Department of Biology
NSF recently funded a large collaborative effort among 25 major institutions named “GLOBAL: Building a Global Consortium of Bryophytes and Lichens: Keystones of Cryptobiotic Communities”, that will digitize 1.2 million specimens, integrating information about bryophytes and lichens with each other and with their commensal organisms on a worldwide scale. The project is funded through 2024. …
WIS has been awarded a highly competitive ‘Museums for America’ grant through the federal Institute of Museum & Library Services. The two-year $365,000 project “Completing Digital Catalogs of Bryophytes, Fungi, and Lichens from the Collections of the Wisconsin State Herbarium” will allow us to achieve the ambitious goal of digitizing 100% of our cryptogamic specimens.
Just released! “Common Lichens of Wisconsin” by staff lichenologist Dr. Jim Bennett. This is the first in a series of outreach booklets that WIS plans to publish in the coming year. The full-color 18 page booklet is available upon request or can be downloaded from our website under Research: Publications. https://herbarium.wisc.edu/research/publications/