ESA 2014 presentation – Aligning insect phylogenies: Perelleschus and other cases
Slides are up for the Euler/X Perelleschus (+) presentation at Entomology 2014.
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Nov 17
Presentations and posters at ECN and ESA 2014
Our lab has had an eventful joint ECN/ESA 2014 meeting and presentation/poster schedule of activities. Most presentations are now posted. Great meetings – even won recognition for our Twitter contributions.
Symposium – Harvesting the fruits of our labor: Utilizing collections databases to advance 21st century entomology.
1. Neil Cobb, Katja Seltmann & Nico Franz. 2014. The current state of arthropod biodiversity data: Addressing impacts of global change. Presentation.
2014 UC Boulder Meaning of Names Conference in Review
A relatively short review of the timely conference “The Meaning of Names: Naming Diversity in the 21st Century”, held on September 30 to October 2nd, 2014, and organized by Rob Guralnick and the University of Colorado at Boulder Museum of Natural History.
I have uploaded the Conference Program for reference. I gave an update on Euler/X, the slides are shared again here. Some photos of the conference participants are posted on Flickr.
Having had an opportunity to present for 30 minutes allowed me to review some general ideas about names and concepts and apparently (given positive reactions) made the presentation more accessible. A number of engaging and thematically diverse presentations were in the line-up, although the diversity of domains of application did not necessarily mean immediate directional friction. Names – the “right ones” – remain essential to information transmission that employs human cognition and memorization. Among other fleeting observations, it seemed clear to me that the standard OBO Foundry approach to fixating the meaning of terms is not all that biodiversity informatics needs to integrate taxonomically annotated data. I also think we are at the cusp of separating more clearly and consistently what conventional taxonomic names can achieve for human communication, and what they need to achieve in addition to support scalable computational integration. Two Global Names Architecture presentations (Ellinor Michel and David Patterson, respectively) pointed that way. To what extent the “additional layer” for logic integration is needed, and justified by apparent representational and infrastructural costs, was an underlying theme of the conference. In other words – progress.
ESA Pacific Branch 2014 – meeting presentations
Franz Lab graduate students Andrew Jansen and Andrew Johnston presented papers at this year’s 98th Annual Meeting of the Pacific Branch of the Entomological Society of America, held on April 06-09, 2014, at the Marriott University Park in Tucson, Arizona. Here are their presentation titles, and photos taken by Sangmi Lee.
Hasbrouck Insect Collection poster presentations at 21st SoLS Undergraduate Symposium
ASUHIC and Franz Lab students contributed two research posters to this year’s 21st Annual Undergraduate Research Poster Symposium of ASU’s School of Life Sciences, held on the afternoon of April 04, 2014. Here are the authors, titles, and links to PDFs. Well done, all!
SCAN presentation at the 2014 iDigBio Education and Outreach Workshop by Melody Basham
Here are slides for the “SCAN: Moving Beyond the K-12 Paradigm” presentation, given by Melody Basham at the 2014 iDigbio Education & Outreach Workshop.
SCAN presentation video at the iDigBio Education & Outreach Workshop
Neil Cobb presents a SCAN progress update at the 2014 iDigBio Education & Outreach Workshop. Watch all of iDigBio’s Vimeo uploads here: https://vimeo.com/idigbio
Southwest Collections of Arthropods Network – Neil Cobb from iDigBio on Vimeo.
