• 12:00 Discussion.

• 1:15 Lowell Urbatsch (Louisiana State University), Databasing, Georeferencing, and Digital Imaging Projects of the Louisiana State University Herbarium.

• 1:30 Austin Mast (Florida State University), New Digital Resources from Florida State University's Robert K. Godfrey Herbarium.

• 1:45 Gil Nelson (Florida State University), The PanFlora Project.

• 2:00 Kathy Burks (Florida Natural Areas Inventory, FSU), The Florida Invasive Plants GeoDatabase.

• 2:15 Dean Jue (Florida Resources and Environmental Analysis Center, FSU), The ARROW Project: Apalachicola Region Resources on the Web.

Standards

• 2:30 Steve Ginzbarg (University of Alabama), What Else do Botanists Want to Know? A Draft Plant Extension of the Darwin Core.

Regional Issues: Recovering from Hurricanes and Planning for Hurricanes

• 2:45 Patrick Biber (Gulf Coast Research Laboratory, University of Southern Mississippi), The GCRL Herbarium post-Katrina.

• 2:55 Anne Bradburn (Tulane University), The Status of Tulane's Herbarium.

• 3:05 Kelly Major and Smoot Major (University of South Alabama), The Status of the University of South Alabama Herbarium.

• 3:15 Chris Reid (Louisiana Natural Heritage Program), Recent Work with the Rare Flora of Louisiana.

• 9:05 Welcome to the Deep South eFlora workshop (Austin Mast; co-organizer with Gil Nelson)

• 9:00 Welcome to FSU (Tim Moerland; Chair, Dept of Biological Science, Florida State Univ).

• Plan to attend the Sunday Morning Field Trip

• Discussion Questions Round 1

• Discussion Questions Round 2

• Discussion Questions Round 3

• Discussion Questions Round 4

Friday, Oct 14

• 8:15 Vans leave Cabot Lodge for Florida State University.

• 9:00 Welcome to FSU.

• 9:05 Welcome to the Deep South eFlora workshop.

National Projects

• 9:10 Alan Prather (Plant Biology Dept, Michigan State Univ), 2020 Vision: Implementing a community approach to getting herbarium collections databased and online.

• 9:30 Zack Murrell (Dept of Biology, Appalachian State Univ), SouthEast Regional Network of Expertise and Collections.

• 9:50 Stinger Guala (USDA National Plant Data Center), USDA PLANTS database.

• 10:10 Robert Morris (Math and Computer Sci Dept, Univ of Massachusetts, Boston) Electronic Field Guide Project.

• 10:30 Morning break

National Projects (cont'd)

• 11:00 Reed Beaman (Yale Univ's Peabody Museum of Natural History), Herbis, the Erudite Recorded Botanical Information Synthesizer.

• 11:20 Reed Beaman, The BioGeomancer Project.

• 11:40 Fred Ronquist (School of Computational Sci and Dept of Biological Sci, Florida State University), MorphBank, an open web repository of images serving the biological research community.

• 12:00 Austin Mast (Department of Biological Sci, Florida State Univ), MorphBank's Remote Curation of Natural History Specimens Trial.

• 12:15 Lunch

Regional Projects

• 1:15 Presentations TBA shortly.

• 3:45 Vans leave for Edward Ball Wakulla Springs State Park.

• 5:00 Boat tour of Wakulla Springs.

• 6:00 Dinner at Wakulla Springs Lodge

• 8:00 Vans leave Wakulla Springs Lodge parking lot for Cabot Lodge.

Saturday, Oct 15

• 8:15 Vans leave Cabot Lodge for Florida State University.

• 9:00 Introduction to format for day.

• 9:05 Small- and whole-group discussion round 1 (45 min small group, ca. 30 min whole).

• 10:15 Morning Break

• 10:45 Small- and whole-group discussion round 2 (45 min small group, 30 min whole).

• 12:00 Lunch

• 1:00 Small- and whole-group discussion round 3 (45 min small group, 30 min whole).

• 2:15 Afternoon Break

• 2:45 Small- and whole-group discussion round 4 (45 min small group, 30 min whole).

• 4:00 Concluding discussion.

• 5:00 Vans leave Florida State University for Cabot Lodge.

• Dinner is on your own.

Sunday, Oct 16

• A morning field trip is being organized to a local natural area. Details TBA shortly.

Schedule of the First Deep South eFlora Workshop

Goals of the workshop include (1) assessing collection strengths (taxonomic and geographic) of herbaria located in or near the ecoregion, (2) assessing databasing expertise at interested institutions and agencies, (3) characterizing the ideal plant database (in terms of content and technical functionality), and (4) planning the steps necessary to make the database a reality.

It is anticipated that the workshop will begin with a short series of presentations on bioinformatics projects, tools, and funding opportunities. This will be followed by a series of small-group and whole-group discussions related primarily to goals (3) and (4) above. It is anticipated that much of the information necessary to addressing goals (1) and (2) can be gathered prior to the workshop by a questionaire. The results of this questionaire will be summarized in an early presentation at the workshop.

More detailed information on starting, break, and ending times for the workshop will be posted here closer to the start of the workshop.

-- AustinMast - 15 Jul 2005