Coffee with a Curator

On the last Friday of every month at 2 PM EST, we hold a zoom meeting open to chapter members and non-members alike. Meeting topics may be specific or be a casual Q & A. Anyone working in herbaria is welcome to attend. All meetings are recorded and will be posted on this site, along with upcoming topics.

Spring 2026 - We are continuing our fall theme of "Welcome to the Herbarium," where speakers will give presentations about their collections and maybe even a virtual tour! Please contact us if you'd like to participate!

April 17th: Megan King will give an overview of the Chrysler Herbarium with her talk entitled: A Decade of Growth: The Chrysler Herbarium and the Herbarium Army.

Links to previously recorded zoom sessions:

Andrea Weeks discussing SISRIS
Alan Weakley on the Vascular Flora of the SE United States
Herrick Brown on the future of SERNEC
Maribeth Latvis, newly appointed Director of the University of Arkansas Herbarium (UARK), gives research seminar
Katie Pearson from Symbiota will discuss updates to the platform and answer questions
Ryan Schmidt presenting "Hidden cargo: The impact of historical shipping trade on the recent-past and contemporary non-native flora of northeastern United States.
Alexandra Faidiga discussing the use of herbarium specimens to study phenology
Lauren Esserman discussing the use of specimen data in conservation research.
D. Rabern Simmons giving a talk entitled "The Purdue University Herbaria: stolen samples, conflicting classifications, and beyond."
Meredith Woodward presenting: The State of Herbaria in TN
Chris Waters presenting: Looking to the past to inform the future: What eDNA from herbarium specimens can tell us about plant–animal interactions
Jennie Kluse, Shirley C. Tucker Herbarium (LSU & NO) and Bernard Lowy Mycological Herbarium (LSUM)
Mac Alford, University of Southern Mississippi Herbarium (USMS)
Jennifer Mandel, Director, University of Memphis Herbarium (MEM)
Clara Minnich at Marshall University Herbarium (MUHW) presenting on Herbarium DNA: A Complicated History of the Destructive Sampling Paradox
Garret Billings presenting: UT Herbarium Tour and Updates: Fungi Friends and the Great Fern Reshuffle
Demetra Kandalepas at The Glen N. Montz Herbarium at Southeastern Louisiana University (SELU): The Herbarium We Nearly Lost: A Virtual Walk-Through and Revival
Megan King at Rutgers University presenting: A Century and a Decade: Chrysler Herbarium and the Herbarium Army

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