[Nhcoll-l] New iDigBio Sustaining Collections & Digitization Webinars Announced. Register Today!

[Nelson,Gil]

Hello everyone,
We're excited to announce several new webinars in our Sustaining Collections & Digitization Webinar Series!
Check out our Zoom Events Hub to explore the newly added webinars and register today. We're continuing to finalize the schedule and will be adding even more sessions soon, so stay tuned. The series kicks off on July 21 with Talking with TaxonWorks: Connecting Collections and Research, and we're looking forward to another lineup of engaging conversations, practical demonstrations, and opportunities to connect with the biodiversity collections community.

Register and check out upcoming events here: <https://ufl.zoom.us/ze/hub/iDigBio> https://ufl.zoom.us/ze/hub/iDigBio
For past recordings, check out our YouTube!: <https://www.youtube.com/@iDigBio/> https://www.youtube.com/@iDigBio/
Upcoming July Webinars
July 21, 2026 | 11:00 AM to 1:00 PM ET
Talking with TaxonWorks: Connecting Collections and Research
Join the TaxonWorks conversation and explore our software and community. Loosely focused on three themes, research, collections, and getting started, there will be lots of opportunities for conversation. To kick-start things, we'll touch on some features, new and old, including our emerging ChecklistBank integration, export and API use, digitization tools, and customization capabilities. We'll then open the conversation—if you can do all this with your collections, should you!? Bring your questions, insights, and challenges to the table; we'd love to discuss how they intersect.
Speakers:

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Deborah Paul
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Matthew Yoder

July 28, 2026 | 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM ET
Field Stations, Marine Labs, and the Preservation of Biodiversity Collections
Field stations and marine laboratories (FSMLs) are in some of the most species-rich and ecologically diverse environments across the globe and are hubs for specimen collection, long-term biological monitoring, and collections-based research. Some specimens collected at FSMLs live on in full museum collections and some are stored at the FSMLs. This talk provides a brief history of FSMLs and their role in natural history, highlights the collections held at or generated by FSMLs, and discusses how FSMLs can help play a role in the long-term stewardship of biodiversity collections. The talk will focus on panelists from FSMLs with onsite biological collections. Panelists will share about their FSML’s collection and participate in a discussion with the iDigBio community about FSMLs as places to collect, store, digitize, and research collections. Panelists will come from the Organization of Biological Field Stations (OBFS), the nonprofit and professional society representing of hundreds of FSMLs across the globe.
Speakers:

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Conner Philson
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Gil Nelson
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Rick Williams

We hope you'll join us!
Additional webinars will be announced as they are finalized, so be sure to check our Zoom Events Hub regularly for the latest schedule and registration information. You can also follow iDigBio on social media for webinar announcements, updates, and other news from the biodiversity collections community.

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We look forward to seeing you at an upcoming webinar!
Best,
Shyla and Gil



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Shyla R. Davison, Education and Outreach Coordinator

Integrated Digitized Biocollections (iDigBio)

University of Florida

Florida Museum of Natural History

Sdavison1 at ufl.edu

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