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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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                      style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;">23
                      July 2015</strong><br style="box-sizing:
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                        font-weight: bold;"><strong style="box-sizing:
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                          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
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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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