
Karen Rowe
@mvbirds
Curator of Birds at Museums Victoria.
Views expressed are my personal views only.
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18-02-2009 01:38:16
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Today is World Digital Preservation Day, and we have our Senior Images Coordinator Lee-Anne🦉Raymond taking over our Twitter feed until 5pm to talk all things #digitalpreservation in the Museum! 👋👀


Here's a great thread from Karen Rowe The #DigitalPreservation of more than 5000 sounds of nature deepens knowledge via a uniquely transformational medium for identifying biodiversity in place “Communities Listening for Nature Collection” #WDPD2020 #DigitsForGood



Visualising sound expands the possibilities of studying bird song complexity. This spectrogram of a Superb Lyrebird’s song shows how #DigitalPreservation of sounds improves knowledge of vocal mimicry and how it shapes remarkable behaviours. Karen Rowe #WDPD2020

Extreme #bushfires saw a tough start to 2020 for Victorian #biodiversity, but our scientists are not giving up! It’s time to “Get engaged and pay attention to your wildlife” says Kevin C Rowe Snr curator Dr Kevin Rowe🐁Digitising brings researcher➡️wildlife➡️us #WDPD2020


Wade into the waters of the Cumberland River with Dr Julian Finn & Dr Richard Marchant and learn more about work done with Parks Victoria on the Otway Bioscan here: 👇collections.museumsvictoria.com.au/articles/16719 #DigitsForGood


Watch a video about research into how fire has affected the Smoky Mouse🐁population and our Grampians #Bioscan with Parks Victoria 👇 tinyurl.com/y3qh4n3s #DigitsForGood

Data and collections from a 2016 Bush Blitz biodiversity survey of Croajingolong National Park gives us a baseline to help assess damage from the recent fires ⬇️ tinyurl.com/y63voxua #DigitsForGood #Biodiversity #BushBlitz


…others are busy in collection spaces and home offices, digitizing Victorian specimens so that specimen information and images are available for comparison, assessment and ultimately protection of our fauna. @DELWP_Vic #DigitsForGood Melbourne Museum


To get a deeper insight into the Treasures of the Natural World exhibition, attend this Saturday’s lecture where I’ll be speaking more about #TreasuresoftheNaturalWorld alongside MV curators Rebecca Carland, Karen Rowe and Ken Walker! fal.cn/3gItb





In case you're living under a rock (another pun): right now we're looking for the #Fossil #State #Emblem of #Victoria. We had a hard time narrowing down all the amazing possible fossils to just 8 species. Now it's your turn to chose the official one: museumsvictoria.com.au/melbournemuseu…


Have an interest in fire ecology, #Mammals and #fieldwork ? Join the team Museums Victoria working with University of Melbourne as a Research Assistant, Mammalogy jobs.careers.vic.gov.au/jobtools/jncus…


Job opportunity at Museums Victoria . Bird and mammal research! Come join our fab team. Kevin C Rowe research assistant position collecting field-based wildlife data related to bushfire research and management. See jobs.careers.vic.gov.au/jobs/VG-MV-9603 museumsvictoria.com.au/climate-change…