Mobile Imaging Team Presents at URSI Symposium

This summer, our EMMA mobile team travelled to four different Hudson Valley herbaria and digitized 6,400 specimens.  Two members of our team, Allison Carrenza ‘23 and Garrett Goodrich ‘23, participated as Fellows in Vassar’s Undergraduate Research Summer Institute (URSI).  On September 29, Garrett and Allison presented a poster about their work at the 2021 URSI symposium.  Their poster summarized progress on the EMMA digitization project, illustrated how digitized herbaria can be used to study the spread of invasive species, and outlined next steps for the project.  You can read more about the URSI symposium here: https://www.vassar.edu/news/summer-research-program-culminates-symposium-and-project-presentations 

Photo: Allison Carranza ‘23, Garreet Goodrich ‘23 and Professor Schlessman at the URSI symposium.