Provider: University of Alaska, Anchorage
(Provider metadata last updated 2024-09-27)
| Code: | UAAH |
| Description: | The UAA Herbarium was originally created as a teaching collection for the Biological Sciences Department. The Alaska Natural Heritage Program (now Alaska Center for Conservation Science) took over management in the early 2000's. It is now the main repository for research activities by the ACCS. The collection contains about 20,000 specimens of vascular and nonvascular plants. THe collections are mostly from Alaska with an emphasis on non-native plants and rare plants. Regional emphases include otherwise poorly known areas such as Bering Sea Islands, Bering Glacier area of south-central Alaska, and remote regions of southwestern and northwestern Alaska. |
| Specialty: | Alaska; Alaska non-native and rare plants |
| Notable Collectors: | George Argus, Mary Stensvold, Carolyn Parker, Aline Strutz, Dave Murray, Reidar Elven, Tass Kelso, Rob Lipkin, Stephen Talbot. |
| Total Specimens: | 20,000 |
| Web Site: | https://accs.uaa.alaska.edu/vegetation/herbarium/ |
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| Contact: | Matthew Carlson, Curator Email: mlcarlson[at]uaa[dot]alaska[dot]edu Phone: 1-907-786-6390 |
| Address: | Herbarium/ACCS University of Alaska Anchorage 3211 Providence Drive Anchorage, AK 99508-8104 U.S.A. |
Dataset: Vascular Plants
| Name: | Vascular Plants |
| Data Access Point: | https://www.pnwherbaria.org/data/getdataset.php?File=UAAH_Vascular_DwCA.zip |
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| Contact: | Justin Fulkerson, Collections Manager Email: jrfulkerson[at]alaska[dot]edu Phone: 1-907-786-6387 |
| Licenses: | License for specimen data: Public Domain (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/). License for media, including photographs and images of specimens: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/). Users of the data are encouraged to acknowledge the source of the data if any of these records or media are used for publications, analyses, reports, or on web sites. The provider of the data, and its staff, are not responsible for damages, injury or loss due to the use of these data. Fitness of use must be determined by the user of the data. |
| Collection Size: | 17,765 |
| Records Indexed: | 17,668 |
| Data Last Updated: | 2024-08-23 16:03:52 |
| Metadata Updated: | 2024-09-27 |
