Author: Melissa Tulig

Herbarium #plantlove

Besides the daily love and care we show to our collections, the Herbarium has launched The Hand Lens as our way to tell the stories behind the specimens and to make the Virtual Herbarium more accessible to the public.  We...

Introducing The Hand Lens

For the past 25 years, The New York Botanical Garden Herbarium has been digitizing our collections and making them freely available online through the C. V. Starr Virtual Herbarium.  This incredible resource documents the world’s biodiversity and is the foundation...

FGVC 2019 Herbarium Challenge Launched

The New York Botanical Garden has joined forces with Cornell Tech and Google to use herbarium specimen images and computer vision to identify species of melastomes.  Check out the details at the Herbarium Challenge 2019 – FGVC6.  Winners will be...

Herbarium Specimens, Deep Learning and Phenology

Digitized herbarium specimens have so many potential uses beyond biodiversity research.  iDigBio recently hosted a deep learning workshop to bring together researchers to discuss ways to use herbarium specimens for recording trait data and tracking phenology and the role machine...

4,000,000th Specimen Digitized

The C. V. Starr Virtual Herbarium has just added its four millionth specimen! This specimen is a newly described lichen species called Lecanora lendemeri E.Tripp & C.A.Morse. It was named in honor of NYBG’s lichen curator, Dr. James Lendemer. This...

Endless Forms Digitization Internship Available

The New York Botanical Garden Herbarium is seeking to hire an intern as part of a multi-institutional NSF-funded Digitization TCN: Digitizing “Endless Forms Most Beautiful and Most Wonderful: Facilitating Research on Imperiled Plants with Extreme Morphologies.” Interns will assist with...