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That’s where you can find the Ada Hayden Herbarium, a collection of preserved plant, fungal and algal specimens established in the university’s earliest days and built in part by contributions from ...
Digitally cataloguing, or digitizing, a herbarium specimen involves recording the species name and original location and uploading that record to a digital repository that is publicly accessible.
Digitally cataloging, or digitizing, a herbarium specimen involves recording the species name and original location and ...
The herbarium of William & Mary (WILLI) was formally organized in 1968, and has since grown to over 81,500 accessioned specimens representing most of our regional vascular plant species. About one ...
Ms. Lipsen, a botanist, got her start volunteering some 30 years ago at a community college in Oregon, helping to mount pressed specimens for the herbarium. Today, she is a curator at the ...
Because the collection is so large and the herbarium team is small, Xiao is turning to the community to help type in the data listed on each specimen sheet. Volunteers sign up on an online ...
The Willard Sherman Turrell Herbarium (MU) is a broad collection, both taxonomically and geographically. Holdings include specimens of vascular plants, mosses, fungi, and algae, along with our special ...
Duke Herbarium director Kathleen Pryer holds a specimen called the Gaga monstraparva. The Duke Herbarium contains over 800,000 specimens that can aid biodiversity research. Duke University is ...
Early last year an announcement sent waves through the botany community — Duke University planned to get rid of its herbarium, a collection of more than 800,000 specimens. “I was called into ...
Daniel Bagby, a data processor with the Africa and Madagascar group in the Science and Conservation Department of the Missouri Botanical Garden, photographs specimens from the herbarium as part of ...