[Nhcoll-l] SCNet webinar: Reminder of Citizen Science: A Symbiotic Future for Research and Education Using Biological Collections

[Gil Nelson]

Reminder: the next Small Collections Network webinar is next week. See 
announcement below or bookmark it at:
https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__scnet.acis.ufl.edu_content_citizen-2Dscience-2Dsymbiotic-2Dfuture-2Dresearch-2Dand-2Deducation-2Dusing-2Dbiological-2Dcollections&d=AwICaQ&c=-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=CLFZJ3fvGSmDp7xK1dNZfh6uGV_h-8NVlo3fXNoRNzI&m=S8OmIhWfb58B93547yrtfGJN2YaXi1NinmiZU-k3rIs&s=16xNDRfY5SZUOHuz16lIvaeun9vxN_OkA9bIFxgAZiM&e= 

*23 July 2015*
**3:00-4:00 p.m. EDT**
***Virtual meeting place:* https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__idigbio.adobeconnect.com_scnet-2A-2A&d=AwICaQ&c=-dg2m7zWuuDZ0MUcV7Sdqw&r=CLFZJ3fvGSmDp7xK1dNZfh6uGV_h-8NVlo3fXNoRNzI&m=S8OmIhWfb58B93547yrtfGJN2YaXi1NinmiZU-k3rIs&s=ELWFJj2-xomMBxqxfEBcIaCMfD4ARXOYzzmBCe8S7s0&e= 
*Citizen Science: A Symbiotic Future for Research and Education Using 
Biological Collections*
*Presenters: Emily Meineke (North Carolina State, Entomology), Steven D. 
Frank (North Carolina State, Entomology), Robert Dunn (North Carolina 
State, Biology)*
Museum collections offer a lens into the past and a way to predict the 
future. These functions are especially valuable now as we try to 
anticipate how biodiversity will change with global shifts in climate 
and land use. Collections also offer a way to learn about the species 
that live with us in our most immediate environments, species that 
arguably should have the most pronounced effects on our wellbeing. 
Several recent projects leverage small collections from the past and 
larger, more recent collections built by the public to ask questions in 
biology while connecting citizens to native biodiversity. At NCSU, we 
house several such projects at various stages of development that use 
large and small collections for education. The most developed project 
School of Ants forged new symbioses between science and education. The 
most nascent of our projects will use herbaria to track herbivory across 
unprecedented scales of space and time. Here, we present this project as 
an example of how traditional research on small collections can be 
expanded to include a public component that builds larger collections 
and involves K-12 students in science.

-- 
Gil Nelson, PhD
Assistant Professor/Research
iDigBio Steering Committee
Integrated Digitized Biocollections
Institute for Digital Information and Scientific Communication
College of Communication and Information

Courtesy Professor
Department of Biological Sciences
Robert K. Godfrey Herbarium
Florida State University
gnelson at bio.fsu.edu

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