Friday, July 8, 2011

NSF Awards Grants to Advance Digitization of Biological Collections

NSF Awards Grants to Advance Digitization of Biological Collections
Fri, 08 Jul 2011 14:49:00 -0500

Researcher entering data for the butterflies and moths at the Florida Museum of Natural History.

Centuries of discovery document the diversity of life on Earth. Records of that biodiversity are, for the most part, in varied and distinct natural history collections, making assessing the information a difficult task.

Now, the National Science Foundation (NSF), through its Advancing Digitization of Biological Collections program, is responding to the need for greater accessibility of biological collections data by awarding four major grants that seek to create a national ...

More at http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=121015&WT.mc_id=USNSF_51&WT.mc_ev=click


This is an NSF News item.

This e-mail update was generated automatically based on your subscription to the category listed above. Some updates may belong to more than one category, resulting in duplicate messages.

NSF logo   Subscriber Services: Manage Preferences  |  Unsubscribe  |  Help  |  Contact NSF
  Follow NSF:  Follow us on YouTube Follow us on Twitter Follow us on Facebook Follow us on RSS Follow us on email Science360 News Service Science Nation Online Magazine

GovDelivery, Inc. sending on behalf of the National Science Foundation · 4201 Wilson Boulevard · Arlington, VA 22230 · 703-292-5111

Powered by GovDelivery

No comments:

Post a Comment