BiotaPhy

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-serieshttps://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.idigbio.org%2Fcontent%2Fbiotaphy-2022-webinar-series&data=05%7C01%7Cgnelson%40floridamuseum.ufl.edu%7C265b258e9a2f42f6b84108da95f97b50%7C0d4da0f84a314d76ace60a62331e1b84%7C0%7C0%7C637987195990178462%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&sdata=jiQ%2FCvslb5BCRtDeAFrNWG2KdlzoIm21%2BXwCr0ZR5J8%3D&reserved=0

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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.edumailto:psoltis@flmnh.ufl.edu