Help us unlock the data from our Bryophyte and Lichen specimens!

Thank you, WeDigBio Volunteers!

Thank you to everyone who joined us on October 12-15 for this fall’s WeDigBio event! Together you helped to add data to over 1,200 bryophyte and lichen specimens! We look forward to our next WeDigBio Event in April 2024. Until then, crowdsourcing records are available below anytime.

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Bryophytes

Lichens

Recordings and Links from Previous Transcription Events

October 12 and October 14, 2023: WeDigBio Presentations

“Behind-the-scenes Tour of the Shirley Tucker Herbarium at Louisiana State University” – LSU Herbarium Team (Louisiana State University)

Recording of the presentation

“Aquatic transitions and interspecific relationships in Fissidens mosses” – Julia Butler (University of Tennessee)

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“Bryophyte communities change over a 12-year period along an elevational gradient in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park” – Eric Shershen (University of Tennessee)

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September 14, 2023: Collector Profile: Giuseppe Zodda

Pics: https://archive.org/details/Gius-DAgostino-Gius-Zodda-PHAIDRA_o_3983

September 8, 2023: Collector Profile: Matilda Cullen Knowles

Pics: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matilda_Cullen_Knowles#/media/File:A_portrait_of_Matilda_Knowles_who_died_in_1933.jpg

September 1, 2023: Collector Profile: Annie Lorrain Smith

Pics: https://www.linnean.org/news/2020/03/27/celebrating-the-first-women-fellows

August 25, 2023: Collector Profile: Margaret Sibella Brown

Pics: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Sibella_Brown#/media/File:Margaret_Sybella_Brown_with_flowers_and_books.jpg

August 18, 2023: Collector Profile: Jules Cardot

Pics: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jules_Cardot#/media/File:Jules_Cardot.png

August 11, 2023: Collector Profile: Irénée Thériot

Pics: http://mediaphoto.mnhn.fr/media/1444359177747oPcwRtYcRLdW4Zbn

July 28, 2023: Collector Profile: Maurice Bizot

Pics: https://www.jstor.org/stable/3242319

July 21, 2023: Video from the Ixchel González-Ramírez (UC Berkeley)

July 7, 2023: Collector Profile: Hampus Wilhelm and Sigfrid Wilhelm Arnell

Pics: https://sok.riksarkivet.se/sbl/Presentation.aspx?id=18816, https://journals.abcjournal.aosis.co.za/index.php/abc/article/download/564/507

June 23, 2023: Collector Profile: Dr. Thwaites

Pic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Henry_Kendrick_Thwaites

June 16, 2023: Collector Profile: Ellen Hutchins

Pic: https://www.macroalgae.org/portal/collections/individual/index.php?occid=1115619&clid=0

June 9, 2023: Collector Profile: Hisatsugo Ando

Pic: http://www.bryology.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Bryological-Times-2006-118.pdf

May 19, 2023: Video from the first Lichen and Bryophyte TCN Project

May 12, 2023: Collector Profile: Sinske Hattori

Pic: https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/3241748.pdf

May 5, 2023: Collector Profile: Masami Mizutani

Pic: https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/jhbl/66/0/66_i/_pdf/-char/en

April 28, 2023: The History of Arbor Day Presentation

Pic: https://plantwithpurpose.org/agroecology-planting-trees/

April 21, 2023: Colorado State University Student Presentation

“Transportation and Dispersal of Moss Stems for Terraforming” – Justin Eldridge & Baylor Jones (Colorado State University)

Recording of the presentation

April 13 and April 15, 2023: WeDigBio Presentations

“Mada-Lichen Project: Metagenomic DNA Barcoding of lichenized fungi in one of the world’s most endemic biodiversity hotspots” – Todd Widhelm (Field Museum)

Recording of the presentation

“Updating the University of Cincinnati Herbarium: A Tour of a Collection in the Midst of an Upgrade” – Eric Tepe (University of Cincinnati)

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“Herbarium Collector Spotlight – M. Monet” – Miranda Zwingelberg (University of Tennessee)

Recording of the presentation

“GLOBAL TCN @ TENN Herbarium”: Cruz Gouveia (University of Tennessee)

Recording of the presentation

March 31, 2023: Collector Profile: Akira Noguchi

Pic: https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/jhbl/66/0/66_i/_pdf/-char/en

March 24, 2023: Collector Profile: Adalbert Geheeb

Pic: https://archive.org/details/Adalbert-Geheeb-recto-PHAIDRA_o_1784

March 10, 2023: Collector Profile: Delia West Marble

Pic: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/186480119/delia-west-marble

March 3, 2023: Collector Profile: Annie Morrill Smith

Pic: https://archive.org/details/morrillkindredin01insmit/page/n137/mode/2up

February 24, 2023: Collector Profile: Nathaniel L. Britton

Pic: http://mertzdigital.nybg.org/digital/collection/p9016coll20/id/949/rec/2

February 17, 2023: Collector Profile: Elizabeth G. Britton

Pic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Gertrude_Britton

February 10, 2023: Collector Profile: C.F. Baker

Pic: https://ncbg.unc.edu/2021/02/15/charles-fuller-baker/

February 3, 2023: Collector Profile: O. Beccari

Pic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odoardo_Beccari#/media/File:Odoardo_Beccari.jpg

January 27, 2023: Collector Profile: V.P. Savicz

Pic:https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A1%D0%B0%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87,_%D0%92%D1%81%D0%B5%D0%B2%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%B4_%D0%9F%D0%B0%D0%B2%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87#/media/%D0%A4%D0%B0%D0%B9%D0%BB:%D0%92%D1%81%D0%B5%D0%B2%D0%BE%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%B4_%D0%A1%D0%B0%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87.jpg

January 20, 2023: Collector Profile: L.I. Savicz-Lubitzkaya

Pic: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/how-humble-moss-helped-heal-wounds-thousands-WWI-180963081/

January 13, 2023: Collector Profile: Hugh H. Iltis

Pic: https://wchf.org/Hugh-Iltis/

December 16, 2022: Collector Profile: H.H. Bartlett

Pic: https://www.jstor.org/stable/2482414#metadata_info_tab_contents

December 9, 2022: Collector Profile: The Lundells

Pic: https://w3.biosci.utexas.edu/prc/AboutLundellia.html

December 2, 2022: Collector Profile: H.N. Dixon

Pic: https://www.jstor.org/stable/3239760?seq=2#metadata_info_tab_contents

November 18, 2022: Collector Profile: D.E.F. Vesey-Fitzgerald

Pic: https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/4117665.pdf

November 11, 2022: Collector Profile: Elsa Nyholm

Pic: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1179/jbr.2003.25.2.145?needAccess=true

November 4, 2022: Collector Profile: A.C. Crundwell

Pic: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1179/jbr.2001.23.3.267?needAccess=true

October 28, 2022: Collector Profile: K.W. Allison

Pic: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/0028825X.1978.10429673?needAccess=true

October 21, 2022: Collector Profile: E.A. Hodgson

Pic: https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/3523/amy-hodgson

October 14 and 15, 2022: WeDigBio Presentations

“Tracing history of plants using field and herbarium collections: genetic structure of some circumboreal peatmosses (Sphagnum)” – Karn Imwattana (Duke University)

Recording of the presentation

“Mosses as Bioindicators” – Stephanie Maari (Field Museum)

Recording of the presentation

“Where do specimen images come from? A demonstration at the University of Cincinnati Herbarium” – Madison Winter (University of Cincinnati)

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October 7, 2022: Collector Profile: G.O.K. Sainsbury

Pic: https://bts.nzpcn.org.nz/site/assets/files/21963/well_1958_30__10-11.pdf

September 16, 2022: Collector Profile: Timo Koponen

Pic: https://sisu.ut.ee/sites/default/files/samblasober/files/samblasober12_01.pdf

September 9, 2022: Collector Profile: L.J. Brass

Pic: https://www.archbold-station.org/documents/publicationspdf/LJBrass-CV-Dedication.pdf

August 26, 2022: Collector Profile: M. Monet and J. Hoschedé

Pics: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Monet; http://claude-monet.org/wiki/Jean-Pierre_Hosched%C3%A9

August 19, 2022: Collector Profile: Captain Pickels

Pic: https://arcticcollections.bowdoin.edu/objects-1/info?query=mfs%20any%20%22pickels%22&sort=0

August 12, 2022: Collector Profile: The Brandegees

Pic: https://cglhs.org/resources/Documents/Eden-14.4-Fa-2011.pdf

August 5, 2022: Collector Profile: Alice Eastwood

Pic: https://www.inverse.com/article/14363-the-california-academy-of-sciences-hero-versus-the-1906-san-francisco-earthquake

July 29, 2022: Collector Profile: Fay A. MacFadden

July 22, 2022: Collector Profile: Percy H. Gentle

Pic: https://ncbg.unc.edu/2022/02/01/percy-h-gentle/

July 15, 2022: Collector Profile: Eula Whitehouse

Pic: https://fwbg.org/phytophilia-blog/dr-eula-whitehouse/

July 8, 2022: Collector Profile: Elly Nannenga-Bremekamp

Pic: https://fwbg.org/phytophilia-blog/dr-eula-whitehouse/

June 24, 2022: Collector Profile: Winona H. Welch

Pic: https://library.depauw.edu/library/archives/ehistory/chapter4/botanists/botanists.html

June 10, 2022: Collector Profile: Richard Evan Schultes

Pic: https://www.amazonteam.org/maps/schultes/en/

June 3, 2022: Collector Profile: Richard Spruce

Pic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Spruce

May 27, 2022: Specimen Profile: Tardigrada of New Zealand

May 13, 2022: Collector Profile: Elisha Kent Kane

Pic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elisha_Kent_Kane

May 6, 2022: Website Resource Profile: NYBG Women in Cryptogamic Botany

April 29, 2022: Bryophyte and Lichen Videos

April 7, 2022: WeDigBio Presentations

“Biodiversity Collections & Conservation: A Record of the Past and a Resource for the Future” – Jessica Budke (University of Tennessee)

Recording of the presentation

“Lichen Imaging Tour at the University of Colorado Herbarium” – Ryan Allen, Dina Clark, Vivian Luckiw, and Erin Tripp (University of Colorado, Boulder)

Recording of the presentation

April 1, 2022: Collector Profile: A.J. Sharp and Z. Iwatsuki

Recording of the presentation

Pic: “Like a Phoenix Rising From the Ashes” Documentary; Hironori Deguchi

October 16, 2021: WeDigBio Presentation

“Tour of the Duke University Herbarium” – Blanka Aguero (Duke University)

Recording of the presentation

What is WeDigBio?

Worldwide Engagement for Digitizing Biocollections, or WeDigBio, is a global data campaign, virtual science festival, and local outreach opportunity, all rolled into one. The annual, 4-day WeDigBio events mobilize participants to create digital data about biodiversity specimens, including fish in jars, plants on sheets, insects on pins, and fossils in drawers. During a typical WeDigBio event, some participants are at onsite events hosted by museums, field stations, universities, science classrooms, or other organizations. Those onsite events provide opportunities for research talks or other interactions with those using the newly created data to benefit science and society. Other participants are distributed individually around the world.  For those, we offer a virtual meeting space, which contains live feeds from some of the onsite events and provides another way to interact with scientists and others.  WeDigBio 2021 events will occur from April 8–11 and October 14–17. 

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