2008 Report
2008 represented the sixteenth year that the Student’s Volunteer Botanical Internship Program (SVBIP) has been run. Eleven interns completed the 2008 Program, representing nine institutions, making a total since the program's inception (1992) of 242 students.
Work Output
Output achieved by the Interns during 2008 was approximately equivalent to just under one person-year of technical labour. Work output levels continue to be very satisfactory, with major contributions in the curatorial area in specimen incorporation, mounting, and elimination of backlogs of donated specimens, as well as determining specimen geocodes and general lab and herbarium tasks. Significant assistance was provided to Loans with over 4500 specimens processed as part of both outgoing and incoming returned loans.
Along with curation work, interns provided research assistance to a number of the CPBR research scientists. Assistance was again provided to research groups such as orchids, with a particular focus on ordering of the floral card collection. Significant assistance was also provided to cryptogams with a number of tasks completed.
For the first time, interns provided assistance to the Plant Records section of the Australian National Botanic Gardens, helping with the stocktake of the living collection. Interns also moved the Public Reference Herbarium from the ANBG library to its new home in the Botanical Resources Centre and began cross referencing the collections with the corresponding collection in the ANH.
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