ASPT CURATORS MEETING 2024

ASPT CURATORS MEETING 2024

Theme Success Stories: Maintaining and Advancing Herbaria in the 21st Century

Coupling Herbarium Specimens And Machine Learning To Introduce The Next Generation To Plant Morphology
Richard Hodel - National Museum of Natural History

Updates From The Fresno State Herbarium
Katherine Waselkov - California State University, Fresno

Perseverance, Collaboration, And Outreach To Advance A Borderland Herbarium (UTEP)
Michael Moody and Vicky Zhuang - University of Texas at El Paso

Approaches To Building And Maintaining A Collection When Institutional Support Doesn't Increase In 20 Years
Richard Olmstead and David Giblin - University of Washington

*Presentations will be followed by a discussion session including the speakers as panel members.

Ada Hayden Herbarium (ISC) to be featured on Science Friday

Ira Flatow, host and executive producer of Science Friday, talks with ISC herbarium director, Dr. Lynn Clark, and curator Deb Lewis about how plants are preserved, why herbariums are so important, and what it takes to manage a plant archive.

https://www.sciencefriday.com/segments/iowa-state-plant-herbarium/

Call for informal presentations: ASPT Curators Meeting @ Botany 2024

This year at the Botany 2024 conference (Grand Rapids, MI), the ASPT Curators Meeting will carry a theme of “Success Stories: Maintaining and Advancing Herbaria in the 21st Century”. In these times of institutional budget cuts and space limitations herbarium curators are faced with challenges in maintaining and advancing their collections. We would like you to share strategies that have led to overcoming and growing your herbaria even when it seemed institutional forces were not in your corner or challenging the necessity of maintaining the collections. We hope for an uplifting discussion around the presentations. The presentations can focus on strategies of communication with administrative bodies to promote the next generation of data that our herbaria can provide. Growing communication among herbarium curators and staff will better equip all to face growing challenges.

Call for informal presentations: We are requesting 10-20 minute informal presentations from herbarium curators or their representatives. Please provide a brief abstract with the primary theme to the Current Chair of the ASPT Systematics Collections Committee, Michael Moody, mlmoody@utep.edu. The ASPT Curators Meeting convenes on Monday Evening, June 17. It doesn’t matter the size of the herbarium collection you may represent; we just want to hear your stories as our membership is associated with a wide array of institutions. While the abstracts won’t be published in BSA Program, the speakers, titles, and themes will be circulated advertising the ASPT Curators Meeting. We look forward to hearing from you!

Thank You, ASPT Systematic Collections Committee