Sunday, March 3: NYBG Herbarium Tour with Laura Briscoe

Please join us for our first event of 2024, New York Botanical Garden Herbarium Tour with bryologist Laura Briscoe*,* on Sunday, March 3 @ 11 AM.

RESERVATIONS: This event is FREE! However, we have limited space available. If you are interested in participating in this event, please email [metropolitannaturalhistory@gmail.com](mailto:metropolitannaturalhistory@gmail.com). Once your reservation is confirmed, details on the meeting point will be emailed to you. Facebook and Meetup ''attendance" will NOT be considered as a reservation.

EVENT DESCRIPTION: Join bryophyte specialist, Laura Briscoe for a tour of the herbarium at the New York Botanical Garden (NYBG). During the tour, you will be able to see NYBG's amazing botanical collection and hear about the history and ongoing research at this renowned natural history institution.

Laura Briscoe is the Assistant Director of the Herbarium, overseeing the Cryptogamic Collections at the New York Botanical Garden. She received her BA in Human Ecology at the College of Bar Harbour in Maine, with a focus on botany and museum studies, and her MS on liverwort taxonomy, morphology and evolution at Northwestern University and the Chicago Botanical Garden. She also worked as a Curatorial Assistant at the Field Museum in Chicago for a decade. For her research, Laura has traveled to Chile and Fiji. At NYBG she manages close to two million collections of algae, bryophytes, lichens and fungi and is currently overseeing the digitization of lichens and bryophytes outside of North America.

HEALTH & SAFETY: Participants are required to follow any NYBG coronavirus guidelines while in the Herbarium.

NB: A photographer will be taking photos of this event for our website. If you attend this event and do not wish to have your photo posted to our website, PLEASE let us know in your reservation and we will accommodate.

NB: By attending this event, you agree that The Metropolitan Society of Natural Historians, Inc., its officers, its event organizers and leaders are in no way responsible for any injuries, illness or property damage that occur during or as a result of this event or travel to and from the event location.