#herbariums — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #herbariums, aggregated by home.social.
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Macquarie University: Turning over a new leaf: Macquarie’s rare plant collection goes digital . “A new Atlas of Living Australia grant will help digitise 16,000 plant specimens at Macquarie University, filling critical gaps in national biodiversity data and making rare species records accessible to researchers worldwide.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/01/22/turning-over-a-new-leaf-macquaries-rare-plant-collection-goes-digital-macquarie-university/ -
Digital Repository of Ireland: New Collection in DRI – The National Herbarium of Ireland digital collection of Irish plants . “The complete collection contains some 20,000 samples of plant products, including fruits, seeds, wood, fibres, plant extracts, and artefacts. At present, the National Herbarium of Ireland digital collection in the DRI Repository has digitally preserved over 5,000 […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/01/21/digital-repository-of-ireland-new-collection-in-dri-the-national-herbarium-of-ireland-digital-collection-of-irish-plants/ -
University of Cambridge: World’s vast plant knowledge not being fully exploited to tackle biodiversity and climate challenges, warn researchers. “In a new report published today in the journal Nature Plants, researchers based at more than 50 botanic gardens and living plant collections warn that a patchwork of incompatible, or even absent, data systems is undermining global science and […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/01/11/university-of-cambridge-worlds-vast-plant-knowledge-not-being-fully-exploited-to-tackle-biodiversity-and-climate-challenges-warn-researchers/ -
Straits Times: Watch the making of S-E Asia’s largest digital plant database at Singapore Botanic Gardens. “At the Singapore Botanic Gardens, visitors can now watch botanists painstakingly build a digital database of some 800,000 specimens from South-east Asia and beyond. From a viewing gallery, they can observe the plants being unpacked, barcoded, placed on a conveyor belt and photographed […]
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UC San Diego: Ellen Browning Scripps Herbarium Collection Highlights the Intersection Between Art and Science . “The Smith Seaweed Ecology Lab at UC San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography is showcasing the scientific diversity and natural beauty of seaweeds through the new Ellen Browning Scripps Herbarium Collection. This resource — a digitized and physical collection of thousands […]
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College of Southern Nevada: Preserving the Past, Plant by Plant. “Thanks to a partnership with Clark County and funding through the Multiple Species Habitat Conservation Plan, CSN has completed the digitization of more than 8,800 plant specimens from the Wesley E. Niles Herbarium.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2025/07/21/college-of-southern-nevada-preserving-the-past-plant-by-plant/
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University of Maine: Meireles to illuminate centuries of biodiversity data with $1M award from NSF. “For his project, [Professor Jose Eduardo] Meireles’ will develop and disseminate cutting-edge techniques to collect functional data from preserved plant specimens. It will ultimately unlock centuries of untapped data from 390 million specimens held in herbarium collections around the world.”