Worldwide Engagement for Digitizing Biocollections


WeDigBio 2017: Day 1

Day 1 is in the books!

Thank you all for an incredible start to WeDigBio 2017!

Highlights from Day 1:

Our friends in Australia and New Zealand got us started.

WeDigBio Day 1 highlights from Australia and New Zealand.

This was followed by onsite events in Europe, including events at Kew Gardens, the University of Manchester (left), and NHM London (right).


University of Manchester WeDigBio event photo.

NHM London WeDigBio event photo.

Several events in the US rounded out the day. Students in a Broader Impacts class at the University of Florida (Gainesville) collectively participated online (shown at top). Onsite events were hosted at the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum (Chicago; left), Florida State University (Tallahassee), the Field Museum (Chicago), and North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences (Chapel Hill Library; right).


Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum WeDigBio event highlight photo.

North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences (Chapel Hill Library) WeDigBio event photo.

And lots of amazing work from our global online participants. Check out the WeDigBio Twitter feed for more photos and highlights of Day 1.

Hosts: How are your events going? Any tips or tricks to share? Any highlights or low-lights? Amazing discoveries or technical problems?

Join us Friday for more events around the world.

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WeDigBio is funded, in part, by grants from the National Science Foundation [DBI-1115210 (2011-2018), DBI-1547229 (2016-2022), & DBI-2027654 (2021-2026)]. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.