Natural History Collections
Alexis Garretson
National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow
Improving data management and analytics in biological and environmental sciences
Posts
Museum Cultural Network Scholar
Selected as a 2020 MCN Scholar
ESIP Community Fellows Blog
My work is highlighted on the ESIP Community Fellows Blog
EDIs Featured Data Contribution
My dataset on amphibian breeding was highlighted as EDI’s featured data contribution
Arctic Vegetation and Avenues for Herbarium-Driven Research
I gave this talk to the 2018 class of Arctic Summer College Fellows
Publications
Pan trap color preference across Hymenoptera in a forest clearing
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.
Digitized herbarium specimen document changes in the timing and duration of phenophases and pathogen damage in Eastern United States maples
Our findings demonstrate the value of digitized herbarium specimens for long-term phenology research.
Extracting phenology and life history data from digitized specimens
In this talk, I discuss the opportunties to apply citizen science protocols to digitzed specimens
Risk Assessment for Scientific Data
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.
Vernal pool amphibian breeding ecology monitoring from 1931 to Present: a harmonised historical and ongoing observational ecology dataset
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
