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/
We were saddened to learn of the passing of Emeritus Professor of Botany and long-time Director of the Herbarium, Dr. Hugh H. Iltis, who died on Monday, Dec. 19, 2016.
Friends of the UW-Madison Library have generously provided a $1,000 grant to the WI State Herbarium for the acquisition of several regional floras to be added to our in-house reference book collection.
At least 25 specimens of fungi that infect plants, collected by George Washington Carver more than a century ago, were re-discovered Feb. 8 in the Wisconsin State Herbarium at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. The herbarium holds one of the nation’s largest collections – as many as 120,000 specimens – of “microfungi,” a type of fungus …
With a collection of >1.2 million preserved plant specimens, The Wisconsin State Herbarium (WIS) at the UW-Madison ranks among the top 1% of the world’s largest and most active herbaria.