[Ccb_faculty] Fwd: THURSDAY - CalBotSoc Botany Speaker: Dr. Mare Nazaire

Mon Feb 9 17:38:00 PST 2026

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Subject: THURSDAY - CalBotSoc Botany Speaker: Dr. Mare Nazaire
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Feb 12 @ 7pm - "Collaborations between herbaria and archives: creating the
extended specimen network"
*THURSDAY, February 12, 2026 7-8 pm PT*

Botany Speaker

*Mare Nazaire*
*"Collaborations between herbaria and archives: creating the extended
specimen network"*
*TALK DESCRIPTION*

New initiatives in the digitization of herbarium specimens and scientific
archives have given rise to the Extended Specimen Network (ESN)–a
conceptual framework that places specimens at its center and connects them
to disparate types of materials, including field photographs, field notes,
maps, and more, to build a vast network of digital resources. Through a
National Science Foundation Infrastructure Capacity for Biological Research
grant, the Herbarium at California Botanic Garden and the Library at the
Botanical Research Institute of Texas have partnered in an effort to
preserve and provide physical and digital access to the collections of
renowned American botanist and photographer, Sherwin J. Carlquist
(1930–2021). Carlquist is best known for his significant contributions to
the fields of island biogeography, evolutionary ecology, and wood anatomy.

Carlquist amassed more than 190,000 collection objects during his
productive 70+ year career, including herbarium vouchers, wood specimens,
specimen material preserved in spirits, microscope anatomy slides,
photographs, negatives, slides, index envelopes, and field notebooks. This
collaborative project, now in year four, aims to (1) curate the
comprehensive Carlquist collection for long-term preservation; (2) digitize
and mobilize the collection’s data; (3) link transcribed collection
information, images, and metadata across all plant collections and archival
objects; and (4) publish and make linked collection data publicly available
through open-access platforms. ESN linkages created through this project
have potential to facilitate immediate application to a suite of research
areas, including systematics, wood anatomy, ecology, biogeography, island
biology, phenology, plant conservation, history of science, plant
humanities, digital humanities, and archival theory and practice. The
Sherwin Carlquist Collection ESN project represents a unique opportunity
for the collaboration of two different but interconnected disciplines to
shepherd the way in which herbaria and archive communities envision,
implement, and utilize ESNs within and between their collections. Project
successes, challenges, and lessons learned during will be highlighted in
this presentation.

Collaborators: Ana Niño (BRIT), Jason H. Best (BRIT), Krishna Shenoy
(BRIT), Sam Ekberg (BRIT)
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*BIO*

Mare Nazaire is the Curator of the Herbarium at California Botanic Garden
and Assistant Professor at Claremont Graduate University. She received her
Ph.D. in botany from Washington State University in 2013. Mare has worked
as a botanist for over 25 years in locations throughout the United States,
including New England, the Southwest, and the Pacific Northwest. Her
research focuses on the systematics and biogeography of *Mertensia*
(Boraginaceae),
floristics of California, and aquatic vascular plants. In the Herbarium
Mare has directed several grant-funded collection improvement and
digitization projects, including the Carlquist Extended Specimen Network
project. She is a taxon editor for the Flora of North America (FNA) and has
authored several treatments for FNA.

Collaborators: Ana Niño (BRIT), Jason H. Best (BRIT), Krishna Shenoy
(BRIT), Sam Ekberg (BRIT)
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*UPCOMING DATES: *

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University of California, Merced
Saturday, April 25, 2026
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  *Upcoming Botany Talks: *

12-Feb: Mare Nazaire, Curator of the Herbarium at California Botanic
Garden, Assistant Professor at Claremont Graduate University

12-Mar: TBA

9-Apr: TBA

14-May: TBA

11-Jun: Sarah Jacobs, California Academy of Sciences

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