A5090493717- Species Distribution and Climate Change
- Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
- Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies
- Ecology and Vegetation Dynamics Studies
- Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
- Scientific Computing and Data Management
- Research Data Management Practices
- Bat Biology and Ecology Studies
- Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior
- Genetic diversity and population structure
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Amphibian and Reptile Biology
- Remote Sensing in Agriculture
- Image Retrieval and Classification Techniques
- Spectroscopy and Chemometric Analyses
- Big Data and Business Intelligence
- Rural development and sustainability
- Plant and animal studies
- Image Processing and 3D Reconstruction
- Polar Research and Ecology
- Biomedical Text Mining and Ontologies
- Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock
- Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
- Handwritten Text Recognition Techniques
- Molecular Biology Techniques and Applications
Australian Museum
2001-2024
Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
2023
Cornell Lab of Ornithology
2023
Atlas of Living Australia
2023
University of Massachusetts Boston
2023
Cornell University
2023
Florida State University
2015
Florida Museum of Natural History
2015
Efficient and reliable monitoring of wild animals in their natural habitats is essential to inform conservation management decisions. Automatic covert cameras or "camera traps" are being an increasingly popular tool for wildlife due effectiveness reliability collecting data unobtrusively, continuously large volume. However, processing such a volume images videos captured from camera traps manually extremely expensive, time-consuming also monotonous. This presents major obstacle scientists...
Abstract: Natural‐history collections in museums contain data critical to decisions biodiversity conservation. Collectively, these specimen‐based describe the distributions of known taxa time and space. As most comprehensive, reliable source knowledge for described species, records are potentially available answer a wide range conservation research questions. Nevertheless, have shortcomings, notably geographic gaps, resulting mainly from ad hoc nature collecting effort. This problem has been...
Global conservation assessments require information on the distribution of biodiversity across planet. Yet this is often mapped at a very coarse spatial resolution relative to scale most land-use and management decisions. Furthermore, such mapping tends focus selectively better-known elements (e.g., vertebrates). We introduce new approach describing global terrestrial that may help alleviate these problems. This focuses estimating pattern in emergent properties (richness compositional...
Members of the public are making substantial contributions to science as citizen scientists, and advances in technologies have enabled citizens make even more contributions. Technologies that allow computers machines function an intelligent manner, often referred artificial intelligence (AI), now being applied science. Discussions about guidelines, responsibilities, ethics AI usage already happening outside field We suggest such considerations should also be explored carefully context...
Genomic samples of non-model organisms are becoming increasingly important in a broad range studies from developmental biology, biodiversity analyses, to conservation. sample definition, description, quality, voucher information and metadata all need be digitized disseminated across scientific communities. This needs concise consistent today's ever-increasing bioinformatic era, for complementary data aggregators easily map databases one another. In order facilitate exchange on genomic their...
A goal of the biodiversity research community is to digitize majority one billion specimens in US collections by 2020. Meeting this ambitious requires increased collaboration and technological innovation broader engagement beyond walls universities museums. Engaging public digitization promises both serve digitizing institutions further understanding science. We discuss three broad areas accessible participants that will accelerate progress: label ledger transcription, georeferencing from...
The digitization of biocollections is a critical task with direct implications for the global community who use data research and education. Recent innovations to involve citizen scientists in increase awareness value biodiversity specimens; advance science, technology, engineering, math literacy; build sustainability digitization. In support these activities, we launched first citizen-science event focused on specimens: Worldwide Engagement Digitizing Biocollections (WeDigBio). During...
The structure and composition of arthropod assemblages are strongly associated with habitat complexity. Accurate, time efficient estimates complexity may provide insights for biodiversity management in natural systems. We obtained high‐resolution (0.7 m pixel) multi‐spectral aerial imagery National Parks 20 km north south Sydney, Australia. explored both the Normalised Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) standard deviation reflectance near‐infrared spectrum (stdevR NIR ) as indicators low...
In 2010, the Australian Museum commenced a project to explore and develop ways for engaging volunteers increase rate of digitising natural history collections. The focus was on methods image-based dry pinned entomology With support from Atlas Living Australia, developed team volunteers, training materials processes procedures.Project officers were employed coordinate volunteer workforce. Digitising workstations established with aim minimising cost whilst maximising productivity ease use....
Increasing the quantity and quality of data is a key goal biodiversity informatics, leading to increased fitness for use in scientific research beyond. This impeded by legacy geographic locality descriptions associated with records that are often heterogeneous not map-ready format. The informatics community has developed best practices tools provide means do retrospective georeferencing (e.g., BioGeomancer toolkit), process converts into coordinates measurement spatial uncertainty. Even...
Insect soup is a term which refers to the bulk ethanol samples stored in many insect collections contain unsorted material and augment dried pinned collections. These often rare or unique specimens, it would be beneficial researchers even general public have an easy way access them view annotate their contents. In this paper we propose image analysis approach for analysing images making content readily available through web. The includes segmentation, scale bar measurements, sorting. results...
Not all fossil sites preserve microfossils that can be extracted using acid digestion, which may leave knowledge gaps regarding a site's age or environmental characteristics. Here we report on citizen science approach was developed to identify in situ the surface of sedimentary rocks. Samples were collected from McGraths Flat, recently discovered Miocene rainforest lake deposit located central New South Wales, Australia. Composed entirely iron-oxyhydroxide, Flat rocks cannot processed...
Citizen science is rapidly advancing as a field, engaging the public in scientific research and outcomes, while obtaining large quantities of data. Within natural sciences, identification organisms by citizen scientists an important increasing source biodiversity records. However, to ensure reliability quality data, including species identifications, various strategies have been employed. Crowdsourcing commonly used increase confidence data quality, where results are aggregate multiple...
In early 2017, as part of the Australian Museum 190th anniversary celebration, (AM) undertook an extensive expedition survey program on Lord Howe Island (LHI) that included marine and terrestrial sampling vertebrates invertebrates ambitious invertebrate Balls Pyramid, last remaining wild refuge phasmid (or stick insect). The outcomes this are detailed in papers compiled special edition.
The Australian Museum in partnership with Melbourne Zoo, the New South Wales Office of Environment and Heritage (NSW OEH), Lord Howe Island (LHI) Board LHI along a team experienced climbers, landed on remote almost inaccessible Balls Pyramid 21 March 2017. expedition objectives were to (a) determine extent which critically endangered Phasmid (LHIP) (Dryococelus australis) existed beyond restricted area it had previously been observed; (b) bring back four individuals for Zoo breeding program;...
Information Extraction (IE) from imaged text is affected by the output quality of text-recognition process. Misspelled or missing may propagate errors even preclude IE. Low confidence in automated methods reason why some IE projects rely exclusively on human work (crowdsourcing). That case biological collections (biocollections), where metadata (Darwin-core Terms) found digitized labels are transcribed citizen scientists. In this paper, we present an approach to reduce number crowdsourcing...