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<p class="MsoNormal">Save the Date!<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">iDigBio, National Museum of Natural History – Smithsonian (NMNH), Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), and Biodiversity Information Standards (TDWG) are pleased to announce and invite you to
<a href="https://www.idigbio.org/content/biodiversity-summit-2020">Biodiversity Summit 2020</a>, to be held 20-25 September 2020 in Alexandria, VA, USA, just outside of Washington, DC. The Summit is an international event and will serve as host to GBIF’s governing
board meeting, the ADBC annual summit, and TDWG’s annual conference. It will also provide opportunities for all federal and non-federal natural history collections worldwide to network and share successes in biodiversity data digitization, mobilization, standards
development, and access.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Please follow and bookmark the above link to the conference announcement page or access it directly at https://www.idigbio.org/content/biodiversity-summit-2020. Please note: The announcement page will be updated regularly as conference
planning progresses and will serve as your link to all things Biodiversity Summit 2020.
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<p class="MsoNormal">All best,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Gil<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:gray">Gil Nelson PhD, Director<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:gray">Integrated Digitized Biocollections (iDigBio)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:gray">Florida Museum of Natural History<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:gray">University of Florida<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:gray"><a href="mailto:gnelson@floridamuseum.ufl.edu">gnelson@floridamuseum.ufl.edu</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:gray">Courtesy Professor<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:gray">Department of Biological Sciences<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:gray">Robert K. Godfrey Herbarium<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:gray">Florida State University<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:gray">gnelson@bio.fsu.edu<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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