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...
The latest issue of BioScience features an article on the importance of natural history collections. Our very own Barbara Thiers is featured in this article! The Evolution of Natural History Collections: New research tools move specimens, data to center stage. by...
The final version of a report entitled, “Extending U.S. Biodiversity Collections to Promote Research and Education” is now available (https://bcon.aibs.org/2019/04/04/bcon-report-extending-u-s-biodiversity-collections-to-promote-research-and-education/). Both the full report (about 23 pages) and a shorter illustrated version (summary brochure) can be downloaded. Readers of the Herbaria...
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...
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...
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...
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...