Alaska Seaweed Database

Alaska is a large, geographically diverse region. Although only 1/5 the area of the rest of the United States, its shoreline of 75,000 km equals all of that of the Lower 48. The state remains the last major region of the United States for which a seaweed flora has yet to be written. As a preliminary step to writing that flora, Gayle Hansen and Sandra Lindstrom undertook to document the seaweed specimens that had been collected in the State and which are deposited in herbaria around the world, including type specimens of species reported to occur in Alaska. The Alaska Seaweed Database represents Sandra's contribution to that effort. More than 23,000 specimens were examined, and data from these were entered in the database. Since this National Science Foundation project ended in 2003, only a few additional records have been added. However, many additional specimens from Alaska have been deposited in the University of British Columbia herbarium since 2003. These newer records can be accessed at https://collections.beatymuseum.ubc.ca/dataset/90302970-1bc6-4865-be76-9aef1dd707f9