AT: BRIT’s Armchair Botanist Program with Tiana Rehman

Description: From brit.org/StaffDirectory/trehman : Tiana Rehman joined the BRIT staff in 2003 as Herbarium Collections Assistant and has been the Collections Manager of the BRIT herbarium since 2009. As such she facilitates the care, usage and growth of the plant collection housed in the BRIT herbarium, as well as its interpretation for the public. See brit.org.

She is involved in the BRIT Armchair Botanist program, whose goal is ” to make all our [herbarium] specimens available online (images and data) to further research and education…” She has made presentations requesting volunteer help of Texas Master Naturalists and other citizen scientists in digitalizing the specimens.

“Tiana’s M.S. in Environmental Science from Texas Christian University was earned while working at BRIT, and her thesis addressed the diversity and small-scale distribution of members of the Myristicaceae (nutmeg family of plants) at the Los Amigos Biological Station in Madre de Dios, Peru. She continues to be an active field botanist and has contributed specimens to local (Texas) and international (Peru, Costa Rica, Jamaica) floristics projects. Additionally, Tiana has interests in photography, microscopy and biodiversity informatics (e.g. Atrium Biodiversity Information System, Apiary Project).”