NEXT MEETING INFO (In person at Zilker or on Zoom Meetings) Monday 02-28-2022 7:00pm CST Title:"Convergence of Texas beetle data from collections, BugGuide, and iNaturalist ".
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Description: GBIF, the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, is the global umbrella group for online biota locality data including Texas beetle data. GBIF is growing exponentially, driven in large part due to the exponential growth of data coming from iNaturalist. Also contributing to GBIF are copious amounts of specimen data, particularly from the Texas A&M; University Insect Collection (TAMUIC) and from BugGuide. I will discuss the growth and ramifications of the availability of Texas beetle data.
[Modified] Bio:
Mike Quinn an Entomologist has been a board member of the Austin Butterfly Forum for over 20 yrs and has been studying beetles for nearly 30 years in close association with Ed Riley, the foremost authority on Texas beetles.
