Category Archives: Field notes

Humanizing an Academic

Posted on May 6, 2014 by mvzarchguest

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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Working with the Notebooks of Dr. Robert Stebbins

Posted on January 21, 2014 by mvzarchguest

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 →

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Finding Aids on the Online Archive of California Highlight Field Notes and MVZ Specimens

Posted on September 18, 2013 by Michelle Koo

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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An early encounter with Grinnell

Posted on July 31, 2013 by mvzarchguest

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

Posted on May 21, 2013 by mvzarchguest

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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