Museum collections are warehouses of biological information – providing insights into speciation, morphology, diet, reproduction, genetics, etc. Recording field notes and collecting and preparing voucher specimens are vital skills – and when submitted to museums, the important biological material can be preserved indefinitely for reference and research.
Through this workshop, we will provide instruction on:
- how to record informative field notes,
- how to keep a museum specimen log,
- what constitutes a good specimen,
- how inject and position museum specimens,
- how create and attach labels to museum specimens,
- tools that are needed to prepare specimens, and
- how to assemble your own field kit.
When: March 10, 2018. 10am-5pm
Instructors: Andrew T. Holycross, Thomas R. Jones, Randall D. Babb
What you need to bring: Please bring frozen roadkill, specimens that are in GOOD SHAPE and HAVE DATA.
Class limited to: 24 participants.
Register by 10 am on Friday, March 9th. To register, please email Cristina Jones at cajones@azgfd.gov
participants will be selected on a first come first serve basis.