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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
Posted in Field notes, MVZ collections, The Hidden Collections Project, URAPs
Tagged digitization, field notes
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Digitization: From Species to Stories
Written by undergraduate research apprentice, Samantha Morco, who is currently a third-year Integrative Biology student. For my URAP at the MVZ this semester, I have been part of the archival project that digitizes field notebooks. I enjoyed reading the field … Continue reading
Posted in Field notes, MVZ collections, The Hidden Collections Project, URAPs
Tagged digitization, field notes, Mexico
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A Student Perspective: Robert Cyril Stebbins
Wrriten by undergraduate research apprentice, Amy Moulthrop, Integrative Biology Major. For the past semester, I’ve been working on the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology archival project, part of an on-going effort to make field notes, research materials, and other miscellaneous archives … Continue reading
In the “Early Days”
I came across three unnamed field notebooks from the same author. I tried searching our database for individuals collecting in the places and years described in the notebooks but that was a dead end. Most of the journal entries took place … Continue reading
Posted in Field notes, MVZ collections, Women in Science
Tagged Berkeley, Cooper, field notes
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MVZ Archives contributes to the OAC
The MVZ Archives has published its first two finding aids to the Online Archive of California (OAC). Researchers can now find the Inventory to the Paul Elias field notes and the Inventory to the James F. Lynch field notes on the OAC … Continue reading
Posted in Finding Aids, MVZ collections, The Hidden Collections Project
Tagged Archivists' Toolkit, Elias, finding aids, geographic names, Lynch
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