Join Linda Jennings, UBC Collections Curator, Vascular Plants & Algae, Herbarium; and Julia Alards-Tomalin, Renewable Resources Instructor at BCIT for a workshop all about collecting, pressing, identifying and preserving your herbarium specimens.
Linda and Julia will discuss and demonstrate more advanced details of how to make a great scientific collection and the resources you can use for identification. Join them for a deeper dive and an extension of Linda’s Backyard Biodiversity Beaty@Home session from last spring. This workshop will be an engaging experience where you will learn about difficult groups to press (conifers, berries, large specimens, and more!). You will be able to ask more detailed questions about your own collections and how experts identify plants in the 21st century.
We suggest you watch the first Backyard Biodiversity Beaty@Home for an introduction to herbariums and collecting:
This workshop with museum staff and researchers is recommended for everyone ages 9 and up that have a general familiarity with herbarium and pressing plants (watch Part 1 if you need a refresher!). If your child hasn’t used zoom before, or needs help with typing, occasional support from an adult or older sibling may be helpful!
Join all of the Beaty@Home: Weekly Tour sessions from anywhere around the world at 1:00pm PDT, each week will feature different stories and museum interpreters, sign up directly for each week on our calendar. All you need is an internet connection. You can also call in over telephone, simply register for the Zoom link and the list of numbers. This session will be livestreamed on Facebook, and archived on the Beaty Museum’s Facebook and YouTube pages.
If you would like to contribute to the museum, you can pay what you can on the registration page. In addition, we appreciate any donations (tax-deductible), purchasing a membership, planning to visit in person, and sharing information about the museum with friends and family. Thank you for your support of the Beaty Biodiversity Museum!
The Beaty Biodiversity Museum reserves the right to cancel, change or modify Beaty@Home sessions due to unforeseen circumstances, such as staffing conflicts.
