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Herbarium BRIT Project Tarleton Herbarium Part of $1.49 Million BRIT Project
Tarleton State University is participating in a $1.49 million grant to digitize Texas herbarium collections received by the Botanical Research Institute of Texas. EBRIT received funding from the National Science Foundation to digitize herbarium specimens gathered in Texas and Oklahoma. Peter Frisch, Vice President of Research and Director of the BRIT Herbarium in Fort Worth, is the principal investigator for the project. “The project continues BRIT’s and Tarleton’s collaboration in research and education, bringing knowledge of the regional flora to the forefront of our communities while helping to address the global biodiversity crisis,” Fritsch said.
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The four-year project brings together 46 collaborating herbaria to mobilize the data from nearly two million plant specimens. It is primed for action by its strong integration with the Texas and Oklahoma Regional Consortium of Herbaria (TORCH, www.torcherbaria.org), which will help oversee the project. Coordination with Integrated Digitized Biocollections (idigbio.org) will facilitate team meetings, broader impact elements and data workflows, mobilization and access.
