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BRIT Reads Book Club: Becoming Earth by Ferris Jabr
Do you love to read? Are you passionate about botany, natural history, sustainability and similar topics? Then, you’ll love the BRIT Reads Book Club! This informal group meets every other...
Gentle Yoga: July
Registration includes a series of 4 sessions: Wednesdays, July 2, 9, 16 and 23 (9:00-10:00 AM) Registration closes June 29. Experience the joy of movement and discover the balance...
Gentle Yoga: June
Registration includes a series of 4 sessions: Wednesdays, June 4, 11, 18 and 25 (9:00-10:00 AM) Registration closes June 1. Experience the joy of movement and discover the balance of...
Bella’s Book and Nature Club: June
Click here to register now! Children 18 months to 5 years and their families are invited to join Bella the Begonia at BRIT on the first Wednesday of each month....
Bella’s Book and Nature Club: September
Click here to register now! Children 18 months to 5 years and their families are invited to join Bella the Begonia at BRIT on the first Wednesday of each month....
Bella’s Book and Nature Club: October
Click here to register now! Children 18 months to 5 years and their families are invited to join Bella the Begonia at BRIT on the first Wednesday of each month....
Bella’s Book and Nature Club: November
Click here to register now! Children 18 months to 5 years and their families are invited to join Bella the Begonia at BRIT on the first Wednesday of each month....
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Do you allow dogs at weddings and events?
FWBG allows members to bring their dog(s) to private events by adding the Pup Club to their new or existing Garden membership, provided they follow the guidelines outlined below. Dogs...
Educational Partnerships
Through partnerships with University of Texas Arlington, Texas Christian University, and Tarleton State University, BRIT will help train the next generation of plant biologists at the undergraduate, Masters, and Ph.D....
What is a DNA and genome bank of Texas plant species?
Biodiversity is our natural heritage, and conserving and documenting plant and fungal diversity is at the core of BRIT’s mission. As home to the Global Genome Initiative for Gardens (GGI-Gardens), BRIT...
What are some examples of DNA/RNA-level research related to botany?
Assembling the plant tree of life, past and present. Assembling the tree of life requires a very close understanding of the relationships of specific plants to each other. Those relationships...
What is the difference between DNA and RNA?
DNA is responsible for storing and transferring genetic information whereas RNA directly codes for amino acids in the production of proteins. The differences between DNA and RNA and how they...
How does the molecular and structural laboratory help advance BRIT’s mission?
Together, the molecular and structural components of this laboratory help advance research at BRIT by complementing the resources that already make us one of the world’s leading botanical institutions, including...
What is a structural lab?
The structural part of the laboratory allows BRIT scientists to investigate the forms and functions of plants and fungi and to discover new features of plants and lichens at a...
Do I have to pay admission on days I come to volunteer?
FWBG | BRIT volunteers do not have to pay to enter the Garden on the days they are volunteering.
What happens to my membership with the Fort Worth Botanical Society?
After April 1, 2019 a separate membership to the Fort Worth Botanic Garden and BRIT is necessary to gain Garden and BRIT benefits. If you want more information about your...
Is a membership tax-deductible?
The Botanical Research Institute of Texas (BRIT) is a 501(c)(3) organization with tax-exempt status. Memberships are partially tax-deductible at Supporter, Patron and Affiliate-level memberships. For Access to Affiliate, goods or...
How does check-in work for camps?
Check-in begins at 8:45 a.m. On Monday of each camp week, we will greet you in the BRIT building to confirm your camper’s registration, give you an information packet and...
Where is S.E.E.D. Camp located?
Camp classrooms are located inside the Botanic Research Institute of Texas (BRIT) building at 1700 University Drive, Fort Worth, Tx 76107. Activities will take place both indoors and outdoors, taking...
Can I walk around the Garden before or after class?
Adult education registration fees include complimentary general admission on the day of the class. Please inform staff at the Admissions Desk which class you are attending to enter the Garden....
Blog Posts
Botanical Research Institute of Texas Adds 1.5 Millionth Specimen to Herbarium
The addition of the recently collected Texas sandmint (Rhododon ciliatus) specimen marks a milestone and calls attention to the importance of herbaria in conservation efforts. The Botanic Research Institute of...
XX International Botanical Congress
The XX International Botanical Congress was held Madrid, Spain from July 21 – 27, 2024. BRIT staff presented the following posters either physically or virtually: Download Download Download...
Xylarium
A xylarium, xylotheque, and xylothek are all words to describe a collection of wood (the Greek word for “wood” is xylon). In trees, the secondary xylem, the tissue that transports water from the roots...
The mysteries of Myxomycetes: Six scintillating facts about slime molds
Don't ever believe you've got nature figured out. Case in point: Myxomycetes or plasmodial slime molds. Here are six fascinating facts from a recent article by BRIT Research Associate Harold Keller that will make you question what you think you know about life on this planet.
Get to know the Garden’s new flagship Texas plants and the interns researching them
Every year, the research team adopts a few special plants as a focus for study and conservation, especially for the student interns who join the Garden every summer. This year, interns and their mentors are paying special attention to two plants, a wildflower native to Texas and a rare and remarkable native orchid, Meanwhile a third intern is investigating fungi growing in the Garden itself.
Spring 2024 Goats In The Garden Interns
In the Spring of 2024, Taryn Mitchell and Sydney Lowenthal were selected for undergraduate student internships as part of the Goats In The Garden Project, supported and made possible by...
2023 Conservation & Collections Intern Experiences
In the Summer of 2023, Jade Affleck, Kate Morton, Gabrielle Perez, and Gabriela Wolfe took part in a 10-week Conservation & Collections Summer Internship program, led by co-mentors Tiana Rehman...
2022 Research & Conservation Intern Experiences
Ulysses Oles I am about to start my first semester of grad school. My experience going into the internship was very limited with regards to herbaria. I expected most of...
Botanical Art = Botanical Science
The history of civilization can be told through pictures of plants. The roots of botanical art and the science of botany began in ancient Greek and Roman times, depicting plants as a means of understanding and recording their potential uses.
Texas Star Mushroom now State Mushroom of Texas
The rare and rather unique, star-shaped fungus with the Latin name Chorioactis geaster received official designation this week by the Texas Legislature passing the House and Senate as the State Mushroom of...
Sean Lahmeyer of the Huntington Herbarium
As part of the Library's Collection Lens series, BRIT Librarian, Brandy Watts, interviews Sean Lahmeyer of the Huntington Herbarium who discusses the history of the collection and its growth through the years.
National DNA Day
A Peek Inside Sumner Lab on National DNA Day Lab Volunteer, Jerrod Stone, shares his experience and the latest projects April 26th is National DNA Day! Researchers have been busily...
Megan O’Connell on Texas Prairie Ecosystems
As part of BRIT Library's Botany Stories series, BRIT's new Conservation Research Botanist, Megan O'Connell, discusses her interest in Texas prairie ecosystems and Texas Blackland Prairie.
Barbara Thiers: Funding Natural History Collections & the Extended Specimen Network
BRIT Librarian, Brandy Watts, interviews Barbara Thiers, Director of the William and Lynda Steere Herbarium at the New York Botanical Garden, who she discusses funding natural history collections and the Extended Specimen Network.
Pondering Poaceae Across Texas
Dan Caudle discusses his interest in grasses and grasslands, giving particular attention to his work with Meredith Ellis, a young rancher and committed conservationist in Cooke County, Texas.
National Old Stuff Day
In honor of National Old Stuff Day (March 2nd), the BRIT Herbarium wants to highlight one of our more interesting specimens from Oklahoma. Although not as old as the oldest...
FWBG | BRIT Research Teams Awarded More Than $1.95M for Plant Exploration at Home and Abroad
Last December, two BRIT botanists and their teams of colleagues were awarded separate grants from the National Science Foundation’s Systematics & Biodiversity Science Program for a combined total of $1,950,000....
Prescribed Burn Planned for BRIT Prairie
FORT WORTH, Texas (January 12, 2021) — The Fort Worth Botanic Garden | Botanical Research Institute of Texas (FWBG | BRIT) working with the Fort Worth Nature Center & Refuge and Fort Worth Fire Department (FWFD) will host...
John Atwood: The Bryophytes of the Missouri Botanical Garden Herbarium & Library
BRIT Librarian, Brandy Watts, interviews John Atwood, Research Specialist at the Missouri Botanical Garden, who discusses the Herbarium's Bryophyte Collection and the Peter H. Raven Bryology Library.
Searching for Mertensia through the Mountains of China
From the mountains of China, comes a botany story in search of Mertensia (Bluebells), of the Boraginaceae family. Through the summer of 2010, botanist Mare Nazaire Ph.D. of California Botanic Garden (RSA) conducted numerous field collecting trips throughout the alpine regions of China.
Learning to “Bee” a Pollinator Supporter at the Pecan Creek Pollinative Prairie
This following is part of the “Where Are They Now?”series featuring guest posts from former interns, volunteers, staff, and friends of BRIT. This month’s post is from former BRIT intern,...
Grace Lloyd Bascopé: Flora of Belize & Maya Research Project
Resident Research Associate, Grace Lloyd Bascopé, talks about her summers in Blue Creek, Belize working on Flora of Belize & Maya Research Project.
Collecting Collections; Tiana F. Rehman, BRIT Herbarium
Tiana F. Rehman, BRIT's Herbarium Collections Manager, tells us about the many collections that compose the Herbarium. This is the first interview of the Library's new Collection Lens series, which highlights collection managers from around the world across botanical libraries and herbaria as collections move into the future.
A Library Encircling A Herbarium
Imagine a herbarium of just under 400,000 plant specimens in cabinets with a corresponding botany library of 40,000 books lining the periphery, along the walls of the herbarium collection accessible to researchers working in the collection. This was the design of the SMU Herbarium and Library housed on the SMU campus before moving to BRIT in 1991.
1,000 Ascensions: Madagascar expedition
These are all just some of the steps involved in discovering new plant species and understanding plant biodiversity – or at least they were on my most recent trip to Madagascar in search of strange and wonderful plant life.
Librarian Lens: Plant Discovery In the Southern Philippines Expedition Two
In December of 2019, BRIT Librarian participated in expedition two of the Plant Discovery In the Southern Philippines project.
Encounters with Plants that BITE!
In late 2018, the BRIT Philecology Herbarium received funds from the National Science Foundation Grant: “Endless Forms most beautiful and most wonderful” to digitize collections of species across 15 plant...
Eula Whitehouse’s Field Camera
Eula Whitehouse's field camera was recently gifted to BRIT Library by her family.
Will the real four-leaf clover please stand up?!
There are many plant species bearing the iconic clover look in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex. The true lucky clover is believed to be the white clover of the legume family...
(En)TADA! The herbarium holds specimens of the LONGEST legumes in the world
The BRIT Philecology Herbarium is composed of a melting pot of several orphaned collections across the south and southeast. In addition to those large collections, we also receive specimens through...
NSF Funded Plant Discovery in the Southern Philippines Project December 2019 Expedition
Expedition 2, led by Peter Fritsch of BRIT, will include 20 Filipino and international participants (botanists and lichenologists) who will survey Negros Island and the Marilog Forest on the island of Mindanao over the month of December 2019.
Library Exhibition: Among the Birds and Flora of Texas
The second rotation of the BRIT LIbrary's exhibition Among the Birds and Flora of Texas is ready for viewing.
Dr. Eula Whitehouse’s Family Visits BRIT Library
The BRIT Library had the pleasure of welcoming members of the Eula Whitehouse family this week.
Micromorphology of DFW Metroplex Fern and Lycophyte Spores
This article was written by Ivan Rosales, 2019 BRIT Summer Intern and student at University of Texas at Arlington. Ivan interned with Dr. Alejandra Vasco, working on fern diversity and anatomy. Who Would...
BRIT® Receives $1.5M Award from National Science Foundation
The National Science Foundation (NSF) recently awarded the Botanical Research Institute of Texas (BRIT®) $1.5 million over four years to digitize its 355,000 herbarium specimen collections from Texas and Oklahoma. The prestigious grant...
Saga of the Texas Prairie
This article was written by Edward Bickett, 2019 BRIT Summer Intern and student at University of Texas at Arlington. Edward interned with Dr. Brooke Best and Resident Research Associate Dan Caudle, working with the All...
Summer in Paradise: Preserving Plant Genomes across Texas
This article was written by GGI-Gardens Summer 2019 Fellow, Seth Hamby. Texas is a state that you can drive through for 7 hours and still be in Texas, believe me...
Rows (and Rose) of Wood!
This summer the BRIT Herbarium began investigating and curating a unique collection of specimens comprised mostly from the Houston Public Museum (HPM) (now known as the Houston Museum of Natural History) collection acquired...
My Research Internship: An education beyond expectations
This article was written by Erin Flinchbaugh, 2019 BRIT Summer Intern and student at University of Texas at Arlington. Erin interned with Conservation Botanist Kim Taylor, working with the NatureServe Conservation Status Ranks and Mapping Rare...
Botanists Amidst the Texas Flora: A GGI Summer Fellowship
This article was written by GGI-Gardens Summer 2019 Fellow, Farahnoz Khojayori. Climbing up the Tobe Spring Trail over 7,000 feet elevation past rattlesnakes, tall evergreens, and countless thistles and shrubs...
Peter Fritsch Reporting on Field Research in the Philippines
The first expedition to the Philippines has been going splendidly, with many hundreds of collections, photographs, DNA samples, and associated field data being collected by the team. The four areas to...
Highlights from the Oliver G. Burk Children’s Library
As part of the BRIT LIbrary's summer internship, Annie Martin, our summer intern, is highlighting a selection of books from the Oliver G. Burk Children's Library Collection. Over the course of the summer more items will be added so please check back!
Dr. Sherwin Carlquist Collection
In honor of National Library Week, BRIT Library would like to highlight a recent acquisition of the BRIT Library & Archive collection. In July of 2018, BRIT Library acquired the collection of botanist Sherwin Carlquist. This acquisition includes 100,000 color field photograph slides, 5,000 microscope slides, and 15 field notebooks.
Mary Sophie Young
In honor of International Women’s Day 2019, on March 8, 2019, BRIT Library highlighted the botanist Mary Sophie Young. As one of the earliest botanists at University of Texas, Mary Sophie Young’s...
Two Botanists and An Artist Walk Into the Desert…
The Amon Carter Museum of American Art (ACMAA) sponsored Barney Lipscomb and Tiana Rehman to serve as botanical guides to West Texas for artist Mark Dion. Commissioned by the ACMAA, Mark—a contemporary artist who...
The Importance of Studying Natural History Collections Past, Present, and Future
Article written by Lani DuFresne, 2018 BRIT Herbarium and Research Intern and student at Rice University. Out of everything I’ve learned so far in my education, cursive was one of...
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his article was written by Serina Taluja, 2018 BRIT Summer Intern and student at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Serina interned with Research Manager and Special Collections Librarian Alyssa Young working on aspects...
Summer 2017 Research and Herbarium Interns
Education: Junior in Microbiology at the University of Alabama at TuscaloosaMost Recent Project: Vanessa is currently collaborating with Dr. Harold W. Keller at BRIT on a paper about corticolous myxomycetes, a type...
A Summer Deep in the Weeds: Surprises Found Along the Way
Article written by Kelly Carroll, 2018 BRIT Herbarium and Research Intern and student at Trinity University. Kelly interned with Dr. Brooke Best and Resident Research Associate Dan Caudle, working with the All Saints Episcopal School...
BRIT Receives $1.3 Million Dollar Grant from the National Science Foundation to Study Biodiversity in the Philippines
Texas botanists will collaborate with other U.S. institutions and international personnel to conduct research in threatened forests of Southeast Asia. FORT WORTH, Texas (August 28, 2018) – Researchers at the Botanical...
A Day as a Botanical Illustrator
Article written by Isabella Wu, 2018 BRIT Herbarium and Research Intern and student at Emory University. Clear skies heralded a warm afternoon with no cover from the blazing sun. I...
What Is This Thing? Bur oak acorn cap
"What is this thing???" We often hear this question from friends and family in relation to natural "treasures" found in the landscape. Sticks, leaves, flowers, fruit, fungi, lichens, moss.
Dr. Eula Whitehouse
In our "Hidden Treasures" series, Special Collections Librarian Alyssa B. Young features notable works in the BRIT rare book collection. The work of Dr. Eula Whitehouse spreads tentacles throughout BRIT.
A Ferntastic Day with NLU
On Sunday, February 25th, BRIT staff had the pleasure of hosting members of the Southwestern Fern Society, our local chapter of the American Fern Society, for a volunteer day. Six...
What Is This Thing? Oenothera triloba fruit
"What is this thing???" We often hear this question from friends and family in relation to natural "treasures" found in the landscape. Sticks, leaves, flowers, fruit, fungi, lichens, moss.
Curating the NLU Collection
The R. Dale Thomas Collection (NLU) officially completed its journey to BRIT in August 2017. However, this was only the beginning! Follow the NLU rescue team for the next year as they...
Bringing NLU to BRIT
In March 2017, the scientific community was ablaze with the news that the University of Louisiana at Monroe would no longer be able to care for its natural history collection, including...
My Summer Education: The Microscopic World
This post was written by Vanessa Marshall, 2017 summer intern and student at The University of Alabama. BRIT has been amazing – a catalyst that has unlocked the doors to...
The Legacy of Alexander von Humboldt
How much do you know about Alexander von Humboldt, one of the most influential naturalists in history? More species and plants are named after him than after any other human being, but in the last 150 years he's been nearly forgotten. Let's
Books, Botany, and Bugs
This article was written by Sydney Jackson, 2017 BRIT Summer Intern and student at Austin College in Sherman, TX. This past summer, summer of 2017, I was a research intern...
Cabinet Curiosities: The New Zealand Kauri
Our “Cabinet Curiosities” series explores significant items in our Herbarium collection. This article was written by Haley Rylander, Research and Herbarium Assistant. The New Zealand Kauri – Agathis australis – is a truly...
Botanical Research Institute of Texas Rescues Orphaned Herbarium at the University of Louisiana-Monroe
FORT WORTH, TEXAS (July 3, 2017) – The Botanical Research Institute of Texas (BRIT®) is pleased to announce the nonprofit has been selected to receive almost half a million plant specimens...
The Unusual Binding of “Flora Sibirica”
In our year-long "Hidden Treasures" series, Alyssa B. Young, Special Collections Librarian, features notable works in the BRIT rare book collection.
As you look through the shelves in our rare book room, you see rows and rows of beautifully-bound books. They have bindings of leather and vellum, ornate embossed and gilded decorations on the covers and spines.
Botanical Specimens with a Mysterious Past!
This article originally appeared in BRIT’s former newsletter publication, Iridos, Issue 16(1) 2005. “Wow!” is the most frequent comment from visitors viewing the two oldest plant specimens in the BRIT...
Alexander von Humboldt and the Scientific Discovery of America
In our year-long "Hidden Treasures" series, Alyssa B. Young, Special Collections Librarian, features notable works in the BRIT rare book collection.
Recycling Rocks!
Mixed-stream recycling is pretty amazing. We get to throw all of our recyclables into one bin, and then — POOF! — they magically get taken away and sorted elsewhere. No...
A Trip to Seville Farms
A couple of weeks ago, over half of the BRIT building was eerily empty for a day as the whole research department set off for a tour of Seville Farms, which...
Frontera, Texas
Our “Cabinet Curiosities” series explores significant items in our Herbarium collection. Posts are contributed by staff, volunteers, and interns. In 1852, the former Republic of Texas was two years past...
My Time at Mile High
This is the first in a new “Where Are They Now?”series featuring guest posts from former interns, volunteers, staff, and friends of BRIT. This month’s post is from former BRIT...
Curtis’s Botanical Magazine
One of the treasures of BRIT’s rare book collection is Curtis’s Botanical Magazine, a premier journal for early botanical illustrations and descriptions. The journal has featured over 10,000 color illustrations in its 230 years of publication. Originally titled The Botanical Magazine, it is the longest running illustrated botanical periodical and is still being published today.
BRIT Teams with Tarleton State University to Build Habitat Maps of 57 Central Texas Rare Plant Species
TxDOT will use maps to find, protect rare plants along Texas highways FORT WORTH, Texas – The Botanical Research Institute of Texas (BRIT®), Tarleton State University, and the Texas Department...
Yunnan, China
Dr. Peter Fritsch, BRIT’s VP of Research and Director of the Herbarium, is on a visiting scholarship from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, based at the Kunming Institute of Botany...
Youth Range Workshop 2016
Just imagine trying to keep up with 25 energetic, enthusiastic, inquisitive high school students for a week in the middle of a hot, dry summer in the semi-arid country around...
The changing plant life of small islands in the Sea of Cortéz
This “Notes from the Field” post was written by BRIT Biodiversity Explorer Dr. Sula Vanderplank. Exploring the plant ecology of the Bahía de Los Angeles Island Archipelago, with staff and...
World Record Largest Myxomycete Found On BRIT Campus
And there it was—a myxomycete fruiting body about 30 inches by 22 inches, round like a pancake and filled with spores, found in BRIT’s front yard growing on bark mulch...
BRIT’s Computer Vision(aries)
Our interns and volunteers are invaluable at BRIT. In this series, they discuss their experiences with us. This summer, four high school students from Trinity Valley School interned at BRIT through our...
Documenting Diversity: The First Step in Conservation
In the conservation community, there is often nothing more rewarding than walking through a landscape that you had a hand in saving and knowing that you did good. You saved this rare and valuable natural treasure for future generations. This is conservation at its finest and what most in the conservation community strive for. But there’s so much more that goes into the process, and believe it or not, it’s the early steps that I find most exciting.
Grey Fox: Exploring an Ancient Maya Center
Over the past two summers (2015 & 2016), BRIT Resident Research Associate Dr. Grace Bascopé, a Medical and Environmental Anthropologist, worked with the Maya Research Program’s (MRP) Blue Creek Archaeological...
Survey of BRIT’s Tarrant County Bryophyte Collection
Our interns and volunteers are invaluable at BRIT. In this series, they discuss their experiences with us. This post is by Hanna Liebermann, Hendrix College biology student / BRIT intern,...
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This article originally appeared in BRIT’s former newsletter publication, Iridos, Issue 20(2) 2009. “Hell — is sitting on a hot stone reading your own scientific publications.” ~ Erik Ursin, fish biologist...
The Sweep of Time
Article originally submitted for The Leaflet (June 2014) by Brian Witte, PhD, BRIT Research Associate Most of us live in the moment. Paycheck-to-paycheck, living for the weekend, summer vacation, twitter updates. Updates...
Sustainable Ranching in Mexico
This “Notes from the Field” post is from BRIT Biodiversity Explorer Dr. Sula Vanderplank. Mission: launching Alianca da Terra in Mexico. This blog: a visit to the ranch corridor of...
The Living Herbarium: Many Hands Make Godzilla
Article originally published in The Leaflet (May 2014) by Brian Witte, PhD, BRIT Research Associate There is a stereotype of the scientist as a lone genius, laboring in obscurity until their “Eureka!”...
The Living Herbarium: Instructions for Life
Article originally published in The Leaflet (April 2014) by Brian Witte, PhD, BRIT Research Associate (Disclaimer: The technical aspects of this article are dramatically simplified in the interests of communicating with an...
A 54-Year Celebration
The Journal of the Botanical Research Institute of Texas (JBRIT) is celebrating its 54th year of continuous publication. It all started when Lloyd H. Shinners—a member of the Southern Methodist University (SMU) faculty and a...
Plant Hunting on the Islands in the Sea of Cortez
This “Notes from the Field” post is from BRIT Biodiversity Explorer Dr. Sula Vanderplank, a Biodiversity Explorer for BRIT. She is a field botanist who loves natural history, floristics, and...
Nameless in the Living Herbarium
Article originally published in The Leaflet (March 2014) by Brian Witte, PhD, BRIT Research Associate Identifying a nameless specimen brings tremendous satisfaction. Naming seems simple. It’s just two words, after all. And yet, a...
The Living Herbarium: A Life’s Work
Article originally published in the The Leaflet (November 2013) by Brian Witte, PhD, BRIT Research Associate A herbarium can be as much a cabinet of mysteries as it is a repository of...
Mary Sophie on the Move: Busted Freezer Gets Relocated, Repurposed
By Research Associate Will Godwin, PhD Adaptive reuse or re-purposing has become a popular method to achieve green or sustainable design. It even extends into the aesthetics of interior design...
Generating field guides in Baja California, Part 1
This “Notes from the Field” post is from BRIT Biodiversity Explorer Dr. Sula Vanderplank, a Biodiversity Explorer for BRIT. She is a field botanist who loves natural history, floristics, and...
Generating field guides in Baja California, Part 2
This “Notes from the Field” post is from BRIT Biodiversity Explorer Dr. Sula Vanderplank, a Biodiversity Explorer for BRIT. She is a field botanist who loves natural history, floristics, and...
Aerial Survey Resources – For Beginners
This page is constantly evolving as a resource for conducting aerial surveys. At this point, it’s not meant to be comprehensive or provide everything you need to get started. It’s...
Botanizing with La Mula Mil
This “Notes from the Field” post is from BRIT Biodiversity Explorer Dr. Sula Vanderplank Riders: Trudi Angell, Leslie Pringle, Theodora “Teddi” Montes, Karen Brown, Polly “Polita” Parker, Marlene Jones, Steve Enright...
BRIT Aerial Surveys – New Projects Up in the Air
When we look at something from a different perspective, we usually see something new—something we might have not seen before or something familiar seen in a new context. Discovery of...
A Month in the Field in Baja California Sur: Part II
Part II — “Rancho Chivato, Sierra de las Cacachilas” Botany Team Colleagues: Dr. Jon Rebman (SDNHM, San Diego Natural History Museum ) John LaGrange (SDNHM) Dr. Alfonso Medel (CIBNOR, Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas del...
A Month in the Field in Baja California Sur: Part I
Part I—“Bighorn Sheep Habitat, Sierra Tres Virgenes” Colleagues: Dr. Alan Harper, Benjamin Wilder, Rodrigo Rentería Guides and muleteers: Jesus “Chuyito” Arce Ojeda and wife María Marcial Morales Rafael “Falo” Lopez...
BRIT’s Cheerful Naturalist and His Exploration to Alaska
Cold, foreign, and practically inaccessible, I think many people view Alaska as analogous to the end of the earth. There are few that brave the cold wildness of it to...
