As a society, we are standing with The Duke Herbarium and request that Duke University reconsider the decision to divest their herbarium. We ask that you also consider adding your support by signing this petition (https://www.change.org/p/urge-duke-university-to-reconsider-closing-their-herbarium) organized by AIBS, iDigBio, NSCA, and SPNHC with the support of ASPT, ABLS, BSA, and SHC.
ASPT Members Invited to Participate in Biological Sciences Congressional District Visits Event! Register by July 10, 2019.
As the ASPT Promotional Materials Committee prepares to design a poster for Botany 2019 in Tucson, Arizona, we request your images for inclusion as part of this year's poster.
Application Deadline: September 1, 2019
Seeking a part-time faculty member to instruct a Master's-level course in systematics at Western Connecticut State University, Spring 2020.
The Billie L. Turner Plant Resources Center at the University of Texas at Austin has an opening for the Assistant Curator of the herbaria. This is a full-time, non-research position with benefits. Collections include more than a million specimens, and the Curator and Assistant Curator work with a number of part-time hourly employees (mainly undergraduate students) to keep the facility running.
Denver Botanic Gardens seeks a Head Curator to coordinates the growth, improvement, and support of biodiversity research efforts and maintain all natural history collections at the highest industry standards.
H. T. Harvey & Associates has an immediate opening in their Los Gatos office for an experienced senior-level plant ecologist and permitting expert.
Dr. W. Mark Whitten, Senior Biological Scientist at the University of Florida Herbarium, died April 11, 2019. Mark was an ASPT member for over 25 years.
The Payette National Forest is recruiting one Botany Technician intern May 28, 2019 through November 8, 2019. The incumbent will be primarily working with on Botany Program surveys.
Student members can apply to have up to $100 of their field trip fees for Botany 2019 reimbursed! Take advantage of this great opportunity to learn more about the botany of the region. To apply, please fill the form at the bottom of the conference web page (http://www.botanyconference.org/field-trips.html).
The Bioinformatics Postdoctoral Research Associate will process large genomic sequences in a LINUX command–line environment.