Carnegie Museum of Natural History Workshop 2024

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Workshop Details

When: May 20–22, 2024
Venue: Carnegie Museum of Natural History, 4400 Forbes Ave | Pittsburgh, PA 15213
Day 1 Location: Earth Theater is located on the first floor of CMNH. Participants can enter CMNH through the gift shop and walk straight until they reach the doors of the “Dinosaurs in Their Time (DITT)” exhibition. Visitors should take the curving path through DITT until they reach the spiral staircase. At the staircase, turn left and go through the doors into “Discovery Basecamp”, where the Earth Theater is in the far left corner.
Day 2 Location: CMP Board Room is located between CMNH and Carnegie Museum of Art, across from the glass courtyard. To access the CMP Board Room before the museum is open, arrive at the Portal Entrance which is near the parking lot and a CMNH staff member will escort you.
Day 3 Location: Classroom A is located through the Portal Entrance, past the glass doors.
Organizers: Libby Ellwood, Florida Museum of Natural History, iDigBio; Gil Nelson, Florida Museum of Natural History, iDigBio; Lauren Cohen, Florida Museum of Natural History, iDigBio; Jesse Grosso, Florida Museum of Natural History, iDigBio; Mason Heberling, Carnegie Museum of Natural History; Rachel Thomas Beckel, Carnegie Museum of Natural History
Presenters: Mason Heberling, Carnegie Museum of Natural History; Gretchen Baker, Carnegie Museum of Natural History; Libby Ellwood, Florida Museum of Natural History, iDigBio; Katie Pearson, Symbiota Support Hub, Arizona State University, iDigBio; Kalina Jakymec, Florida State University, iDigBio; Jessica Utrup, Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History; Nelson Rios, Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History; Victoria Tran, Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History; Steve Ellis, National Science Foundation; Michael Denslow, Notes from Nature
Expected number of participants: 35 - 40
Workshop Participant List
CMNH Resource Inventory

Logistic information

Invited participant support: Lodging, airfare, ground transportation, and per diem expenses reimbursed following the workshop. Please contact Lauren Cohen at cohen.lauren@floridamuseum.ufl.edu to purchase flights and reserve lodging via the UF GO booking tool.
Airport: Pittsburgh International Airport (PIT)
Airport transportation: Uber/Lyft/taxi are the easiest and most convenient ways to get from the airport to the hotel. Transportation could take up to an hour.
Recommended workshop hotel: Wyndham Pittsburgh University Center 100 Lytton Avenue | Pittsburgh, PA 15213 | 412.682.6200
Transportation from hotel to venue: Walking distance 0.4 miles (9 minutes)
Wifi networks: Once on-site, workshop participants can log into a WIFI network for internet access.
Meals: Lunch will be provided at the CMNH on Tuesday and Wednesday. Breakfast and dinner will not be provided. However, at the State of Florida statutory rates, you will be reimbursed for those meals following the workshop.

Agenda

Day 1: Monday, 20 May 2024

Day One
Time Topic Presenter(s)
12:00 - 1:00 Earth Theater
12:00 - 1:00 Moriarty Seminar
  • From Knowledge to Action: Current Work and Next Steps for the Natural History Collections Community
 Libby Ellwood, Florida Museum of Natural History, iDigBio
1:00 - 2:00 Lunch
2:00 - 4:00 CMNH Collection Tours
  • Herpetology, Marian Marques, Collection Manager; Jennifer Sheridan, Associate Curator
  • Ornithology, Serina Brady, Collection Manager
  • Botany, Bonnie Isaac, Collection Manager
  • Invertebrate Zoology, Ainsley Seago, Associate Curator
  • Vertebrate Paleontology, Matt Lamanna, Curator
  • Mollusks, Tim Pearce, Curator

Day 2: Tuesday, 21 May 2024

Day Two
Time Topic Presenter(s)
9:00 - 11:00 CMP Board Room
8:30 - 9:00 Coffee & Tea
9:00 - 9:10 Welcome
 Gretchen Baker, Director of CMNH
9:10 - 9:20 Introductions
9:20 - 10:00 Workshop Framing & Discussion
10:00 - 10:50 National Science Foundation
 Steve Ellis, National Science Foundation;

Katharina Dittmar, National Science Foundation

10:50 - 11:00 Break
11:00 - 5:00 Ford-Mateer & Guyaux Classrooms
11:00 - 11:15 Digitization Academy
 Kalina Jakymec, Florida State University, iDigBio
11:15 - 12:00 Digitization Workflows
 Kalina Jakymec, Florida State University, iDigBio
12:00 - 1:00 Catered Lunch
1:00 - 2:30 Symbiota
  • Walkthrough
  • Discussion
  • Q&A
 Katie Pearson, Symbiota Support Hub, iDigBio
2:30 - 4:00 EMu
  • Walkthrough
  • Discussion
  • Q&A
 Jessica Utrup, Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History
4:00 - 4:30 Data Mobilization & Aggregators
  • Symbiota
  • iDigBio
  • GBIF
 Katie Pearson, Symbiota Support Hub, iDigBio
4:30 - 5:00 Group Discussion & Wrap-up

Day 3: Wednesday, 22 May 2024

Day Three
Time Topic Presenter(s)
9:00 - 5:00 Classroom A
8:30 - 9:00 Coffee & Tea
9:00 - 10:30 CSci (Public Participation)
  • Public participation in mobilizing collections data
  • Notes from Nature
 Michael Denslow, Notes from Nature
10:30 - 12:00 Georeferencing
  • CoGe
  • Geolocate
 Nelson Rios, Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History
12:00 - 1:00 Catered Lunch
1:00 - 4:00 Imaging 101 & Demonstrations
 Nelson Rios, Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History;

Victoria Tran, Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History

4:00 - 4:10 Break
4:10 - 5:00 CMNH Lightning Talks & Success Stories
  • CM herbarium digitization: Mid-Atlantic Megalopolis Project and beyond
  • Digitizing the Holland Correspondence Archive at CMNH
  • She Digitizes Seashells on the Ground Floor
  • A three-ring flea circus: Digitizing the Traub collection
  • Thinking forward for CMNH collections

Mason Heberling, Associate Curator, Botany;
Lisa Haney, Assistant Curator, Egypt on the Nile;
Marie Corrado, Library Manager, Carnegie Museum of Natural History Library;
Tim Pearce, Assistant Curator, Mollusks;
Ainsley Seago, Associate Curator, Invertebrate Zoology;
Kathy Hollis, Director of Collections Care and Access

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