Historical Data and the Study of Biodiversity

Organizer(s)

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  Jessica Ware (she/her/hers)

  Curator
  Invertebrate Zoology
  American Museum of Natural History, New Jersey
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  Christie Bahlai (she/her/hers)

  Associate Professor
  Biological Sciences
  Kent State University
  Kent, Ohio
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  Eliza Grames (she/her/hers)

  Assistant Professor
  Binghamton University
  Binghamton, New York

A challenge in understanding contemporary biodiversity change is finding appropriate historical baselines. Leveraging historical data gives perspective beyond one person's work-- but sometimes requires a creative approach to unlock the information in these heterogeneous records. This symposium will discuss finding historical data opportunities and developing methods to integrate these perspectives.

Presentations:

• 2:00 PM - 2:05 PM Pacific

  Introductory remarks
  

  Presenting Author: Jessica L. Ware (she/her/hers) – American Museum of Natural History
• 2:05 PM - 2:20 PM Pacific

  Phenological shifts and increases in voltinism within a moth community over a century of anthropogenic change
  

  Presenting Author: Eliza Grames (she/her/hers) – Binghamton University
• 2:20 PM - 2:35 PM Pacific

  Herbarium sheets as ecological data caches
  

  Presenting Author: Grace Horne – University of California
• 2:35 PM - 2:50 PM Pacific

  Lepidoptera, and “notes from nature” AI
  

  Presenting Author: Robert P. Guralnick, Ph.D. – Florida Museum of Natural History
• 2:50 PM - 3:05 PM Pacific

  The Unnatural history of pesticide-resistant insects during the boll weevil eradication campaign
  

  Presenting Author: Bashira Chowdhury
• 3:05 PM - 3:15 PM Pacific

  Break
• 3:15 PM - 3:30 PM Pacific

  Using biodiversity collections to track environmental history, pollution, and policy
  

  Presenting Author: Shane DuBay – University of Texas
• 3:30 PM - 3:45 PM Pacific

  What to do when the baseline is a single specimen: Extinctions and rediscoveries of Hawaiian lepidoptera
  

  Presenting Author: Kyhl Austin (he/him/his) – University of Hawaii
• 3:45 PM - 4:00 PM Pacific

  Paleomiddens
  

  Presenting Author: Angelica Gonzalez – Rutgers University
• 4:00 PM - 4:15 PM Pacific

  Using historic agricultural pest data to track shifting insect phenology
  

  Presenting Author: Sara E. Emery (she/her/hers) – Cornell University
• 4:15 PM - 4:35 PM Pacific

  Closing remarks
  

  Presenting Author: Jessica L. Ware (she/her/hers) – American Museum of Natural History