Our Crowdfunding Groups
Crowdfund UC Davis thanks all of the donors who gave to this important project in October. This campaign has closed, but we are grateful for your support!
We are delighted to announce that the larger funding proposal that forms the context for our UC Davis Crowdfund effort has been perfected and submitted to NSF! Titled "Digitization, Enrichment and Quality Control of U.S. Herbarium Data from Tropical Africa", this project is the collaborative effort by 21 herbaria to image over 1 million plant specimens for global use. Organized by Dr. A. Townsend Peterson, University of Kansas, curators at these herbaria ARIZ, BH, BRIT, BRU, BRY, CM, DAV, F, GH, KSP, LSU, MIN, MO, PH, PUL, NY, RSA, UC, US, UT and YU contributed to this effort, along with colleagues at University of Ghana, National Herbarium of Gabon, University of Rwanda and University of Malawi). All participating students will have the opportunity to develop a research project using the herbarium data generated and to present their results at an annual virtual symposium.
This Euphorbia nyikae var. neovolkenseii was collected in Tanzania in 1984 by Missouri Botanical Garden collector Roy Gereau. Missouri Botanical Garden (MO) has over 667,000 Africa specimens.
Thank you for donating this week, we met our match challenge and have reached 60% of our goal!
Ethnobotanical collections of Azadirachta indica go out to the world!
An anonymous donor (who might be one of our Moms) has agreed to match donations this week up to $250! Your donation will go twice as far this week!
Thank you for sending Euphorbia glanduligera out to the world!
Your gift of $5 will cover the entire process cost of posting the image and data of one African plant specimen online.
Your gift of $25 will pay for the imaging training session of our African Specimen Imaging Project intern.
Your gift of $75 will cover the cost of the imaging and data capture of 20 African plant specimens.
Your gift of $125 will take a big bite out of the collections reorganization needed for this project, allowing us to locate and refile 25% of our African collections in dedicated folders.
