[PCA] Norton Brown Herbarium may close

[Sylvan Kaufman]

The people to address a letter of support for the Herbarium are:

Dr. Craig Beyrouty, Dean of the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources
beyrouty at umd.edu
University of Maryland
College of Agriculture and Natural Resources
Office of the Dean
1296 Symons Hall
7998 Regents Drive
College Park, MD 20742-5551

Dr. Angus Murphy, Chair of Plant Science and Landscape Architecture
asmurphy at umd.edu
2104 Plant Sciences Building
College Park, MD 20742

Thanks!

Sylvan

On Mon, Oct 24, 2016 at 11:20 AM, Ulloa Bustos, Maria <mulloabustos at blm.gov>
wrote:

> Hi Sylvan,
>
> Do you have their names to write letters of support to the Chair of the
> Plant Sciences department and Dean of the College of Agriculture and
> Natural Resources that house the herbarium?
>
> Thanks, Maria
>
>
> On Sat, Oct 22, 2016 at 12:37 PM, Sylvan Kaufman <sylvan.kaufman at gmail.com
> > wrote:
>
>> I learned this week from the Director of the Norton Brown Herbarium at
>> University of Maryland that it will close unless the Director can find
>> $100,000 in operating expenses each year starting in 2017.  This herbarium
>> is the state herbarium for Maryland .
>>
>> Does anyone have advice about how to either find outside funding or
>> convince the University that they should fund the operating budget?  I have
>> put the message out to several Maryland conservation-related listserves in
>> the hopes that people will write letters of support to the Chair of the
>> Plant Sciences department and Dean of the College of Agriculture and
>> Natural Resources that house the herbarium.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Sylvan
>>
>> --
>> Sylvan Kaufman
>> phone: 410-310-0160
>> www.SylvanGreenEarth.com
>> www.InvasivePlantGuide.com
>>
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> Maria T. Ulloa
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Sylvan Kaufman
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www.SylvanGreenEarth.com
www.InvasivePlantGuide.com
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