University of Alaska Museum - ALA Herbarium

From Field Notes to Herbarium Sheets: Chasing the World’s Smallest Forests

Graduate student Cuyler Bleecker is having a good ol' time exploring liverworts of the smallest forests in his home of Hawaiʻi and for his M.S. studies here at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. He contributed to recent bryological research in Hawaiʻi that has significantly expanded knowledge of liverwort diversity, documenting 30 new island records and seven species newly recorded for the state, published…...

From Field Notes to Herbarium Sheets: Chasing the World’s Smallest Forests Graduate student Cuyler Bleecker is having a good ol’ time exploring liverworts of the smallest forests in his home of Hawaiʻi and for his M.S. studies here at the University of Alaska Fairba…

Great to reconnect with Alison at the herbarium this week. Lots of chat about polyploidy and endopolyploidy with Stefanie Ickert-Bond

The Arctic’s polyploid haven in Arabidopsis kamchatica Back at the Boise Botany meeting 11 years ago, I first met Alison Scott, then a PhD student at UW Madison presenting her poster on polyploidy in Sequioa. Fast forward to today- she is at ALA, furio…

Visiting researcher Dr. Bruce Robart reviewed specimens of the Pedicularis sudetica complex at ALA.

From sheets to solutions: Unraveling the Pedicularis sudetica complex During a recent week-long visit to the ALA herbarium, Dr. Bruce Robart, a visiting researcher from the University of Pittsburgh and the author of the Pedicularis treatment for the Flora of North Am…

More fun with tropical plants at ALA, check it out. Scott Armbruster has been visiting ALA nearly every summer for the last 15 years or so working on his Dalechampia collections.

Just another day in the Arctic – working with tropical plants Research Associate of the Herbarium (ALA) at the UA Museum of the North, UAF and former faculty member in the Institute of Arctic Biology Dr. W. Scott Armbruster is one of the world experts on the …

Great fun with the students from Anderson school visiting ALA, processing their plants specimens, exploring the herbarium and making some miniature herbarium sheets for gifting. Thanks Uwe Kaden for teaching the kids and bringing them to Fairbanks!

Anderson School visit – from the field to the cabinet Five students visited the University of Alaska Museum of the North Herbarium Wednesday from Anderson school to process their specimens and learn about the herbarium, how to mount plants and explore…

Charles Edwin Bessie Teaching Award from the Botanical Society of America Honored to have been selected as the recipient of the Charles Edwin Bessie Teaching Award by the Botanical Society of America. The award was given at the recent joint annual meeting of the Botanica…

Thanks for all the great mentors in my career, especially Kathleen Pigg, Don Pinkava, and many others, and for the wonderful instructional designers at eCampus for cheering me on and allowing me to be creative. To all the students for their patience and willingness to be cured of plant blindness :)

Congratulations to Dr. Stefanie (Steffi) Ickert-Bond, this year's Charles Edwin Bessey Teaching Award recipient! This award celebrates educators whose work has impacted botanical education at a regional, national and/or international level.

To learn more about Steffi, and this award visit: https://botany.org/home/awards/awards-for-established-scientists/charlesebesseyaward.html

We are a network of educators, researchers, and data managers working to improve educational outcomes by providing STEM undergraduates and instructors with access to environmental data about the changing North, to build ecological knowledge, quantitative literacy, and engagement through inquiry. AKDaTUM is a RCN-UBE Incubator funded by NSF Award # 2120710. Our first workshop will be January 20-21, 2022 via Zoom, …...

AKDatUM – we are holding our first workshop – 20/21 Jan. 2022 We are a network of educators, researchers, and data managers working to improve educational outcomes by providing STEM undergraduates and instructors with access to environmental data about the ch…

Due to COVID restriction BIOL331 Systematic Botany will be offered as an online option again this year at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. Are you interested in learning about the Flora of Alaska as well as getting familiar with some unique approaches to delivering a systematic botany course online, this might be the one for you. One of the hallmarks of systematic botany courses is the hands-on learning experience in a laboratory setting....

Systematic Botany – BIOL331 – Delivered asynchronously again this semester Due to COVID restriction BIOL331 Systematic Botany will be offered as an online option again this year at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. Are you interested in learning about the Flora of Alask…

Pumpkin, squash, and turnip fest at ALA in 2021 The annual UA Museum Halloween open house is "closed" this year. Access to the downstairs collections is not granted due to COVID-19. So we were tasked to get creative and produce short videos on our collections and their connection to Halloween. While the theme of this year's Halloween event is bones, we opted to rather talk about the history of pumpkin carving and highlight some interesting botanical facts on pumpkins, turnips and root vegetables and fruits. Check it out.

A brief history of pumpkin carving and other botanical tidbits Pumpkin, squash, and turnip fest at ALA in 2021 The annual UA Museum Halloween open house is “closed” this year. Access to the downstairs collections is not granted due to COVID-19. So …

I am excited to share the recording of the public defense by our Ph.D. student Else Demeulenaere last Wednesday. It was a gang buster event with 115 zoom attendants, representing many different communities, kinds of disciplinary expertise, leadership roles, geographies and time zones. Else is part of a joint Ph.D. program with the University of Alaska Fairbanks and the University of Guam....

Impressive dissertation defense I am excited to share the recording of the public defense by our Ph.D. student Else Demeulenaere last Wednesday. It was a gang buster event with 115 zoom attendants, representing many different com…

So excited to announce the Ph.D. dissertation defense by my student Else Demeulenaere. Please join us at her PhD defense October 13, 2021, 3:30 PM Alaska time! Please email Else Demeulenaere for Zoom Access: [email protected]

Her work at the intersection of biogeography, ethnoecology, social justice and activism is centered around the Indo-Pacific mimosoid plant genus Serianthes. She did an absolutely amazing job with it and has charted new ground for the integration of these disparate disciplines, inferring phylogenetic relationships and biogeography, promoting traditional ecological knowledge systems alongside Indigenous governance structures and advocating succinctly for a co-production of knowledge....

Ph.D. Dissertation Defense: Else Demeulenaere – 13 Oct. 2021 So excited to announce the Ph.D. dissertation defense by my student Else Demeulenaere. Please join us at her PhD defense October 13, 2021, 3:30 PM Alaska time! Please email Else Demeulenaere for Zo…