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<strong style="margin:0px; outline:0px; color:rgb(51,51,51)"><a href="https://www.idigbio.org/content/digital-data-2022-enhancing-advancing-quality-digitized-data" data-auth="NotApplicable" title="https://www.idigbio.org/content/digital-data-2022-enhancing-advancing-quality-digitized-data" class="">Sixth
Annual Digital Data in Biodiversity Research Conference</a></strong></h3>
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The<span> </span><strong style="margin:0px; outline:0px; font-weight:bold; color:rgb(51,51,51)">Field Museum</strong><span> </span>in collaboration with iDigBio and the Natural Science Collections Alliance is pleased to announce the sixth annual Digital Data
in Biodiversity Research Conference, to be hosted<span> </span><strong style="margin:0px; outline:0px; font-weight:bold; color:rgb(51,51,51)">May 23-25, 2022</strong>. This year's event with be a<span> </span><strong style="margin:0px; outline:0px; font-weight:bold; color:rgb(51,51,51)">virtual meeting</strong>. <span class="" style="font-family:HelveticaNeue,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px; color:rgb(0,0,0)">The
conference will again provide an important opportunity to explore digital data tools, techniques, research protocols, discoveries, and outcomes across all biodiversity research domains.
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<div class="">Options for submission include: discussion, oral, or poster presentations.</div>
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*Registration fees are optional but encouraged. When registering, those who wish not to make a financial contribution to the conference will have that option. Although registration is optional, your registration information, even if you opt out of the fee,
will allow us to keep you updated about conference activities. Registration fees will support the digital format technology, the editing and publication of abstracts, and keeping the conference sustainable.
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<strong class="" style="margin:0px; outline:0px; font-weight:bold; color:rgb(51,51,51)">Registration is open!</strong> Visit Eventbrite to register:<span> </span><a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/6th-annual-digital-data-in-biodiversity-research-conference-tickets-252120779037" data-auth="NotApplicable" class="" style="margin:0px; outline:0px; color:rgb(180,77,7)!important">https://www.eventbrite.com/e/6th-annual-digital-data-in-biodiversity-research-conference-tickets-252120779037</a></p>
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<strong><u>Virtual Mentoring</u><br>
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Since we are virtual again this year we created a way to digitize some of that organic mentoring magic that happens at every conference through a new initiative: the Digital Data Mentorship Program. We will pair biodiversity professionals as mentors with emerging
professionals and students as mentees and arrange an opportunity for them to speak informally about research, academia, careers, and beyond! <strong>If you are interested in serving as a mentor or participating as a mentee please select these options in the
Digital Data Registration. More details are coming soon!</strong><br>
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<span style="color:rgb(12,100,192)"><u class="" style="margin:0px; outline:0px"><strong class="" style="margin:0px; outline:0px; font-weight:bold; color:rgb(51,51,51)">Keynote and Plenary Speakers have been announced!</strong></u></span></p>
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<span class="" style="margin:0px; outline:0px"><font color="#333333"><b class=""><i class="" style="color:rgb(12,100,192); font-weight:400; background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">From research to policy: digitized specimens and digital data</i><br>
Charlotte Germain-Aubrey<br>
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<span style="color:rgb(12,100,192)"><strong class="" style="margin:0px; outline:0px; font-weight:bold; color:rgb(51,51,51)"><i class="" style="color:rgb(12,100,192); font-weight:400; background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Enhancing digitization towards its integration
to Ecological niche models</i><br>
Marianna Simões<br>
</strong></span><span class="" style="color:rgb(12,100,192)">Researcher and Curator; Senckenberg Research Institute and Natural History Museum</span></div>
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<span style="color:rgb(12,100,192)"><strong class="" style="margin:0px; outline:0px; font-weight:bold; color:rgb(51,51,51)"><i class="" style="color:rgb(12,100,192); font-weight:400; background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">A new platform to mobilize natural history
collections for tropical conservation</i><br>
Nigel C. A. Pitman</strong></span><br>
<span style="color:rgb(12,100,192)">Mellon Senior Conservation Ecologist; Keller Science Action Center; Field Museum</span></div>
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<span style="color:rgb(12,100,192)"><strong class="" style="margin:0px; outline:0px; font-weight:bold; color:rgb(51,51,51)"><i class="" style="color:rgb(12,100,192); font-weight:400; background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Future Discovery Across Digitized Collections
Data Will Require Human-Machine Partnerships</i><br>
Paula Mabee</strong></span><br>
<span style="color:rgb(12,100,192)">Chief Scientist and Observatory Director; National Ecological Observatory Network</span></div>
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<span style="color:rgb(12,100,192)"><span class="" style="margin:0px; outline:0px; color:rgb(12,100,192)"><i>Support Options for Digitized Data at the National Science Foundation</i></span><span class="" style="margin:0px; outline:0px; color:rgb(51,51,51)"><br>
<b>Steven Ellis</b></span></span><span class="" style="color:rgb(12,100,192)"><br>
Program Officer; Division of Biological Infrastructure, Biological Sciences Directorate (BIO), National Science Foundation</span><span style="color:rgb(12,100,192)"><strong class="" style="margin:0px; outline:0px; font-weight:bold; color:rgb(51,51,51)"><br>
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<span style="color:rgb(12,100,192)"><strong class="" style="margin:0px; outline:0px; font-weight:bold; color:rgb(51,51,51)"><i class="" style="color:rgb(12,100,192); font-weight:400; background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Co-developing Indigenous Data Governance
Protocols within Biological Collections</i><br>
Warren Cardinal-McTeague</strong></span><span class="" style="color:rgb(12,100,192)"><br>
Assistant Professor (incoming July 2022); Department of Forest & Conservation Sciences, University of British Columbia</span></p>
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<span class="" style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:HelveticaNeue,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px">Please watch for further announcements and program developments on the conference announcement page: </span><a href="https://www.idigbio.org/content/digital-data-2022-enhancing-advancing-quality-digitized-data" data-auth="NotApplicable" id="LPNoLPOWALinkPreview" class="" style="font-family:HelveticaNeue,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size:14px">https://www.idigbio.org/content/digital-data-2022-enhancing-advancing-quality-digitized-data</a><br>
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<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); margin:0px; font-size:14px; font-family:HelveticaNeue,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">For further information or to ensure that you are on the conference email list, please contact Gil Nelson (</span><a href="mailto:gnelson@floridamuseum.ufl.edu" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="color:rgb(180,77,7)!important; margin:0px; font-size:14px; font-family:HelveticaNeue,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; outline:0px">gnelson@floridamuseum.ufl.edu</a><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); margin:0px; font-size:14px; font-family:HelveticaNeue,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">)
or Jill Goodwin (</span><a href="mailto:jgoodwin@floridamuseum.ufl.edu" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="color:rgb(180,77,7)!important; margin:0px; font-size:14px; font-family:HelveticaNeue,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; outline:0px">jgoodwin@floridamuseum.ufl.edu</a><span class="" style="color:rgb(0,0,0); margin:0px; font-size:14px; font-family:HelveticaNeue,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">)
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