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<span class="normaltextrun"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;background:white">WEBINAR: HERBARIA: COLLECTIVELY SAVING PLANT AND FUNGAL BIODIVERSITY</span></span><span class="eop"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> </span></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="normaltextrun"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">*Webinar date/time: Friday January 8, 2021; 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM ET</span></span><span class="eop"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> </span></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="normaltextrun"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">*Duration: 1 hour</span></span><span class="eop"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> </span></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="normaltextrun"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">*What will you learn?</span></span><span class="eop"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> </span></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="normaltextrun"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">For nearly six centuries, scientists have been documenting the plants and fungi of the world through herbaria. The basic preparation of specimens that are housed in an
herbarium has changed relatively little over time. But the invention of this simple technology was a key innovation in transforming the study of these organisms from a minor subdiscipline of medicine into an independent scientific endeavor. In this webinar
based on her newly published book, </span></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><a href="https://nybgshop.org/herbarium-the-quest-to-preserve-and-classify-the-worlds-plants/" target="_blank"><span class="normaltextrun"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:blue">Herbarium:
The Quest to Preserve and Classify the World’s Plants</span></span></a></span><span class="normaltextrun"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">, Dr. Barbara Thiers discusses the intricate history of herbaria and how these biological
collections have allowed scientists to characterize and understand plant and fungi diversity on a global scale. </span></span><span class="eop"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> </span></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="normaltextrun"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">*Presenter: Dr. Barbara Thiers, Director of the William and Lynda </span></span><span class="spellingerror"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Steere</span></span><span class="normaltextrun"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> Herbarium
at The New York Botanical Garden, President of the American Society of Plant Taxonomists, and past president of the Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections</span></span><span class="eop"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> </span></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="normaltextrun"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">*Details and registration: </span></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><a href="https://www.nybg.org/event/herbaria-collectively-saving-plant-and-fungal-biodiversity/" target="_blank"><span class="normaltextrun"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:blue">https://www.nybg.org/event/herbaria-collectively-saving-plant-and-fungal-biodiversity/</span></span></a></span><span class="eop"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="normaltextrun"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">*Webinar hosted by: The New York Botanical Garden</span></span><span class="eop"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"> </span></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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