Small Collections Grants. IAPT provides competitive grants for the improvement and/or maintenance of botanical collections (herbaria) of algae, fungi, and/or plants. Collection improvements include projects involving digitization, processing a specimen backlog, shipping an endangered collection to another herbarium, or other similar tasks. In unique cases we will also consider requests for materials associated with mounting herbarium specimens. Applications are particularly welcome from herbaria in developing countries, but the grants are open to small herbaria worldwide. In general, a small herbarium is recognized as one with fewer than 100,000 specimens. Herbaria must be listed in Index He
The Cheadle Center for Biodiversity and Ecological Restoration (CCBER) at UC Santa Barbara is seeking applicants for an Herbarium Digitization Technician at the UCSB Herbarium. Under supervision of the Collection Manager, the Technician will be responsible for the digitization of ca. 10,000 seaweed specimens, which includes a variety of activities such as barcoding, imaging, transcribing specimen labels, and georeferencing the specimens in our online Macroalgal Portal database. The incumbent will have the opportunity for career development in natural history collections, taxonomy, and biodiversity informatics through mentorship by CCBER scientists, curators, and visiting
Dear colleagues, November is here again! Last year at this time I was looking forward to 2020 as a year with much promise. IAPT planned to participate in a several exciting international conferences where we would meet new audiences and offer our nomenclature short courses. Unfortunately, 2020 did not turn out that way. I am hoping that 2021 will be better. It is annual membership renewal time at the International Association for Plant Taxonomy. If you are a current member your 2020 membership will expire on December 31st. Renew now for 2021 to continue enjoying the benefits of membership, and to continue supporting IAPT. If you are not yet an IAPT member or if you have let your membership l
The Engler Medal in Silver awarded to Dr Terry Pennington and Ms Rosemary Wise The Engler Medal in Silver is awarded for an outstanding monograph or other work in systematic botany, mycology or phycology and honors the legacy of Adolf Engler (1844-1930). The 2020 Medal, for a work published in 2017-2018, has been awarded to Terence D. Pennington and Rosemary Wise for The Genus Sloanea (Elaeocarpaceae) in America. Published by David Hunt, Milbourne Port. 447 pp. (2017). Thanks to Fabian Michelangeli (NY) and the other members of the Engler Medal in Silver award committee for their hard work in making this selection. This monograph comprehensively treats an important genus of 127 species of tr
