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Links

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Below are some of the links I find useful and/or fun - enjoy!

Biodiversity Databases and Resources

Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF)

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Free and open access biodiversity data from across the globe including observations and museum specimen records, sometimes linked to GenBank sequences; enables 'big data' studies of global biodiversity

Citizen Science Initiatives

Training Opportunities

National Center for Biotechnology Information - GenBank, etc.

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Several databases and tools for archiving and analyzing open access genetic data; sequences are deposited on and downloaded from GenBank frequently in my research

AmphibiaWeb

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Global amphibian database; includes species accounts, distribution maps, educational resources, and more for the world's amphibians

MalAvi

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Open access database for avian haemosporidian parasites; contains sequences, global distributions, and host information for >3,000 haemosporidian haplotypes

Arctos

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Museum collection management system that serves data on >3 million records in natural history collections; specimens used in some of my projects are searchable on Arctos and their data available, enabling open and extendable science

Integrated Digitized Biocollections (iDigBio)

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National resource for the NSF-funded Advancing Digitization of Biodiversity Collections program; data and images for millions of specimens available electronically

Citizen Science Initiatives

eBird

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The world's largest biodiversity-related citizen science project; birders of the world record and count their observations. Do you eBird?

HerpMapper

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A citizen science project for recording reptile and amphibian observations around the world

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Notes from Nature

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A project that engages the public with natural history museums and contributes to digitization efforts

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Training Opportunities

Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) Sites

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Opportunities for undergraduates to conduct NSF-funded research at various institutions around the U.S.

Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory (RMBL)

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The Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory is a fantastic field station to spend the summer immersed in research and is one of the REU Sites (I was there in 2007) 

The Carpentries

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The Carpentries provide foundational coding and data science skills in a community-building framework; many useful lessons and materials are available online

Summer Institute of Statistical Genetics (SISG)

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Based at University of Washington, SISG offers short, 2.5-day training modules on a variety of topics related to genetics and genomics; I had a great experience taking 3 modules as a graduate student. Scholarships available

Citizen Science
Training

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