"Posy" Dodge, an Exemplary Citizen Scientist
In an age of growing efforts to engage the public in research…
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In an age of growing efforts to engage the public in research…
With 7,800,000 specimens in our herbarium, reaching 4,000,000 specimens catalogued in our…
Botanists and dogs make good companions in the field. Dogs provide companionship, warn…
While we might not get to summer with the likes of Madonna…
Alice Eastwood was a self-taught Canadian-American botanist. After graduating from high school…
The love of botany is responsible for both fostering and hindering this…
If you spend time looking at herbarium specimens collected by Arthur Cronquist,…
Recently walking on the NYBG grounds on a lovely spring day just…
Augustine Henry was one of the first and most prolific western botanists to collect in Central China,…
Marie Mooar spent a lot of time in the wilds of western…
In the herbarium of the New York Botanical Garden there are over 30,000…
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A beloved member of the NYBG community for over 40 years, Carol…
The Caribbean, Central America, and South America have long been geographical focal…
NYBG lichen curator James Lendemer and then-PhD student Jessi Allen named this…
Dr. Héctor Saul Osorio, born in 1928 in Montevideo, was a Uruguayan…
Juan Larraín is a self-taught bryologist who focuses on bryophyte diversity in…
Dra. Gabriela Gustava Hässel de Menéndez’s scientific career spanned almost sixty years…
Laura Guzmán-Dávalos’ explorations into the world of fungi are vast and far-reaching,…
Dr. Lidia Itatí Ferraro, born in 1951, is an accomplished Argentine lichenologist.…
Noris Salazar-Allen, acclaimed researcher and bryologist, studies the group of non-vascular plants…
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Tucked away in an office drawer of NYBG’s Fern Curator, Robbin Moran,…
Between 1805 and 1813, in Ballylickey on the shores of Bantry Bay,…
The Bahamas suffered its worst natural disaster recently as Hurricane Dorian, a…
A recent expedition to eastern Cuba took three Cuban colleagues and me…
In February 1906, Nathaniel and Elizabeth Britton, founders of The New York…
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The amount of time between when a species is first collected and…
George Washington Carver (1860s–1943) was an inventor, teacher, botanist, and mycologist (a…
Charles (Karl) A. Geyer was a pioneer botanical collector of the Northwestern…
The NYBG herbarium has over two thousand specimens that are labeled as collected…
John Kunkel Small, botanist and herbarium curator at the the New York Botanical…
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Jeanne Baret was the first woman ever to circumnavigate the globe, but…
John Kunkel Small (1869-1938) was a taxonomist and botanical explorer, who specialized…
John Muir (1838–1914) was an influential naturalist and conservationist, and co-founder of the…
John Torrey (1796-1873) is considered one of the most influential American botanists…
In July of 1872, John Torrey and his daughter Margaret departed on…
Mary Agnes Chase was a self educated, determined, and influential botanist. Early…
Since its inception NYBG has focused on building an extensive and valuable herbarium…