Congratulations to the 2025 Jim Jokerst Field Botany Grants in Support of Research!
We have two winners this year:
Maredith Cassandra Berdeja, “The Effects of Fire Intensity on Soil Microbial Communities and Ectomycorrhizal Fungi in Blue Oak Woodlands”, (under the direction of Dr. Gerald M. Cobian, Biological Sciences, California State University – Chico).
Jamie Hunyor, “Investigating gametophytic characters in Timmiella anomala (Bruch & W. P. Schimper) Limpricht and Timmiella crassinervis (Hampe) L. Koch”, (under the direction of Dr. Benjamin Carter, Senior Environmental Scientist, California Department of Fish and Wildlife).
The Ahart Herbarium is open to the public!
Open hours are Fridays 9:00 am to 5:00 pm.
The Ahart Herbarium allows scientists, students, state agencies, and visitors to see and examine more than 115,300 North State plants, dating from the pre-1930s to today. This living laboratory and historical archive helps us study regional plants, identify rare species, and recover genetic information—it is a critical resource as our changing climate rapidly reshapes local ecosystems.
For more information about the Ahart Herbarium, please visit www.csuchico.edu/herbarium/index.shtml
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Explore the CHSC specimen collection
Please go to the Consortium of California Herbaria for further exploration