In an effort to reduce the chance of deception and misuse of access privileges to TORCH images on TACC, I'm recommending a new process for access approval to include initiation or confirmation by a known contact at a collection. This process will follow the steps of new account creation for students/staff/volunteers/etc. who need access to upload, manage, and delete files within your collection's directories on TACC within the TORCH project. This change was discussed in today's TORCH meeting and the following reflects my attempt to capture the intended process. The document for this process (among others) is at https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://docs.google.com/document/d/18xqde3W0FMJmBD8ERWt7N7sWGvaigl0gEQITNbUgrOc/edit?tab=t.0__;!!GNU8KkXDZlD12Q!-b7WIEq5OLeJtCVbv7OybSBNm3M1m2tAGOnDAkJMu3A2gQmyA3o0VAX9j2exev7oa-2jIXMWxbYZCXk$ [docs[.]google[.]com] 

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Good morning TORCH committee!

Please join us for our monthly Steering Committee meeting tomorrow at 2 pm.

Agenda: https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://docs.google.com/document/d/128DH1H0UPN6_BDGGOB4vYYUuNqJ8RoTR/edit?usp=sharing&ouid=104350415121385170544&rtpof=true&sd=true__;!!GNU8KkXDZlD12Q!-AAVfqcQ-G53JeERMTM1pia1wqVnIUt3ZaEzFFWNLh1gawH683evL4Z6GEHY-xZBCwcB3BtqFBbnlBczo7iOKg$ [docs[.]google[.]com]

Zoom link: https://oklahoma.zoom.us/j/95358763924

Thank you,
Amy Buthod

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Amy Buthod

Botanist | Oklahoma Biological Survey

Heritage Botanist | Oklahoma Natural Heritage Inventory

Collections Manager | Robert Bebb Herbarium

The University of Oklahoma

111 East Chesapeake Street | Norman, OK 73019

405-325-4034

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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