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News Release 13-135
NSF Awards Third Round of Grants to Advance Digitization of Biodiversity Collections
Funding will shed light on "dark data," and integrate organismal, vocal, fossil, and ecological information
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Rapid Image Processing with Voice Recognition aids steps in specimen processing.
Credit: Susan Butts, Yale Peabody Museum
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Fossilized damselfly from the 34-million-year-old Florissant Formation of Colorado.
Credit: University of Colorado Museum of Natural History
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Scientists Roy Tsuda and Varnelle Magoon study a red algae specimen in Hawaii.
Credit: Shelley James, Bishop Museum
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Curator Kathy Ann Miller looks at seaweed collected along the coast of Washington.
Credit: Sheraz Sadiq, KQED Science
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NSF's ADBC Program will foster advances in digitizing biological specimen collections.
Credit: Santiago Ramirez, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University
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Researcher Clare Loughran takes a digital photo of a red seaweed using a special light box.
Credit: Sheraz Sadiq, KQED Science
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