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Monday, July 23rd

Monday, July 23rd, 1:30 pm to 5:15 pm · 105/Mayo Civic Center
Session 12: Contributed Papers: Biodiversity Informatics & Herbarium Digitization
Presiding: Cynthia Skema, Morris Arboretum Of The University Of Pennsylvania; Jitin Rahul, IIT (ISM), Dhanbad
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12001July 23rd 1:30 pm105/Mayo Civic CenterUsing Data From Index Herbariorum to Assess Threats to the World’s Herbaria
Log in to add this item to your schedule		Oral PaperThiers, Barbara; Rivas, Roslyn; Kiernan, Elizabeth.Herbaria
threats
Index Herbariorum
12002July 23rd 1:45 pm105/Mayo Civic CenterThe MAM project at Rutgers University - Digitization of the Mid-Atlantic Flora to investigate urban floristic changes
Log in to add this item to your schedule		Oral PaperKing, Megan; Aronson, Myla; Irelan, Sean; Struwe, Lena.Herbaria
digitization
urban flora
suburbia
floristics
Climate change
land use change
undergraduate education
education
history
12003July 23rd 2:00 pm105/Mayo Civic CenterWeDigFLPlants—Innovative, place-based citizen science engagement to build the most complete historical baseline possible for Florida’s plants
Log in to add this item to your schedule		Oral PaperMast, Austin; Riccardi, Greg; Bruhn, Robert; Ellwood, Elizabeth; Goodwin, Jillian.herbarium
digitization
citizen science
Biospex.org
NotesfromNature.org
WeDigBio
iDigBio
education
Outreach
12004July 23rd 2:15 pm105/Mayo Civic CenterFineFocus: A tool for the objective evaluation of focus quality in herbarium specimen imaging
Log in to add this item to your schedule		Oral PaperSkema, Cynthia; Barber, Anne; Mancini, Michelle; Block, Timothy.herbarium specimen imaging
herbarium digitization
focus quality
digitization workflow
12005July 23rd 2:30 pm105/Mayo Civic CenterCuration and DNA barcoding of the orchid collection at the Atlanta Botanical Garden
Log in to add this item to your schedule		Oral PaperEserman, Lauren; Brinkman, Becky; Whitehurst, Lauren; Determann, Ron; Burgess, Kevin; Coffey, Emily.Orchidaceae
curation
DNA barcoding
12006July 23rd 2:45 pm105/Mayo Civic CenterBuilding the DNA barcode library for the flora of Canada using herbarium specimens
Log in to add this item to your schedule		Oral PaperBraukmann, Thomas; Kuzmina, Maria; Steinke, Dirk; Zakharov, Evgeny; Hebert, Paul.DNA barcoding
Herbaria
taxonomic resolution
rbcL
matK
ITS
July 23rd 3:00 pm105/Mayo Civic CenterBreak
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12008July 23rd 3:45 pm105/Mayo Civic CenterPhenological Advancement in Triodanis perfoliata (Campanulaceae) across North America
Log in to add this item to your schedule		Oral PaperBerg, Colette; Weber, Jenn.phenology
Herbaria
Climate change
Campanulaceae
North America
12010July 23rd 4:15 pm105/Mayo Civic CenterAssessment of Biodiversity and Identification of Least Concern (LC) Plant Species
Log in to add this item to your schedule		Oral PaperRahul, Jitin.biodiversity
Plant Communities
12011July 23rd 4:30 pm105/Mayo Civic CenterVideos as Outreach Tools to Build Community in Natural History Collections Research: Examples from Howard University
Log in to add this item to your schedule		Oral PaperDurand, Amber; Burke, Janelle; Skema, Cynthia.herbarium
digitization
12012July 23rd 4:45 pm105/Mayo Civic CenterExpanding Research Opportunities for Hispanic Students through DNA Barcoding of Three Agriculturally Important Plant Families in Puerto Rico
Log in to add this item to your schedule		Oral PaperVan Ee , Benjamin; Siritunga, Dimuth.DNA barcoding
undergraduate education
12013July 23rd 5:00 pm105/Mayo Civic CenterProgress on using herbarium specimens for tree species distribution mapping in Ontario, Canada
Log in to add this item to your schedule		Oral PaperMetsger, Deborah; Dickinson, Timothy A; Seed, Evan; Dickinson, Adam.Ontario
Species Distribution Modelling
herbarium specimens
Flora
Monday, July 23rd, 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm · Grand Ballroom - Exhibit Hall/Mayo Civic Center
Session P: Contributed Posters: Biodiversity Informatics & Herbarium Digitization
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PBI001July 23rd 5:30 pmGrand Ballroom - Exhibit Hall/Mayo Civic CenterBig Data Revolution in Plant Science: Affordable Remote Sensing using Raspberry Pi’s
Log in to add this item to your schedule		Poster: Biodiversity Informatics & Herbarium DigitizationGrindstaff , Brandin Alexander,Gage; Mabry, Makenzie; Pires, Joseph Chris.Raspberry Pi
Remote Sensing
Phenotyping
PBI002July 23rd 5:30 pmGrand Ballroom - Exhibit Hall/Mayo Civic CenterFlowering and synchronicity utilizing herbarium specimens
Log in to add this item to your schedule		Poster: Biodiversity Informatics & Herbarium DigitizationMessick, Jenna; Hoagland, Bruce.herbarium
phenology
Spatial analysis
PBI003July 23rd 5:30 pmGrand Ballroom - Exhibit Hall/Mayo Civic CenterHerbs vs trees – species richness and sample completeness in a tropical African forest
Log in to add this item to your schedule		Poster: Biodiversity Informatics & Herbarium DigitizationGarrett, Stephen; Ahrends, Antje; Harris, David.species inventories
herbarium specimens
collecting bias
habit groups
collecting completeness
species richness
rarefaction
extrapolation
species accumulation curves
asymptotic species diversity
Chao 1
PBI004July 23rd 5:30 pmGrand Ballroom - Exhibit Hall/Mayo Civic CenterCuration, research, and outreach at Virginia Tech's Massey Herbarium
Log in to add this item to your schedule		Poster: Biodiversity Informatics & Herbarium DigitizationMetzgar, Jordan.Herbaria
digitization
Outreach
SERNEC
curation
PBI005July 23rd 5:30 pmGrand Ballroom - Exhibit Hall/Mayo Civic CenterCataloguing and data collection for Plymouth State University Herbarium (PSH)
Log in to add this item to your schedule		Poster: Biodiversity Informatics & Herbarium DigitizationTreanor, Matt; Stoughton, Thomas.angiosperms
biodiversity
collections
digitization
herbarium
herbarium specimens
New England
PBI006July 23rd 5:30 pmGrand Ballroom - Exhibit Hall/Mayo Civic Center
Canceled
Mobilizing Biodiversity Data where Connectivity is Poor
Log in to add this item to your schedule		Poster: Biodiversity Informatics & Herbarium DigitizationBarkworth, Mary; Alam, Fawad; Shah, Ali.OpenHerbarium
Symbiota
Connectivity
PBI007July 23rd 5:30 pmGrand Ballroom - Exhibit Hall/Mayo Civic CenterThe Mid-Atlantic Megalopolis (MAM) Project at the Claude E. Phillips Herbarium (DOV): new opportunities through collections digitization
Log in to add this item to your schedule		Poster: Biodiversity Informatics & Herbarium DigitizationHong-Wa, Cynthia.capacity building
digitization
DOV
MAM
small herbarium
PBI008July 23rd 5:30 pmGrand Ballroom - Exhibit Hall/Mayo Civic CenterSpecies distribution modeling in the order Liliales
Log in to add this item to your schedule		Poster: Biodiversity Informatics & Herbarium DigitizationJackson-Gain , Abigail C; Tribble, Carrie; Rothfels, Carl J..Liliales
Climatic niche
workflow
Niche Modeling
PBI009July 23rd 5:30 pmGrand Ballroom - Exhibit Hall/Mayo Civic CenterThe effects of climate change on species living in wet prairies in Florida
Log in to add this item to your schedule		Poster: Biodiversity Informatics & Herbarium DigitizationShimansky, Tierney; Melton, Anthony; Soltis, Douglas; Soltis, Pamela S..wet prairies
Endangered Species
Rare plant
PBI010July 23rd 5:30 pmGrand Ballroom - Exhibit Hall/Mayo Civic Center
Canceled
A simple software tool for generating print-ready specimen labels
Log in to add this item to your schedule		Poster: Biodiversity Informatics & Herbarium DigitizationMaher, Madeline.python
Mustache
HTML
CSS
specimen label
label
automation
workflow
teaching
students
PBI011July 23rd 5:30 pmGrand Ballroom - Exhibit Hall/Mayo Civic CenterPatterns of Plant Endemism and Diversity in the Guiana Shield
Log in to add this item to your schedule		Poster: Biodiversity Informatics & Herbarium DigitizationO'Brien , Elizabeth [Libby]; Edwards, Robert D.; Radosavljevic, Aleksandar; Funk, Vicki.Endemism
diversity
Guiana Shield 
Generalized Dissimilarity Models (GDM)
PBI012July 23rd 5:30 pmGrand Ballroom - Exhibit Hall/Mayo Civic CenterDNA Barcoding for Identification of Unknown Herbarium Specimens
Log in to add this item to your schedule		Poster: Biodiversity Informatics & Herbarium DigitizationParadiso, Lydia; Haston, Elspeth.herbarium
DNA barcoding
identification
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