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Humanizing an Academic
Written by Ajay Yalamanchi, second year Integrative Biology major. My URAP position this semester involved digitizing the field notes of Dr. Charles S. Thaeler, Jr. I spent the first two weeks simply scanning the material, and I’m not going to lie, … Continue reading
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Tagged Charles S. Thaeler, digitization, Online Archive of California
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Working with the Notebooks of Dr. Robert Stebbins
Written by Sharleen Lee, first-year, Applied Mathematics and Classics majors. When you were a child, did you watch countless hours of nature programs on National Geographic, Animal Planet, and Discovery? Well, I did. And I often wondered how these scientists … Continue reading
Posted in Field notes, MVZ collections, The Hidden Collections Project, URAPs
Tagged field notes, Robert C. Stebbins
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Finding Aids on the Online Archive of California Highlight Field Notes and MVZ Specimens
Thanks to the ongoing hard work of MVZ Archives team members such as Greg Borman, content-rich finding aids have rapidly begun to populate the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology page on the Online Archive of California (OAC). Finding aids that feature … Continue reading
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Tagged Arctos, field notes, finding aids, Harry S. Swarth, Online Archive of California, Walter P. Taylor
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An early encounter with Grinnell
Hello blog readers! My name is Greg Borman, and I joined the Archives team in May to help make fieldnotes, correspondence, annotated maps, and related materials more accessible to researchers. While these materials contain a rich array of scientific insight, … Continue reading
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MVZ Field Notes: Biologists and the Environment
By Rachel Tenerelli Second-year Molecular Environmental Biology major This semester I helped digitize field notebooks for my URAP. Although scanning old field notebooks does not sound like the most glamorous work, I learned how useful this new, accessible knowledge will … Continue reading
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Tagged digitization, field notes
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