Consortium News

News for 2008
Totals May 5 2008

CAS-DS	12393
CDA	10154
CHSC	57646
DAV	33718
HSC	754
IRVC	5676
PGM	7591
RSA-POM	208808
SBBG	65137
SD	68685
SDSU	14348
SJSU	9556
UC-JEPS	349152
UCR	96761
UCSB	14871
UCSC	3327

Record count: 958,566 April 21 2008

  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