This poster was presented at the California Botanical Society 29th Graduate Student Symposium at Cal Poly Humboldt in Arcata, CA on April 1, 2023.

Summary: Observation, collection, curation, and archiving are central to ecological understanding and artistic process. Biodiversity data portals are repositories that can be used for a diversity of scientific and artistic applications. Digitization of historical collections increases accessibility and expands the range of potential hypothesis-driven research.