Volunteer as a citizen scientist! “Take Notes From Nature” – transcribe museum and herbarium records of your favorite organisms. There is something for everyone – familiar localities, many historic collections, and a number of cryptogams themselves managed to get their pictures taken. The Farlow Herbarium is part of a scientific collaborative digitizing its vast natural history collections. The data are important to researchers and policy makers, so your volunteer help would be greatly appreciated. Earn points and badges, such as the Spore, Mycelium, and Mushroom badges.

1. Digitization & Citizen Science
Farlow Herbarium
Harvard University Herbaria

2. Web Portals to Herbarium Collections

3. Behind the Scenes: Digitization:
Minimal Data Entry

4. Behind the Scenes:
Digital Photos of Labels

5. Set-up for photographing labels

6. Cetraria oakesiana - Lichen and its Label
(collection from Mt. Liberty, NH
by Clara E. Cummings in 1892)

7. Gasparrinia elegans from
Canadian Arctic, winter of 1915-1916

8. Bacidia beckhausii on
reindeer bones from Alaska (1958)

9. Cetraria arenaria from
Mt. Desert Island, ME (1876)

10. Flavoparmelia caperata from
Willoughby Mt., VT; Faxon (1884)

11. Cladonia stellaris from
Lake of the Clouds, NH (A. H. Moore in 1902)

12. Rinodina from Charlotte, VT (collected by
C. G. Pringle in 1879)

13. Dibaeis from Petersham, MA
(W. G. Farlow in 1890)

14. Dermatocarpon from Jamaica Plain,
collected by Faxon (1882)

15. Lichen & Bryophytes: Volunteer:
http://lbcc1.acis.ufl.edu/

16. Create Your Own Expedition or
Record Set Link

17. Create an Account and
Login to Portal

18. A Record Set in Lichen Portal
• Click on Symbiota ID

19. Web Form to transcribe label data
• C.A. Robbins collection of Cladonia from Wareham

20. Clara E. Cummings collection of
Rhizocarpon from Wellesley

21. Faxon collection of Pseudocyphellaria
from Jamaica Plain

22. Example of a label for data capture

23. Example of data record in need of
completion

24. Record collector number and date

25. Record County and Locality

26. Record verbatim elevation in
meters or feet
Hit ‘Tab’ key and elevation in
Meters automatically fills-in

27. Capture habitat and substrate

28. Web form includes Tools
to add Coordinates

29. Use tool to insert coordinate values
Click “Insert” and Lat/Long
automatically fills-in

30. Example for inserting UTM Values

31. Save Edits from Completed Form

32. Success!
Edits submitted and activated

33. Site for Macrofungi Collections and
more: notesfromnature.org

34. Login for Notesfromnature.org

35. Collections include Macrofungi

36. Macrofungi: Welcome Screen

37. Macrofungi: Welcome Screen

38. A macrofungal label to transcribe

39. Click and drag a square around label,
then click “Start this Record”

40. Clavaria label to transcribe

41. Country: United States

42. State: Vermont

43. County: Windham

44. Habitat and locality: beech-maple birch-hemlock
woods; 1 mi. south of Williamsville

45. Date: August 14, 1961

51. Happy 90th Anniversary of the
Farlow!