Natural History Collections

Throughout the eastern U.S., fall colors arrived behind schedule, which scientists say is a sign of things to come.

Selected as a 2020 MCN Scholar

My work is highlighted on the ESIP Community Fellows Blog

My dataset on amphibian breeding was highlighted as EDI’s featured data contribution

I gave this talk to the 2018 class of Arctic Summer College Fellows

This preprint presents a comprehensive update to the global distribution map of Mus musculus, utilizing genetic and bioclimatic data to inform evolutionary studies.

We find significant changes in the timing fall color change using herbarium specimens

Applying citizen science protocols to imaged museum specimens can help lessen the digitization burden on research staff members and address research gaps in existing citizen science datasets while providing meaningful visitor engagement opportunities.

Our data support recent studies that suggest yellow traps alone may be insufficient for sampling the true diversity of certain hymenopteran groups in a region.

Our findings demonstrate the value of digitized herbarium specimens for long-term phenology research.

In this talk, I discuss the opportunties to apply citizen science protocols to digitzed specimens

The data risk assessment framework presented in this paper provides a platform from which risk assessments can begin, and a reference point for discussions of data stewardship resource allocations and priorities.

With more than 2,480 individual species sampling dates and more than 151,701 recorded individual occurrences of the nine amphibian species, the described dataset represents the longest and largest time-series of herpetological sampling with paired water quality data

I discuss the differences in digitization and stewardship success for natural history collections of various sizes.