Upcoming meetings:

Digital Data 2020: Harnessing the Data Revolution and Amplifying Collections with Biodiversity Information Science
1-3 June 2020 (CAP presentation June 2nd at 11:30 AM PST)

The CAP project manager will present about a new course-based undergraduate research course that guides undergraduates through the process of conducting phenological research using herbarium specimens.

Virtual SPNHC/ICOM-NATHIST Conference
8-12 June 2020

CAP PI Mare Nazaire and a representative of the Fresno State Herbarium will present about the CAP Network at this virtual conference. The CAP project manager will also present materials from the new phenology research course in the education "share fare" .

Virtual Botany 2020
20-23 July 2020

Lead PI Jenn Yost will present on the ecological and phenological data now available from CAP Network activities, and project manager Katie Pearson will present on the new specimen-based undergraduate research course in phenology developed by the CAP Network. 

Past meetings:

California Native Plant Society, North Coast Chapter webinar
20 May 2020

Lead PI Jenn Yost and project manager Katie Pearson presented on the importance of herbaria, the activities of the CAP Network and how to get involved with the project from home.

2020 Northern California Botanists Symposium
13-14 January 2020
Chico, CA

The CAP project manager presented a lightning talk about how citizens, scientists, and citizen scientists alike can contribute to California botany by using Notes from Nature to transcribe data from specimen records.

Botany 2019
July 27-31, 2019
Tucson, AZ

CAP collaborators and botanists across the globe met, collaborated, and disseminated information at this annual meeting sponsored by the Botanical Society of America, International Society of Plant Taxonomists, and other leading botanical organizations.
CAP leadership hosted a pre-conference workshop on July 28th titled: Scoring Phenology on Herbarium Specimens using Symbiota. A poster describing the CAP TCN project was also presented during the poster session.

Third Annual Digital Data in Biodiversity Research Conference
June 10-12, 2019
Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History, New Haven, CT 

The CAP project manager presented a poster on the CAP TCN on Tuesday of this event. She also led a non-CAP-related workshop, Basic Biodiversity Data Manipulation in R, on Wednesday the 12th.

​2019 California Botanical Society Annual Banquet and
​27th Graduate Student Symposium
Saturday, April 6, 2019
Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, CA 

Collaborators of CAP TCN attended this meeting at lead institution, Cal Poly SLO. At lunch time, collaborators met for lunch and a tour of the Robert F. Hoover herbarium led by lead PI Jenn Yost.

2019 Northern California Botanists Symposium

Data manager Jason Alexander presented about the relationship between the California Consortium of Herbaria and the new CAP TCN. Lead PI Jenn Yost also attended and disseminated information about the project.

44th Annual Southern California Botanists Symposium
November 3, 2018
Pomona College, Claremont, CA 

Project manager Katie Pearson presented a poster about the CAP TCN at the post-symposium mixer at Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden.

​ADBC Summit 2018

The project management team and leaders from most collaborating institutions met at the 2018 ADBC Summit in Gainesville, FL in early October for orientation and training.
Watch lead PI, Jenn Yost, introduce the project at the ADBC Summit!