University of North Carolina: UNC-Chapel Hill study shows AI can dramatically speed up digitizing natural history collections. “A new study from UNC-Chapel Hill researchers shows that advanced artificial intelligence tools, specifically large language models (LLMs), can accurately determine the locations where plant specimens were originally collected, a process known as georeferencing. This […]

Februar 9 @ 16:00 - 17:00 CET
[Webinar] From Drawers to the Open Web: Wikidata for Natural History Museum Collections

https://winoda.de/en/event/webinar-wikidata/

#naturalhistory #museums #collections #specimens #wikidata

NOLA: There are 8 million fish in a World War II bunker outside New Orleans. More arrive soon.. “Downriver from New Orleans, behind heavy doors in grass-covered bunkers that stored artillery during World War II, are millions of dead fish. They’re preserved and cataloged in rows of glass jars, each one a time capsule, a specimen pulled from a particular place on a particular day, labeled so […]

Straits Times: Watch the making of S-E Asia’s largest digital plant database at Singapore Botanic Gardens. “At the Singapore Botanic Gardens, visitors can now watch botanists painstakingly build a digital database of some 800,000 specimens from South-east Asia and beyond. From a viewing gallery, they can observe the plants being unpacked, barcoded, placed on a conveyor belt and photographed […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/10/31/straits-times-watch-the-making-of-s-e-asias-largest-digital-plant-database-at-singapore-botanic-gardens/

Discovered this interesting resource. While reading a gizmodo article on recent ocean discovery's. You can view this site to look up it seems the things we have and have yet to discover about our oceans.

https://dataplatform.oceancensus.org/en

#marinelife #deep-sea #specimens #data #ocean

UC San Diego: Ellen Browning Scripps Herbarium Collection Highlights the Intersection Between Art and Science . “The Smith Seaweed Ecology Lab at UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography is showcasing the scientific diversity and natural beauty of seaweeds through the new Ellen Browning Scripps Herbarium Collection. This resource — a digitized and physical collection of thousands […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/10/13/uc-san-diego-ellen-browning-scripps-herbarium-collection-highlights-the-intersection-between-art-and-science/

Ten years ago, the carcass of a whale was found. And now...

"The Lee Kong Chian National History Museum (LKCNHM) of the Faculty of Science, National University of Singapore (NUS), is conducting studies on a baleen whale carcass that was discovered in Singapore’s waters on 6 September 2025. LKCNHM was alerted by the National Parks Board to the discovery of the whale carcass in the waters off Tanjong Pagar."

https://lkcnhm.nus.edu.sg/lkcnhm-studying-remains-of-baleen-whale-carcass-found-in-singapore-waters-a-decade-after-its-first-whale-specimen/

#Singapore #Whales #Specimens

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University of Michigan: World’s natural history collections ready to aid in pandemic preparedness. “In 2024, the scientists gathered to analyze how to tap natural history collections and bring together research from across disciplines to help the world prepare for a potential future pandemic—something researchers say is likely because of climate change and human encroachment on wildlife […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/06/05/university-of-michigan-worlds-natural-history-collections-ready-to-aid-in-pandemic-preparedness/