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American Botanical Collector and Herbarium Curator
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In 2017, Susanna Wooten led the digitization of the Ozark Herbarium’s 42,000-specimen collection, not by outsourcing, but by training undergraduate interns in specimen georeferencing and taxonomic verification using live field cross-checks in the St. Francois Mountains. Her approach fused traditional botanical rigor with open-source metadata standards, making the collection the first regional herbarium in the Midwest to achieve full GBIF compliance without institutional grant dependency. She insists on handwritten habitat notes alongside digital records, preserving observational nuance, like soil pH shifts recorded during drought years or pollinator behavior noted beside pressed specimens. Her curation philosophy treats each sheet not as data, but as a time-stamped ecological witness: she once halted a loan request because the requesting lab lacked protocols for handling specimens collected from fire-adapted longleaf pine understories. This isn’t archiving, it’s active stewardship of biogeographic memory.
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