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  1. Jon Sullivan @[email protected] ·

    Today my Biological Diversity class at #LincolnUniversityNZ toured the Allan Herbarium at #ManaakiWhenua. It is NZ's largest pressed plant collection, a treasure trove of hundreds of thousands of botanical marvels.

    Botanist Sue Gibb talked about how the herbarium works and showed us some amazing plants, including type specimens used to describe new species, extinct plants and first collections of new weeds, and some of the plants collected on Captain Cook's voyages.

    #botany #nz #herbarium

    #lincolnuniversitynz #manaakiwhenua #botany #nz #herbarium
  2. Jon Sullivan @[email protected] ·

    #BiotaNZ is NZ's database for taxonomy and info on bacteria, fungi, land invertebrates and plants. I realised they have an #RSS service. I can subscribe and see all names updates as they are made. There's a filter to just provide updates to the taxonomic group you're most interested in.

    It sounds useful. Never again be embarrassed in front of your friends using an out-of-date NZ scientific name! 😄

    See "RSS Feeds" on the Help page.

    #ManaakiWhenua #taxonomy #nz

    biotanz.landcareresearch.co.nz

    #biotanz #rss #manaakiwhenua #taxonomy #nz
  3. Alexander Kmoch @allixender ·

    Great new paper in on practical application on mapping at New Zealand. While they used due to available tooling they described the generalisable methodology really well.
    tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10

    #bigearthdata #dggs #landuse #manaakiwhenua #landcareresearch #h3
  4. Jon Sullivan @[email protected] ·

    Peter Bellingham from #ManaakiWhenua, NZ's environmental research institute, is working with Dept. of Conservation & Ministry for the Environment on #BiodiversityMonitoring in #NZ, to meet our global commitments to reduce #biodiversity loss.

    In a seminar, Peter noted we need national environmental monitoring standards and funding. "Long-term monitoring is not well supported in this country." "We've been in the business of opportunistic cobbling together of data for some time."

    #manaakiwhenua #biodiversitymonitoring #nz #biodiversity
  5. Jon Sullivan @[email protected] ·

    I was talking with NZ fungi expert Jerry Cooper last night and he mentioned that he has now personally made over **100,000** identifications on #iNaturalist of other people's uploaded #fungi photos.

    Jerry's a fungal taxonomist at #ManaakiWhenua, NZ's terrestrial environmental research institute.

    While iNaturalist has machine learning "AI" suggestions for IDs, it is experts like Jerry manually checking through everything that make it shine.

    Thanks Jerry!! 🍄

    inaturalist.nz/identifications

    #inaturalist #manaakiwhenua #fungi