Consortium of Pacific Northwest Herbaria

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Home Collections: Search Data Usage Policy Data Providers Herbaria: Herbarium Index PNW Resources: Checklists Flora Projects Image Collections Atlases Databases Documentation: Portal Documentation Become a Provider Data Sharing Policy About: About PNW Herbaria What’s New Credits Contacts	About the Consortium of Pacific Northwest Herbaria The ultimate goal of the PNW Herbaria Portal project is to provide the scientific community, land management agencies, conservation organizations, and the interested public with a single online access point to the wealth of existing and emerging information about the Pacific Northwest flora. The subjects of herbaria collections (vascular plants, nonvascular plants, fungi, lichens, and algae) by their very nature often have regional distributions that cross state or international boundaries, so a regionally-focused portal provides users with an efficient way to browse and acquire relevant data that currently reside at multiple locations. A regional dataset will aid academic researchers, land managers, conservation biologists, ecologists, educational institutions, and other public and private organizations and businesses. Consortium goals include: Provide a single access point for regional herbarium specimen records. Provide a single access point for existing and emerging digital resources associated with participating collections. Provide contact information and statistics for regional herbaria. Facilitate databasing of regionally significant collections at smaller institutions. In the long-term, facilitate the development of updated regional floras, including an update to Flora of the Pacific Northwest written by C. L. Hitchcock and A. Cronquist in 1973. The Consortium of PNW Herbaria web site is still under development. The finished web site will allow users to search or browse specimen collections from multiple herbaria throughout the Pacific Northwest and access digital resources being developed at regional herbaria. The portal web site may also include additional functionality such as an atlas for the flora of the Pacific Northwest. Financial Support and Infrastructure: Initial funding for portal web site development was provided through a grant from the National Science Foundation (supplement to award #0346624). View a summary of WTU's proposal to NSF. The portal is hosted on a web server at the Burke Museum, University of Washington, and is managed by staff at the University of Washington Herbarium.
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