Personnel-
The herbarium staff includes one director/curator (Dr. Tina Ayers), and one curatorial assistant, currently Keri Stiverson. In addition to the curator, three additional Ph.D. botanists and two M.S. botanists are considered normal staff (Randall Scott, H. David Hammond, Will Moir, Glenn Rink and Daniela Roth) and serve as human resources at the Deaver Herbarium. Scott has been integral in curation of the large family Asteraceae. He has also recently completed a treatment of Brickellia for the Flora of North America. David Hammond is a regional editor for Flora North America and regularly reviews family treatments using specimens in the Deaver Herbarium. Will Moir is the lead for the herbarium wide effort to produce a flora of the San Francisco Mountains.  Glenn Rink is currently working with various National Parks on the southern Colorado Plateau to verify and curate their herbarium specimens. Daniela Roth, while not technically NAU staff, provides identifications and logistical support and permitting for plant collecting by NAU staff on the Navajo Reservation. Four adjunct faculty members, John Spence, Nancy Morin, Art Phillips and Barbara Phillips, assist with vascular plant acquisition and the first two have specimens from other institutions on loan to the Deaver Herbarium. Graduate students use the herbarium to complete M.S. theses that involve floristics projects. Recently complete projects include a “Floristic Inventory of Canyon de Chelly” and “Flora of Glen Canyon NRA” both funded by the National Park Service. The herbarium staff and students are also working with the two other state herbaria to publish a new flora of Arizona. Three recently completed treatments (Rhamnaceae, Portulacaceae and Fabaceae I (Errazurizia, Psorothamnus and Marina) have been published in a new peer-reviewed journal entitled Canotia. Curators and faculty from the three major Arizona herbaria are functioning as the editorial staff.  Publication of the contributions from the Arizona herbaria is currently underwritten by the Arizona Native Plant Society.

Deaver Herbarium staff also identify plants and generate scientifically accurate labels when an acceptable specimen is also donated to the lab by a governmental agency, non-profit organization, individual from northern Arizona or members of the scientific community. Free database access is available to those same patrons, either in the herbarium or on the Web.  Plant identification, database access for non-Web archives, label generation, specimen processing, data collection and photograph identification are available for $50 an hour to for-profit patrons such as book authors and private consultants.