October 7, 2023

Harvard University: Undoing Empire, One Plant at a Time

Harvard University: Undoing Empire, One Plant at a Time. “This summer, the Davis Center’s Imperiia team partnered with the Harvard Map Collection on the “Undoing Empire” project. The project was awarded a Harvard Library Advancing Open Knowledge grant to sustain work across a six-month period. It has three goals: 1) create a database of biodiversity in 19th-century Ukraine, 2) create an inclusive strategy for mapping historical places, and 3) develop best practices for producing data that can be preserved via the Harvard Geospatial Library and the Harvard Library (HOLLIS) catalog.”

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September 29, 2023

Iowa State University: Finding art in the biological rhythms of trees

Iowa State University: Finding art in the biological rhythms of trees. “Johnny DiBlasi, an assistant professor of art and visual culture, recently received a $10,000 grant from the Iowa Arts Council to develop ‘Transcoded Ecologies,’ a project that fuses artificial intelligence and plant biodata into an art installation that incorporates light and sound. The concept involves sensors that track data produced by tree saplings and an artificial intelligence program that translates the data into a dynamic artistic experience.”

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September 27, 2023

SCOOP NZ: New Database Paves Way For Trees To Thrive In Face Of Climate Change, Biodiversity Loss

SCOOP New Zealand: New Database Paves Way For Trees To Thrive In Face Of Climate Change, Biodiversity Loss . “The database, Tree Globally Observed Environmental Ranges or TreeGOER, for short, documents the observed environmental ranges for the majority of known tree species. It was developed at the Center for International Forestry Research and World Agroforestry (CIFOR-ICRAF), an international research and development organization on trees, forests, agroforestry and landscapes. The open-access database is available on Zenodo and described in the journal Global Change Biology. TreeGOER documents the global environmental ranges for 51 variables for observed occurrences of 48,129 tree species.”

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September 20, 2023

California Department of Natural Resources: DWR Collaborates With UC Davis to Expand Plant Database for Landscape Community

California Department of Natural Resources: DWR Collaborates With UC Davis to Expand Plant Database for Landscape Community. “The Water Use Classification of Landscape Species database offers water use data for more than 3,500 plants and helps users find the perfect plants for their water needs. Using the Water Use Classification of Landscape Species database, users can search for plants by region, water requirement, and plant type.”

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August 6, 2023

Scientific Reports: GlobalUsefulNativeTrees, a database documenting 14,014 tree species, supports synergies between biodiversity recovery and local livelihoods in landscape restoration

Scientific Reports: GlobalUsefulNativeTrees, a database documenting 14,014 tree species, supports synergies between biodiversity recovery and local livelihoods in landscape restoration. “Developed primarily by combining data from GlobalTreeSearch with the World Checklist of Useful Plant Species (WCUPS), GlobUNT includes 14,014 tree species that can be filtered for ten major use categories, across 242 countries and territories.”

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July 20, 2023

CBC: Little-known U of R plant collection blooming into the digital age

CBC: Little-known U of R plant collection blooming into the digital age. “Mel Hart opens a wooden cabinet and carefully removes a light pink folder. Inside, a plant specimen dating back to the 1960s is pressed in place on a page, perfectly preserved. It’s one of nearly 70,000 plant specimens that Hart — the associate dean of student experience and engagement in the University of Regina’s faculty of science — works with in the school’s herbarium, a place where dried and dead plants are catalogued for scientific study.”

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June 5, 2023

The Conversation: Social media snaps map the sweep of Japan’s cherry blossom season in unprecedented detail

The Conversation: Social media snaps map the sweep of Japan’s cherry blossom season in unprecedented detail . “The hanami festival has been documented for centuries, and research shows climate change is making early blossoming more likely. The advent of mobile phones – and social network sites that allow people to upload photos tagged with time and location data – presents a new opportunity to study how Japan’s flowering events are affected by seasonal climate.”

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May 30, 2023

Brussels Times: Belgium’s botanical gardens and arboretums unveil massive online database

Brussels Times: Belgium’s botanical gardens and arboretums unveil massive online database. “The new website – a global first on this scale – makes 83,000 plants belonging to 25,000 different species and varieties from 25 botanical gardens and arboretums available at the click of a button. Visitors can view technical data sheets on each plant which detail their main characteristics, their origin and their location in the botanical garden in question.”

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May 2, 2023

Royal Horticultural Society: RHS launches digital library of over 10,000 items, including rare treasures from their collections

Royal Horticultural Society: RHS launches digital library of over 10,000 items, including rare treasures from their collections. “Many of the items available through the Digital Collections are rare, fragile or valuable so would not otherwise be accessible to the public. Currently there are 9,542 library items including books, photographs and artworks, and 458 herbarium specimens such as pressed flowers on the platform. The RHS Lindley Library and Herbarium teams will continue to upload items onto the platform, ensuring the site constantly gets bigger and richer as more content is uploaded.”

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