CAP in the News

UCR helps grow massive plant portal: Project makes a million specimens publicly available
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PC: Stan Lim/UCR

[Cal Poly] Botany Students Study Effects of Climate Change —
Using 100-Year-Old Plants

Help the UCI Herbarium When You Enter Plant Data from Home: An Interview with Rebecca Crowe at the UC Irvine Herbarium

CSU Northridge: Statewide coalition will study plants’ responses to climate change using pressed flowers
Knee-Deep in Digitization
News from the California Botanic Garden (formerly Rancho State Ana Botanic Garden) about their ambitious goal of digitizing over 60,000 specimens

WeDigBio at Cal Poly: Cal Poly Report

​​CSU Long Beach: University's plant collection now part of national database

CSUN Herbarium Digitizes Collection of Plant Specimens

CSU Northridge News announces and describes the digitization activities at the CSUN Herbarium in this article.

​Cal Poly Leads Effort to Digitize State's Botanical History

Cal Poly College of Science and Mathematics News report on lead institution Cal Poly, the Robert F. Hoover Herbarium, and lead PI Jenn Yost in this news story.

​Fay A. MacFadden Herbarium Comes Alive Through Digitizing Dried Plant Collection

KCLU: South Coast Scientists Involved In Creation Of Online Plant Encyclopedia To Study Climate Change
CSUF NEWS SERVICE: The 'Capturing California's Flowers' Project Aims to Better Understand Plant Diversity and Document the Impact of Climate Change on Flowering Time
UC Santa Barbara's digitization activities were highlighted on public radio station KCLU on February 1st, 2019 with commentary from Greg Wahlert, Susan Mazer, Andrea Liu, Natalie Love, and Katja Seltmann.
The CAP TCN was recently featured in the August issue of The Vasculum, the biannual newsletter for the Society of Herbarium Curators. To access this article or sign up for The Vasculum, visit the Society of Herbarium Curators website (www.herbariumcurators.org)

The Cholla Cactus Didn’t Bloom This Year

​Golden State Splendor
San Diego news station KBPS reports on one reason California institutions are aiming to digitize phenological data: to help solve biological mysteries regarding plant reproduction.
UCSB's official news site, The Current, announces the CAP TCN grant and its potential impact for science and society with comments from PIs Katja Seltmann and Susan Mazer.