Small Collections Grant

The progress of the herbarium in the last years has been slow but efficient. After 8 years, our team achieved a physical space for the specimens as well as their shelves, we agree collaborations with other institutions, researchers, students and volunteers. In this year, we received more than 600 samples donated from the IBUG Herbarium and CIIDIR Durango Herbarium, from the PhD. Rito Vega Aviña, a flora specialist from Sinaloa state and the thesis work from a student. This year, we obtained the support of 2 young government fellows to work in the process of preparing including drying, mounting and identification, and we will keep the program active for the following year. A government fellow will be responsible for continuing the mounting once the material is had. She will remain until the end of the year 2020 and working from Monday to Saturday from 8:00 am to 1:00 pm, as well as helping to evaluate and monitor the organic management program that we are implementing. At the end of that period, the grantee must submit a report of the results of the activities carried out. In addition, because our institution have a signed academic agreement with the Autonomous University of Sinaloa (UAS) and we have the potential to incorporate volunteers and students whom would receive training for herbarium management, and botany. To continue growing the collection it is necessary to replace the current dryer with a new one that guarantees the correct boiling of the samples.