Busy Bees and Bee-searchers at NCOS and Beyond
Blooms are abuzz with bees and bee-searchers at NCOS and elsewhere at UCSB and beyond. Read on to learn how to recognize some of the native bees in our region (including a recent sighting of an endangered bumblebee species!) and what CCBER's student researchers are doing to improve our knowledge and ability to help support them.
Tracking Parasites
UCSB part of a major effort to digitize vertebrate arthropod parasites. Read more about this months meeting at the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago.
Herbarium specimens as a rich data source in global climate studies
Seminar by Natalie Rossington Love, PhD candidate, Wednesday February 18, 5-6pm.
M.A., Collection Manager of Invertebrate Zoology at the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History
Seminar: February 12, 5-6pm
Life in the leaves: diversity, specificity and function in foliar fungal endophytes
A presentation by Austen Apigo, PhD candidate, Ryoko Oono lab, UCSB
Cheadle Center, Wednesday, February 5th, 5:00-6:00 PM
Seminar: Alex Krohn UCSC Norris Center for Natural History
The Norris Center: Fostering Community, Citizen Scientists and Natural History at UC Santa Cruz. Wednesday January 29 from 5-6pm at the Cheadle Center.
Extreme Botany
Extreme Botany with Saul Hoyos-Gomez. Wednesday January 15 from 5-6pm at the Cheadle Center. Join us for this action packed seminar about doing field work in Colombia.
Introduction to the Identification of California Bees Workshop
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Introduction to the Identification of California Bees
Learn how to identify our diverse native bees in this three day workshop.
January 18-20th with instructor Jaime Pawelek, CA Native Bees, Consultant specializing in the taxonomic identification of native bees
Museum Digitization Day, Saturday November 2
Have you ever wanted to volunteer in a natural history collection or herbarium?
Join us Saturday November 2 (9:00am to 3:00pm) to help us digitally transcribe specimens from the UCSB Natural History Collections. Tour the collections, meet collection staff, participate in research and learn about our projects that are helping make information about museum specimens and plants available online.
Collections Research Meetings Spring 2019
The UCSB Natural History Collections will be having weekly informal research seminars, with several guest speakers planned. If you are interested in natural history or collections research, come join every Wednesday from 5-6pm in CCBER's classroom! This will also be the meeting time for the Natural History Collections Club. Read more to find out the schedule of presenters.
