Hello TORCH!

Jason Best and I plan to give a presentation next Wednesday, February 11th from 9 AM - 10 AM via Zoom on instructions for uploading herbarium specimen images to the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC), generating derivatives and URLs, and linking them to Symbiota.
This presentation will be recorded and shared along other documentation on the TORCH website. 

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The information below was originally shared in the Texas Plant Conservation Alliance (https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.savetexasplants.org/__;!!GNU8KkXDZlD12Q!5XN-NES1iXqg4OP3huj765UlZ-2nUsfHVi0DLyYnjNZUa-QjzdTF9kNjo9cRDzlOMb06tYuB21KoO9Od50w$ [savetexasplants[.]org]) listserv.

Our Native Plant Society of Texas prioritizes education in pursuit of better understanding our native (Texas) flora, so please share the following with any of your undergraduate students who qualify. Two scholarships are available, and the application window is open Feb 1- March 15, 2026.
From https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.npsot.org/our-work/grants-scholarships/scholarships/__;!!GNU8KkXDZlD12Q!5XN-NES1iXqg4OP3huj765UlZ-2nUsfHVi0DLyYnjNZUa-QjzdTF9kNjo9cRDzlOMb06tYuB21Ko2yd9k64$ [npsot[.]org]:
"The Native Plant Society of Texas offers two scholarships for undergraduates at Texas colleges who major in biology, ecology, botany, landscape architecture, horticulture or related fields and who will be juniors or seniors in the fall of 

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