“This grant will help to close a large geographic gap in our knowledge of North American plant biodiversity and facilitate both regional and larger-scale efforts in solving environmental issues”
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.
Each specimen goes through these four stages of digitization: 1) Imaging 2) Skeletal Transcription 3) Complete Transcription and 4) Georeferencing.
Last updated: March 20, 2024
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