Ongoing Projects

The Herbaria Basel are an important infrastructure for research, teaching, and outreach projects. Scientific projects span the fields of phylogenetic systematics, plant evolution, and global change.

You can do your masters project at the Herbaria Basel! Master projects that involve herbarium specimens are designed according to the interests of the students and are usually conducted in collaboration with the physiological plant ecology group at the department of environmental science.

Master projects

Learn more about what kind of master projects are offered at the Herbaria!

Digitizing the collections

We aim to digitize the entire Herbaria collection to make it accessible online to everybody!

Flora beider Basel

Together with the Verein Flora beider Basel a citizen-science project was...

Buxtorf herbarium

Learn more about this project soon...

digitizing fern specimens at the herbaria in Basel and Zurich

In the footsteps of Sarasin & Christ

In this project, we unlock the botanical treasure trove of the Sarasin cousins by conditioning, taxonomic updating, and digitizing thousands of Sarasin specimens in the Herbaria Basel and the United Herbaria Zurich. By expanding our digitization efforts to additional fern specimens in our herbaria, we will make 60'000 digital specimens publicly available for science and society.

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