The ASU Herbarium is part of the
I am the curator of the ASU Herbarium, a repository of over 330,000 pressed, dried and archived plant specimens for long term study. An herbarium is often descrbied as "library" of plants and is a critical resource for biodiversity, ecological, and evolutionary research. We are accessed virtually and physiclly on a daily basis by students, staff, faculty, and the general public.
We are announcing a new course, offered during Session B of the 2016 Summer:
Species, Traits, and Trees - A Hands-On Introduction to Phylogenetic Systematics.
Click on the flyer (image) below for additional information. Enrollment is possible now.
2015 - present: M.Sc. Student in Biology, School of Life Sciences, ASU
2014 - B.Sc. in Biology & Ecology (with concentration in Marine Biology), Louisiana State University
2012 - A.Sc. in Natural Sciences (with concentration in Biology), Baton Rouge Community College
The Hasbrouck Insect Collection is named in honor of Dr. Frank F. Hasbrouck, an expert on the "burrowing webworm moth" family Acrolophidae (Lepidotera) who was recruited to Arizona State University in 1962. Hasbrouck presided over the collection for nearly 25 years. Under his energetic and meticulous curatorship, the collection grew from approximately 50,000 specimens - which had been accumulated gradually since the 1910s and mainly in service of teaching endeavors - to about 650,000 specimens.
Opportunities for making gifts in kind
Our specimens are available for study
The following paper was published in late 2015, with Nico Franz and Guanyang Zhang as ASU co-authors.
Thessen, A.E. et al. (including N.M Franz and G. Zhang). Emerging semantics to link phenotype and environment. PeerJ 3:e1470. Link to publication: https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1470
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Sponsors: School of Life Sciences ASU, Genome@ASU, Microbiology Graduate Students Association (MGSA), Biodiversity Knowledge Integration Center (BioKIC).