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A Changing Climate for Agriculture: Tools for Kick-starting Adaptation

This webinar introduces tools for collecting climate data, and how an Extension audience can use this data to support...

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11/16/17
Seed Zones & Population Movement Guidelines: Concepts & Tools

The USDA Forest Service Reforestation, Nurseries, and Genetics Resources team had their third discussion webinar about what it will take...

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11/16/17
Climate Change and Water Tools

The “Being Prepared for Climate Change” workbook is a step by step guide for place-based organizations to develop risk-based climate change adaptation plans. This interactive...

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11/15/17
eOrganic Webinars

Learn the latest in organic farming practices and research by attending or watching an eOrganic Webinar. 

In 2017 the Organic Seed...

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11/15/17
Future of Supply Chains 2025

Deepening our understanding of both sets of drivers and their potential implications for supply chains creates a powerful lens through which to reimagine the ways that all parties to global supply chains create value and contribute to a more just...

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11/7/17
EPA's National Stormwater Calculator

EPA’s National Stormwater Calculator (SWC) is a software application that estimates the annual amount of rainwater and frequency of runoff from a specific site....

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11/6/17
Technology Evaluation and Digital Literacy: Engaging with non-IT Stakeholders

Enjoy this webinar by Carissa Dougherty, Head of Knowledge Management at The Morton Arboretum, on how to engage non-IT stakeholders on tech-related matters! 

https://youtu.be/OPcxq9WbCiw

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10/26/17
Data Tools for the California Bay Area: Actionable Intelligence for Cities to Support SDG Achievement

Data is integral to target-setting and tracking SDG achievement over time. While much attention has been given to national-level measurement and reporting systems, such as the U.S....

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10/24/17
Capturing Change: The Duality of Time-lapse Imagery to Acquire Data and Depict Ecological Dynamics

This article investigates the scientific and communicative value of time-lapse imagery by exploring applications for data collection and visualization. Time-lapse imagery has a myriad of possible applications to study and depict ecosystems and...

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10/23/17
How Do You Get There?: Digital Mapping in a Garden Setting

Institutions struggle with how to bring technology into their garden experience. With the importance of wayfinding and interpretation, an interactive map can help to share their story and ensure an extraordinary experience. But what approach is best?...

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7/9/17
Innovative Technology Test Kitchen

Public gardens are increasingly exploring new technologies to provide business intelligence, manage collections, and deliver interpretive and education programs. With a vast array of hardware and software solutions available, how do gardens begin to...

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7/9/17
Are Barcodes Dead? Improving The Inventory of Living Plant Collections Using Optical Technology

Barcodes have been around since the 1970s and are now an essential tool in the successful running of many large organizations. Some of the advantages of using barcodes and RFID tags may be obvious, but is it enough to just stick a barcode on a plant...

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7/9/17
Horticulture + Data = Better Gardens

From Google analytics to CompStat, we live in an era of big data. It’s not the size of the data set that matters, though; it’s what you do with it. Horticulture teams at public gardens are using data analysis to make better decisions about chemical...

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7/9/17
Introduction to IrisBG: Advanced Collection Management Made Easy

A seemingly never-ending challenge for many botanic gardens today is to have sufficient time to record accurate information about their plant collection. IrisBG has been designed to tackle this challenge head-on by making it easy to record and keep...

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7/9/17
Using Data to Develop a New Membership Program

The Membership program at Longwood Gardens originally launched in 2007 and quickly grew to over 65,000 household Members by 2016. The program, as originally designed, was not able to support future growth while providing an extraordinary member...

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2/27/17
The Ecological Atlas Project: Building Ecological Literacy through Art, Science & Technology

This presentation will show the profound role that art, science, and technology play in building ecological literacy and resilience. Presented by award-winning landscape architect and educator, Roberto Rovira...

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9/24/16
Screen Versus Green

Do you feel a tension between your mission and the overwhelming push to incorporate technology into your visitor experience? Are you curious about how others have used technology to enhance, rather than...

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9/24/16
Photo-Verification: Digital Images as Verification Tools

What??? Can’t afford to fly the taxonomist 1,200 miles back to your garden 3-4 times/year to verify one genus? Neither could Chicago Botanic Garden (CBG), so it created a digital verification program to...

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9/24/16
Cyber Attacks Compromise Your Public Garden

With such heavy use of and reliance on computers and the Internet,  protecting these resources has become increasingly important. Learning about cyber attacks and how to prevent them can help you protect your public garden from security breaches...

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8/29/16
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Tech Tuesday Webinar Series: Data and Digitizing

Organized by the Association's TIPS Professional Section

In this webinar, Russell Walker, Ph.D., Clinical Associate Professor at the Kellogg School of Management, covers the following themes:

1. Discovering Member Use and...

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7/27/16

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