Joseph F. Rock Herbarium

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UH Manoa has received a Level I accreditation from ArbNet that acknowledges the university for its high standards of professional practices deemed important for arboreta and botanic gardens.

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Botany student needed! Samoa, 6 week expedition, late May to mid-July. The successful applicant will have the opportunity to participate and learn many aspects of field techniques, identification of plant families and genera in Samoa, as well as collecting botanical specimens both for herbarium and for DNA repository, greatly extending the possible accomplishments of the expedition. Application Deadline March 31.

The fellowships, which are well established and prestigious, provide opportunities for individuals who have completed their undergraduate degree and have achieved a certain level of professional development to carry out meaningful work in a first-class plant science and conservation institution.

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Botany 2016 - Sunday, July 31st. 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM Instructor: Pamela Soltis Free Workshop!: Using Digitized Herbarium Data in Research: A Crash Course... Emerging cyber infrastructure and new data sources provide unparalleled opportunities for mobilizing and integrating massive amounts of information from organismal biology, ecology, genetics, climatology, and other disciplines. Key among these data sources is the rapidly growing volume of digitized specimen records from natural history collections. With over 50 million specimen records available online to date, an ever-increasing number, these data provide excellent information on species distributions, changes in distributions over time, phenology, morphology, and more. Particularly powerful is the integration of phylogenies with specimen data, enabling analyses of phylogenetic diversity in a spatio-temporal context, the evolution of niche space, and more. Beyond testing a priori hypotheses, such data-driven synthetic analyses may generate unexpected patterns, yielding new hypotheses for further study. Ongoing efforts to link and analyze diverse data are yielding new platforms for comparative analyses of biodiversity data. However, the inundation of data and methods can be overwhelming. In this full-day workshop, we will provide hands-on instruction on ways to access and download digitized herbarium data (from GBIF, iDigBio, and other aggregators) and prepare data sets for analysis.We will then offer a series of modules on using georeferencing software (GEOLocate), applying Maxent software to construct ecological niche models and do paleoclimatic modeling, linking specimen data to phylogenetic trees, computing phylogenetic diversity measures, reproducible science, and more. In addition to learning how to use various software packages, we will also discuss the assumptions of the analyses and the interpretations of the results. We will divide into groups based on participants’ experience, so novices and advanced users are all welcome. The workshop is free, and lunch is included; sponsored by iDigBio (www.idigbio.org). Keywords: digitized herbarium data, biodiversity, informatics, research applications, global change Web Links: iDigBio Homepage and Data Portal (http://www.idigbio.org)

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EARTH DAY! Friday, April 22 - Dr. Sam Gon, Senior Scientist and Cultural Advisor for the Nature Conservancy will be hosted by the Ethnobiology Society as part ...of its Distinguished Lecture Series. Rapid Ohia Death: The Intersection of Ecology and Culture Friday April 22, 2016 - 5:00 pm. (Pupu's served at 4:30pm) Room 11, St. John Plant Science Building Funding by ASUH. RSVP requested......