Training
Training is offered for postgraduate students (with a bachelor or master degree). By working alongside staff and assisting in a wide variety of tasks, students will gain working experience in
- Herbarium management (administration work and services)
- Plant and fungus collecting, drying, and pressing
- Identification of selected plants and fungi using diagnostic characteristics and keys (including on-line resources)
- Handling, filing and arrangement of herbarium specimens
- Biodiversity research based on literature, specimen labels, and other data
- Research involving molecular phylogenetics, chromosomes, or microscopic analyses of anatomical structures
- Digitisation and georeferencing of herbarium specimens including use of relevant databases (DiversityCollection, DiversityAgents)
- Data curation for online projects, e. g. Flora von Bayern, GBIF and The Mycology.Net
Period: The training comprises 6–8 weeks, and starting dates are decided on individually.
How to arrive: See Getting Here.
Expenses: Daily travel expenses can be compensated.
Contact: Dr. Andreas Beck.
Working experience (Report by M. Goetz).
Training material
- Diversity Workbench video tutorials
- Herbarium Example:
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