Schedule of the First Deep South eFlora Workshop

The current schedule for the workshop is below. Exact details might change. Unless otherwise noted, events will take place on the fourth floor of Dirac Science Library in the seminar room (room 499) of the School of Computational Science.

Friday, Oct 14

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

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

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

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 Discussion.

• 12:15 Lunch

Regional Projects: Digital Resources

• 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.

Wakulla Springs Trip

• 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).

• Discussion Questions Round 1

• 10:15 Morning Break

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

• Discussion Questions Round 2

• 12:00 Lunch

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

• Discussion Questions Round 3

• 2:15 Afternoon Break

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

• Discussion Questions Round 4

• 4:00 Concluding discussion.

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

• Dinner is on your own.

Sunday, Oct 16

• Plan to attend the Sunday Morning Field Trip

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