Herbarium Resource Coordinator
Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden Center for Tropical Plant Conservation
11935 Old Cutler Road
Miami, FL 33156 USA
Phone 305/667-1651, ext.3427
Fax 305/665-8032
lwoodbury@fairchildgarden.org

Fields of Interest & Roles in Research Department:

• Management of Fairchild Herbarium.
• Supervision and training of 40 volunteers who contribute 2,400 hours annually.
• Accession ca. 3,500 new specimens annually.
• Request, receive, and send out herbarium loans for taxonomic study.
• Distribute duplicate specimens through continuing exchange programs with other herbaria.
• Documentation with herbarium vouchers of the four research programs: South Florida Plants & Environments, Caribbean Biodiversity, Palm Biology, Tropical Fruit.

Current Projects:

• Initiate and develop original Access pilot database of the herbarium, beginning with cycads.
• Catalog more than 2,000 original botanical illustrations into herbarium archives; ready fern & gymnosperm illustrations for Volume 1, Flora of Florida.
• Develop herbarium policy documents and record collections use logs for grant proposals.
• Expand accession format to include taxa and distribution data.
• Establish Fairchild Herbarium as the authoritative repository for South Florida plants.

Selected Publications using Fairchild Herbarium Collaborations:

Cizek, L. & N. Watkins
The Age of Mahogany.
[As a result of my work with Tim Schreiner, the editor, photographs of two Fairchild herbarium specimens appeared in this national magazine.]
Home Furniture. 14: 34-4 1. Dec 97/ Jan 98.

Hammer, R. L. 1997.
The Importance of Herbarium Specimens.
Florida Exotic Pest Plant Council Newsletter. Vol. 7, No. 1.

Woodbury, L. & G. Drake. 1997.
The Herbarium Process.
Gatehouse Museum of Plant Exploration. Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden.

Professional and Service Activities:

• Instruct university classes on herbarium use and policy.
• Share inventory and taxonomic accession information to include in the Atlas of Florida.
• Welcome and assist visitors, staff, scientists, students to investigate the Fairchild collections; provide identification service.
• Continue education by attending university classes and seminars.