This talk was given at the Micronet workshop on citizen science. The talk is focused on mushroom surveys of Pt. Reyes National Seashore and Yosemite National Park that were conducted with citizen scientists from the Bay area.
Cobb, Seltmann, Franz. 2014. The Current State of Arthropod Biodiversity Data...taxonbytes
Cobb et al. 2014. The Current State of Arthropod Biodiversity Data: Addressing Impacts of Global Change. Presented at https://www.idigbio.org/content/collections-21st-century-symposium Program available at https://www.idigbio.org/wiki/index.php/Collections_for_the_21st_Century
Deep Learning for Large Scale Biodiversity MonitoringDavid J. Klein
Deep Learning for Large Scale Biodiversity Monitoring
David J. Klein, Conservation Metrics, Inc.
Strata+Hadoop World 2015
Based on the paper: http://bit.ly/1GEyWcR
Cobb, Seltmann, Franz. 2014. The Current State of Arthropod Biodiversity Data...taxonbytes
Cobb et al. 2014. The Current State of Arthropod Biodiversity Data: Addressing Impacts of Global Change. Presented at https://www.idigbio.org/content/collections-21st-century-symposium Program available at https://www.idigbio.org/wiki/index.php/Collections_for_the_21st_Century
Deep Learning for Large Scale Biodiversity MonitoringDavid J. Klein
Deep Learning for Large Scale Biodiversity Monitoring
David J. Klein, Conservation Metrics, Inc.
Strata+Hadoop World 2015
Based on the paper: http://bit.ly/1GEyWcR
Modeling the biosphere: the natural historian's perspectiveRutger Vos
Natural history collections of specimens are a rich source of data for discovering the patterns of biodiversity in space and time and for furthering our understanding of the underlying processes that generate these patterns. Modeling the biosphere in this manner can help address global challenges in relation to climate change, food security, emerging disease and conservation. (Talk to the 3rd annual eScience symposium, 8 October 2015).
STEM-H in the Garden: 30 (or So) Garden Activities in 60 Minutes (or Less)Ben Capozzi
Presentation for the Southside Master Gardeners Association on “STEM-H in the Garden” for STEM Academy Teacher Training at the Institute for Advanced Learning and Research in Danville, VA. We relished the opportunity to share how Science, Technology, Engineering, Math, and Health all play a role in gardening, and the efficacy of gardening activity as a point of entry into the study of the natural world. This was also a delight as I co-presented with one of my mentors, Kathy Conner Cornell.
* I use low-res images in my uploads. Actual presentations are crisp and clear.
Unit 8: Rare and Uncultured Microbes
LECTURE LEARNING GOALS
1. Describe the phyla containing rare bacteria: Deinococcus/Thermus, Chlamydia & Planctomycetes.
2. Describe the sequencing methods used to understand uncultured microbes. Explain the Eocyte hypothesis and how this model differs from the three domain tree of life.
3. For the cultured microbes, describe major characteristics for the 13 bacterial phyla, and explain why some microbe remain uncultivated.
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Modeling the biosphere: the natural historian's perspectiveRutger Vos
Natural history collections of specimens are a rich source of data for discovering the patterns of biodiversity in space and time and for furthering our understanding of the underlying processes that generate these patterns. Modeling the biosphere in this manner can help address global challenges in relation to climate change, food security, emerging disease and conservation. (Talk to the 3rd annual eScience symposium, 8 October 2015).
STEM-H in the Garden: 30 (or So) Garden Activities in 60 Minutes (or Less)Ben Capozzi
Presentation for the Southside Master Gardeners Association on “STEM-H in the Garden” for STEM Academy Teacher Training at the Institute for Advanced Learning and Research in Danville, VA. We relished the opportunity to share how Science, Technology, Engineering, Math, and Health all play a role in gardening, and the efficacy of gardening activity as a point of entry into the study of the natural world. This was also a delight as I co-presented with one of my mentors, Kathy Conner Cornell.
* I use low-res images in my uploads. Actual presentations are crisp and clear.
Unit 8: Rare and Uncultured Microbes
LECTURE LEARNING GOALS
1. Describe the phyla containing rare bacteria: Deinococcus/Thermus, Chlamydia & Planctomycetes.
2. Describe the sequencing methods used to understand uncultured microbes. Explain the Eocyte hypothesis and how this model differs from the three domain tree of life.
3. For the cultured microbes, describe major characteristics for the 13 bacterial phyla, and explain why some microbe remain uncultivated.
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Unit 1. How to measure diversity
LECTURE LEARNING GOALS
1. Describe the abundance and diversity of microbes, the “unseen majority”, in all natural and manufactured environments.
2. Explain the common measures of microbial diversity, and how diversity is measured.
3. What is the purpose of diversity?
Species delimitation - species limits and character evolutionRutger Vos
Lecture slides for the program orientation Evolutionary Biology at the Institute of Biology Leiden, the Netherlands. Thursday, September 7th, 2017.
Lecture notes are here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vRIv5mKK1fjBby--u97emC7hrqXUbxFQZe63P1FpguuhHLG6xykbwXKeKXCUE5W-LSpakXYCI621xCK/pub
This ppt gives a brief review of Giant Viruses and their role in medicine?!
Mamavirus is a large and complex virus in the Group I family Mimiviridae. The virus is exceptionally large, and larger than many bacteria.
iEvoBio Keynote: Frontiers of discovery with Encyclopedia of Life -- TRAITBANK Cyndy Parr
Talk presented at iEvoBio 2014 conference in Raleigh, North Carolina. Though there's a similar title and overlap with the talk I posted last week, there is new material here especially geared towards an informatics crowd savvy in the tools and technology.
The word MICROBIOLOGY describes exactly what the discipline is: the study of small living things. MICRO = small, BIO = living, and LOGY = to study. Microbiology (or specifically, bacteriology) is still a very young science and not yet completely understood.
Honest Reviews of Tim Han LMA Course Program.pptxtimhan337
Personal development courses are widely available today, with each one promising life-changing outcomes. Tim Han’s Life Mastery Achievers (LMA) Course has drawn a lot of interest. In addition to offering my frank assessment of Success Insider’s LMA Course, this piece examines the course’s effects via a variety of Tim Han LMA course reviews and Success Insider comments.
Introduction to AI for Nonprofits with Tapp NetworkTechSoup
Dive into the world of AI! Experts Jon Hill and Tareq Monaur will guide you through AI's role in enhancing nonprofit websites and basic marketing strategies, making it easy to understand and apply.
Francesca Gottschalk - How can education support child empowerment.pptxEduSkills OECD
Francesca Gottschalk from the OECD’s Centre for Educational Research and Innovation presents at the Ask an Expert Webinar: How can education support child empowerment?
A Strategic Approach: GenAI in EducationPeter Windle
Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies such as Generative AI, Image Generators and Large Language Models have had a dramatic impact on teaching, learning and assessment over the past 18 months. The most immediate threat AI posed was to Academic Integrity with Higher Education Institutes (HEIs) focusing their efforts on combating the use of GenAI in assessment. Guidelines were developed for staff and students, policies put in place too. Innovative educators have forged paths in the use of Generative AI for teaching, learning and assessments leading to pockets of transformation springing up across HEIs, often with little or no top-down guidance, support or direction.
This Gasta posits a strategic approach to integrating AI into HEIs to prepare staff, students and the curriculum for an evolving world and workplace. We will highlight the advantages of working with these technologies beyond the realm of teaching, learning and assessment by considering prompt engineering skills, industry impact, curriculum changes, and the need for staff upskilling. In contrast, not engaging strategically with Generative AI poses risks, including falling behind peers, missed opportunities and failing to ensure our graduates remain employable. The rapid evolution of AI technologies necessitates a proactive and strategic approach if we are to remain relevant.
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Citizen mycology
1. Surveying Macrofungi of Yosemite
& Pt Reyes
Mochella sp nova
Conocybe sp nova
Tuber sp
Mycena pura
Agrocybe pediades
2. What is a macrofungus?
• Answer: a fungus that produces a
macroscopically fruiting structure that can be
seen (and sometimes identified) without a
microscope.
4. Or they can be just a few millimeters
Dasyscyphus nudipes
var. minor
5. Who is involved?
• Members of the amateur mushroom groups:
Bay Area Mycological Society, Mycological
Society of San Francisco, Sonoma Mycological
Association, Santa Cruz Fungus Federation
• Members of the general public
• Professional mycologist, especially students
and postdocs, from Berkeley, Davis, SF State,
Humboldt State
6. David Arora, Norm Andresen, Fred Stevens, Mike Wood,Erin Blanchard , Christian
Schwarz, Debbie Viess, David Rust, and many others not pictured
7. Some of the “Amateurs” are amazing
Cortinarius (>1000 described species)
Dimitar Bojantchev
8. Galerina – an example of an LBM (little brown
mushroom) genus
Doug Smith
10. The Berkeley crew: Jennifer Kerekes, Anthony Amend, Kabir Peay,
Nicole Hynson, Sir David Read, Nhu Nguyen, Todd Osmundsen Else Vellinga
11. Why do we want to survey the
macrofungi of the National Parks?
• Surprising little is known about the mycoflora
of North America
• The park contains some of the best and most
easily accessible examples of native plant
communities
• Fungi are crucial components of all terrestrial
ecosystems
• Provides ground truth for ITS sequence data!
12. Example of the Pt Reyes Survey
http://www.mykoweb.com/PtReyes/
• The survey was structured into five public
“mycoblitzs”
• People from the MSSF, FFSC, BAMS, and SOMA
provided most of the manpower for collecting and
identifying.
• Collections were sequenced (ITS and sometimes
RPB2)
15. Identification of the collections
• Collections were made and coarsely sorted on the Saturday of
each foray, and then examined more closely, photographed
and dried on the following Sunday.
• Collection tags from common species were saved and
catalogued to provide distribution data
• Species that were new to the park list, or for which no
permanent collections were previous made were saved.
• Sunday a smaller group at Berkeley sorted through the the
latter collections, examined some with microscopes, selected
those worth saving, and photographed and dried them.
16. Curation of collections
• Collection data were entered in a database
• Collections were accessioned into the UC
Herbarium
• Data and images were be made web
accessible
• Eventual goal is to sequence the ITS region
from all of them, and RPB1 from all collections
24. A different plan for Yosemite
• Fewer people (but many specialists)
• No “mycoblitzes”, but lots of small group
collecting
• Voucher specimens with similar labeling and
photographic conventions as at Pt. Reyes
• DNA sequences still a must
• Better internet coordination
25. The Mushroom Observer
Nathan Wilsons cool tool
• Google “Mushroom Observer”
• Plug in “Yosemite” in the find widow
26.
27. In 8 month we when from 39 pages to 63 pages of
15 collections/page
36. A small piece of the collections
spreadsheet on Google Docs
37. Some numbers from the first year’s survey
• >500 collections were made, 110 have been
sequenced in one direction for the ITS region
• The collections included >130 species, and 111
genera
• 90% of the species and 62% of the genera were new
records for the Yosemite
• This more than doubled the number of species
known from the park and increases the known
genera by 88%
• When compared to Pt Reyes 62% of the species and
47% of genera were unique to the park
• Several new species have been described
38. Time consuming issues
• Keeping up with curation of specimens
• Keeping up with the website
• Keeping up with sequence acquisition and
dissemination
• Dealing with permits (especially from
Yosemite!)
39. My Dream:
• Expand this effort to survey the continent
with a goal of producing an North American
mycoflora
• Use this is a platform for training both
professions (grad students and postdocs), and
the general public
• Find major funding for this