Plant Resources of the Burke Museum Herbarium: Naturalists Study Group Lecture
- Tue, Mar 30, 2021 from 07:00 PM to 09:00 PM
- Seattle Naturalists Committee
- Seattle
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RSVP and you will receive the Zoom information before the lecture by email. (Lead image by Mountaineer Gary Brill and contributed to the Burke's image collection.)
Developed and hosted by the University of Washington Herbarium at the Burke Museum, the web site brings together 71,902 photographs and contributions from numerous photographers and botanists. Washington is home to an estimated 3,585 species of vascular plants, 2,453 species of macrofungi, and 1,191 species of lichenized fungi across a diverse array of landscapes from lush coastal rainforests to dry sagebrush plains, high alpine meadows and much more in between. The Burke Herbarium and its partners have also released wildflower identification apps for Washington and Idaho based in part on content from the Burke Herbarium Image Collection. The macrofungal portion of the Image Collection web site reproduces photographs and species descriptions from Mushrooms of the Pacific Northwest, published by Timber Press.
Dr. Giblin is the the Collections Manager of the University of Washington Herbarium. David manages the Herbarium's vascular plant, nonvascular plant, fungal, lichen, and marine algae collections (650,000 specimens in total). His research focuses on the floristics of Pacific Northwest vascular plants, with ongoing field work in the San Juan Islands, North Cascades and Mount Rainier national parks, and the Columbia River Basin. Dr. Giblin is also interested in documenting the diversity and distribution of aquatic vascular plants in Washington. Ongoing projects in the Herbarium focus on digitizing the collections, overseeing the development of Web-based applications that allow professional and amateur botanists to access and utilize collections data, and incorporating emerging Web technologies in the management of collections databases in order to share data with search portals regionally, nationally, and internationally. Dr. Giblin received his undergraduate degree from Cornell University, his M.S. from the University of Washington's College of Forest Resources, and his Ph.D. at the University of Missouri-Columbia where he studied pollination biology.