by Theo Witsell In 1999, when I was wrapping up an undergraduate degree in botany, most of the professional botanists in the state got together and formed a working group called the Arkansas Vascu ... Read More
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The Digitization Revolution: New Discoveries From Old Collections
Arkansas Natural Heritage Commission - Wednesday, January 29, 2020
Building the ANHC Herbarium's Imaging Station
Arkansas Natural Heritage Commission - Wednesday, January 29, 2020
by Molly Robinson To the delight of its staff and volunteers, the ANHC Herbarium is now ready to resume imaging its collection of over 15,000 accessioned plant specimens as part of its digitizatio ... Read More
ANHC Herbarium Specimen Images Online and More to Come!
Arkansas Natural Heritage Commission - Wednesday, January 29, 2020
by Diana Soteropoulos In summer and fall 2018, volunteers and interns took photographs of 12,069 accessioned specimens in the ANHC Herbarium. These specimen images and their associated data were u ... Read More
Collaboration Leads to Transcription Workshops in Northwest Arkansas
Arkansas Natural Heritage Commission - Wednesday, January 29, 2020
by Diana Soteropoulos Diana Soteropoulos, junior botanist at the ANHC, and Jennifer Ogle, Arkansas Native Seed Program Coordinator and new collections manager at the University of Arkansas Herbari ... Read More
ANHC Steps Up to Continue Arkansas Herbarium Digitization Project
Arkansas Natural Heritage Commission - Wednesday, January 29, 2020
by Diana Soteropoulos In 2018, the ANHC began participating in the Arkansas Herbarium Digitization (AHD) project, part of the larger project “Advancing Digitization in Biological Collections” fund ... Read More
Meet the ANHC Herbarium Staff
Arkansas Natural Heritage Commission - Wednesday, January 29, 2020
The ANHC Herbarium staff consists of Ecologist, Chief of Research, and Curator Theo Witsell; Botanist and Collections Manager Brent Baker; Botanist and Arkansas Herbarium Digitization Coordinator ... Read More
ANHC Herbarium: A Library of Plants
Arkansas Natural Heritage Commission - Tuesday, January 28, 2020
by Ruthie Berryhill updated from a 2013 Department of Arkansas Heritage Storyline article Books are stored, cataloged, and organized for reference in a library. An herbarium, like a library, is a ... Read More
Upcoming Transcription Training Workshop
Arkansas Natural Heritage Commission - Friday, December 20, 2019
What is natural history transcription? How does it help the natural sciences and specifically the ANHC? If you’ve been asking these questions or similar ones, then the Notes from Nature Training W ... Read More
Arkansas Contributes to Record-breaking International Event
Arkansas Natural Heritage Commission - Thursday, November 21, 2019
An international transcription blitz set records in Arkansas this October, including an event held at the Division of Arkansas Heritage (DAH) headquarters, hosted by the Arkansas Natural Heritage ... Read More
Volunteers Lend Their Talents to the ANHC
Arkansas Natural Heritage Commission - Wednesday, May 22, 2019
The ANHC relies on volunteers across the state to assist with research and the care of our natural areas. Depending on their skills and interests, volunteers can assist with a wide variety of task ... Read More
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