[Taxacom] Master’s Degree in Floristics, Rocky Mountain Herbarium

[Ronald L. Hartman]

POSITION AVAILABLE
Master’s Degree in Floristics, Rocky Mountain Herbarium
     The Rocky Mountain Herbarium (RM) seeks students interested in broad-scale floristics. Successful applicants are expected to be highly motivated and capable of working with limited supervision (2-4 week’s training/participation by staff, 2 summers). The RM has completed 65 major inventories (>570,000 numbered collections) in Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Kansas, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, Oregon, South Dakota, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming during the past 31 years with the goal of producing an eflora of the Rocky Mountain region. The RM/RMS has >880,000 accessions, 1.2 million acquisitions; the plant specimen database contains 700,000 records. Since 2000, 24 (of 46 total) students have completed, or are in, the program. Relevant readings: Syst. Bot., 2004, 29: 15-28, 216-220; Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard., 2000, 87: 81-109.
      Recent (since 2006) floristic inventories include: Carson NF (15,500 numbered collections), Vermejo Park Ranch (7.5k) NM; Cimarron/Comanche NG (8.5k) KS/CO, e. slope San Juans (11k) CO; BLM wetlands (7.5k), e. slope Wind Rivers (9.5k), Grand Teton NP (8.5k), Snowy Range (Med. Bow NF) and surrounding BLM lands (13k) WY; “greater” Beartooth region (14k), Lewis & Clark NF (10k), Pryor Mtns. (BLM/FS, 5k by staff), Ashland/Sioux districts (Custer NF, 6.5k, yr. 1) MT. New projects include: White River NF, CO and Salmon/Challis NF, ID.  
      Documents describing the floristics program (esp. “General Information for Floristics Proposals [the Boiler Plate]), the RM specimen database, and the Atlas of Vascular Plants of Wyoming are at www.rmh.uwyo.edu/ (botany program: uwadmnweb.uwyo.edu/botany/). Special projects include specimen processing, databasing, and/or imaging for RM type specimens (Mellon Foundation), 40k collections (Shoshone NF), Missouri Plateau (NSF through Black Hills State), and Grand Teton NP (UW-NPS). Additionally, 20-25k specimens are processed and databased annually. The imaging program is collaborative with UW Libraries. B. E. Nelson, manager, assists with most aspects of the program. Professor Gregory Brown, bromeliad specialists, plays a crucial role with courses in systematics. Hartman also specializes in Caryophyllaceae (FNA, Missouri, San Juan Flora, Jepson Manual), Asteraceae (FNA, selected genera), and Apiaceae (FNA, w. core genera) and is a member of the FNA board. 
      Ronald L. Hartman, University of Wyoming, Rocky Mountain Herbarium, Department of Botany, Dept. 3165, 1000 E. University Ave., Laramie, WY  82071; 307/766-2236; rhartman at uwyo.edu.
Deadline for Graduate Applications, 1 February 2009.