
As a National Science Foundation Research Coordination Network (NSF RCN), NoCTURN recognizes and supports broadening participation as defined by NSF. For more information, please visit: https://new.nsf.gov/funding/initiatives/broadening-participation
Latest Blog Posts
- Member Spotlight – Freya GoetzTitle: Museum Specialist at the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural HistoryORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5696-4333Website: https://naturalhistory.si.edu/staff/freya-goetzNoCTURN Involvement: Open Science Committee “NoCTURN is wonderful because it is aimed at improving approaches to CT and open science. The group is collaborative and incredibly welcoming”… Read more: Member Spotlight – Freya Goetz
- Open CT facilities – Florida Atlantic University Laboratory Schools – Owls Imaging LabLocation – Boca Raton, FL, USACT Scanner — Bruker SkyScan 1173Facility Contact Information — Lauren Simonitis, Research and Bioimaging Specialist, lsimonit@fau.edu Facility Overview What inspired the creation of an open access facility? The Owls Imaging Lab is a one-of-a-kind research… Read more: Open CT facilities – Florida Atlantic University Laboratory Schools – Owls Imaging Lab
Click here to read NoCTURN’s inaugural manuscript and learn more about the effectiveness of large, global networks to tackle big problems in science and society.

Click here to learn about tomo-meta, a publicly available resource for synchrotron-based tomography instrument meta-data files, aimed at enhancing data collection and analysis repeatability through standardized and machine-readable meta-data formats.
NoCTURN At Upcoming Conferences
- Grenoble, France, Tomography for Scientific Advancement symposium (September 10-12, 2025)
- St. Paul, MN, USA, for the Joint Meeting if Ichthyologists and Herpetologists (July 9-13, 2025)
- New York, NY, USA, for the NoCTURN All-Network Meeting Spring 2025 (May 15-16, 2025)
- New York, NY, USA, for Tomography for Scientific Advancement North America symposium (May 12-14, 2025)
NoCTURN At Past Conferences
- Atlanta, GA, USA, for the Society of Integrative and Comparative Biology meeting (January 3-7, 2025)
- Minneapolis, MN, USA, for the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology meeting (October 30-November 2, 2024)
- London, UK, for Tomography for Scientific Advancement symposium (September 9-11, 2024)
- San Diego, CA, USA, for SPIE Developments in X-ray Tomography conference (August 18-22, 2024)
- Denver, CO, USA, for the Denver X-ray Meeting (August 5-9, 2024)
- Cape Town, South Africa, for International Conference on Tomography of Materials and Structures 2024 (July 1-5, 2024)
- Gainesville, FL, USA, for the NoCTURN All-Network Meeting Spring 2024 (May 8-10, 2024)
- Virtual 2024 Meeting of the Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP) (January 22-26, 2024)
- Washington, DC, USA, for the JB Johnston Club for Evolutionary Neuroscience meeting (November 9–10, 2023)
- Glasgow, Scotland, for TOSCA UK 2023 (September 6-8, 2023)
- Cairns, Australia, for the International Congress of Vertebrate Morphology 2023 (July 28-August 1, 2023)
- Austin, TX, USA, for the Tomography for Scientific Advancement North America symposium 2023 (May 22-24, 2023)
- Austin, TX, USA, for the NoCTURN All-Network Meeting Spring 2023 (May 25-26, 2023)
- Washington, DC, USA, for the Anatomy Connected Conference 2023 (March 25-27, 2023)
- Washington, DC, USA, for the Data Curation Network 2023 Cohort Meeting (January 25-26, 2023)
- Austin, TX, USA, for the 2023 Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology meeting (January 3-7, 2023)
Recent Previous All-Network Meetings:
November 2024 Virtual NoCTURN Network Meeting

November 2024 Presentation Recordings (hyperlinks below open videos in a new window):
- Chairs Updates:
- Findability Working Group Report
- Accessibility Working Group Report
- Interoperability Working Group Report
- Reuse Working Group Report
- Lab Managers Group Report
- Education & Outreach Community Report
- Basic & Applied Research Community Report
- Open Science Committee Report
- Conferences & Digital Coordination Committee: NoCTURN Workshops & Platform Presentations Report
- Transitioning into ToScA Whole Network Discussion + NoCTURN 2.0 Funding
- DCN + NoCTURN Spring Symposium
- CT Users Survey Update
- Looking Forward to May, Manhattan & the AMNH
May 2023 Hybrid All-Network Meeting

May 2023 Breakout Session Recordings
November 2023 Virtual All-Network Meeting
November 2023 Presentation Recordings

- Welcome Address
- Chairs Update 1:
- Basic and Applied Research Community Report
- Conferences and Digital Coordination Committee Report
- Industry and Vendors Community Report
- Chairs Update 2:
- Findability Working Group Report
- Accessibility Working Group Report
- Interoperability Working Group Report
- Chairs Update 3:
- Reuse Working Group Report
- Open Science Committee Report
- Education and Outreach Community Report
- Day 2 Welcome-back Announcements
- Open Science Career Panel
- Website Discussion
- May 2024 Hybrid All-Network Meeting Planning & Discussion
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