Tag: ALA Herbarium

Ickert-Bond Lab: systematics meets ecology, paleontology, and genomics

From sheets to solutions: Unraveling the Pedicularis sudetica complex

During a recent week-long visit to the ALA herbarium, Dr. Bruce Robart, a visiting researcher from the University of Pittsburgh and the author of the Pedicularis treatment for the Flora of North America, conducted an in-depth examination of specimens belonging to the Pedicularis sudetica complex. His visit was part of an ongoing effort to resolve…
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Just another day in the Arctic – working with tropical plants

Research Associate of the Herbarium (ALA) at the UA Museum of the North, UAF and former faculty member in the Institute of Arctic Biology Dr. W. Scott Armbruster is one of the world experts on the genus Dalechampia L. (Euphorbiaceae). His research collections are deposited at ALA, and we are so excited to see him…
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Lichen walk

Former student Celia Hampton Miller, co-author of the upcoming Compendium of Alaska Lichens led a group of ~ 20 participants on a lichen walk on the ski trails at UAF. Celia has studied lichen taxonomy at the University of Alaska Herbarium and the University of Graz, Austria. She currently works as a botanist for the…
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And you, whose pastime is to make midnight mushrooms…

The Herbarium hosted another successful iNaturalist event as part of our Plants and Fungi of Alaska project. Mycologist Dr. Gary Laursen led 56 mushroom enthusiasts on a mushroom hike on the ski trails at the UAF campus.  Folks went into the woods and hunted for mushrooms (parasitic, saprophytic and mycorrhizal). What a spectacular sight it was when…
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