The University and Jepson Herbaria hosted visiting Iranian
botanists in August and September, 2003 as part of the
Californian-Iranian Botanical Program.
An account of this program was written up in the
CalIran Newsletter
now includes links to photographs in Cal Photos, lists of plants by
county and bioregion, and the Jepson Manual (incorporating information from
the Jepson Desert Manual).
New Grant to Brent Mishler and Alan Smith as part of a collaborative effort to reconstruct the relationships of green plants using comparative genomics.
The Jepson Desert Manual is featured in a June 14 University
of California press release that includes a slide show of some of the
images of desert wildflowers
UC Berkeley's Jepson Herbarium seeks a qualified botanist to conduct studies on phylogenetic relationships and evolutionary questions in the true thistles (Cirsium)
Herbarium Director Brent Mishler will be leading the seventh annual SoBeFree
field trip March 23-26. This year's destination is the
Hopland Research and Extension Center in Mendocino and Lake counties,
California. For more information or to sign up, please visit
the SoBeFree page
Sunday Feb 10, 2002: Getting to the roots of plant evolution, a workshop
on using plants to teach evolution, diversity of life, and the nature of science
Professor Emeritus Lincoln Constance, director of the University Herbarium
in the 60's and 70's, passed away on June 11, 2001.
UC has received a grant from the National Science Foundation (DBI-0097026),
which we gratefully acknowledge, to improve the bryophyte section, which has
been very active recently as the result of Dan Norris's work, but which has
occupied very cramped and makeshift quarters. During
May, the bryophyte specimens were unavailable
as preperations for renovation began. In June new herbarium cabinets were
mounted on compactor units,
and specimens were transferred from a variety of temporary storage locations
into their new quarters.
Brent Mishler and Tom Carlson have papers in this recently published book
resulting from the symposium: Endangered Languages, Endangered Knowledge,
Endangered Environments
Vernal outing
In the spirit of spring the Herbaria made an outing to
Jepson Prairie Reserve on Wednesday, April 11th. We were met by Dan Tolson,
Reserve Steward, who gave us an introduction to this wonderful vernal pool
area. We had a great turnout of staff, researchers and students for a brisk
spring day of botanizing.
KRON-TV's Bay Area Backroads spotlighted
biological research at Berkeley on April 29, with the Herbaria, along with the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology and Lawrence Berkeley Labs, gaining special attention.
Research into California tarweeds has altered how the relationships are interpreted and has necessitated some name changes. Here is a table relating new names to old.
