[Nhcoll-l] Reminder: today's webinar

[Nelson,Gil]

Please register and join us for today's exciting webinar focused on advancing and sustaining specimen imaging as part of your digitization program. This will be an entertaining and technique-filled event highlighting workflows that expand access to collections data and demonstrate how collections are continuing to evolve, adapt, and find new ways to support research, education, and outreach. We are pleased to have two top-notch imaging experts from the Florida Museum leading this session.
Register below!
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/
May 5, 2026: Imaging the Florida Museum’s Natural History Collections: Workflows, Innovation, and the Future of 3D Digitization (2:00-4:00pm ET)

Speakers:
Ed Stanley
Zach Randall
Abstract: Natural history collections are stewards of biodiversity data and must balance the long-term survival of their holdings against their usage and broad accessibility, and these core mandates are often in direct conflict—the most important, rare and useful specimens are, paradoxically, often the most difficult to access. 3D digitization techniques like micro computed tomography and photogrammetry offers a solution to this catch-22, allowing museum collections to be extensively used, without being “used up”. Since its inception in 2018, the Digital Imaging Division at the Florida Museum of Natural History has focused on developing and streamlining pipelines to digitize the full range of paleontological, neontological specimens and ethnographic objects, making digitally accessible datasets available for research, education, and outreach. This webinar will walk through our digitization processes and highlight some of the imaging initiatives undertaken over the past seven years, with particular emphasis on high-throughput workflows for generating CT and photogrammetry-based media, specimen preparation, image acquisition, data processing, file management and archiving. The webinar will also look ahead to the rapidly evolving intersection of artificial intelligence and 3D imaging. Emerging AI-driven tools are opening new possibilities for access and research by transforming techniques in segmentation, model reconstruction, as well as our ability to capture whole environments from which our collections originate.

Best,
Gil



Gil Nelson PhD, Director

Integrated Digitized Biocollections (iDigBio)

Immediate Past President, Natural Science Collections Alliance (NSCA)

Florida Museum of Natural History

University of Florida

gnelson at floridamuseum.ufl.edu<mailto:gnelson at floridamuseum.ufl.edu>

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