Herbarium Assistant

Job description

Summary: This position provides operational support for core herbarium activities and research projects. Primary duties include filing, sorting, locating, pulling, imaging, and databasing specimens by request of Garden researchers and collaborators. Additionally, Herbarium Assistants support the herbarium’s integrated pest management program, freezing material and monitoring for pests in the collection. Essential Duties and Responsibilities: employees/students/volunteers of safety guidelines, methods to reduce hazards. Supervisory Responsibilities: This position has no staff supervisory responsibilities, but may train and oversee volunteers, interns, and student workers. - Sorts, files, processes and distributes plant specimens. - Works with databases, entering, verifying, correcting information and imaging objects utilizing herbarium specimens and library resources. - Works with herbarium records database, entering data and tracking inter-institutional shipping transactions. - Georeferences data (i.e. assigns geographic coordinates that links it to a geographic location on a map; converting it into computer readable form), to prepare it for analyses. - Answers inquiries regarding...