Check out talks related to Fossil Insect Collaboration, iDigPaleo (and our other collaboration, ePANDDA) at the Geological Society of America Annual Meeting in Denver in the session Fossil Specimens 0's and 1's: Databases, Standards, & Mobilization.
Check out the symposium on Fossil Insects at the ESA meeting! Session starts at 8am on November 19th.
Make sure and check out the Geoscience Collections Digitization session at GSA this fall. There will be a full day of talks on Wednesday, October 22nd.
A paper by Sam Heads (PI-INHS), Jared Thomas, and Yinan Wang has been published describing a new pygmy grasshopper from the Sanderson amber collection at the Illinois Natural History Survey. Awesome work! Make sure and check out the video narrated by David Attenborough.
Fossil Insect Collaborative PI Dena Smith will be giving a presentation at the ECN meeting on November 9th in Austin, TX.
More than 60 paleontologists representing 41 institutions assembled in New Haven, CT the week of September 23rd, 2013 to share ideas, protocols, preferences, and strategies.
Funding will shed light on "dark data," and integrate organismal, vocal, fossil, and ecological information
University of Colorado Museum of Natural History leads $2.3 million project to digitize the nation's fossil insect collections