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News Spotlight: Digitizing 1.7 million specimens at the U-M Herbarium with AI

EEB Ph.D. student Will Weaver, RMC Collection Manager Brad Ruhfel, Prof. Stephen Smith, and project manager Kyle Lough, developed a Python-based application suite called VoucherVision to help speed up their digital workflow while reducing human error.

Salon: A fungal pandemic is massacring frogs, but scientists just found a virus that could lead to a cure

Over 500 species of amphibians are suffering major population declines due to BD while there have been 90 possible extinctions and near extinctions.

Herbarium

The University of Michigan Herbarium is home to some of the finest botanical collections in the world. The 1.7 million specimens of vascular plants, algae, bryophytes, fungi, and lichens combined with the expertise of the faculty-curators, students, and staff provide a world-class facility for teaching and research in systematic biology and biodiversity studies.

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Carex swanii - Easily confused, especially when immature, with the larger Carex virescens Learn More