{"id":1763,"date":"2014-10-07T12:34:52","date_gmt":"2014-10-07T16:34:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.nybg.org\/science-talk\/?p=1763"},"modified":"2014-10-07T13:46:01","modified_gmt":"2014-10-07T17:46:01","slug":"in-the-news-dr-barbara-thiers-on-the-huffington-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/science-talk\/2014\/10\/in-the-news-dr-barbara-thiers-on-the-huffington-post\/","title":{"rendered":"In the News: Dr. Barbara Thiers on The Huffington Post"},"content":{"rendered":"

Stevenson Swanson is The New York Botanical Garden’s<\/a> Science Media Manager.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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Barbara Thiers, Vice President for Science Administration, Patricia K. Holmgren Director of the William and Lynda Steere Herbarium<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

One of the most important projects underway at The New York Botanical Garden is the ongoing effort to make the preserved plant specimens in the William and Lynda Steere Herbarium<\/a> available online. That means more than just taking high-resolution digital images of the plants. It also entails entering all of the information about the specimens, such as where they were collected, when, and by whom, into a searchable database.<\/p>\n

Of the 7.4 million specimens now in the Steere Herbarium\u2014the largest in the Western Hemisphere and one of the four largest in the world\u2014Botanical Garden science staff have already digitized more than 2.3 million of them.<\/p>\n

Why is this a big deal? Well, as more specimens become available online at the Steere Herbarium and elsewhere, plant scientists and other researchers will be able to compile massive amounts of data about Earth’s plant life for the first time.<\/p>\n

The Huffington Post has published a piece<\/a> by Dr. Barbara Thiers, the Garden’s Vice President for Science Adminstration and the Patricia K. Holmgren Director of the Steere Herbarium, in which she talks about one very important use for this newly available data: gaining a better understanding of the potential impact of climate change on ecosystems.<\/p>\n

You can read more about the Garden’s digitization project here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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