Field trips

Staff from Te Papa’s Botany team spend about three weeks in the field each year.  Some of the field trips are for specific research programmes (e.g., collecting a particular group of species from around the country), while others are for general collection development (e.g., collecting all species from a particular locality).

We are regular attendees at the annual John Child Bryophyte and Lichen Workshop, which focuses on mosses, liverworts, and lichens.  In recent years, we have undertaken a three or four day field-trip to collect from different parts of the Wairarapa, since this region is underrepresented in New Zealand’s botanical collections.

Myosotis is an example of a specifc research program which has seen intensive field work effort since 2010, mainly in the South Island