Landels-Hill Big Creek Reserve

23 Apr, 11 AM - 25 Apr, 06 AM

The Museum of Natural History Collections at UCSC will begin creating a physical and digital herbarium for educational use by classes visiting the reserve. Our work will build upon the existing interactive habitat schematic available on the Landels-Hill Big Creek Reserve website, the photo collection being kept by the reserve director, and previously collected herbarium specimens. First steps would include photo documentation of plants in their habitat and in various life stages, organizing these photos according to where they are found, and collecting specimens to be pressed and scanned for the creation of a digital voucher collection that would serve as a teaching resource for classes and researchers visiting the reserve. The project would compliment the current work being done within the post-fire plant documentation project, and the existing digital infrastructure available on the reserve website. The project would also focus on preparing existing and recently collected specimens for inclusion into a growing voucher collection to be housed at the reserve. The goal of the project would be to create a usable educational resource that illuminates the diverse and interesting plant communities at the Landels-Hill Big Creek Reserve.

Visit #17913 @Landels-Hill Big Creek Reserve

Approved

Under Project # 19893 | Research

Big Creek Herbarium collection

faculty - University of California, Santa Cruz

Reservation Members(s)

Chris Lay Apr 23 - 25, 2009 (3 days)

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Whale Point Researcher Cabin 1 Apr 23 - 25, 2009