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<p class="MsoNormal">Indiana University (IU), iDigBio, and the Natural Sciences Collections Alliance (NSCA) are pleased to announce the 4<sup>th</sup> annual Digital Data in Biodiversity Research Conference, to be hosted in Bloomington, IN, 1-3 June 2020.
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<p class="MsoNormal">The theme for this year’s event is Harnessing the Data Revolution and Amplifying Collections with Biodiversity Information Science. Registration will open 13 January and remains at $50/student and $100/non-student. Please visit the EventBrite
registration page and click remind me to be alerted when registration opens: <a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/4th-annual-digital-data-in-biodiversity-research-conference-tickets-86931098255">
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/4th-annual-digital-data-in-biodiversity-research-conference-tickets-86931098255</a>.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">For more info about the conference, please bookmark and make regular visits to the conference announcement page:
<a href="https://www.idigbio.org/content/digital-data-2020-harnessing-data-revolution-and-amplifying-collections-biodiversity">
https://www.idigbio.org/content/digital-data-2020-harnessing-data-revolution-and-amplifying-collections-biodiversity</a>.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">To <span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">
ensure that you are included for regular announcements on the conference email list, please send your email address to Gil Nelson (</span><a href="mailto:gnelson@floridamuseum.ufl.edu"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;background:white">gnelson@floridamuseum.ufl.edu</span></a><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">)
or Jill Goodwin (</span><a href="mailto:jvgoodwin@fsu.edu"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;background:white">jvgoodwin@fsu.edu</span></a><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">)
at iDigBio.</span> <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>
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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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