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One of our State's botanists, Kerry Barringer, has updated the regional lists for our diminutive friends the mosses, liverworts, and slimemold.  Kerry's passion for this group of small plants and the fascinating slime molds  has yielded a great web site with modern taxonomic lists of species.  The lists are annotated with collection history and county wide information making them an important contribution to the knowledge on ther Flora of New Jersey.  Kerry's lists can be … [Read more...] about Updated lists for NJ Bryophytes and Slime Molds now available on line

Lidar, light distance and ranging, is a relatively new technological advance in imaging.  Using lasers mounted on planes or ground based vehicles, this device captures millions of distance measurements that can be manipulated using computer software to produce visual displays that are both spectacular and more acturate than normal photography.  A recent National Geographic television show provided a glimpse of how useful this imagry is for archaeology.  The researchers have used … [Read more...] about Lidar as a tool for botanical surveys