ESPM C105
3 Units
Natural History Museums and Biodiversity Science
Offered through
Env Sci, Policy, & Mgmt
About this Course
Catalog Course Description
(1) survey of museum resources, including strategies for accession, conservation, collecting and acquiring material, administration, and policies; (2) strategies for making collections digitally available (digitization, databasing, georeferencing, mapping); (3) tools and approaches for examining historical specimens (genomics, isotopes, ecology, morphology, etc); and (4) data integration and inference. The final third of the course will involve individual projects within a given museum.
Classes Offered
Hours & Workload
Fall Term
2 hours of Instructor presentation of course materials per week and 4 hours of Outside Work Hours per week and 3 hours of Instructional experiences requiring special laboratory equipment and facilities per week.