Mapping Australia

Lysa, from the USA,  is one of our new 2017-18 scholars; she is on the curatorial track.  Here she explains what she’s been doing.

A few weeks in and I am in full swing with a few projects. One of these projects includes mapping, identifying and labeling all plants in the Australian section with Dave, the intern from Australia. With some creativity and a whole lot of coffee, we have figured out how to approach this large project.  We are approaching it with makeshift maps, drawings/ diagrams of the sections, plant lists and taxonomic Eucalyptus books. We are making very good progress and are on map number three! All most finished and then will be learning and mapping plants in the Mediterranean section.

Draft map of the Australian section          Photo:  Elysa