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DESCRIPTION:With Austin Mast\, Director\, Robert K. Godfrey Herbarium and I
 nstitute for Digital Information & Sciences\n\n \n\nThursday\, April 9\, 2
 026\n\n12:00 PM-1:00 PM ET\n\nHybrid - Join us in person or on Zoom!\n\nFr
 ee\; preregistration required. Register >\n\n \n\nThe subtropics harbor a 
 diverse flora\, from the forests of southeastern North America and southea
 st Asia to the scrubs of the world’s Mediterranean climates to the arid 
 vegetation of most of the world’s deserts. This talk explores the plants
  of the subtropics and the people that appreciate them\, ultimately addres
 sing why collections of all types matter as we seek to understand our plan
 et and deliver an increasingly more sustainable world to our kids and gran
 dkids.\n\n \n\nABOUT THE SPEAKER\n\nAustin Mast is a Professor in Florida 
 State University’s Department of Biological Science where he serves as D
 irector of both FSU’s Robert K. Godfrey Herbarium and FSU’s Institute 
 for Digital Information & Scientific Communication. As a part of his leade
 rship of iDigBio (NSF’s National Resource for Advancing Digitization of 
 Biodiversity Collections)\, Austin thinks a lot about unlocking the expans
 ive potential of collections like herbaria and gardens. As a founding boar
 d member for the Citizen Science Global Partnership\, Austin thinks a lot 
 about the opportunities offered to organizations like the UN Statistics Di
 vision and the International Union for the Conservation of Nature by the p
 articipatory sciences. Austin’s happy place is at the intersection of bi
 odiversity\, geography\, history\, economics\, photography\, conservation\
 , and collections—a place that perhaps unexpectedly involves amassing a 
 world coin collection numbering in the thousands.
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LOCATION:North Carolina Botanical Garden
SUMMARY:Hybrid Lunchbox Talk: Plants in Pockets: A World Tour of Plants on 
 Subtropical Coins
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 -pockets
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