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<span style="color: rgb(215, 63, 9);"></span><span style="font-family: Aptos, Aptos_EmbeddedFont, Aptos_MSFontService, Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Join us for our November webinars in the Sustaining Collections Digitization
Beyond NSF Funding webinar series! These sessions shine a light on creative and collaborative efforts that continue our collective progress with moving biodiversity digitization, data mobilization, research, and education forward.</span></p>
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<span style="font-weight: 700;">November 6, 2025 | 2:00–4:00 PM ET</span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: 700;"><u>Florida Museum Undergraduate Internship Program: A Model for Supporting Museum Interns</u></span></div>
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This session explores the successful museum internship program at the Florida Museum that connects undergraduates with hands-on experiences in digitization, collections work, fieldwork, and lab research. The program emphasizes mentorship, professional growth,
and intra-institutional collaboration—offering ideas for creating or adapting similar programs at other institutions. This is an excellent model for attracting student digitizers to collections and museums to supplement digitization activities.</div>
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<span style="font-weight: 700;">November 20, 2025 | 2:00–4:00 PM ET</span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: 700;"><u>Ensuring Long-Term Access to Biodiversity Data: iDigBio, GBIF, and Beyond</u></span></div>
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With over 148 million specimen records aggregated into the iDigBIo portal, sustaining data mobilization and accessibility are essential as iDigBio enters its final phase of funding. This session will focus on long-term pathways for data providers and users
to work with and through iDigBio and the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF), ensuring continued worldwide access to biodiversity data and to ensure your data remain safe and widely available.Hints on ensuring your data a direct pathway to GBIF
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To catch up on past webinar recordings, explore upcoming sessions, and find additional resources, visit the series wiki page:</div>
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Gil Nelson, PhD</div>
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Director, Integrated Digitized Biocollections (iDigBio)</div>
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President, Natural Science Collections Alliance (NSCA)</div>
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Florida Museum of Natural History</div>
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University of Florida</div>
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gnelson@floridamuseum.ufl.edu</div>
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