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We are a 501(c)(3) non-profit which provides a forum to promote and expand the role of herbaria in botanical research, teaching, and community service. https://www.herbariumcurators.org/membership/
Line drawing of coffee plant.
The @herbariumcurators.bsky.social SE USA chapter invites you to Coffee with a Curator:
Our next installment will be Clara Minnich from Marshall University Herbarium (MUHW) presenting on Herbarium DNA: A Complicated History of the Destructive Sampling Paradox on Friday, Nov 21st at 1pm CT/2pm ET.
Of course I had to show my boyfriend all my new stickers 🙂↕️ #botany2025
02.08.2025 16:34 — 👍 8 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Join the Society of Herbarium Curators today! Membership benefits include Student Research Awards and an active Eary Career Section that is great for networking! Join at the link below or via theQR code.
www.herbariumcurators.org/membership/
Stop by the Society of Herbarium Curators booth at #Botany2025 to learn more about the society and to get some free stickers to show your support for herbaria! Not a member, join us using this link. www.herbariumcurators.org/membership/
28.07.2025 00:23 — 👍 21 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0
Congratulations to the 2025 SHC Student Awardees! Grad Marguerite Trost working with Dr. David Tank at the U of Wyoming, Rocky Mt. Herbarium for the project "Spring Ephemeral Targeted Surveys of the Lowest Elevation Valleys in Montana: A Floristic Inventory of the Kootenai National Forest".
24.04.2025 15:03 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Congratulations to the 2025 SHC Student Awardees! Undergrad Andrew Ruegsegger with Dr. Maribeth Latvis at U of Arkansas studying “Plant community assembly in an insular grassland biodiversity hotspot: microbial and environmental effects on phylogenetic and functional diversity of Ozark glades".
23.04.2025 15:04 — 👍 8 🔁 4 💬 2 📌 0
Congratulations to the winners of the 2025 SHC Student Awards! Grad student Garrett Goodrich working with Dr. Mare Nazaire at Claremont Graduate U & California Botanic Garden for the project "Vascular Flora of the Boulder Creek Watershed and Jennie Lakes Wilderness, Fresno and Tulare Counties, CA."
22.04.2025 15:03 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
SHC members should check their email for the zoom link for this event. Alternatively, you can sign up to receive the zoom link via this form. forms.gle/xk2uU9e8PHGe...
21.04.2025 14:31 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Reminder!! Join us this week for our next Coffee with a Curator, a monthly gathering of the SHC-SE Chapter
When: Friday, April 25th at 2pm ET
Chris Waters will discuss "Looking to the past to inform the future: What eDNA from herbarium specimens can tell us about plant–animal interactions.”
Save the Date for Coffee with a Curator, a monthly gathering of SHC-SEUSA Chapter
When: Friday, April 25th at 2pm ET
Speaker: Chris Waters presenting their research, entitled "Looking to the past to inform the future: What eDNA from
herbarium specimens can tell us about plant–animal interactions.”
Arnold Clifford, Navajo Botanist, holds up a pressed herbarium specimen of an undescribed species of thistle found in Carrizo mountain.
The roof of Carrizo Mountain Herbarium caving in, leaving herbarium cabinets inside vulnerable to snow and rain.
🚨Urgent: Help Save Decades of Work by Navajo Botanists🚨
For decades, Arnold Clifford has built up the Carrizo Mountain Herbarium. Now, this collection is at risk—snowstorms are causing the roof to cave in, putting >30,000 specimens in danger.
#IndigenousScience #Conservation #MutualAid #botany
Urgent support needed for a leaking roof of the Carrizo Mountain Herbarium! Digital Donations can be made through Venmo to @ShawnaB3- with the note "Carrizo Mountain Herbarium Urgent Support"
03.03.2025 21:57 — 👍 2 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 1
Graphic promoting Botany 2025 in Palm Springs, CA, taking place July 25-31, 2025. The tagline reads "Botany Without Barriers" against a bright blue sky with tall palm trees. Logos of supporting societies are displayed along the bottom, including the Botanical Society of America, American Fern Society, ASPT, Society of Herbarium Curators, IAPT, and ABLS.
🌵🌴 Big news! Botany 2025 is now heading to sunny Palm Springs, CA (July 25-31, 2025)! While plans shifted from Tucson, we're excited to stay in the Southwest. See you there!
More information will be coming in early January at www.botanyconference.org
#Botany2025