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Illinois Natural History Survey mycologist Andrew Miller and colleagues from 25 institutions across the U.S. received a $3.6 million grant from the National Science Foundation to image and digitize associated metadata for close to 1.2 million lichen and bryophyte specimens housed in their collections. Among the extensive holdings of the INHS Herbarium are more than 35,000 bryophyte specimens and more than 23,000 lichens from around the world.  

Purple loosestrife. Image courtesy: U-M Herbarium.

The University of Michigan recently published their fourth installment in a series of articles highlighting the University of Michigan Herbarium's digitization efforts and participation in ADBC.

Samantha Winder, project coordinator, shows an algal specimen. Photo courtesy of the University of Michigan Herbarium.

A third article was recently published by the University of Michigan in their series on the University of Michigan Herbarium's digitization efforts.

Photo provided by Central Michigan University / Steve Jessmore

“Newberry College is honored to participate in a project that will make botanical research more accessible to the global scientific community” -Newberry College president, Dr. Maurice Scherrens.
 

Two of the six NSF grants recently awarded through the Advancing Digitization of Biodiversity Collections Program involve collaborators from the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Michigan.