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Journal Publication

Cheng H., Dove N. C., Mena J. M., Perez T., Ul-Hasan S. In press. The Biota Project: A Case Study of a Multimedia, Grassroots Approach to Scientific Communication for Engaging Diverse Audiences. Integrative and Comparative Biology. 
https://doi.org/10.1093/icb/icy091

Blogs

February 25, 2019: Living with Wildfires: Fighting Fire with Fire https://www.gotscience.org/2019/02/living-with-wildfires/

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We are currently taking a hiatus from releasing monthly newsletters. Stay tuned of our activities via our Social Media.

July 2017: Summer Symbioses: From the Mountains to the Sea

June 2017: Celebrate the Environment and the Oceans!

May 2017: Fueled by Fire

April 2017: Painting the Town "Green"

March 2017: As Spring springs forward, ants come a-"March"-ing

February 2017: Happy Birthday Darwin!

January 2017: As cold as ice

December 2016: 'Tis the Season

November 2016: It's Friday, Friday, Friday Oooh!

October 2016: Inaugural Newsletter

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** Team Member Spotlight!! ** 👩🏽‍🔬 Daniela Zárate ~ Social Media Contributor. @daniela.x.zapata . A huge welcome to The Biota Project's new member, PhD candidate Daniela Zárate, who joined Biota in April and has taken a position on Biota's Instagram team. Her role is to help produce & communicate awesome scientific content for everyone to enjoy and engage with. We asked Daniela to tell us a bit about herself & what interesting things we can expect from Biota's instagram platform now that she's joined the team. . BIOTA: Could you introduce yourself Daniela? . Daniela: Sure, right now I'm a PhD candidate at the University of California San Diego in the division of Biological Sciences. I just passed my qualifying examinations and I expect to graduate from my doctoral program next year. So I'm happy about that. . BIOTA: Very nice. What do you study at UC San Diego? . Daniela: Honey bees. I study the genomic admixture of honey bees across the Americas. Basically I collect honey bees and then I look at their DNA and I can tell what mix of honey bee ancestry that one bee has. It's like 23&Me -- but on honey bees. . BIOTA: So you're saying that honey bees are mixed from different types of honey bees? . Daniela. Yes! They're like humans. We're all mixes of different ancestry groups. I'm Latina so mixed ancestry is very much part of my history. . BIOTA: That's super interesting! What are you planning to do now that you've joined the Biota Project's Instagram Team? . Daniela: Deliver lots of cool science content. I think people should be knowledgable about science. Having a scientific understanding about how the world works is very enlightening and enriching. It helps inform your everyday decisions. People should have that knowledge and power. . BIOTA: That's amazing. Thanks so much Daniela and welcome to the family! . Daniela: Thanks Biota! I really believe in The Biota Project's mission & appreciate how it strives to highlight communities and research that are often ignored by the scientific community. I come from one of those communities so it definitely resonates with me. I'm looking forward to working with the rest of the BIOTA team! ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
Summer's quickly heating up in the Mojave Desert! ☀️ 🏜 Welcome to Death Valley's Devil's Golf Course. A large salt pan bed located in Death Valley National Park, in eastern California (U.S.A.). The Devil's Golf Course is so named because of a whimsical line in the 1934 National Park Service Guide Book which stated that "only the devil could play golf on its surface" due to the hellish nature of the rough halite salt formations that covered the basin. 🏜 . These intricate and hazardous salt crystals are the result of an ancient lake, Lake Manly, which once covered the basin to a depth of 9.1 m (30 ft). When the lake evaporated some 2,000 - 4,000 years ago, the salt and minerals left behind were shaped by weathering processes that sculpted them into surreal and fantastic shapes. ☀️ 🏜 . Photo & Information: Daniela Zarate @daniela.x.zapata ————————————————————— #deathvalley #nationalpark #saltpans #sciencecommunication #science #naturalhistory #biota #geology #devilsgolfcourse
Maps!!! Thanks for following our journey through different artistic mapping projects over the last week! It was a blast exploring the the variety of forms and styles that can be used to map different kinds of information. If you didn’t get enough maps, not to worry…there is a whole book about maps! The Map Book brings together historical maps and endeavors to explain things like who made them, what their purpose was, and what relationship they had to society. Quote from the Introduction: “This may seem excessive for an object which for many people is just an ephemeral item of passing need, though there seem always to have been an equal number for whom maps have been an endless source of fascination on scientific, aesthetic, cultural, emotional, and symbolic grounds.” Essentially, some people like and care about maps and others don’t. Continue to share with us your beautiful maps and what captivating appeal they provide for you! #cARTography #ArtisticMaps #science #earth #maps #EarthDay #EarthWeek #scicomm #CitizenScience #biota
It’s a flower. It’s an electricity globe. It’s a Map! This beautiful rendition of a phylogenetic tree (kind of like the tree of life) by @EllaSiera working with @JedFuhrman and @BanfieldLab is a usful way to look at species abundance. The color of the branch shows how abundant that species is (Pink = abundant; Blue = rare). Every branch represents a species and the closer two species are the more similar they are! Who knew maps could look like this! Share with us your map variations as we continue our campaign of artistic and scientific mapping. #cARTography #ArtisticMaps #science #EarthDay #EarthWeek