From Plant Press, Vol. 25, No. 4, October 2022.
This summer, Sundre Winslow, an intern participating in the Natural History Research Experiences (NHRE), worked on a research project, “Tropical to Temperate Transitions in the Genus Prunus” with Richard Hodel, Jun Wen, and Elizabeth Zimmer. Winslow presented her findings at an NHRE symposium in the museum on August 4.
From June 20 to August 12, Alice Tangerini supervised summer intern to botany, Abigail (Abbey) Paradis. Paradis organized, labeled, and made folders for the hundreds of Cuatrecasas illustrations in the Botanical Art Collection, scanned 40 drawings to fulfill a request from a researcher, scanned 25 other new drawings for the Botanical Art Collection and helped scan and organize Poaceae drawings dating from the 1970s and 1980s. Using Adobe software, Paradis was able to optimize the resolution and improve images of the scans. She used Photoshop to improve digital photos for publications. She also illustrated a living specimen collected by Jason Grant from the SI Botanical Research Greenhouses that had been photographed by Leslie Brothers and vouchered but not yet identified. Her drawing, along with images of the specimens, proved it to be Commelina tuberosa from Ecuador, and has now been added to the Botanical Art Collection.
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