California oak woodland - Photo credit: John Game


Consortium News

News for 2009
  October 30 — DAV data updated and augmented: ~1500 new records and numerous records updated and provided with coordinates

Record count: 1,083,390 October 30

  October 26 — UCR data updated and augmented: ~2000 new records and numerous revisions.

Record count: 1,081,780 October 26

  September 2 — SD data updated and augmented: ~3300 new records and numerous revisions.

Record count: 1,078,730 September 2

  September 1 — DAV data updated and augmented: ~4200 new records and numerous revisions.

Record count: 1,075,480 September 1

  August 26 — SBBG data updated and augmented: ~5600 new records and numerous revisions.

Record count: 1,071,015 August 26

  August 20 — UCR data updated and augmented: ~6700 new records and numerous revisions.

Record count: 1,065,380 August 20

  July 11 — RSA data updated and augmented: ~20,000 new records and numerous revisions.

Record count: 1,058,130 July 11

  June 12 — UCSC data updated: 2000 new records.

Record count: 1,038,965 June 12

  May 1 — SD data updated and augmented: ~2500 new records and numerous revisions.

Record count: 1,036,866 May 1

  April 11 — CHSC data updated and augmented: >1500 new records and numerous revisions.

Record count: 1,034,198 April 11

  January 20 — SD data updated and augmented: >1000 new records and numerous revisions.

Record count: 1,031,910 January 20

  January 8 — RSA-POM and SBBG data updated and augmented: >35,000 new records and numerous revisions.

Record count: 1,030,793 January 8


News for 2008
  December 14 — SDSU data updated and augmented: ~1000 new records.

Record count: 990,036 December 14


  October 16 — CDA data updated and augmented: ~8000 new records. CDA records now have permanent record numbers; comments have been updated with new numbers. An itemization of new records and new determinations can be found on the curatorial tools page.

Record count: 988,494 October 15


  September 29 — SD data updated and augmented: ~1500 new records, ~400 annotations

Record count: 980,407 September 29


  September 5 — Botanizing California A visualization of the history of California botanical collection from the Spatial History group at Stanford using CCH data.


  September 5 — UCR data updated and augmented: ~5000 new records, ~500 annotations

Record count: 977,965 September 5


  August 25 — DAV data updated and augmented

Record count: 973,086 August 25


  August 21 — CHSC data updated and augmented

Record count: 970,268 August 21


Totals August 21

CAS-DS12393
CDA10154
CHSC62495
DAV33718
HSC3026
IRVC5676
PGM7591
RSA-POM208782
SBBG65137
SD73046
SDSU14348
SJSU9556
UC-JEPS349388
UCR96761
UCSB14870
UCSC3327

  August 5 — SD data updated and augmented


Record count: 965,369 August 5


  July 16 — ~2000 records from HSC added

Record count: 960,932 July 16


  
June 24: Botanical refugees. Climate change paper using Consortium data published in PLOS one.


Record count: 958,566 April 21


  April 21 — First ~15,000 records from SDSU included

  April 14 — DAV records updated and augmented; ~6500 new records added

  April 10 — SBBG records updated and augmented; ~7000 new records added

  February 26 — SD records updated and augmented; georeferencing of Shasta County incorporated

  January 17 — UC Riverside records updated and augmented

  January 11 — First records from Humboldt State University (HSC) included

  January 10 — All Rancho Santa Ana (RSA-POM) records refreshed, with the addition of many new records.

News for 2007                  Record count: 891,322 (Dec 22 2007)

  December 21 — Georeferencing completed for Trinity County.

  December 5 — All San Diego (SD) records refreshed, with the addition of more than 2,500 new records.

  October 16 — The first 10,000 records from the California Department of Food and Agriculture Plant Pest Diagnostics, Botany Laboratory and Herbarium (CDA)
      have been added. The records come from every California county, with most coming from San Luis Obispo, Sacramento, and Plumas.

  October 8 — The first 12,000 records from the California Academy of Sciences (CAS-DS) have been added. Most of these additions are from Modoc Co.
      CAS-DS has more databased records from Modoc than the rest of the Consortium herbaria combined.

  September 17 — UC Riverside (UCR) records have been updated bringing total Consortium specimen record count to nearly 867,000

  August 17 — More than 2,000 new records from San Diego (SD) added bringing total Consortium specimen record count to 861,350

  July 7 — Santa Barbara Botanic Garden (SBBG) records updated; about 7,000 records added

  April 30 — New records from San Diego (SD) added bringing total Consortium specimen record count to about 851,000

  April 2 — Chico (CHSC) data refreshed bringing total Consortium specimen record count to nearly 840,000

  March 1 —
      Irvine data refreshed
      Consortium database now has 833,484 specimen records total
      Bar graphs showing distribution of participant herbaria holdings across counties are now available at ucjeps.berkeley.edu/consortium/bargraphs

  February 2 —
      About 14,000 corrected or new records from RSA-POM have been added
      Current Consortium specimen record count exceeds 825,000

  January 29 —
      Welcome Pacific Grove Museum of Natural History (PGM), ~8,000 new records, mostly from Monterey and San Benito Counties
      Consortium database now has 810,949 specimen records total
      Georeferencing completed for Tulare County

News for 2006

  October 22 — UC Irvine (IRVC) data refreshed bringing total Consortium specimen record count to 801,334

  October 16 — UC Riverside (UCR) data refreshed bringing total Consortium specimen record count to 798,504

  September 14 — Georeferencing completed for Lake County; Shasta and Trinity counties are now in progress

  August 28 —
      Welcome San Diego Natural History Museum (SD), ~50,000 new records
      RSA-POM data refresh, including ~20,000 new records
      Consortium database now has ~791,000 specimen records total

  July 26 — Georeferencing completed for Mendocino County; Kern County is now in progress

  July 13 — UC Davis (DAV) data refreshed, ~1000 records added

  May 23 — UC Riverside (UCR) data refreshed, bringing total UCR records to nearly 87,000

  March 20 — Consortium pages have a new look

  UCR, DAV data refreshed and augmented

  SBBG data refreshed, more than doubled (30,000+ records added)

  SJSU data added (~10,000 records)

  RSA-POM data refreshed (~5000 records), ~2000 records added



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