The staff of NYBG’s William & Lynda Steere Herbarium will be hosting two training workshops on herbarium management this summer. The workshops will provide participants with a comprehensive introduction to herbarium management and collections care. Topics covered will include curation,...

We are pleased to announce the launch of our new Science Digital Image Search tool. Experience the beauty of our natural world through our collection of field photographs, microscopic images, SEMs and botanical illustrations. Browse a curated set of images taken...

The NYBG Tropical Africa Digitization project is seeking a Specimen Digitizer to help unlock the data of NY’s collection of 100,000 herbarium specimens from Africa as part of the Tropical Africa TCN (Award # 2223880). This two year position will...

We’re Hiring! “The NYBG All Asia Digitization project is seeking to hire two interns to help digitize NY’s collection of herbarium specimens from Asia and the Malay Archipelago as part of the All Asia TCN (Award #2100755). Interns join a...

Every year, tens of thousands of new botanical collections make their way into the William and Lynda Steere Herbarium from every corner of the globe. Often arriving pressed between sheets of newspaper from their country of origin, these precious biological...