sciences Ecoforecasting Program, ARSET Land Management team lead, Bay Area Environmental Research Institute, NASA Ames Research Center
Reception, Museum of Vertebrate Zoology

Wednesday, 6 June 2018

Day Three - Workshops
Breakfast (On your own) 7:00 - 8:00 a.m.
Registration 7:00 - 8:15 a.m.
Workshop 1 - {Location} (8:30 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.)
Moderator: Andy Bentley, University of Kansas Biodiversity Institute
Theme: BCoN: Data integration and attribution
This workshop will expand on the BCoN February needs assessment workshop and will focus on finding mechanisms to facilitate the integration of data and attribution of collections within the data pipeline. All conference attendees are welcomed to attend. A white paper from the February workshop will be used to highlight areas of need, topics of discussion, further development, and to discuss specific ways in which we can bridge the existing gaps and provide the necessary mechanisms to create robust integration and attribution pathways for collections data.
Workshop 2 - {Location} (8:30 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.)
Moderators: Hamish Holewa, Robina Sanderson, John La Salle, CSIRO, Canberra, Australia
Theme: Next generation biodiversity data: developing an international traits system
Biodiversity “trait data” refers to a variety of species or specimen level attributes that can contribute to our understanding, assessment, conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity data (e.g. morphology, species interactions, derived genomic information, life history/stage/behaviour, ecological attributes and tolerances, medicinal or food uses, etc.). There are several initiatives around the world that are starting to make computable trait data available to the biodiversity research community. There is now an opportunity to work together to create an international traits system that will facilitate the sharing, integration and use of this data, and bringing it into eResearch infrastructures to fully integrate it with other data streams, environmental layers, phylogenetic tools and mapping and analysis capability. This workshop is the start of developing a coordinated international effort to meet this vision.
[Invited] Workshop 3 - {Location} (8:30 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.)
Moderator: Alex Vandam, University of Puerto Rico
Theme: Sharing and Mobilization of Massive Specimen Image Databases from Collections of Tropical Island Biodiversity
Tropical Islands are global biodiversity hotspots, this combined with their remote locations has led to many undescribed species on tropical islands. In order to further our taxonomic knowledge of tropical island biodiversity rapid dissemination of expertly identified specimens is needed. Here we start with tropical islands that we have strong holdings of in our collections, and discuss which geographic regions should have highest priority for digitization. We will discuss new methods for capturing specimen images and sharing massive databases of specimen image files. We will also discuss how to best mobilize these specimens from our collections in the most efficient manner.
[Invited] Workshop 4 - {Location} (8:30 a.m. - Noon)
Moderator: Dave Blackburn, Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida
Theme: Meeting of oVert collaborators

This meeting will afford the opportunity for oVert collaborators to review progress, discuss issues and solutions, share workflows, and troubleshoot image uploads and management.

Workshop 5 - {Location} (8:30 a.m. - Noon)
Moderators: Barbara M. Thiers, New York Botanical Garden, Bronx, Anna K. Monfils, Central Michigan University
Theme: Discussion Session: Harnessing Biodiversity Collections Data for Addressing National Challenges
This discussion session is one in a series of outreach activities organized by the Biodiversity Collections Network (BCoN) during 2018. The goal of this effort is to develop a stakeholder vision of how to maximize the value of biodiversity collections data for collections management, research and education. We are conducting these activities in response to requests from NSF and others to provide a community-derived vision that could inform the development of a new funding program to succeed NSF’s current ADBC program. The effort will culminate in a workshop in October 2018 where we will consolidate the feedback into a strategic plan for 2020-2030. The strategic plan, to be issued in early 2019, will be available for public comment and edited accordingly before it is finalized.

Hopefully this strategic plan will provide a framework for a new NSF funding program, much as the Network for Integrated Bioccollections Alliance Strategic Plan (NIBA) influenced the original development of Advancing Digitization of Biological Collections (ADBC) funding program, which began in 2011. Since that time, ADBC has funded 20 Thematic Collection Networks (TCNs), which are collaborative digitization projects focused on a particular set of research questions. Collectively the TCNs have digitized specimens from 561 collections held in 336 institutions and has provided training and work experience for a broad range of students and emerging professionals. The ADBC program has also provided continual support to University of Florida and Florida State University for hosting Integrated Digitized BioCollections (iDigBio;DBI-1115210; DBI-1547229), the organizing unit for the digitization effort. iDigBio provides training in digitization, data mobilization and the use of collections data in research and education, and shares digitized data through its iDigBio Portal that has over 105 million specimen records and 22 million media records from 1650 record sets.

Additionally, NSF has funded a number of recent initiatives that make use of the data generated through ADBC and address the goals of the NIBA plan. These include, but are not limited to the following: Biodiversity Literacy in Undergraduate Education (BLUE; DBI 1730526), BiotaPhy (DBI 1458466), Kurator (DBI 1356438, DBI 1356751), Morphosource (DBI- 1661386), the Paleobiology Database Project (PBDB; EAR 0949416), and The Whole Tale (OAC 1541450).

The main questions to be addressed in this discussion session include: 1) What do you think should be priority goals for the next 10 years of biodiversity collections digitization? 2) What research areas could benefit from greater integration and collaboration with digitized collections data? 3) If there were to be a new funding program to success ADBC, what do you think its focus should be?
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