Hi everyone,
Do you want to learn how to use occurrence data and available software to address questions in ecology and evolutionary biology but haven’t had a chance to take a course and are overwhelmed by the options for self-teaching? Would you like to incorporate this sort of research into your classes but don’t have time to create the materials and examples? If either of these applies, then join the BiotaPhy Project for an upcoming series of 10 webinars designed to take you from biological question to data acquisition and cleaning to analysis and interpretation! BiotaPhy is a collaboration among iDigBio, the Open Tree of Life, and Lifemapper projects and personnel.
We have converted our popular summer workshop into a webinar series; see below for topics. Webinars will be held Wednesdays at 12:30 pm Eastern time, beginning September 21. All webinars will be recorded and made available, so you won’t get behind if you need to miss a session. The schedule is:
Webinar 0: Terms, Concepts, Data Formats – A Tutorial for Background
Available online at the registration page [coming soon!]
Webinar 1: Introduction: Scope and Research Potential for Multidisciplinary Biodiversity Modeling and Analysis
Date: 09/21/2022
Webinar 2: Resolving Nomenclature: Making Appropriate Taxonomic Choices
Date: 09/28/2022
Webinar 3: Clean Your Dirty Data
Date: 10/05/2022
Webinar 4: Georeferencing with GEOLocate
Date: 10/12/2022
Webinar 5: Big Data Munging (a.k.a Splitting and Merging Occurrence Data by Taxa from Multiple Sources)
Date: 10/19/2022
Webinar 6: Species Distribution Modeling 1
Date: 10/26/2022
Webinar 7: Species Distribution Modeling 2
Date: 11/02/2022
Webinar 8: Introducing Presence-Absence Matrices for Large Scale Analyses
Date: 11/9/2022
Webinar 9: Phylogenetic Diversity: Integrating Phylogenies with Species and Biogeographic Data
Date: 11/16/2022
Webinar 10: Hypothesis Testing and Randomization
Date: 11/30/2022
To register, please go to https://ufl.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJclfuCtrDwjE9PnPXJYkiSnglbnNd_BYCS4. Note that you will need to register separately for each week so that we can plan for weekly attendance.
And for more information, visit https://www.idigbio.org/content/biotaphy-2022-webinar-series
Please share with your networks, and sorry for cross-postings!
Hope to see you soon!
Best,
Pam
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Pamela S. Soltis (she/her/hers)
Director, UF Biodiversity Institute
Distinguished Professor and Curator
Laboratory of Molecular Systematics
and Evolutionary Genetics
Florida Museum of Natural History
Dickinson Hall
University of Florida
Gainesville, FL 32611
Phone: (352) 273-1964
Fax: (352) 846-2154
Email: psoltis@flmnh.ufl.edu