Web Links

Prominent sites associated with participants and associates of our working group (certainly not complete so please pass along sites that you think should be listed).

SpeciesLink — by Barbara Thiers — last modified 2009-12-09 09:40

speciesLink is a distributed information system that integrates primary data from biological collections from Brazil

Consortium of Pacific Northwest Herbaria — by Barbara Thiers — last modified 2009-12-09 09:43

Contains records from these providers: Code Provider # Specimens Arctos Arctos 175,201 [ALASKA] OSC Oregon State University Herbarium 194,280 BAB Personal Herbarium of Bruce Bennett 6,929 NY The New York Botanical Garden Virtual Herbarium 83,354 UWBM University of Washington Burke Museum 194,418 TOTAL: 654,182

SEINet — by Barbara Thiers — last modified 2009-12-09 09:45

The Southwest Environmental Information Network was created to serve as a gateway to distributed data resources of interest to the environmental research community in Arizona and beyond. Through a common web interface, we offer tools to locate, access and work with a variety of data. SEINet is more than just a web site - it is a suite of data access technologies and a distributed network of departments, museums and agencies that provide environmental information. Initially created to integrate databases within the Arizona State University, SEINet is growing to extend this network to other partners within the Southwest. Collections included: University of Arizona Herbarium University of California, Riverside Plant Herbarium Arizona State University Vascular Plant Herbarium New York Botanical Garden Intermountain Herbarium (Utah State University) Deaver Herbarium (Northern Arizona University) Desert Botanical Garden Herbarium Collection Herbario de la Universidad de Sonora (DICTUS) Navajo Nation Herbarium Grand Canyon National Park The Cochise County Herbarium US Forest Service Southwestern Region - TEUI Herbarium Arizona State University Pollen Collection Arizona State University Fruit and Seed Collection Colorado State University Herbarium University of New Mexico Herbarium NMSU Center for Natural History Collections Herbarium NMSU Center for Natural History Collections Range Science ENMU Natural History Collection Herbarium Gila Center for Natural History (WNMU) Herbarium

University of Alberta Herbarium — by Barbara Thiers — last modified 2009-12-09 09:52

The Vascular Plant Herbarium (ALTA) has approximately 120,000 specimens of ferns, conifers, and flowering plants. ALTA is the largest herbarium in Alberta and the third largest in Western Canada. Our collections are rich in specimens from Alberta and Northern Canada.

Botanical Research Institute of Texas — by Barbara Thiers — last modified 2009-12-09 10:15

Atrium is an online biodiversity information system designed to support the research activities of the Andes to Amazon Botany Program at the Botanical Research Institute of Texas (BRIT) and to make data available to collaborators and the general public. Atrium facilitates the collection, organization, and sharing of organismal and ecological information generated by the biologists, ecologists, geographers, students, and local field assistants working in this area. The concept for Atrium was developed by John Janovec, Amanda Neill, and Mathias Tobler as a means to accumulate, store, use, and disseminate data from AABP fieldwork and museum research. Jason Best, IT Manager for Atrium, works closely with this team to develop the interfaces and architecture of the site, and directs Atrium programmers Anton Webber and Sean Murphy. The development of the requirements and design of Atrium is funded by a grant from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, as part of a larger project under their initiatives to increase knowledge of the Andes-Amazon area and to develop and test new tools and technology to document, describe, and disseminate information about the species and ecosystems in the area. Atrium provides researchers with tools to collaborate worldwide in real-time. Atrium features a digital herbarium of over 11,000 plant collections representing approximately 4,000 species, with many tools for entry, organization, and analysis of collection data. Collaborators can view complete collection data and high resolution images (over 22,000 images are now available), print labels, and annotate collections (and produce annotation labels) remotely. Atrium hosts geospatial data connecting to the botanical dataset using Google for desktop and online mapping of collections. Atrium also hosts extensive bibliographic records pertaining to the biodiversity and conservation of southeastern Peru. The most recent development is the tool developed to produce color field guides and floras that can be designed and printed on-demand.