MSC03 2020
1 University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, NM 87131
Physical Location:
CERIA Building
Room 204
Phone: (505) 277-1358
Fax: (505) 277-1351
cookjose@unm.edu
AIM-UP! Conference
Summary of Presentations and Discussions
Sevilleta Field Station, Albuquerque, New Mexico
23 - 26 January 2015
Hank Bart - Tulane University – Curator and Professor, (Geolocate, FishNet, VertNet)
Kacye Bell - UNM, doctoral student
Ayesha Burdett - New Mexico Museum Natural History & Science, teacher devel, outreach
Mariel Campbell - University of New Mexico (UNM), Collection Manager
Carlos Carrion - UNM, International doctoral student (Ecuador)
Neil Cobb - NAU Flagstaff, Biodiversity Center, SCAN TCN
Scott Edwards - National Science Foundation, Program Director
Libby Ellwood - Florida State University, iDigBio, Citizen Science, digitizing imaging ecology
Peter Erb - ScienceLive, curriculum development CU Boulder & Colorado Springs
Tracy Heath - Iowa State Univ, Assistant Professor
Szu Han Ho - UNM, Assistant Professor, Art and Ecology Program
Agustin Jimenez - Southern Illinois University, Associate Professor
Eileen Lacy - University of California Berkeley, Associate Professor
Heather Lerner - Earlham College, Joseph Moore Museum, Assistant Professor
Deb Linton - Central Michigan University, undergrad bio education teacher training
Sean Maher - Missouri State University, Assistant Professor
Anna Monfils - Central Michigan University; Curator and Assoc. Professor
Deb Novak - Director of Education New Mexico Museum of Nat History & Science
Roland Roberts - National Science Foundation, Program Officer
Mireya Rodriguez - undergrad from Taos NM Highlands University
Rosemary Smith - Idaho State University, Professor
Doug Soltis - University of Florida, Florida Museum of Natural History, TreeofLife, Professor
Elizabeth Starks - MS student from Zuni, NM Highlands University
Corey Welch - Iowa State University, Facilitator, Diversity Outreach
Josh Whorley - Seattle Community College, Instructor
Rick Williams - Idaho State University, Curator & Professor, Idaho Mus Nat History
8:30 Introductions
9:30 Joe, Intro and Overview Presentation:
Role of Museums in education
Digitization-linking/integrating across collections
Build human capacity, broadening participation, NextGen museum professionals
Integrated Archives:
Specimens connect diverse datasets and research agendas-
becoming the basis for new projects & perspectives
stable isotopes ecology, systematics, genomics, virology/pathogens
all tied together through central vouchers
Hosts/parasites/pathogens offer new ways to integrate across collections
Vision and Change AAAS 2009 (update 2015)
PULSE 2012
Replace lectures (passive learning) with hands-on, collections-based approaches
Advantages of collections-based approaches:
Integration—across taxa, biotic and abiotic
Scaling-genomic to organismal to communities and ecosystems
Few colleagues, students know about natural history collections or their role
Pivotal role of collections not mentioned in textbooks
Educators don’t know how to integrated collections databases or access in teaching
Limited collections growth recently, need to have field collections to gather data
Regional small collections are critically important,
using students to sample local environments over time
Rebuild databases for the United States – monitoring & inventory
[Large collections reduced collecting in US decades ago (emphasized overseas)]
Built by systematists, but unintended consequences--- now heavily used by ecologists, developmental biology, comparative genomics, pathogen discovery
Geography: spatial data, GIS
Art
Collections originally developed for research and databases for management now need retrofit for use in education, biological diversity patterns, other
Traditional—Systematics & Natural History
For students: Direct experience through exhibits, museum education/jobs, field work, research experiences based on collections - teaching: Mammalogy etc
Specimens used in classrooms
New uses: students in genomic research, art, geography, federal agencies, GenBank
New users--community colleges, universities, high schools
This year: Human Dimensions of Natural History Collections
Workshops and Seminars
Human Dimension themes (see Fall 2014 syllabus):
Anthropology, Geography, Parasitology and Zoonotics, Art & Biology, Crop Domestication
Urban Biodiversity Paleomiddens and Ecology, The Language of Invasives
10:00 Steffi
AIM-UP Workshop October 4, 2014 (California)
Natural History Collections as Resources for Vision and Change
Alaska Science Literacy Project, with School of Education, Ute Kaden
targeting rural teachers, using objects to tell a story;
New plant module, with plant press, students make local collections around school,
place student collectors names in database (available on the web)
Eileen Lacy:
Climate Change manuscript from last years theme;
relatively complete draft will available soon; ties into another module at UC Berkeley,
Peter Erb:
ScienceLive, idea of connecting field researchers to K-20 students
Suggestions for videos:
Make Available via YouTube & Vimeo
Teacher guide: what are students supposed to be looking for; add some guiding questions with answers for teachers; developing lesson plan around the videos
Josh: perhaps a simple image or concept map of how we use museums with short explanatory links on how we value biodiversity to make decisions on what places to save, publications
Anna:
Surveys/Questionaire for students; need more response
How important are museum collections for students/intro courses and graduating seniors current results, mostly CMU:
50% of incoming freshman said they have toured museum collections
Roland, NSF, Biological Infrastructure DBI—Overview of Programs
Anna: What can AIM-UP do for the future – new proposal
Eileen: Discuss core objectives. Identify participants. Advisory council representing different taxonomic groups. Anna: PI; Deb: coPI; also need people to represent different regions.
1:45 Anna RCN
Next Steps:
Creating Community
Open Access
Dissemination
Sustainability
Key - reaching out to 2 year institutions.
Potential publications? Need someone to take leadership. So many undergrad bio majors are pre-med, biomedical. Also, geography, anthropology, art - interdisciplinary
Parasitology, emerging pathogens, zoonotics
Possible paper directions (discussion):
1) Emerging pathogens/parasites module
2) Review existing modules, next steps, best practices - Rob
3) Videos--Peter Erb – new, additional context, ideas
a) informatics and museums; genomics and environmental informatics
b) intro to climate change module
c) intro to island module, both could interview people associated with research
d) 5 short videos on 5 annual themes
Emerging Pathogens Libby Ellwood, Sean Maher, Kayce Bell, Carlos Carrion, Jorge Salazar, Mariel Campbell, Agustin Jimenez
Potential modules
Chagas- Jorge
Plague - Sean
Paper: BioScience, Frontiers - summary examples of stories Ebola, Hantavirus, targeting biomedical community as to where to access information; Jorge, Eric Hoberg
Journal of Biomedical Education, open access
BMC Medical Education
Agustin: Comparative Parasitology; open access; Parasite, open access
1) Video topics; Peters group: informatics in museums, target administration audience
intros to a couple of modules
get teachers interested as well as for students
climate change
SE Alaskan islands
5 themes videos
student’s perspectives of museums - very young to adults, thought progression
talk to undergrads examples of work in museums, what museum work is like, how they got started; show progression to people with careers in museums;
Spanish videos;
Native American video; place based museum studies
urban themes for urban target audience
interdisciplinary applications video - who else in public uses museums
iDigBio for resources
2) Module Development: Rob: tried to delineate the type of content that students and teachers should find when they land on a module; 3 categories:
- logistics, link to the module, how long does it last etc,
- what skill level for instructor
- what skill level for the students
- how does the content fit into their courses
Steffi example: geographic variation; module tagging example in google docs
Create searchable metadata on AIMUP site to find appropriate modules
Evo-ed; National Center for Case studies
3) Emerging Pathogens Kayce:
A) How to access and download spatial data - MapofLife would be best;
B) Human pathogen modules based on initiatives underway;
Jorge has activity with Chagas;
C) Medical education journal publication review of case studies where museums have played a role in emerging pathogens with a link to the modules that we develop
Evening---Informal Discussion re: RCN vs IUSE; growing consensus towards IUSE proposal
5:30 am
Field trip to Bosque del Apache NWR, bird ecology with Chris Witt and Blair Wolf, UNM
10:30 am return
Overview of Yesterday & Revisions to agenda –
Peter and Szu Han together regarding videos
10:50 am: Rick and Rosemary Presentation
MILES = EPSCOR program spanning Idaho colleges and universities
Managing Idaho’s Landscapes for Ecosystem Services
11:10 Libby Ellwood WeDigBio Presentation
New idea for annual event, starting next fall, transcribe specimens that have been imaged and databased in a social setting; many centers around the world all linked online
Hoping to raise awareness of the importance of biodiversity collections to science and society
Notes from Nature on steroids
Actual event: November 2015
current centers
Australian Museum, Smithsonian, Notes from Nature, Les Herbonautes, Paris
UKherbaria@home
Heather: How to deal with small collections that don’t have everything digitized,
Neil: Be careful so as not to make the same mistakes as Park Service BioBlitz
11:30 am Tracy Heath Presentation
AIM-UP at SVP meetings in Berlin, poster for Education and Outreach session
-Student assessment
Listed available modules, and focused on two specific ones: Art in Biology and Trilobite Tutorial-Trilobites: Had to integrate fossil data into likelihood based phylogenetic analyses
http://phylo.bio.ku.edu.fossil/
11:40 am Corey Welch, Iowa StatePresentation
Using Museum Specimens and Place-based Approaches for Engaging Students from Tribal Colleges and Universities
Summary of Indigenous AIM-UP at Northern Arizona University September 2014
Neil Cobb entomology, Gary Albert, Navajo Ant Project; Melody Basham,
Melvin Foster, Ed Galindo, Corey Welch; Stefan Summer
Why Place-based approaches are ideal
relevant to the local culture and existing knowledge base of traditional groups
spatial thinking is culturally common in Native American groups
Tribes manage 100 million acres across US, critical habitat
Navajo-Ant Project (NAP)
Ant-wiki, “Ants_of_the_Navajo_Reservation” www.navajonature.org
Surveying vertebrate museum records on Reservations, using VertNet
Deer mouse model
Hantavirus model
Lunch
1:30 Neil Cobb, NAU Presentation
SCAN TCN Network, Southwest Collections of Arthropods Network, ADBC Program NSF
Data Portal July 2012-15
First arthropod TCN = Invertnet
Also Tri-trophic Thematic Collections Network
SCAN
InvertEBase - new TCN at Field Museum; includes molluscs; developing taxonomy trees for use in Symbiota
2:00pm--Mireya Rodriguez and Elizabeth Starks, NM Highlands Presentation
iPad application; software developers, partnerships with Americore and Dept cultural affairs, media--Developed for exhibit at Bradbury Science Museum, Los Alamos National Laboratories
Owls and Bat on LANL property
Javascript Android developer; Cordova PhoneGap wrapper, download from iTunes
2:10pm Doug and Pam Soltis, Florida State Museum
Botany 4934 course developed module, but could be developed for any taxon
Digital Resources for Biology Teaching using the Floridian flora: From Field to Niche Modeling to Phylogeny and Beyond
Building the Tree of Life, becomes a community exercise;
Neil and Pam did a virtual course using AdobeConnect, could link with multiple universities; would have to have a mix of in-person and AdobeConnect sessions;
Joe: one of the biggest lessons students come away with is “how much we don’t know”;
Jorge: Open Tree of Life annotation tools are not yet released but will be very soon, within several months
2:30 pm Rob Guralnick, Map of Life
integrates data we have for known species/helps define huge knowledge gap that remains
Assembles disaggregated data from literature in one place
Range maps, survey and atlas data, point records, modeled distributions, regional checklists, etc
Produces species lists
- student scientists, ecologists
- integrated in flat maps or more complicated models
- place-based research questions
Demo of how it works as a phone app:
2:50-3:45 pm Breakout for workgroups
Module Metadata/Module Guidelines Group:
5 modules reviewed, revised
Committee will come up with new guidelines, Josh will oversee
Video Group:
Could produce most of 15 videos already discussed, have funding
Spanish; urban setting etc.; will get in queue
Modules: have timeline, as discussed yesterday
Jorge and Agustin will take lead on manuscript; outline by March 9
Joe: Awards: Pete and Szu Han: Silver Penguin awards
4:10 pm
Anna: possible IUSE, Discussion
6 pm---Dinner and Close of Meeting
AIM-UP! Annual All-hands Meeting
22- 25 January 2015
Sevilleta LTER Research Station, Sevilleta National Wildlife Refuge, New Mexico
Host: University of New Mexico
Thursday 22 January
Travel day arrive at Albuquerque Sunport. Host will provide transportation.
20:00 Catered dinner at the Sevilleta and discussion
Friday 23 January
07:45-08:30 Breakfast
08:30-09:00 Welcome and introductions (Joe Cook), Pre-Evaluation
(assign 2 “scribes” for the day)
09:00–09:30 Update AIM-UP! (Steffi Ickert-Bond, Eileen Lacey, Joe)
09:30-10:00 Overview of NSF Education Efforts (Roland Roberts, Scott Edwards)
10:00 -10:15 Coffee Break
10:15-11:15 Human Dimension & Museums (Joe)
11:15-12:00 Discussion of Human Dimension & Museums
establish goals for meeting
12:00-13:30 Lunch
13:30-14:00 ScienceLIVE Museum Unit (Peter Erb)
14:00-14:30 Students working in natural history collections-What is the impact? Update (Anna Monfils)
14:30-14:45 Climate Change paper (Eileen)
14:45-15:00 What’s new (Rob Guralnick)
15:00-15:15 Coffee Break
15:15-15:30 Discussion of possible modules--- Human Dimension &
Undergrad Education
15:30-15:45 Existing Module Critique (Rob)
15:45-16:30 Breakout groups – module updates & new module brainstorming
16:30-16:45 Group overviews
16:45-17:00 Wrap up
18:30-19:30 Dinner
Saturday 24 January
05:00-05:30 Breakfast
05:30 Leave for Bosque del Apache field trip
09:30 Return to Sevilleta
09:30-10:00 Coffee break
10:00-10:30 Overview Day 1, Update for day 2,
Discussion of goals for workshop (revise agenda)
New topics, expected outcomes
Brainstorming: ideas for sequential (?) teaching modules
10:30-10:45 MILES - Socio-ecological systems (Rick Williams & Rosemary Smith)
10:45-11:00 International Transcription Blitz WeDigBio (Libby Ellwood)
11:00-11:15 Paleo conference and activities (Tracy Heath)
11:15-11:30 Native American place-based module (Corey Welch)
11:30-11:45 Owls & Bats of Los Alamos App (Elizabeth)
11:45-12:00 Tree of Life (Doug Soltis)
12:00-13:30 Lunch
13:30-14:00 Network evaluation & student participation (Anna & Eileen)
Update on IRB, surveys to date
Discuss and implement surveys (before/after, types of courses)
Discussion of survey questions and other evaluation efforts
14:00-15:00 Working groups re-convene
15:00-15:30 Coffee break
15:30-16:00 Working group reports
16:00-17:00 Outcomes for the meeting, future plans
18:30-20:30 Dinner
Sunday 25 January
07:00-0:800 Breakfast
09:00 Depart for Albuquerque
Background Reading:
AAAS’s Vision and Change in Undergraduate Biology Education (http://visionandchange.org/)
This is the call for change in biology education that we are using as a framework for AIM-UP! and our efforts to incorporate natural history collections data into undergraduate curricula. Natural History Collections as Emerging Resources for Innovative Education