meet outside the herbarium, at the feet of the t-rex
November 30, 2014 | Categories: From the Field | Tags: after hours lockout, Dr. Padian's lethal bananas, herbarium, Kathy Wankel T. rex, Pteranodon ingens soars above, the T. rex is the center of VLSB, UC Berkeley Campus Police kindness, UCMP | Comments Off
huge thanks for bnhm online
November 30, 2014 | Categories: From the Field | Tags: Berkeley Natural History Museums, BerkeleyMapper, Biodiversity Sciences Technology (BSCIT), bioinformatics, botany, CalPhotos, Consortium of California Herbaria, digital curation, functional information systems, georeferencing, herbarium, i don't know why servers and issues always happen after work hours and on weekends and holidays but thank you thank you thank you for getting the servers back online, Jepson eFlora, science never sleeps but really deserves a beer and a nap, UC & JEPS, UC Berkeley | Comments Off
StreetView Botany
November 29, 2014 | Categories: From the Field | Tags: BerkeleyMapper, biogeography, bioinformatics, Boraginaceae, botany and rainbows, but it's the only road i know, California flora, compare Nov 2007 to Mar 2012 for slideshow of conservation timing, Consortium of California Herbaria, digital curation, digital field notebook, disability, dissertation year, georeferencing, GoogleEarth, herbarium, Hydrophyllaceae, Hydrophylloideae, Phacelia hubbyi, Phacelia sect. Ramosissimae, research, species concept, StreetView Botany, systematics, UC Berkeley | Comments Off
sketching science
November 29, 2014 | Categories: From the Field | Tags: Boraginaceae, botany and rainbows, but it's the only road i know, California flora, contact Susan Fawcett if you need science illustrations - she can read my handwriting and make AWESOME plates from infrequently collected century old super spiky specimens, dissertation year, grad school, herbarium, Hydrophyllaceae, Hydrophylloideae, Phacelia cedrosensis, Phacelia sect. Ramosissimae, plates for publication, research, scientific illustration, species concept, Susan Fawcett is patient and genius and maybe telepathic for hydrophyll characters, systematics, taxonomy, the value of collections, UC Berkeley | Comments Off
GOD’s borages online in CollectionSpace
November 28, 2014 | Categories: From the Field | Tags: annotations, Boraginaceae, but it's the only road i know, Charterhouse School Museum (GOD), CollectionSpace, Curator Andrew Doran, George Bentham, GOD in UC, GOD's borages, Handbook of British Flora, herbarium, Hydrophyllaceae, nomenclature, research, systematics, taxonomy, the value of collections, UC Berkeley, wildcard | Comments Off
the face of Cthulhu in a flower
November 11, 2014 | Categories: From the Field | Tags: botany and rainbows, but it's the only road i know, Cthulhu, dissertation year, herbarium, new species, Phacelia sect. Ramosissimae, this is work | Comments Off
A pocket full of posies
November 11, 2014 | Categories: From the Field | Tags: A pocket full of posies, A-tishoo! A-tishoo!, Boraginaceae, botany and rainbows, but it's the only road i know, California flora, Emmenanthe rosea, herbarium, nomenclature, research, species concept, this is work, UC Berkeley | Comments Off
plate illustration begins
November 11, 2014 | Categories: From the Field | Tags: Boraginaceae, botany and rainbows, but it's the only road i know, California flora, disability, dissertation year, field notebook, herbarium, Hydrophyllaceae, Hydrophylloideae, nomenclature, Phacelia sect. Ramosissimae, species concept, systematics, this is work, UC Berkeley | Comments Off
happy hydrophylls at the sjsu herbarium
October 22, 2014 | Categories: From the Field | Tags: Boraginaceae, botany and rainbows, but it's the only road i know, California flora, Carl W. Sharsmith Herbarium, herbarium, Hydrophyllaceae, Hydrophylloideae, nomenclature, Phacelia sect. Ramosissimae, research, San José State University, SJSU, species concept, systematics, taxonomy, theory of rainbows, this is work | Comments Off
superior flower power
October 15, 2014 | Categories: From the Field | Tags: botany, botany and rainbows, but it's the only road i know, dissertation year, herbarium, SFSU, systematics, taxonomy | Comments Off
mermaid friend
September 21, 2014 | Categories: From the Field | Tags: adaptations to hostile environments, Boraginaceae, botany and rainbows, but it's the only road i know, chimeras, disability, dispersal, dissertation year, Dollo's Law, field notebook, functional punk, grad school, herbarium, hybridization, Hydrophyllaceae, Hydrophylloideae, nomenclature, Phacelia sect. Ramosissimae, pink Rust-Oleum, research, SFSU, species concept, systematics, taxonomy, this is work, UC Berkeley | Comments Off
reading inside reading outside reading
September 21, 2014 | Categories: From the Field | Tags: Boraginaceae, botany and rainbows, but it's the only road i know, California flora, disability, dissertation year, field notebook, grad school, herbarium, Hydrophyllaceae, Hydrophylloideae, Phacelia, Phacelia sect. Ramosissimae, research, species concept, systematics, taxonomy, this is work, UC Berkeley | Comments Off
drowning in diploids
September 21, 2014 | Categories: From the Field | Tags: 2n = 46, bio 1b, Boraginaceae, botany and rainbows, but it's the only road i know, California flora, Diplo at the Greek, disability, dissertation year, field notebook, grad school, grading lab sections, herbarium, Hydrophyllaceae, Hydrophylloideae, Phacelia, Phacelia sect. Ramosissimae, planning quzzes, research, some commutes have obstacles, species concept, systematics, taxonomy, this is work, UC Berkeley | Comments Off
studying to write a draft quiz
September 21, 2014 | Categories: From the Field | Tags: bio1b, biodiversity of life, Boraginaceae, botany and rainbows, but it's the only road i know, California flora, disability, dissertation year, field notebook, floristics, grad school, herbarium, Hydrophyllaceae, Hydrophylloideae, meiosis up in here, phycology, plant anatomy, plant courses, plant morphology, plant pathology, plant physiology, reproduction and life cycles, research, SFSU, species concept, systematics, taxonomy, this is work, UC Berkeley, UC Davis plant morphology dissecting kit, uc davis textbooks i am keeping you forever | Comments Off
parachute strapping
August 1, 2014 | Categories: From the Field | Tags: Boraginaceae, botany and rainbows, but it's the only road i know, California flora, data, determined annotations, field notebook, fuck yeah nomenclature, grad school, herbarium, Herbarium Supply Co., Hydrophyllaceae, Hydrophylloideae, it's like bootstrapping but the opposite, museum curation, plant press, research, statistical phylogenetics, this is work, voucher specimens, watching specimens dry | Comments Off
shallow time sampling
June 19, 2014 | Categories: From the Field | Tags: Boraginaceae, botany and rainbows, but it's the only road i know, California flora, CCH, field notebook, Fresno flora, fuck yeah nomenclature, georeferencing, GoogleEarth, grad school, herbarium, Hydrophyllaceae, Hydrophylloideae, imaging/imagining science, Phacelia sect. Ramosissimae, SEINet, shallow time sample, Skittles, species concept, summer is research time, systematics, taxonomy, this is work, time travel, UC Berkeley, voucher specimens | Comments Off
peacocking
June 19, 2014 | Categories: From the Field | Tags: Boraginaceae, botany and rainbows, but it's the only road i know, California flora, display and distribution, drought, field notebook, Fresno flora, herbarium, Hydrophyllaceae, Hydrophylloideae, peacocking, range, research, speculative evolution | Comments Off
normal science
June 19, 2014 | Categories: From the Field | Tags: botany and rainbows, but it's the only road i know, California flora, coffee and Kuhn, field notebook, grad school, herbarium, normal science, OBI, research, species concept, systematics | Comments Off
collecting artifacts: curating the chimeric specimen
June 10, 2014 | Categories: From the Field | Tags: Boraginaceae, botany and rainbows, but it's the only road i know, California flora, characteristics, chimeric specimen, collecting artifact, dichotomous key, Emmenanthe, fuck yeah nomenclature, grad school, herbarium, herbarium curation, Hydrophyllaceae, Hydrophylloideae, museum curation, Phacelia, plant press, systematics, taxonomy, this is work | Comments Off
serving size: THE FUTURE
June 8, 2014 | Categories: From the Field | Tags: botany and rainbows, but it's the only road i know, determined annotations, Elmer's Glue, Eriodictyon angustifolium, for future for science, grad school, herbarium, herbarium curation, herbarium specimen, Hydrophyllaceae, Hydrophylloideae, hyperbole tastes delicious with cilantro aioli, i reuse everything especially ideas, lunch tray, making hay while the the sun shines and the maritime fog rolls in, mounting, research, San Francisco State Student Union, SFSU, systematics, taxonomy, this is how specimens get made, this is work, UC Berkeley | Comments Off
found rainbow
June 8, 2014 | Categories: From the Field | Tags: botany and rainbows, but it's the only road i know, California flora, field notebook, fuck yeah nomenclature, grad school, herbarium, SFSU, UC Berkeley | Comments Off
needed: museum IPM manual for the post-apocalypse
June 7, 2014 | Categories: From the Field | Tags: but it's the only road i know, cockroaches and curators, drugstore beetle, Fallout, field notebook, grad school, herbarium, integrated pest management, research, Stegobium paniceum, worthless piece of frass | Comments Off
summer sf state
June 1, 2014 | Categories: From the Field | Tags: Anchusa azurea, Boraginaceae, botany and rainbows, but it's the only road i know, California flora, field notebook, grad school, herbarium, Hydrophyllaceae, Hydrophylloideae, SFSU, summer is research time, the most beautiful school grounds ever | Comments Off
time travel
May 17, 2014 | Categories: From the Field | Tags: ants, B!, basal scales, Berkeley, Berlin, Biodiversity Heritage Library, BONN, Boraginaceae, Botanischer Garten und Botanisches Museum Berlin-Dahlem, botany and rainbows, but it's the only road i know, Cambridge, CGE, cultivated, David Douglas, elaiosome, field notebook, George Bentham, grad school, herbarium, Hydrophyllaceae, Hydrophylloideae, IPNI, JEPS!, John Lindley, Karl Hartweg, Kew, Lincoln Constance, nectar rewards, Nemophila, Nemophila maculata, P!, Paris, pollination, research, San Francisco, SFSU, sinus appendages, species concept, systematics, the value of collections, time travel, TROPICOS, UC Berkeley, UC! | Comments Off
