Joey Shaw, Ph.D.; UC FoundationProfessor of Biological Sciences, The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga

During this course, students will obtain a comprehensiveunderstanding of how biological collections are made in the field and eventually uploaded to national and international data portals, like iDigBio or GBIF. We will help you to download and install important helpful apps and teach you how to use them in series to go from field to data portal. Students will leave the course having collected Plantae specimens, made labels, mounted specimens, and uploaded digital data to global portals.In addition to teaching and focusingon these skills, I can also help you to key out and identify plant species that you might encounter and want to collect in the field, although you should have some cursory skills.

Prerequisites: Introductory biology, ecology, or permission of instructor.

If requesting academic credit please upload a copy of your unofficial transcript(s) in the side menu.

HBS currently intends to run Summer Courses for 2021. As per WCU policy, HBS will assess and if necessary adjust or cancel course offerings due to the impacts of Covid-19.

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