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The University and Jepson Herbaria of the University of California at Berkeley are two collections of pressed plants housed together along with research labs, libraries, and archives. Together the Herbaria hold about 2,200,000 specimens, one of the largest collections in North America. |
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| •The University Herbarium, established in 1895, holds botanical collections from around the world. |
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| •The Jepson Herbarium, established in 1950, specializes in the vascular plants of California. |
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| News from the Herbaria |
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$4M grant from USDA awarded to the University and Jepson Herbaria for
a project under the direction of Jennifer Sowerwine to work with
tribal groups in the Klamath Basin in Oregon and California to build
sustainable regional food systems and enhance tribal health and food
security.
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KQED Quest interview of Kathy Ann Miller about the importance of
seaweeds, the UC algal herbarium, and the specimen digitization project
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The Jepson Globe, 2003 to 2012, is now available as online PDFs
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The SO BE FREE 18 botanical foray will be held in the Cuyamaca Mountains near Julian, California, March 26 through 29, 2013. Register now!
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A symposium was held in celebration of
Paul C. Silva's 90th birthday
and his legacy,
The Center for Phycological Documentation on
27 October, 2012
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Elizabeth Zacharias and Bruce Baldwin recognized for outstanding publication, by the American Society of Plant Taxonomists at its July 2012 national meeting. Read more ...
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UC received major funding as part of a large consortium to digitize macrofungi collections across the nation, in the second round of the Advancing Digitization of Biological Collections program at NSF. UC Curator of Fungi Tom Bruns is campus PI. This brings us to four major digitization projects active in the Herbaria at present.
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The SO BE FREE 17 bryophyte foray was held near Clear Lake, CA, March 27-30, 2012
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The debut of the new Manual was a hit at the San Diego CNPS conference. (photo Bob Allen)
The Berkleyan and the UC Berkeley News Center featured an article about the Manual and Jepson Curator Bruce Baldwin by Cathy Cockrell.
BERKELEY —
Thanks to new molecular-genetic tools and intensive field research, scientists' understanding of the native flora of the Golden State — one of the world's hotspots of botanical diversity — has grown
exponentially in the 18 years since publication of The Jepson Manual, the authoritative reference on California botany. New native plants have been discovered, evolutionary relationships redefined, additional species threatened or endangered by development and climate change —
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Curatorial Volunteers Needed at University and Jepson Herbaria.
 One Saturday of each month is a Volunteer Day in the Herbaria. Work with Herbaria staff to help prepare mounted plant specimens and database collections.
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The Consortium of California Herbaria serves as a gateway to information from California vascular plant specimens that are housed in herbaria throughout the state. The display now includes information from nearly 1,700,000 specimens, all searchable through a single interface. Read more... |
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Evolutionary and systematic studies of Californian vascular plants are a major research focus of the Baldwin Lab in the Jepson Herbarium, where investigations of the highly diverse native tarweeds and their Hawaiian-silversword descendants continue apace. Read more... |
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