<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Consider supercharging <font face="Avenir-Light" class="">your biodiversity collection's education and outreach activities this October 17–20 with WeDigBio 2019! </font><div class=""><font face="Avenir-Light" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="Avenir-Light" class="">The support team will be hosting a<b class=""> Q&A tomorrow (Wed, Sept 25) from 2–3 Eastern (EDT)</b> at <a href="https://idigbio.adobeconnect.com/wedigbio" class="">https://idigbio.adobeconnect.com/wedigbio</a> to address any questions that you might have. If you are unable to make that, but questions remain after reading through the content at <a href="http://wedigbio.org/" class="">wedigbio.org</a>, send them to <a href="mailto:wedigbio@gmail.com" class="">wedigbio@gmail.com</a>.</font></div><div class=""><font face="Avenir-Light" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="Avenir-Light" class="">I</font><span style="font-family: Avenir-Light;" class="">f you are teaching this semester, consider adding WeDigBio activities to your syllabus. Personally, I’ve had a lot of success doing the activities posted at </span><a href="https://wedigbio.org/content/educational-exercises" class="" style="font-family: Avenir-Light;">https://wedigbio.org/content/educational-exercises</a><span style="font-family: Avenir-Light;" class=""> in my Field Botany class. The students transcribe 30 professionally done labels then reflect on what about the formatting and content makes the info maximally useful (or less so) for research. Then, they start on their own collections, making their own labels. </span></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">WeDigBio coordinators are currently soliciting comments on the draft WeDigBio Strategic Plan (<a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1gNv-L7yKvKiqUSASCPo1g7FWk6Z0CgTZ/view?ths=true" class="">https://drive.google.com/file/d/1gNv-L7yKvKiqUSASCPo1g7FWk6Z0CgTZ/view?ths=true</a>). Please consider providing feedback to <a href="mailto:wedigbio@gmail.com" class="">wedigbio@gmail.com</a>.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span style="font-family: Avenir-Light;" class="">Register your event <b class="">by Oct 1 </b>to receive WeDigBio stickers and tattoos for your participants. You can do this at </span><a href="https://wedigbio.org/content/signup-onsite-event-hosts" class="">https://wedigbio.org/content/signup-onsite-event-hosts</a>.</div><div class=""><div class="" style="font-family: Avenir-Light;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="font-family: Avenir-Light;">Thanks!</div><div class="" style="font-family: Avenir-Light;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="font-family: Avenir-Light;">Austin, on behalf of the big team of WeDigBio organizers</div></div><div class="">
Austin Mast · Professor · Department of Biological Science · 319 Stadium Drive · Florida State University · Tallahassee, FL 32306-4295 · U.S.A. · (850) 645-1500 · <a href="mailto:amast@bio.fsu.edu" class="">amast@bio.fsu.edu</a>
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