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Reminder: the next Small Collections Network webinar is next week.
See announcement below or bookmark it at:<br>
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<p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;"><strong
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July 2015</strong><br style="box-sizing:
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bold;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;
font-weight: bold;">3:00-4:00 p.m. EDT</strong></strong><br
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font-weight: bold;"><strong style="box-sizing:
border-box; font-weight: bold;">Virtual
meeting place:</strong> <a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__idigbio.adobeconnect.com_scnet&d=AwMDaQ&c=-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=CLFZJ3fvGSmDp7xK1dNZfh6uGV_h-8NVlo3fXNoRNzI&m=S8OmIhWfb58B93547yrtfGJN2YaXi1NinmiZU-k3rIs&s=RaWXgdA-igYrzkweAHDSzY5s8jznhjucG_ie3MJVAEo&e=" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(66,
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<strong style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight:
bold;">Citizen Science: A Symbiotic Future for
Research and Education Using Biological
Collections</strong><br style="box-sizing:
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<strong style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight:
bold;">Presenters: Emily Meineke (North Carolina
State, Entomology), Steven D. Frank (North
Carolina State, Entomology), Robert Dunn (North
Carolina State, Biology)</strong><br
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Museum collections offer a lens into the past and a
way to predict the future. These functions are
especially valuable now as we try to anticipate how
biodiversity will change with global shifts in
climate and land use. Collections also offer a way
to learn about the species that live with us in our
most immediate environments, species that arguably
should have the most pronounced effects on our
wellbeing. Several recent projects leverage small
collections from the past and larger, more recent
collections built by the public to ask questions in
biology while connecting citizens to native
biodiversity. At NCSU, we house several such
projects at various stages of development that use
large and small collections for education. The most
developed project School of Ants forged new
symbioses between science and education. The most
nascent of our projects will use herbaria to track
herbivory across unprecedented scales of space and
time. Here, we present this project as an example of
how traditional research on small collections can be
expanded to include a public component that builds
larger collections and involves K-12 students in
science.</p>
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<pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">--
Gil Nelson, PhD
Assistant Professor/Research
iDigBio Steering Committee
Integrated Digitized Biocollections
Institute for Digital Information and Scientific Communication
College of Communication and Information
Courtesy Professor
Department of Biological Sciences
Robert K. Godfrey Herbarium
Florida State University
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:gnelson@bio.fsu.edu">gnelson@bio.fsu.edu</a></pre>
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