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Members of the GBIF Secretariat also attend portions of the meeting and it provides a good look into the plans for the coming year that will be further explored during the GBIF Governing Board meeting held later in the year, in Bogota (in October)
I also had a chance to visit the Botanical Garden during the trip.
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Meetings of the group were held both at the John Carter Brown Library in Providence, Rhode Island and in other locations. In this case, I gave a presentation for the group at a meeting held at The Morgan Library in New York.
As with most meetings, we got a great tour of some of the treasures of the collection.
The new museum (not yet fully open) has a fascinating history, but most interestingly, it can trace it's roots back to Ole Worm and his Museum Wormianum:
The history of the individual departments, which now are part of the united Natural History Museum of Denmark, can be traced back to the 17th century. One historical figure in particular played a crucial role in the creation of the Danish national heritage, namely Ole Worm (1588–1654). His cabinet of natural curiosities, the Museum Wormianum, formed together with the Royal Danish Cabinet of Curiosities the nucleus of what later would become the Geological Museum and the Zoological Museum. In 1621 Ole Worm also became the director of the Botanical Garden, which at that time had been quite neglected. Here he introduced a large variety of medicinal plants and rare species from abroad. -- Wikipedia
The museum now houses the exhibition, "A cabinet of curiosities: Ole Worm’s ‘Museum Wormianum’ (1655)" a recreation of the Museum Wormianum by artist Rosamond Purcell. In this installation of the work, the museum has also included some of the original artifacts from Worm's Museum in a nearby exhibition case, including the "crocodile on the ceiling" and "deer jaw in tree".
Also of interest to me (of course) is the Raphus cucullatus (Linnaeus, 1758) in their collection.
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Members of the GBIF Secretariat also attend portions of the meeting and it provides a good look into the plans for the coming year that will be further explored during the GBIF Governing Board meeting (this year being held in September in Oslo, Norway.
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| Flying into Copenhagen |
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| Nesting Mute Swan |
The weather wasn't really good for a lot of observations and I didn't get out of the city, so many of my observations were of birds (especially around the Lakes).
Observations: 89
Species: 38
Notables
Eurasian wigeon (Mareca penelope)
Great Tit (Parus major)
Deer (partial jaw)
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| Jaw of a species of Dear |
In 2025, I made 1,519 observations in Arlington, Virginia.
As Program Director for the Biodiversity Heritage Library, I participated in many meetings around bioinformatics. In April 2015, two important meetings were held in Oostende (Belgium) and Leiden (Netherlands).The first of the two meetings took place in Oostende. The meeting was the Catalogue of Life Mini-Symposium held at the Vlaams Instituut Voor de Zee (VLIZ). In addition to staff from the Catalogue of Life, Donald Hobern (GBIF), David Remsen (Marine Biological Lab), and Tom Orrell (Smithsonian/ITIS) were attending.
At the Symposium, I gave the following presentation:
