<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div style="font-family: Avenir-Book;">The <a href="https://wedigbio.org/team-members">WeDigBio Board</a> is pleased to announce a <b>1-hour symposium entitled “WeDigBio’s Why Dig Bio—Major Motivations Across Scale for Digitizing Biodiversity” on April 14 from 3–4 PM ET</b>. Three thought leaders reflect on major motivations to create digital information about biodiversity at international, national, and personal scales.</div><div style="font-family: Avenir-Book;"><br></div><div><div><font face="Avenir-Book">3:00 PM ET Welcome!</font></div><div><font face="Avenir-Book">3:05 Linking Community Science to Global Biodiversity Policy by Joe Miller (</font><a href="https://www.gbif.org/">GBIF</a><font face="Avenir-Book">) </font></div><div><font face="Avenir-Book">3:20 Digitisation Down-Under! How crowdsourcing supports our biodiverse Australian collections by </font><span style="font-family: Avenir-Book;">Ciaran Mathewson (</span><a href="https://digivol.ala.org.au/">DIGIVOL</a><span style="font-family: Avenir-Book;">) </span></div><div><font face="Avenir-Book">3:35 Virtual Voyaging for Science by Siobhan Leachman (</font><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siobhan_Leachman">independent researcher</a><font face="Avenir-Book">) </font></div><div><font face="Avenir-Book">3:50 Panel Discussion</font></div></div><div style="font-family: Avenir-Book;"><br></div><div style="font-family: Avenir-Book;">Register to join us for the event at </div><div style="font-family: Avenir-Book;"><br></div><a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/symposium-on-the-critical-roles-of-libraries-in-understanding-earths-biota-tickets-302947633527" style="font-family: Avenir-Book;">https://www.eventbrite.com/e/symposium-on-major-motivations-across-scale-for-digitizing-biodiversity-tickets-598571923737</a><div style="font-family: Avenir-Book;"><br></div><div style="font-family: Avenir-Book;">The 4-day WeDigBio event runs during Citizen Science Month from April 13–16 and occurs again from October 12–15. To learn more about WeDigBio, visit <a href="http://wedigbio.org/">wedigbio.org</a>; to learn more about Citizen Science Month, visit <a href="https://scistarter.org/citizensciencemonth">https://scistarter.org/citizensciencemonth</a>. We’re here to help you make participation in WeDigBio and Citizen Science Month a regular part of your organization’s outreach activities—just reach out to us at <a href="mailto:wedigbio@gmail.com">wedigbio@gmail.com</a>.</div><div style="font-family: Avenir-Book;"><br></div><div style="font-family: Avenir-Book;">And do consider also catching the <b>Consortium of California Herbaria’s “A Whirlwind Tour of California Herbaria!” on April 13 from 3–5 PM ET/noon–2 PT</b>. Register for that event at <a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/a-whirlwind-tour-of-california-herbaria-tickets-601795415287">https://www.eventbrite.com/e/a-whirlwind-tour-of-california-herbaria-tickets-601795415287</a> </div><div style="font-family: Avenir-Book;"><br></div><div style="font-family: Avenir-Book;">With best regards,</div><div style="font-family: Avenir-Book;"><br></div><div style="font-family: Avenir-Book;">Austin Mast, on behalf of the WeDigBio Board </div><br><div><div><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div dir="auto" style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div><i>Austin Mast <b>—</b> Professor · Department of Biological Science · 319 Stadium Drive · Florida State University · Tallahassee, FL 32306-4295 · U.S.A. · (850) 645-1500 <b>—</b> Director · Institute for Digital Information & Scientific Communication · College of Communication and Information · Florida State University <b>—</b> amast@fsu.edu <b>— </b>he/him</i></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div></body></html>