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Natural history collections and community science are increasingly recognized as important data sources for the study of global change biology. Natural history collections, such as herbaria, document changing diversity, distribution, phenology, morphology and genetics over decades and centuries. They also provide many opportunities for education and outreach in taxonomy, ecology and conservation. Community science initiatives, such as iNaturalist, likewise expand the range, in time and space, of data generated on species distributions and phenology and provide an engaging platform for education and outreach in natural history. The natural history collections and curated iNaturalist observations at RMBL serve an increasingly wide array of users and the herbarium is an important resource for plant identification and data archiving for scientists, students and the public. Over the next 5 years I plan to expand and improve the collections, facilitate access to collection data, and utilize natural history collections and community science for research, education and outreach.
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