Ph.D. student Else Demeulenaere is getting a great start at assembling samples for her Serianthes dissertation work. Tuesday she went to Leiden, the Netherlands, to work at the Naturalis Biodiversity Center. It contains one of largest herbaria in the world with some 5.5 million specimens merging the major university herbaria of Leiden, Utrecht and Wageningen. Else…
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Spend a few days collecting in Southeastern Arizona exploring the northwestern face of the Santa Rita Mountains – Madera Canyon. The Santa Rita Mountains is one of the Madrean Sky Islands in Arizona. These sky islands are one of the most diverse inland archipelagos formed by the confluence of two mountainous spines of North America: 1)…
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M.S. student Shawnee Gowan is spending a week at the Michigan State University Herbarium (MSC) working with Dr. Alan Friday on crustose lichen ID.  The MSU collections are first class and total nearly 110,000 accessioned lichen specimens from many regions of the world, including excellent specimens Dr. Henry A. Imshaug made from nunataks in the Juneau ice…
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Check out the ethnobotany video series that documentary filmmaker Sarah Betcher has put together. Watch the whole series: https://youtu.be/DyUssKc2TLQ?list=PLvQuX2bn3pWiK99U3bwOq1l1I6kA8w9jr Funded by NSF grant #1546438 to Steffi Ickert-Bond (PI) and Sarah Betcher (Co-PI). https://www.uaf.edu/museum/collections/herb/ethnobotany/

Several lab members were wrapping things up this semester. Congrats to Jordan Metzgar for finishing his Ph.D. degree, to Monte Garroutte for defending his M.S. thesis and to Mackenzie Stamey for completing her undergraduate degree in Biological Sciences. Great job everybody!