<div dir="ltr"><div><i>**Apologies for any cross-posting**</i></div><div><i><br></i></div><div>The <a href="https://www.biodiversityliteracy.com/" target="_blank">Biodiversity Literacy in Undergraduate Education</a> (BLUE) Research Coordination Network is looking at how to define a core set of <b>biodiversity data literacy competencies</b> that could be used to guide recommendations for improving undergraduate biology training and meeting increasing workforce demands in both data and biodiversity sciences.</div><div><br>Natural history collections are an important resource in providing opportunities for undergrads to interact with collections-based biodiversity data. <b>We would greatly appreciate getting your perspective via this <a href="https://cmich.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_2nM7zKDZnMZYB0h" target="_blank">anonymous survey</a></b> if you are in one or more of the following groups:</div><div><ul><li style="margin-left:15px">Curators or researchers working with natural history collections</li><div></div><li style="margin-left:15px">Educators who teach and/or supervise undergraduate or graduate students in the biological sciences</li><li style="margin-left:15px">Organismal, ecological, and environmental researchers who generate and use large aggregated biodiversity datasets</li><li style="margin-left:15px">Discipline-based education researchers</li><li style="margin-left:15px">Data scientists and biodiversity informaticians</li></ul></div><div>The survey should take you approximately 15-25 minutes to complete, and the deadline has been extended to <b>next Wednesday, October 16th</b>. If you wish, please feel free to share this survey with any other colleagues or lists.</div><div><br>Thank you in advance for your input and efforts,</div><div>Erica</div><div><br></div><div><div dir="ltr"><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"><i>Erica Krimmel</i></span></div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit">Digitization Resource Coordinator</span></div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"><a href="https://www.idigbio.org/" title="https://www.idigbio.org/" target="_blank" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline">Integrated Digitized Biocollections</a> (iDigBio)</span></span></div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit">Florida State University</span></span></div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-variant-east-asian:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;line-height:inherit;font-family:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit"><a href="mailto:ekrimmel@fsu.edu" target="_blank">ekrimmel@fsu.edu</a></span></div><div style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-varia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