Students Attend the Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections
This summer, three students attended the Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections with the goal of learning more about natural history collections curation, digitization, and research.
Ellie and Alivia attended a bird museum specimen preparation workshop in a University of Kansas dry lab led by the California Academy of Sciences. The workshop started with a brief introduction to avian anatomy and a walkthrough of important data to record when preparing a bird skeleton for museum collections. They took a muscle sample and a liver sample, and learned how to sex the bird. By the end of the workshop, they produced a bird skeleton that was ready for the next step in the skeletonizing process.