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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 7/15/2015 8:12 AM, Gil Nelson wrote:<br>
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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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bold;">Virtual meeting place:</strong> <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__idigbio.adobeconnect.com_scnet&d=AwMDaQ&c=-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=CLFZJ3fvGSmDp7xK1dNZfh6uGV_h-8NVlo3fXNoRNzI&m=iwIh9wMkPEb7W7IBbtti8qC5mUei7qSEvvTbkcf38K4&s=JQIWFwZzjSg6PjYzGMdXd58d--WciYlEFUc5DZ2g05o&e=" style="box-sizing: border-box; color:
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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
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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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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 moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:gnelson@bio.fsu.edu">gnelson@bio.fsu.edu</a></pre>
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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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