[LTER-im] Fwd: [tdwg] Looking for prospective grad students with curation and biodiversity informatics interests

[Margaret O'Brien]

Hi IMs - this is a student opportunity, but related to informatics. cool.



Margaret O'Brien
ORCID: 0000-0002-1693-8322
Information Management
Marine Science Institute, UCSB
Santa Barbara, CA 93106
805-893-2071 (voice)
http://environmentaldatainitiative.org
http://sbc.marinebon.org
http://sbc.lternet.edu



---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Austin <amast at bio.fsu.edu>
Date: Wed, Nov 15, 2017 at 3:51 PM
Subject: [tdwg] Looking for prospective grad students with curation and
biodiversity informatics interests
To: tdwg at lists.tdwg.org


I would greatly appreciate it if you would pass this announcement on to
individuals who might be interested in this opportunity for grad school:

I am keen to find students who are interested in gaining experience as a
curator of a dynamic biodiversity research collection (Florida
State University's Robert K. Godfrey Herbarium; http://www.
herbarium.bio.fsu.edu/) while working with me towards a graduate degree on
the topic of  plant diversity and distribution, biodiversity informatics,
and/or citizen science.  Staff members of the herbarium have played
leadership roles in digitization of biodiversity specimens locally (e.g.,
as part of the SERNEC Thematic Collections Network, https://sernec.
appstate.edu/, and as part of WeDigFLPlants, https://biospex.org/project/
wedigflplants) and nationally (e.g., through iDigBio, https://www.idigbio.
org/).  Students have traditionally held the position for 2–3 years and
have TA'd or RA'd during their remaining time at FSU to broaden their
experience even farther.  All students that are accepted to our program
receive stipend salary support, full tuition waiver, a contribution to the
student health insurance plan and annual travel allowance to attend
conferences.  FSU has a strong ecology and evolution program (
http://www.bio.fsu.edu/ee/ for more details), and the campus is situated in
the beautiful Florida panhandle—one of the continent's biodiversity
hotspots and a great place to be a biologist.  Applications begin to be
considered on Dec. 1, 2017, but the final deadline for applications is not
until January 31, 2018 (for details see http://www.bio.fsu.edu/
grad/admissions/apply/).  Interested individuals should also contact me
directly (contact info in signature).  For more info on me and my lab,
including the fun stuff that we are doing with augmented reality
technology, visit http://www.bio.fsu.edu/faculty.php?faculty-id=mast and
http://mastlab.org/.  I’m particularly looking for applicants who are ready
to be innovative with their graduate research.

Thanks!

Austin
Austin Mast · Professor · Department of Biological Science · 319 Stadium
Drive · Florida State University · Tallahassee, FL 32306-4295 · U.S.A. · (850)
645-1500 · amast at bio.fsu.edu


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