Lytro

I can't wait to to try out the new Lytro camera with it's post-capture focusing.

I just checked on their blog and it looks like I can head down to the Wired Store on 42nd St. to give it a try.

North American Lichens and Bryophytes

This excellent video describes the workflow for digitizing the New York Botanical Garden Herbarium's collection of North American Lichens and Bryophytes was produced our own Charles Zimmerman.

Herbarium in the news - Missouri Botanical Garden

Herbarium gets mainstream ink. Check out the article about the Herbarium at Missouri Botanical Garden in Popular Science.

“Biodiversity science isn’t often looked at as data-intensive, or as Big Data. But what we have is base data for all other science,” says Chris Freeland, director of the Center for Biodiversity Informatics at MBG.