ANNOUNCEMENT: VISITING LICHENOLOGIST PROGRAM AT MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY HERBARIUM

[Michael]

ANNOUNCEMENT: VISITING LICHENOLOGIST PROGRAM AT MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY
HERBARIUM

The Michigan State University Herbarium (MSC) is offering a unique
opportunity for lichen study. The Herbarium has recently been awarded a
grant from The National Science Foundation for curatorial improvement of
the Herbarium's collection. A portion of this funding is set aside to
cover travel costs for lichenologists interested in performing
specimen-based research at MSC. The projects should result in annotation of
specimens and other curatorial improvements to the collections. Both
floristic and monographic projects can be supported. The duration of the
visit is open, though we expect that most visits will be for 1-2 weeks.
Researchers will be encouraged to set aside specimens for loans for
longer-term study.  We will soon have a curatorial assistant for lichens
(Alan Fryday, PhD University of Sheffield, UK) and we encourage visits
after his arrival on 1 June 1999. The program will continue through fall
2000.

The herbarium's lichen collections consist of over 145,000 specimens and is
one of the largest collections in North America. The collections emphasize
the Great Lakes and Rocky Mountain Regions of North America, the Caribbean
Islands, Subtropical Latin America, and Southern Hemisphere Islands groups
(e.g. Falkland Islands, Kerguelen Islands, Juan Fernandez Islands) as well
as an extensive collection of exsiccatae. Many of the specimens were
collected by Dr. Henry Imshaug and his students in the 1940s-1970s, and
have only recently been accessioned and made available for study.

For information on how to take advantage of this opportunity, please
contact Dr. Alan Prather, Michigan State University Herbarium, Department
of Botany & Plant Pathology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI
48824-1312. Phone (517) 355-4695, or email alan at pilot.msu.edu



Alan Prather
166 Plant Biology, Wilson Road
Botany & Plant Pathology
Michigan State University
East Lansing, MI 48824-1312

(517) 355-4695
fax (517) 353-1926

http://pilot.msu.edu/unit/botany/herbarium/prather.htm