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The Team
Erika Tucker is the Insect Collection Manager and Assistant Research Scientist at the University of Michigan Museum of Zoology. Her research explores the biodiversity, systematics, and ecological interactions of hymenoptera. She focuses on groups that are of environmental, conservational, agricultural, or economical importance such as wild bees and parasitoid wasps. She incorporates historical insect collections with new data acquisition, experiments, and modeling in much of her research. Her goal is to document insect biodiversity while producing useful information for the scientific, agricultural, and environmental conservation communities.
Justin Schell is the Director of the Shapiro Design Lab, a peer and engaged learning community in the University of Michigan Library. As part of his work in the Design Lab, he facilitates a number of community and citizen science projects, including the use of open source hardware with environmental justice community advocates, online crowdsourcing projects through the Zooniverse platform, and projects that increase the availability and accessibility of environmental data. In addition to his work at the Design Lab, he is a filmmaker, visual artist, and podcast producer.
UMSI Students Alexandria Rayburn, Tony Sexton, and Mark Ramirez, all finishing up their Master's degree in the University of Michigan School of Information, helped create this team and project through the work in their capstone Digital Curation class. They were assigned a semester long project with Dr. Tucker and the UMMZ Insect Collection to help with the collections digitization workflow.
Special thanks to Robert McIntyre, Lauren Havens. and Kat Hagedorn from the University of Michigan Library's Digital Content & Collections department for helping make this project possible.
