Join the folks over at iDigBio for one of their Citizen Science Hour for Biodiversity Collections on Thursday, July 22nd from 2:00PM to 3:00PM

This is apart of the iDigBio webinar series that showcases exhibits merit in citizen science that engages biodiversity collections.

About this event:

This webinar series is dedicated to catalyzing excellence in citizen science that engages biodiversity collections. Citizen science is public engagement in scientific research, and it has the valuable potential to simultaneously advance research, science literacy and participation, and project sustainability, among other goals. Biodiversity collections curate about 3 billion specimens (insects on pins, fossils in drawers, fish in jars, plants on sheets, etc.) worldwide, and these are critically important to research that puts present day diversity and distribution in context and models the future of Earth's biome. These collections range widely in their institutional settings, including museums, botanical gardens, universities, field stations, government research centers, and other places. The webinar series is being organized by iDigBio, the US NSF's National Resource for Advancing Digitization of Biodiversity Collections.

While iDigBio's mission focuses on specimen digitization, data sharing, and data use, this series is intended to encompass all opportunities that citizen science might offer to the collections community and complementary sectors of that community's institutions. The series is targeted at an audience of collections curators, researchers, educators, and affiliates.

They have assembled a slate of distinguished speakers on these target topics, many from outside the collections community. A more extensive schedule, short bios of the speakers, webinar recordings, and links to additional resources on each topic will be assembled on the webinar's wiki page.

Register here for the July 22nd date and others!