The Society of Herbarium Curators at Botany 2020—Virtual!

The Society of Herbarium Curators was well-represented and active at Botany 2020—Virtual! in late July. Below, enjoy a few screenshots (in lieu of photographs) to get a sampling of SHC events at the virtual conference.

Above: Members of the SHC Executive Board met on July 27, 2020, using the Zoom platform. Here is our best impression of The Brady Bunch or Hollywood Squares (old television reference...).

The SHC Symposium 'Biodiversity Research Collecting is More Important Than Ever–Ushering in a Collecting Renaissance' offered up a stellar line-up of speakers, with presentations happening live (in real time) at the scheduled times on July 28, 2020.

The SHC Symposium followed a webinar format, with attendees able to interact with each other and post questions or comments for the presenter using the live chat window (see right-side panel). Presenters shared their presentation in the panel shown on the left, often with the presenter appearing in a small Zoom window in the upper right of their shared screen.

The SHC Symposium was well-received and inspired a flood of positive feedback, like these comments made in the chat window at the conclusion of the session.

As many as 34 people at any given time were participating in the annual SHC members meeting on July 30, 2020.

At the conclusion of the annual SHC members meeting, it was time for the traditional passing of the ceremonial vasculum, to mark the end of one president’s term and the beginning of another’s.

Pictured above, the vasculum passes from Patrick Sweeney (second person from the left at the top of the image)... [see next image].

The Vasculum passes from Patrick Sweeney to Erin Tripp (fourth person from left at the top of the image).