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Scientists Live: Mason Heberling
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Mason Heberling, will do a broadcast on Facebook Live to share the importance and power of museum specimen digitization! Botanists at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History have recently embarked on a three-year project to digitize nearly 190,000 plant specimens collected in the region. This effort is part of the Mid-Atlantic Megalopolis […]
Rethinking the museum specimen in the digital age
Speaker: Mason Heberling, Carnegie Museum of Natural History Natural history collections are receiving unprecedented attention due to recently developed tools, new perspectives, and perhaps most notably, their increased accessibility through widespread digitization. With nearly 390 million plant specimens collected by thousands of botanists over nearly five centuries in museums worldwide, herbaria (collections of preserved dead […]