International Herbarium Spectral Digitization (IHerbSpec) Working Group

8:45 Jeannine Cavender-Bares, Harvard University Herbaria, USA
Welcome. What is spectral biology? A vision and challenges for NextGen spectral scanning

9:05 Flavia Durgante, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
Spectral herbarium from INPA: equipment, methods and applications to species identification

9:20 Jose Eduardo Meireles, University of Maine, USA
Impacts of herborization on spectra

9:35 Thomas Couvreur, Institut de Recherche pour le Developpement (IRD), France
Evolution and conservation of tropical rain forests: global patterns, local actions

9:50 Pamela Soltis, University of Florida, USA
Database considerations for spectral scanning

10:15 Break

10:30 Aaron Lee, University of Minnesota, USA
Macroevolution of spectra in Polygonaceae

10:45 Charles Davis, Harvard University Herbaria, USA
The global metaherbarium; ethical use of herbarium specimens

11:05-12:00 Lightning Talks
Dawson White (HUH, USA), J. Antonio Guzmán Q. (HUH, USA), Samantha Bazan (CIRAD, France), Khalil Boughalmi (Grenoble-Alps University & IRD, France), Mike Hopkins (Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia Amazonas, Brazil), Natalie Iwanycki Ahlstrand (Natural History Museum Denmark), Olwen Grace (Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh, Scotland), Étienne Léveillé-Bourret (Université de Montréal, Canada), Shan Kothari (University of Alberta, Canada), Barbara Neto-Bradley (University of Cambridge, UK), Matthew Austin (MOBOT, USA)

12:00-12:20 Panel Discussion following lightning talks

Sponsored by:
Harvard University Herbaria
National Science Foundation
ASCEND Biology Integration Institute, iDigBio
DBI-2021898, DBI-2027654, DBI-1930007