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Barbara M. Thiers, Ph.D.<\/a>, is the Patricia K. Holmgren Director of the William and Lynda Steere Herbarium<\/a> and Vice President for Science Administration at The New York Botanical Garden<\/a>.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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Jacquelyn A. Kallunki, Ph.D.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Jackie Kallunki, Ph.D.<\/a>, first came to The New York Botanical Garden in late 1975 and worked for a while identifying neotropical plant specimens and gathering data for an ethnobotanical project.\u00a0At that time, she was still working on her Ph.D. dissertation at the University of Wisconsin.\u00a0After she completed her dissertation, she came back to the Botanical Garden as a full-time employee. And now, I’m sad to say,\u00a0she has retired.<\/p>\n

Over the years, as Jackie rose through the ranks to become Assistant Director of the William and Lynda Steere\u00a0Herbarium, she worked closely with Patricia K. Holmgren, Ph.D., who was then\u00a0Director of the Herbarium. This was a very active period in the Herbarium\u2019s history in terms of acquisitions, loans, visitors, and special projects such as the incorporation of orphaned herbaria and expansion of the collection.<\/p>\n

The crowning achievement of this period was the planning of the new Steere Herbarium and then\u00a0moving the multi-million-specimen\u00a0collection into it.\u00a0Jackie was the one who figured out how much space each group of plants should receive\u00a0and where it should go, and she supervised the highly complicated process of moving the specimens to the Herbarium. It took 58 Garden staff, interns, and volunteers a total of about 3,300 hours to accomplish this move. The fact that the process went smoothly and according to schedule is a testament to Jackie\u2019s planning abilities, determination and powers of intimidation!
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\nIn addition to her prodigious skills as a\u00a0Herbarium administrator, Jackie is a world authority on the Rutaceae, or citrus family, in the new world tropics.\u00a0She was the recipient of a Fulbright fellowship to study this family at the University\u00a0of S\u00e3o Paulo, Brazil. She has authored numerous publications on this group.\u00a0She is also world-renowned at general identification of tropical flowering plants.\u00a0Our database lists 6,418 specimens identified by Jackie; since we still have only databased about 30 percent\u00a0of the collection, the actual number of specimens she determined is possibly much, much higher.<\/p>\n

Jackie is a formidable and decisive editor\u2014the arch enemy of flabby prose! She has contributed many years of service, mostly after hours, to editing New York Botanical Garden publications.\u00a0She was Editor-in-Chief of Brittonia<\/em>\u00a0and served for some years as head of the NYBG Press Committee.<\/p>\n

An ever-loyal friend and colleague, Jackie has devoted herself to creating online access<\/a> to the prodigious volume of first-class scientific research generated by our former colleague, Rupert Barneby<\/a>. With the help of a\u00a0National Science Foundation\u00a0grant, Jackie oversaw<\/a> the digitization of Rupert\u2019s specimens and of his publications on the bean or legume family, supplemented by correspondence and images.\u00a0Thanks to Jackie, Rupert\u2019s legacy is now available in a digital format for the benefit of current and future scientists around the world<\/p>\n

The New York Botanical Garden owes Jackie\u00a0a tremendous debt of gratitude for her years of dedicated, painstaking service.\u00a0I can\u2019t imagine the Herbarium without her.\u00a0I am in complete denial about her retirement. Fortunately, she\u2019ll be staying on as an Emeritus Curator, so I look forward to many more years of her company.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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