At Iowa State, the herbarium has more information to extract than ever. The collection has more than 700,000 specimens, roughly twice as many than at the start of Clark’s career. The growth in recent ...

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.

Scientists say amid climate change and biodiversity loss, the world’s herbaria could hold the keys to overcoming the crises in their folders of dried plant specimens. But their future is in ...

Herbarium specimens and community science observations differ in terms of how they are collected and what biodiversity data ...

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 ...

AI is speeding up otherwise time-consuming digitization of its herbarium, bringing a collection of nearly 8 million plant specimens, dating back to 1642, online through a searchable database.

Duke’s collection of more than 800,000 specimens of fungi, plants and algae makes the herbarium one of the largest in the country. The move to close it has drawn criticism from faculty and ...

In a herbarium, a mounted specimen must bear the plant’s Latin name and the name of its collector, the collection date and the details of the place where it was found.

How are you celebrating Mes CHamoru? Whether on or off island, homegrown Marianas islanders are probably cooking their favorite local dishes, maybe listening to their favorite CHamoru singers or even ...