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Missouri Botanical Garden
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Senior Manager, Living Collections
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Conservation Horticulture
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St. Louis, US
-Manage the effective targeting and acquisition of species for the living collection
-Ensure curatorial best practices, including field data collection, GPS mapping, accessioning, data entry, and labeling
-Coordinate development of the Living Collections Management System database, working as a liason between Horticulture staff and bioinformatics developers in the Information Technology Division
-Ensure accurate and consistent botanical nomenclature and taxonomy in Living Collections Management System, on labels, and in publications
-Manage the process of of acquiring permits and agreements needed to collect and/or import plants into the United States
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Ex situ Collection Type Expertise
- Living plant collection
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Living Collection Management Expertise
- Genetic representativeness
- Curation
- Data management
- Plant exchange
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Research Expertise
- Horticulture
- Ex situ conservation
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Geographic Region Expertise
- Africa
- Asia
- Europe
- Northern America
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Habitat Type Expertise
- Deserts and xeric shrublands
- Islands
- Temperate broad leaf and mixed forests
- Temperate grasslands, savannas and shrublands
- Tropical and subtropical dry broad leaf forests
- Tropical and subtropical moist broad leaf forests
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Services Available
- Advice
- Partnership opportunity
- Training
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