URSI Student Researchers Help Expand Access to Important Botanical Data
Photos by Karl Rabe. Video by Damian Zapien and Jim Sulley.
For more than a century, researchers at the 8,000-acre Mohonk Preserve, located about 15 miles west of the Vassar campus, have been documenting the changing ecology of the region, maintaining a laboratory of hundreds of species of plants and animals. That documentation includes the preserve’s herbarium, a collection of more than 3,000 pressed and dried plant specimens that have been collected and catalogued since the preserve was established. Read on…