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The herbarium is named for its first curator, Chester "Danny" Deaver. Our permanent acronym, ASC, was assigned when NAU was called Arizona State College.

WHAT IS THE DEAVER HERBARIUM?

The Deaver Herbarium is a public facility housed in the Biological Sciences Department at NAU. The primary resource at the herbarium is the collection of dried plants from the southern Colorado Plateau and adjacent deserts. This reference collection is analogous to a reference section in a library. It functions as a teaching and research facility. Currently, the Deaver Herbarium houses a collection of 80,000 dried specimens of ferns, conifers and flowering plants.

Other resources in the Deaver Herbarium are our small library and our helpful staff members. Our research staff collects plants in northern Arizona, on the Colorado Plateau, in the mountains of the Southwestern U.S., western Mexico, and the Andes of South America.

Our teaching staff uses the fruit and cone collection in courses such as Native Plants of Northern Arizona, Plant Taxonomy, and Plant Morphology.

Our Current Staff:
Tina Ayers, Ph.D. Associate Professor and Curator
Randy Scott, Ph.D. Lecturer and Curator
Keri Stiverson, Curatorial Assistant
David Hammond, Emeritus Curator
Will Moir, Associate Curator
Nancy Morin, Associate Curator
Glenn Rink, Associate Curator
Daniela Roth, Associate Curator
John Spence, Associate Curator

Keri Stiverson, Curatorial Assistant
Keri is the curatorial assistant of the Deaver Herbarium. She is a biology major with a botany emphasis and will receive her B.S. degree in the spring of 2007. Keri processes incoming collections, manages the database, the exchanges and the loans. She will be doing double duty (along with the rest of the fabulous curators) during the academic year 2006-2007 while Tina is on sabbatical.

To contact Keri email her now.

David Hammond, Ph.D. Emeritus Curator David in the herbarium most mornings. He is a regional editor for the Flora North America Project and likes to spend time in the field collecting plants. David mounts the newly processed collections, files, and does myriads of identifications for the herbarium. To contact David call 928 523-7242.

Will Moir, Ph.D., Emeritus Curator
Will is spearheading the Flora of the San Francisco Mountains project. He is currently hiking the Peaks to try to relocate plants that have only been seen once or have not been found in recent years. We will also be looking for additional species to include in the flora. To contact Will email him now.

print a pdf version of the San Francisco Peaks flora

go to the San Francisco Peaks flora web page

Nancy actually lives in Point Area, California now but regularly comes back to Flagstaff to work on her monograph of Nemacladus.

To contact Nancy email her now.

Glenn Rink, M.S., Associate Curator collecting in the Grand Canyon Glenn is, no doubt, out collecting plants for various agencies or just for fun. He is currently working for the National Park Service documenting flora in Southern Colorado Plateau area parks. He is also collecting plants for the San Juan River Flora. To contact Glenn Rink email him now.

Daniela Roth, M.S., Navajo Nation Botanist
Daniela is the Navajo Natural Heritage Program botanist. She spends most of the field season driving about the Navajo Reservation documenting rare plants but in the winter time we see Daniela in the herbarium most days processing her collections, writing reports, and curating the Navajo Nation herbarium, which is now located at NAU. To contact Daniela call 928 523-8445 or email her now.

John Spence, Ph.D., at Glen Canyon NRA

John Spence is the botanist for Glen Canyon National Recreation Area and actually lives in Page. He regularly visits the Deaver Herbarium to work on specimens he has on loan from around the world. His interests range from biogeography and evolution of Colorado Plateau flora, especially endemic and rare species; vegetation ecology and classification; bryophyte and vascular plant systematics; bird inventory, monitoring and ecology; ecological affects of climate change. For more information and a list of publications click here.

Check out this web link to the Nevada Bryophyte page: http://heritage.nv.gov/mosses/index.htm

This webpage has info on how to collect bryophytes, interesting articles and a downloadable packet.

To contact John Spence email him now.


The herbarium is named for its first curator, Chester "Danny" Deaver. Our permanent acronym, ASC, was assigned when NAU was called Arizona State College.	WHAT IS THE DEAVER HERBARIUM? The Deaver Herbarium is a public facility housed in the Biological Sciences Department at NAU. The primary resource at the herbarium is the collection of dried plants from the southern Colorado Plateau and adjacent deserts. This reference collection is analogous to a reference section in a library. It functions as a teaching and research facility. Currently, the Deaver Herbarium houses a collection of 80,000 dried specimens of ferns, conifers and flowering plants. Other resources in the Deaver Herbarium are our small library and our helpful staff members. Our research staff collects plants in northern Arizona, on the Colorado Plateau, in the mountains of the Southwestern U.S., western Mexico, and the Andes of South America. Our teaching staff uses the fruit and cone collection in courses such as Native Plants of Northern Arizona, Plant Taxonomy, and Plant Morphology. Our Current Staff: Tina Ayers, Ph.D. Associate Professor and Curator Randy Scott, Ph.D. Lecturer and Curator Keri Stiverson, Curatorial Assistant David Hammond, Emeritus Curator Will Moir, Associate Curator Nancy Morin, Associate Curator Glenn Rink, Associate Curator Daniela Roth, Associate Curator John Spence, Associate Curator
Keri Stiverson, Curatorial Assistant	Keri is the curatorial assistant of the Deaver Herbarium. She is a biology major with a botany emphasis and will receive her B.S. degree in the spring of 2007. Keri processes incoming collections, manages the database, the exchanges and the loans. She will be doing double duty (along with the rest of the fabulous curators) during the academic year 2006-2007 while Tina is on sabbatical. To contact Keri email her now.
David Hammond, Ph.D. Emeritus Curator	David in the herbarium most mornings. He is a regional editor for the Flora North America Project and likes to spend time in the field collecting plants. David mounts the newly processed collections, files, and does myriads of identifications for the herbarium. To contact David call 928 523-7242.
Will Moir, Ph.D., Emeritus Curator	Will is spearheading the Flora of the San Francisco Mountains project. He is currently hiking the Peaks to try to relocate plants that have only been seen once or have not been found in recent years. We will also be looking for additional species to include in the flora. To contact Will email him now. print a pdf version of the San Francisco Peaks flora go to the San Francisco Peaks flora web page
	Nancy actually lives in Point Area, California now but regularly comes back to Flagstaff to work on her monograph of Nemacladus. To contact Nancy email her now.
Glenn Rink, M.S., Associate Curator collecting in the Grand Canyon	Glenn is, no doubt, out collecting plants for various agencies or just for fun. He is currently working for the National Park Service documenting flora in Southern Colorado Plateau area parks. He is also collecting plants for the San Juan River Flora. To contact Glenn Rink email him now.
Daniela Roth, M.S., Navajo Nation Botanist	Daniela is the Navajo Natural Heritage Program botanist. She spends most of the field season driving about the Navajo Reservation documenting rare plants but in the winter time we see Daniela in the herbarium most days processing her collections, writing reports, and curating the Navajo Nation herbarium, which is now located at NAU. To contact Daniela call 928 523-8445 or email her now.
John Spence, Ph.D., at Glen Canyon NRA	John Spence is the botanist for Glen Canyon National Recreation Area and actually lives in Page. He regularly visits the Deaver Herbarium to work on specimens he has on loan from around the world. His interests range from biogeography and evolution of Colorado Plateau flora, especially endemic and rare species; vegetation ecology and classification; bryophyte and vascular plant systematics; bird inventory, monitoring and ecology; ecological affects of climate change. For more information and a list of publications click here. Check out this web link to the Nevada Bryophyte page: http://heritage.nv.gov/mosses/index.htm This webpage has info on how to collect bryophytes, interesting articles and a downloadable packet. To contact John Spence email him now.