{"id":2886,"date":"2016-10-21T14:38:32","date_gmt":"2016-10-21T14:38:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.uwb.edu\/?p=2886"},"modified":"2025-02-19T11:59:14","modified_gmt":"2025-02-19T19:59:14","slug":"herbarium-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uwb.edu\/news\/2016\/10\/21\/herbarium-2","title":{"rendered":"Connecting wetlands to the world"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Story by Douglas Esser
\nPhotos by Marc Studer
\nUniversity of Washington Bothell lead gardener Tyson Kemper once discovered a new plant species.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Tyson<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Kemper, right, scored the rare scientific achievement more than a decade ago while exploring the wilds of Idaho and collecting plants, in the tradition of Lewis and Clark, for the University of Idaho herbarium (a plant library).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Tyson<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

He found a member of the carrot family like none that had ever been described before.
\nLomatium brunsfeldianum<\/a>, also known as Brunsfeld\u2019s desert parsley, belongs to a group of edible plants common to parts of Idaho and eastern Oregon. 足彩app哪个是正规的 plants were used by Native Americans and commonly known by residents as biscuit root.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not that they didn\u2019t already know about it,\u201d says Kemper, who named the plant after his adviser Steve Brunsfeld.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was a discovery in the sense it was a new \u201ctype species.\u201d 足彩app哪个是正规的 Latin name, the rigorous description and the details of its location were entered in a centuries-old classification system maintained by herbaria around the world. Kemper invented a bit of knowledge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201c足彩app哪个是正规的 herbarium creates taxonomy for plants, and then we know what we\u2019re looking at and can share that information,\u201d Kemper says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"herbarium<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

That\u2019s the value of a herbarium, a word that refers both to the collection and the place where specimens are pressed, dried and identified. Universities and botanical institutions maintain them, taking plants from dirt to digital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now, a small herbarium has sprouted at the University of Washington Bothell.<\/a> It\u2019s growing under the care of Kemper, the University\u2019s office of research and faculty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

UW Bothell\u2019s herbarium provides a critical authoritative record of plants occurring in the 58-acre campus wetland and the surrounding landscape, says Warren Gold, associate professor of environmental science and director of the University of Washington Restoration Ecology Network.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAs the vegetation changes through time in the wetland it will form a reliable record to help us and future researchers understand biological and habitat change in one of our regions\u2019 pre-eminent floodplain restoration projects,\u201d Gold says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

足彩app哪个是正规的 herbarium is also a valuable resource for classes such as BES 490 (Pacific Northwest Plants), BBIO 471 (Plant Ecology) and BES 316 (Ecological Methods). 足彩app哪个是正规的s use the herbarium to identify plants and practice careful scientific documentation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis herbarium is already playing an important role in fulfilling the mission of the Sarah Simonds Green Conservatory<\/a> to foster research and educate students and the general public about the natural world in our region,\u201d Gold says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kemper credits Caren Crandell with planting the seed for the UW Bothell Herbarium. A lecturer in the School of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences who teaches wetlands ecology, she donated some of her own money to get things started, Kemper says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With her funds, Crandell says one of her wetland students, Cindy Easterson, started the herbarium as a community engagement project and was the first collector. Crandell’s students use the herbarium for her wetland ecology and native plants classes. Herbarium experience is unusual for undergrads.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“足彩app哪个是正规的 botanical knowledge and other technical skills associated with herbarium work help their resumes stand out as they begin their job searches after graduation,” Crandell says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

足彩app哪个是正规的 herbarium, located in the conservatory, received an energy boost in the past year under the administration of Sarah Verlinde, left, of the office of research<\/a>. 足彩app哪个是正规的 2015 UW Bothell graduate in biology studied under Crandell. Verlinde also trained at the Otis Douglas Hyde Herbarium<\/a> at the UW in Seattle under curator Eve Rickenbaker. (This herbarium also has donated specimens to UW Bothell.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Sarah<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Now, Verlinde is applying to have the UW Bothell Herbarium recognized with the Index Herbariorum<\/a>, the international directory managed by the New York Botanical Garden. It accredits more than 3,400 herbaria in the world with about 350 million specimens, documenting the earth\u2019s vegetation for the past 400 years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

足彩app哪个是正规的 UW Bothell Herbarium will be posted online with the Pacific Northwest Herbarium Consortium<\/a>. 足彩app哪个是正规的 Burke Herbarium<\/a> at the UW in Seattle has offered server space. Collections manager David Giblin is giving Verlinde advice, and botanist Ben Legler is helping set up the database.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

足彩app哪个是正规的 herbarium is \u201cinstitutional infrastructure\u201d for studies of conservation, ecology, biodiversity, extinction, invasive plants and climate change, Verlinde says. It will serve taxonomists, biologists, ecologists and horticulturists around the globe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kemper, who earned bachelor\u2019s degrees in botany and English at the University of Washington in Seattle and a master\u2019s in evolutionary ecology at the University of Idaho, remains on the lookout for new species. While it\u2019s unlikely one will be found in the wetlands, there is a good possibility they could support rare plants, he says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\"<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

In addition to his labors in the wetlands and campus landscaping, Kemper also works with independent study students. Photo: Plant specimens are pressed between sheets of paper and cardboard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThat\u2019s why this place has been such a good fit for me because I can use both sides of my brain \u2013 to be able to educate as well as dig in the dirt \u2013 so important.\u201d Tyson says. \u201cNot bad for a gardener.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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