Libby Ellwood
I work at the intersection of biodiversity science, informatics, and global collaboration, building the infrastructure that transforms biodiversity data into biodiversity knowledge. My research spans climate change, natural history collections, and FAIR and Open Science, with a focus on creating transparent, interoperable, and sustainable systems that accelerate discovery, conservation, and evidence-based decision-making. I believe that solving global biodiversity challenges requires not only better data, but stronger communities and shared scientific infrastructure.
RECENT ACTIVITIES
iDigBio is the national resource and coordinating center for biodiversity specimen digitization, data mobilization, and aggregation in the United States. It currently serves ~150 million transcribed specimen records and ~68 million media records. There are lots of important reasons to digitize natural history collections specimens and associated information. Watch the video to learn more!
I'm interested in understanding changes to ecosystems, both at the organismal level as well as across trophic levels. Part of the methodology for this research is comparing data uncovered from historical records with contemporary observations. Read some of my recent publications for more information.
