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On this episode of The Object of History, we visit an item from the MHS collection currently on loan to the Museum of African American History on Boston's Beacon Hill. We examine the imposing stone that enabled the printing of William Lloyd Garrison's abolitionist publication, The Liberator. While visiting the Museum, we learn more about the building's importance to African American history in Boston as well as the Museum's current exhibits. Learn more about episode objects here: https://www.masshist.org/podcast/season-4-episode-7-Imposing-Stone Email us at podcast@masshist.org. Episode Special Guests: Angela T. Tate is Chief Curator and Director of Collections at the Museum of African American History, Boston and Nantucket (MAAH). She oversees collections, exhibitions, interpretation, and content, focused on the lives and descendants of the Black communities in Boston and Nantucket, as well as New England. Prior to joining MAAH, she was inaugural women's history curator at the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC). She co-curated the permanent exhibit, Forces for Change: Mary McLeod Bethune and Black Women's Activism, which highlights the strategies Black women have used to fight for justice and equality. Throughout her career, she has worked as curator and public historian in a variety of archives and museums in California and Illinois that focused on telling inclusive and expansive stories of the American past. She is a PhD candidate in History at Northwestern University and her dissertation discusses cultural diplomacy and Pan-Africanism through the 1950s-60s radio program hosted by Etta Moten Barnett in Chicago. This work has been supported by the Mellon Foundation, the Social Science Research Council, the New York Public Library, and the Schlesinger Library at the Radcliffe Institute. Her work has been published in Resonance: The Journal of Sound and Culture, the Smithsonian's Afrofuturism catalog, Ubuntu Dialogues, and several upcoming publications. Find more information at www.atpublichistory.com Cara Liasson currently serves as the Collections Manager and Registrar for the Museum of African American History, Boston and Nantucket. Her career in the museum field spans over fifteen years, where she has worked at institutions such as Lowell National Historical Park and Old Sturbridge Village. She holds a B.A. in History from Wheaton College in Massachusetts and a graduate certificate in Museum Collections Management and Care from George Washington University. Selvin Backert is the Education Specialist at the Museum of African American History, Boston and Nantucket. Sage Morgan-Hubbard is the Director of Learning & Engagement at the Museum of African American History, Boston and Nantucket. This episode uses materials from: Osprey by Chad Crouch (Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International) Psychic by Dominic Giam of Ketsa Music (licensed under a commercial non-exclusive license by the Massachusetts Historical Society through Ketsa.uk) Curious Nature by Dominic Giam of Ketsa Music (licensed under a commercial non-exclusive license by the Massachusetts Historical Society through Ketsa.uk)
This Tales of the Magic Skagit podcast episode encompasses two topics, which while seemingly unrelated at first consideration, actually have a common theme: the past, present, and future of the Skagit Valley as viewed through an artistic lens.We start this episode off with Laynie Moran, the Skagit County Historical Museum's Collections Manager, who is heading up a first ever art contest and exhibit with the unlikely theme, "Everyone's a Critic." This upcoming exhibit could, however, also be called "Everyone's an Artist," since the goal of Laynie's project is to showcase art from anyone in the county, regardless of age or skill level, to contribute a work of art of their own creation. The only criterion for the entries, whatever the chosen medium, is that they adhere to the theme "The Past, Present, and Future of Skagit County." Entries are due by June 1, 2025, and the exhibit opens and voting begins on June 20. Details and registration forms are available at the museum and its website, www.skagitcounty.net/museum.On the subject of Skagit Valley's past, we turn next to Ann Maroney, the office and store manager at the museum, to learn about its current exhibit on the life of Lawrence (Laurie) Wells. In describing Laurie's life, it's hard to know where to begin. He was a largely self-taught artist whose works captured the beauty of his Skagit Valley home through an astonishing number of paintings across a variety media and styles. But he and his wife, whose love story is part of the exhibit as well, were also active in the early grange and socialist movements of the early 20th century. In addition, Laurie could justifiably be called the godfather of the Skagit Valley Tulip Festival, thanks to his promotion of the Magic Skagit's bulb farms and his landscape design skills in showcasing them decades ago.Suffice it to say that the museum's current exhibit, "Laurie Wells: A Skagit Original," is a multi-layered tribute to an individual whose deep and abiding love of where we live combines works of art with a glimpse into lesser known aspects of Skagit Valley history that will appeal to the eye, heart, head, and soul. And with the exhibit to come in June, Skagitonians of all ages are invited to celebrate Laurie Wells' legacy in a way he would have undoubtedly appreciated: through art.
Kimberly Hansen, Collections Manager of Flowering Plants, The Field Museum, joins John Williams to talk about her work at the Field Museum, the now famous poison pong-pong tree plant that was featured in ‘The White Lotus,’ the number of poisonous plant species in the U.S., what we should know about the plant used in ‘The […]
Kimberly Hansen, Collections Manager of Flowering Plants, The Field Museum, joins John Williams to talk about her work at the Field Museum, the now famous poison pong-pong tree plant that was featured in ‘The White Lotus,’ the number of poisonous plant species in the U.S., what we should know about the plant used in ‘The […]
Kimberly Hansen, Collections Manager of Flowering Plants, The Field Museum, joins John Williams to talk about her work at the Field Museum, the now famous poison pong-pong tree plant that was featured in ‘The White Lotus,’ the number of poisonous plant species in the U.S., what we should know about the plant used in ‘The […]
Director of Exhibits Melinda (Mel) Morgan Stowell and Director of Marketing & Communications Stephanie Evers Armstrong from the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History join Adela Lua Lisanti, Collections Manager ... The post Fashion Fatale: The Human Obsession with Feathers appeared first on Elizabeth Appraisals.
Have local paleontologists discovered an entirely new dinosaur species? Guest: Derek Larson, Collections Manager and Researcher in Palaeontology at the Royal BC Museum Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Seg 1: Inside the mind-bending Alice and Wonderland Syndrome Guest: Dr. Maximilian Friedrich, Clinician-Scientist in Neurology at the Center for Brain Circuit Therapeutics at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Research Fellow at Harvard Medical School Seg 2: Scott's Thoughts: The most overrated movies in history Guest: Scott Shantz, CKNW Contributor Seg 3: View From Victoria: Neck and Neck going into the election We get a local look at the top political stories with the help of Vancouver Sun columnist Vaughn Palmer. Seg 4: How Diddy's arrest sheds light on sex trafficking in North America Guest: Dr. Kimberly Mehlman-Orozco, Human Trafficking Expert Witness and Author of “Hidden in Plain Sight: America's Slaves of the New Millennium” Seg 5: Can age restrictions actually stop kids from viewing explicit websites? Guest: Elaine Craig, Professor of Law at Dalhousie University and Author of “Mainstreaming Porn: Sexual Integrity and the Law Online” Seg 6: Are KPU students really trying to shut down their school paper? Guest: Claudia Culley, Editor and Chief of Kwantlen Polytechnic University's Student Newspaper “The Runner” Seg 7: Will Instagram's new restrictions be enough to keep teens safe? Guest: Niki Sharma, Attorney General of British Columbia Seg 8: Have local paleontologists discovered an entirely new dinosaur species? Guest: Derek Larson, Collections Manager and Researcher in Palaeontology at the Royal BC Museum Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Carl visits the Museum of the City of New York where he's joined by Collections Manager for Costumes and Textiles, Elizabeth Randolph, to discuss the famous dress Alice Vanderbilt wore to her sister-in-law Alva'a ball, while inspecting the original dress itself. On the evening of March 26, 1883, Alva Vanderbilt threw her famous costume ball to officially open her new "Petit Chateau" on Fifth Avenue and to secure her place in Gilded Age society. Her sister-in-law, Alice, not to be outdone, arrived at the ball and created one of the most talked about fashion statements from the Gilded Age to today. Alice had the famed British-born Parisian couturier Charles Frederick Worth design a gown that represented "electric light" - a new idea in 1883. Encrusted with gold and silver threads, Alice's gown caught the attention of not only the guests at the ball, but the press whose reports of her dress ranged from the credible to the outrageous. Jose Mora, the noted society photographer of the era, captured Alice in a famous photograph in which Alice, wearing the dress, holds a torch high above her head. Myths about the dress have circulated for years - that there was a concealed battery back in the bodice, that the dress itself somehow "lit up", and on and on. Miraculously, the original dress survives today and is in the collection of the Museum of the City of New York. With deep gratitude and thanks to the Museum, I was allowed to see the actual dress and record this interview with Elizabeth Randolph. With the dress laid out before us, we explored the story of what's true, what's not, and just what effect (both visual and social) Alice would have made wearing the dress on the night of Alva's ball.
Right here in the United States, primarily in the Midwest and Southern portion an invasion is coming. Not of aliens, of cicadas. Brood 19 and 13 have begun emerging and they haven't come out of the ground together in 221 years! Even though I recorded this episode in 2021 during Brood 10's emergence, it's worth rebooting because periodical cicadas are unique to the U.S. The guest is entomologist Dr. Floyd Shockley, who is the Collections Manager for the Department of Entomology at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. Him and I talked all about these true bugs and the importance of museum collections. You can follow him on Twitter @Beetle_Guy And you can connect with the museum @NMNH If you want to hear one of the seven species of cicadas sing their love song check out this link. One of many cookbooks is the Cicada Cookbook and you can find it on Amazon. If you are digging the show subscribe and share it so others can enjoy it too. You can follow the show on Itunes, Google Play, or wherever you listen to podcasts. Also follow the show on Twitter: @WildConnectPod You can also follow me on Twitter: @realdrjen Instagram: @readrjen Facebook https://www.facebook.com/RealDrJen There is also a YouTube Channel where you can find a range of videos, some of them tied to podcast episodes, including one about this year's historic emergence. You can watch that here.
Welcome to HMSC Connects! where we go behind the scenes of four Harvard museums to explore the connections between us, our big, beautiful world, and even what lies beyond. For this week's episode host Jennifer Berglund is speaking with Adam Baldinger, the Curatorial Associate and Collections Manager of Invertebrate Zoology here at the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard University.
Our Prairie's Collections Manager, Rebekah Furey, Collections Assistant, Rina Sim, and Educational Curriculum Specialist, Zoe Morgan join Easton to talk about museums (which we love!). Museums are beautiful places where stories can be told from across the globe and inspire curiosity in guests of all ages. However, when we look back at the history of museums, we find that many began as wonder shows for the wealthy to share their plunder from their respective “Ages of Exploration.” Museums today have a choice to decolonize their halls. Increasing diversity at all levels of museum employment, repatriation of objects to the Native American Nations who rightfully own them, ensuring exhibitions that explore history's silenced voices are integrated and not segregated- we talk about it all on this journey! More information about NAGPRA! https://www.nps.gov/subjects/nagpra/index.htm Our sources: Shoenberger, Elisa. “What does it mean to decolonize a museum?” MuseumNext (2023). https://www.museumnext.com/article/what-does-it-mean-to-decolonize-a-museum/ Huff, Leah. “MUSEUM DECOLONIZATION: MOVING AWAY FROM NARRATIVES TOLD BY THE OPPRESSORS.” University of Washington (2022). https://smea.uw.edu/currents/museum-decolonization-moving-away-from-narratives-told-by-the-oppressors/
The Smithsonian Institution was founded on principles of reason and scientific inquiry. So why is the Smithsonian home to countless tales of unexplained phenomena and—dare we say—ghost sightings? Inspired by an apparition at the National Museum of American History, we creak across museum attic floorboards, sneak into an old house in the woods, and even travel back in time to bring you a collection of spooky stories that can only be found at the Smithsonian. Guests: Molly Horrocks, Collections Manager, Division of Political and Military History at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History Pamela Henson, Institutional Historian at the Smithsonian Libraries and Archives Cpl. Ronald Howlin, Security Officer at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center Deborah Hull-Walski, Collections Manager, Education Collections at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History Melissa Johnson, daughter of Deb Hull-Walski and former skeptical teenager Kim Dixon, former volunteer at the Smithsonian's National Zoo
Dr. Floyd Shockley-Waging War on Hammerhead Worms The Not Old Better Show, Inside Science Interview Series Welcome to The Not Old Better Show on radio and podcast. I'm Paul Vogelzang; as part of our Smithsonian Inside Science interview series, we have the latest buzz…the Spotted Lantern Fly spottings are on the rise throughout the country, potentially causing enormous crop damage and economic loss, and the Hammerhead Worm is another potentially dangerous species you need to be on the lookout for…here to tell us that and more is returning guest Dr. Floyd Shockley, Smithsonian's Collections Manager for the Department of Entomology at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History….Dr. Shockley will join us momentarily as we have much to discuss today. But quickly, if you missed any episodes, last week was our 734th episode when I spoke with Alan Shayne about his new book, ‘THE STAR DRESSING ROOM: Portrait of An Actor Alan Shayne's new book, ‘The Star Dressing Room,' is an affectionate, often uproarious new memoir that takes us back to Broadway's golden age. Two weeks ago I spoke with Forbes 30 Under 30, CEO and co-Founder of Lectric eBike, Levi Conlow. Excellent subjects for our Not Old Better Show audience. If you missed those shows, along with any others, you can go back and check them out with my entire back catalog of shows, all free for you, there on our website, NotOld-Better.com. You can Google Not Old Better and get everything you need about us! Smithsonian's Dr. Floyd Shockley is here to help us understand the Spotted Lantern Fly, Hammerhead Worm, and all other insects. Dr. Floyd Shockley is the Collections Manager for the Department of Entomology at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History. In addition, we'll talk to Dr. Shockley about ways insects are pivotal to our environment and ecosystems, how insects adapt and evolve to survive in rapidly changing environments, and what kind of economic threats or damages spotted lantern flies and hammerhead worms pose, particularly to gardeners and farmers, and bees, because ‘Bee Lives Matter,” a lot more. My thanks to Dr. Floyd Shockley, from the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. My thanks, as always, to the Smithsonian team for all they do to support the show. And my thanks always to you, my wonderful Not Old Better Show audience. Remember, stay safe, everyone, and let's Talk About Better. The Not Old Better Show. Thanks, everybody. Also, look out for another episode this week featuring Dr. Bridget Cole Williams, where we'll discuss the future of cannabis in medicine and her book, Courage in Cannabis.
In this bonus episode Lily and Lucas speak with Teresa Greene, the collections manager for the Vermont Historical Society about the recent floods in Vermont, preserving history and planning for the future. contact the show at brokenshovel802@gmail.com
We're joined by Josh Liller the Historian and Collections Manager for the Jupiter Inlet Lighthouse & Museum to discuss the Jupiter Lighthouse and its unique history as well as the role General George Meade played in its construction, the history of World War II operations in the area and the historic museum and exhibits on the ground.
Naomi Sosnovsky always knew she wanted to work in private service — specifically, with people who have a passion for collecting. She's studied art history, archaeology, and fashion, and she's worked in museums and on red carpets, all to give her a deeper understanding of the world's most beautiful objects and the people who collect them. Now, in a new episode of the Easemakers Podcast, Naomi shares what she's learned about both collections and collectors. She covers common mistakes principals and private service professionals make caring for jewelry and couture, her advice for PSPs tasked with handling their principals' prized possessions, and why she's dedicated her career to this unique aspect of private service. Subscribe to the Easemakers Podcast to hear from more experts in the private service industry, and join the Easemakers community to talk to other estate managers and PSPs on a regular basis. Enjoying the Easemakers Podcast? Leave us a rating and a review telling us about your favorite episodes and what you want to learn next!The Easemakers Podcast is presented by Nines, modern household management software and services built for private service professionals and the households the support.
This week I am joined by Crystal Mandica of the Amphibian Foundation. Crystal is co-founder, Director of Education, and Collections Manager of almost 600 amphibians at the Amphibian Foundation. In this weeks episode, we discuss what it takes to manage such a large operation day to day. We also talk about the value of education and community outreach, running a critter camp for young people interested in reptiles and amphibians, and how the AF grew from a small conservation project in Crystal and Mark Mandica's basement into the well known amphibian not for profit that it is today!In addition to their amphibian conservation work, the Amphibian Foundation also offers a variety of in-person and online courses for anyone interested in herpetology. To find out more about Crystal's work, to volunteer, donate, or to enroll in critter camp visit: https://amphibianfoundation.org/To Support AmphibiCast by by becoming a Patron, For Merch, and for a 10% discount off of an In Situ Ecosystems vivarium, visit: https://linktr.ee/AmphibiCastThis week's episode is sponsored by Gray Ghost Creations. For unique amphibian, reptile and arachnid art visit: https://www.etsy.com/shop/GrayGhostCreations
Behind the scenes of a museum is a mystery to most. Brittney Elizabeth Stoneburg, Collections Manager at the Western Science Centre in California, takes us into the meticulous world of museum collection – from discovering mammoths in construction sites to 3D models uncovering new species.
David Ellefson, Vice President, Special Assets Manager and Amanda Jones, Collections Manager sat down and chatted with us about the relationships their teams build with our members in their time of need and how they help them create a path to financial wellness.If you have any questions you would like us to ask our Subject Matter Experts, send them our way to apennyforyourthoughts@centrisfcu.orgFollow Centris on Social!Facebook | Instagram | Twitter | LinkedInA Hurrdat Media Production. Hurrdat Media is a digital media and commercial video production company based in Omaha, NE. Find more podcasts on the Hurrdat Media Network and learn more about our other services today on HurrdatMedia.com.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
The images contained in decaying film stock tell incredible Canadian stories and they're at risk of extinction. Teams of dedicated preservationists and archivists at organizations like the Toronto International Film Festival and the Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre are bringing new life to endangered films. In this episode of Cinema Reignited, we will be speaking with Natania Sherman, Collections and Services Manager, Film Reference Library at the Toronto International Film Festival and Jesse Brossoit, Distribution & Collections Manager, Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre to discuss the current state of our endangered cinematic heritage. We'll learn about the preservation process, how films are being digitized for new audiences and why it is so important to preserve films of all types from Canada's past.Visit http://telefilm.ca to learn about more films being digitized as part of the Canadian Cinema - Reignited initiative.Cinema Reignited is a podcast by the Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television, powered by Telefilm Canada.If you found this episode interesting, please share it with your network and tag @TheCDNAcademy and @sistersamah. Rate and review the podcast to help us connect with other Canadian film lovers. This podcast episode was produced by Quill
Do you struggle with turnover in your collections department? I interviewed one of THE BEST collection managers out there, Audrae Dollar from Rainey Used Cars. Join us as we talk about employee retention, managing a team who works from home and we'll tackle implementing training. After that's all said and done, I will play an example collections call where information is verified and payment is taken in under a minute. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
Sean Moran, Collections Manager of Paleontology and Geology at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences, talks to us about the real-world background of A GREAT BIG WOOLLY MAMMOTH THAWING FROM THE ICE.
The Smithsonian Institution was founded on principles of reason and scientific inquiry. So why is the museum home to countless tales of unexplained phenomena and —dare we say — ghost sightings? Inspired by an apparition at the National Museum of American History, we creak across the floorboards of the museum's attics, sneak into an old house in the woods, and even travel back in time to bring you a collection of spooky stories that can only be found at the Smithsonian. Guests: Molly Horrocks, Collections Manager, Division of Political and Military History at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History Pamela Henson, Institutional Historian at the Smithsonian Libraries and Archives Cpl. Ronald Howlin, Security Officer at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center Deborah Hull-Walski, Collections Manager, Education Collections at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History Melissa Johnson, daughter of Deb Hull-Walski and former skeptical teenager Kim Dixon, former volunteer at the Smithsonian's National Zoo
What's the episode about? In this episode, hear Dr Trish Biers and Dr Katie Stringer Clary discuss museums, heritage, and death, the ethics of human display, curation and working in museums and heritage education. Who is Trish? Dr Trish Biers is the Collections Manager at the Level of Curator of the Duckworth laboratory (human and non-human primate remains and an archive) in the Centre for Human Evolutionary Studies in the Department of Archaeology at the University of Cambridge. She teaches in the Department about ethics, repatriation, treatment of the dead, mortuary archaeology, and osteology. She has excavated all over the world but specialises in mummies of South America. She is currently the Museum Representative, on the Board of Trustees, British Association for Biological Anthropology and Osteoarchaeology (BABAO) and organises their sub-group on the sale and trade of human remains. Her research interests include ancient and modern death work, mummy studies, osteoarchaeology and paleopathology, biomolecular archaeology, the Columbian Exchange, and museum studies focusing on displaying the dead, working with human remains, repatriation and ethics in archaeology. She is also involved in research about witchcraft, folklore, and archaeology. Trish is the ‘other-half' of MorMortisMuseum with Dr Katie Stringer-Clary. Who is Katie? Katie Stringer Clary, Ph.D., currently teaches history and public history at Coastal Carolina University in Conway, S.C. Since 2007, Clary worked with museums in various capacities from docent to executive director. In her time at museums and as a graduate student in Public History she focused on museum education and inclusion issues, especially for people with special needs. This research culminated in her 2014 manuscript, Programming for People with Special Needs: A Guide for Museums and Historic Sites. Through her work, she continues to advocate for accessibility, representation, and equality in museums and historic sites. Clary currently researches the ethics and historical contexts of human remains in museums, dark tourism and ghost tours at historic sites, and the roles death plays in the museum world. Museums, Heritage, and Death, co-edited with Dr. Trish Biers for Routledge Publishing is scheduled for release in 2023, and she also has two chapters in the volume. Clary works closely with community organizations to preserve and interpret the past. She is also interested in the history of museums, museum administration, digital histories, and community engagement. In her spare time, she likes to camp and hike, travel, and spend time with her dogs Harry Clary and Brutus, cat Miss Frances, and six chickens. Find the Routledge Handbook of Museums, Heritage and Death here. LISTEN HERE! How do I cite the episode in my research and reading lists? To cite this episode, you can use the following citation: Biers, T. and Stringer Clary, K. (2022) Interview on The Death Studies Podcast hosted by Michael-Fox, B. and Visser, R. Published 21 September. Available at: www.thedeathstudiespodcast.com, DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.21175312 What next? Check out more episodes or find out more about the hosts! Got a question? Get in touch. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thedeathstudiespodcast/message
Every year for Battle of Britain Day, 15 September we commemorate what has been described as the turning point in the Battle of Britain during World War II. Bentley Priory was home to fighter Command in the lead up to and during the Battle of Britain and explores how technology, leadership and courage forged victory, enabling Britain's darkest hour to also be her finest hour. The Museum highlights the contribution and importance of ‘The One‘, Air Chief Marshal Sir Hugh Dowding, ‘The Few‘, the aircrew who took to the skies to defend Britain, and ‘The Many‘, without whose tireless work on the ground victory would not have been possible. RNIB Connect Radio's Toby Davey caught up with Chloe Marley, Collections Manager from Bentley Priory Museum to find out more about their online recorded audio descriptions of some of the key exhibits and objects that are on display in the museum which tells the story of the building pivotal role as home to Fighter Command during the Battle of Britain along with details about their two self-guided audio described tours that are available to blind and partially sighted visitors. Do visit the access pages of the Bentley Priory Museum website via the following link for more details about the online audio descriptions, the two self-guided audio described tours and other access facilities for blind and partially sighted visitors to Bentley Priory Museum - https://bentleypriorymuseum.org.uk/visit-us/access/ (Image shows RNIB logo. 'RNIB' written in black capital letters over a white background and underlined with a bold pink line, with the words 'See differently' underneath)
On episode 6 of CheloniaCast Jason, Michael, Jack, and Ken sit down with president of Texas Turtles and former Biological Curator and Collections Manager at UT Arlington, Carl Franklin, to talk about some of Carl's numerous adventures in herpetology, focusing on his work with turtles. The conversation ranges from sea turtle attacks and aquarium diving in Mexico to wanderings in Southeast Asia and Rough-Footed Mud Turtle diversity, and everything in between! Guest socials - @texasturtlesorg on Instagram / Texas Turtles FB Group @carl.j.franklin on Instagram and Facebook Host socials - Jason Carter - @chelonian.carter, Michael Skibsted - @michael.skibstedd, Jack Thompson - @jack_reptile_naturalist_302, Ken Wang - @americanmamushi Follow us on Instagram @cheloniacast - DM us any guest suggestions!
On this edition of The Arts Section, host Gary Zidek visists the suburban park that's hosting a summerlong exhibition of Mexican folkart sculptures called Alebrijes. The Dueling Critics, Kerry Reid and Jonathan Abarbanel, join Gary to discuss Steep Theater's latest play. Later, a look at the new immersive Prince experience that just opened in Chicago. And Gary catches up with the Chicago Film Archives' Collections Manager to talk about a program that brigns audio and visual artists together in an effort to give older pieces of film new life.
Model Homes! White Flight! Protest! + Resistance! Today, Field Projects Co-Directors Jacob Rhodes and Kris Racaniello discuss their week, covering some podcasts, comedy shows, and their future projects including a summer conference and–– haunted paintings?? Then the FP team presents a roundtable with artist Johannah Herr, her co-author and collaborator Cara Marsh Sheffler and Lynn Maliszewski, the Archives and Collections Manager of the Queens Museum. The roundtable took place within Herr's solo exhibition I HAVE SEEN THE FUTURE, a show featuring her architectural imaginaries. We discuss Johannah's work and “I Have Seen the Future: Official Guidebook,” a collaborative publication between Cara Marsh Sheffler & Johannah Herr. Lynn Maliszewski brings her work on the history of the World's Fairs in Flushing Meadows to bear on our discussion of the content of the exhibition during our panel. They talk about the 1939 and 1964 world's fairs that took place in Flushing NY–– a discussion covering our constructed understanding of colonialism, nationalism, racism, misogyny, religious motivations, but also the hope and idealism that shaped the fairs. What pavilion lives in secret in your head? Jacob and Kris wrap things up after the interview with a short list of shows to “go see” right now plus a special Beverly's opening interview! Show Notes Interviewee Social Handles & Websites Johanna Herr: @johannah_herr https://www.johannahherr.com/ Cara Marsh Sheffler: @carasheffler https://conversationalist.org/writer/cara-marsh-sheffler/ Lynn Maliszewski, archives and collections manager at the @queensmuseum GO SEEs FIRE SIGN featuring KENNY WU / MARIE ANINE MØLLER / CHRIS HERITY @ Beverly's @beverlysnyc 5 Eldridge St, NY. A Tournament of Lies 40+ artists! Saturdays and Sundays, 2022 Summer Exhibition, May 21- September 17 @ Wassaic Project Bobo “The Association Age,” @ O'Flaherty's (Ave C and 11th), May 19, 2022 - June 19 2022 KEISHA PRIOLEAU-MARTIN, GARDEN PARTY, Curated by Nilufa Yeasmin @ OLYMPIA May 26 - July 16, 2022 Deana Lawson @ PS1 thru September 5, 2022 Night in the Village, CHRIS BOGIA, @ Mrs. Gallery, Maspeth NY, May 14 - July 2, 2022 @__mrs.__
Inside a property in the Blue Mountains in Sydney a 400 year old Dutch painting has been found and it is worth around five-million dollars. Rebecca Pinchin, Collections Manager, National Trust NSW
Catalyst is a Creative Industries podcast, from Chapman University. Each episode features Chapman students who have completed a Podcasting course through the Center for Creative and Cultural Industries at the university. Students who had no podcasting experience or technical ability in the genre before taking the course were able to contribute all the segments to Catalyst this season with the goal being that they will take this ‘hands-on' experience and carry it over to the launching of their very own series. Each episode of Season 7 will feature one to two different interviews conducted by CCI students, exploring different aspects of the Creative and Cultural Industries. Vanessa Eliasson interviews actor/writer Grant Goodwin in this week's first segment. Grant, whose work can be seen in such vehicles as Hart of Dixie, Tropical Cop Tales, and the upcoming season of Stranger Things, recounts his start in the business at a young age, and the pros & cons of changes he has seen over the past several years working as an actor. The two discuss Grant's love of writing and how his work gravitates toward a more comic bend. They wrap up the conversation talking about what is taking priority in his career right now and what his hopes are for some of his recent writing projects. In segment two, Ru Chen speaks with the Public Programs and Collections Manager at the Chinese American Museum, Rachelle Shumard. Rachelle and Ru delve into what a Public Programs and Collections Manager does in general, as well as how the pandemic caused museums and cultural centers to rethink how they operate in order to stay afloat during Covid. They also acknowledge that the virtual programing developed during the pandemic allowed greater audiences to access museum programing, and how that now is a part of museum plans even in a returning to in person programing. A self-professed lover of History, Shumard enjoys the aspects of her job that allow the community to reclaim lost or forgotten history, which can, as we learn in this segment involve events and even physical locals.
Our strapping Historians in Lederhosen discuss the how to get your research started, proper methodology, and where forks come from. Come on in for another episode. Subscribe and tell your friends about our podcast, and please leave us a review! Interested in further research at the Frankenmuth Historical Association? Contact our Collections Manager at fhacollections@gmail.com and check us out at www.FrankenmuthMuseum.org
In this episode of the Questioning Everything podcast, my guests, Celeste Cruz Carandang, Joe Sherren, and Mallory Ruymann discuss efforts to dismantle the many isms (i.e., racism, sexism, classism, and more) that plague the Arts world. Each individual has a unique background and connection to the arts. Celeste works at the University of Chicago where she received her master's in Art History and where she oversees activities related to a Mellon Grant the institution received nearly two years prior. Joe has 7 years of experience working in small museums and historic houses as a Collections Manager and is an Adjunct Professor in Information Studies. Joe received his master's in Art History from George Mason University. Mallory is a Jane of all art trades serving as an art historian, curator, art advisor, writer, and works as an Art Business Consultant to art galleries, art studios, and art organizations. In addition to these many positions and roles, Mallory is the Principal and Head of Curatorial Projects at a firm called Art Works. Mallory received her master's in Art History from Tufts University. For more information on this topic, check out some of the links below:Links/Galleries shaking up the status quo:Galleries run by people of color, such as Commonwealth and Council or Housing Gallery, are not only widely admired for their commitment to queer artists and artists of color but also for prioritizing their community over commercial success.Deli Gallery - NY, Praise Shadows - Boston, MAInterpreting LGBTQ in the historical sites - https://www.nps.gov/articles/lgbtqtheme-interpreting.htmThe “Rich Gay”? Small Museums & Funding “Difficult” History by Kelsey Brow & Joshua Buckner: https://curatorjournal.org/virtual-issues/the-rich-gay-small-museums-funding-difficult-history/MD Humanities - The Power of LGBTQ Storytelling: https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-su987-d818ae?utm_campaign=w_share_ep&utm_medium=dlink&utm_source=w_shareLGBTQ America: A Theme Study of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer History: https://www.nps.gov/subjects/lgbtqheritage/upload/lgbtqtheme-interpreting.pdfIG accounts to check out:Cancel Art Galleries: https://www.instagram.com/cancelartgalleries/?hl=en Change the Museum: https://www.instagram.com/changethemuseum/?hl=enHigher education links of interest:https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2019/04/lack-of-black-doctoral-students/587413/https://www.urban.org/sites/default/files/publication/86981/who_goes_to_graduate_school_and_who_succeeds_1.pdfhttps://www.urban.org/sites/default/files/publication/86981/who_goes_to_graduate_school_and_who_succeeds_1.pdfhttps://www.equityinhighered.org/indicators/enrollment-in-graduate-education/Got any episode ideas you'd like to share? Send us an email at q.e.podcast2020@gmail.com.
This week, Sara talked with Kathleen Aston, the Collections Manager for the Santa Cruz Museum of Natural History. The museum displays many aspects of the natural world, but here we focus on fossils--where you can find them around Santa Cruz and what history they reveal.
The Shmooze caught up with Rachelle Grossman, the Yiddish Book Center's Bibliography and Collections Manager, to speak about her new role at the Center. Rachelle is a specialist in Yiddish print culture and is completing a doctorate in comparative literature at Harvard University. Prior to joining the Center, she lived in Warsaw, where she researched postwar Yiddish publishing. Rachelle shared some stories about the Center's rare books and new discoveries, and she spoke about her interest in Yiddish print culture and publishing as it relates to her work. Episode 306 September 15, 2021 Yiddish Book Center Amherst, Massachusetts
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Guest: Kallie Moore, Collections Manager at the University of Montana Paleontology Center, and host of PBS's "Eons". First broadcast Sept 10, 2021. Playlist at: https://www.wrek.org/?p=36161 "To this day, my life revolves around ancient life and things that have been dead for millenia." Image credit: University of Montana
Josh Liller Josh Liller has been the Historian and Collections Manager for the Loxahatchee River Historical Society and the Jupiter Inlet Lighthouse & Museum in Florida since 2014. Jupiter Inlet Light Station has a museum on the site that features 5000 years of local history. Josh also serves as historian for the Florida Lighthouse Association, and he gives presentations related to local history throughout the year. Jupiter Inlet Lighthouse, Florida (courtesy of Jupiter Inlet Lighthouse & Museum) He's the co-author of the revised edition of the book Five Thousand Years on the Loxahatchee, and he was the editor of the second edition of the book The Florida Lighthouse Trail. Josh is also a regular contributor to the U.S. Lighthouse Society's journal, The Keeper's Log, and his column Bright Ideas appears on this news blog. Use the player below to listen to the podcast.
The BC Museum Portraits Project is an audio interview and photography initiative that will result in an online archive of the ‘institutional memory' of the Province's museums and archives. We're excited to preview this new collaboration between Spencer Stuart and the BC Museums Association on our website. In this episode, Spencer interviews Chelsea Brown, Collections Manager at Kilby Historic Site.
Welcome back everyone. This is episode 17 and this week I've got a special guest who is going to talk about something happening right now. You say cicada I say cicada and Dr Floyd Shockley says cover your ears because it's going to be LOUD. Right here in the United States, primarily along the eastern seaboard it was a magical time beginning around mid-May. Brood 10 was emerging and this only happens for this group every 17 years. That means this generation was laid in 2004! The next generation of brood 10 won't happen until 2038! Even though I recorded this episode a few weeks ago they are still around making their final gasp of air before all of them die hopeful the next generation will survive and carry the torch. These periodical cicadas are unique to the eastern U.S. This week's guest is entomologist Dr. Floyd Shockley, who is the Collections Manager for the Department of Entomology at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. Him and I talk all about these true bugs and the importance of museum collections. You can follow him on Twitter @Beetle_Guy And you can connect with the museum @NMNH If you want to hear one of the three species of Brood X sing their love song check out this link. One of many cookbooks is the Cicada Cookbook and you can find it on Amazon. If you are digging the show subscribe and share it so others can enjoy it too. You can follow the show on Itunes, Google Play, or wherever you listen to podcasts. Also follow the show on Twitter: @WildConnectPod You can also follow me on Twitter: @realdrjen Instagram: @readrjen Facebook https://www.facebook.com/RealDrJen There is also a YouTube Channel where you can find a range of videos, some of them tied to podcast episodes. More are on the way so subscribe to Wild Connection TV
This episode of Ask Theory features Gabriel-Philip Santos, the Collections Manager and Outreach Coordinator at the Alf Museum of Paleontology in Los Angeles, California. He is also the co-founder of the Cosplay for Science initiative. Aside from the paleobiology of marine mammals, he also studies diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility in science education and STEM as a museum educator and a National Geographic Certified Educator. We talked about telling stories of Earth's distant past, how fossils are formed, the surprisingly accurate museums in the game Animal Crossing, cosplaying for science, what prehistoric clues can tell us about the present and the future, and more.
Two 25+ year veterans of the Green Top firearms department sit down to discuss the state of ammo. Why's demand so high? What's ammo allocation mean? And when can we expect a return to “normal?” Featured guests: Travis Barret - Green Top Firearms Buyer Patrick Combs - Green Top Firearms e-Commerce & Collections Manager
Welcome to HMSC Connects! where Jennifer Berglund goes behind the scenes of four Harvard museums to explore the connections between us, our big, beautiful world, and even what lies beyond. Today, Jennifer is speaking with José Rosado, the Collections Manager and Curatorial Associate of the Herpetology Collection at the Harvard Museum of Comparative Zoology, a collection of roughly 345,000 amphibians and reptiles.
This month we are exploring oral history. Oral histories are a collection of stories, memories, and first-hand accounts to create an inclusive archive about a place, event, or community. They are available to anyone, but also have their own set of skills, best practices, and ethical guidelines. First, we spoke with Dr. Anna F. Kaplan, an oral historian, project designer, historian, and educator interested in memory and how individuals and communities remember the past and tell stories to shape the future, particularly about race in the US. You will hear more about the practice of oral history, some of her favorite projects, and what oral history has to offer to the field of public history. We then spoke with Anne Dobberteen and Allison LaCroix about the Home/Brewed oral history project at the Heurich House Museum in Washington, D.C. Allison is the Collections Manager at Heurich House and the supervisor of the oral history program. Anne was the point person on the project and conducted the interviews. They share the history of the Heurich House, the stories captured in the oral history project, and what they tell us about immigration and D.C. history. To learn more, visit theitps.org!
Megan is the Collection Manager at Te Awamutu Museum, in Aotearoa, New Zealand. Megan spent the last couple of years (pre-covid) living in the United Kingdom, travelling at opportunity possible creating a museum inspired Instagram @museumswithmeg to chronicle her journeys and learnings along the way. Megan has been working in the Museum world as a Collections Manager for the last seven years, working on projects from the housing and cleaning of marine specimens, to working on collaborative exhibitions with indigenous community groups, and lastly creating rapid-response exhibitions in our covid-world and what that means to the world as we know it.
I'm pretty lucky to live walking distance from a National Historic Landmark. The Lippitt House is a property of Preserve Rhode Island and it is Providence Rhode Island's premiere Victorian house museum. Once inside this 1865 house you'll understand it's landmark status. It has one of the best preserved interiors in America, allowing visitors to experience exceptional Victorian design and American craftsmanship. My guest shares how an 1893 photo of the house allowed them to recreate pieces of the Victorian decor. It is definitely not a stuffy old house. Following the Lippitt family's example of public service, the museum's cultural programming promotes civic engagement, the arts, and history of Providence. Related Episodes:Episode 72: Wearing the Past: A Modern Woman's Fascination with Period DressLinks:Lippitt House MuseumSign up for my newsletter.Watch my YouTube Channel.Like the Photo Detective Facebook Page so you get notified of my Facebook Live videos.Need help organizing your photos? Check out the Essential Photo Organizing Video Course.Need help identifying family photos? Check out the Identifying Family Photographs Online Course.Have a photo you need help identifying? Sign up for photo consultation.About My Guest:Carrie Taylor came to Providence's Lippitt House Museum to be its first director in 2013. Prior to leading Lippitt House, Carrie was Registrar and then Collections Manager at Monticello, Thomas Jefferson's home outside of Charlottesville, Virginia for 15 years. Before moving to Virginia she worked in the Curatorial Department at the Atlanta History Center. She was elected Phi Beta Kappa and graduated cum laude from the University of Georgia with a bachelor's degree in History. She then earned a master's degree in Public History with a Museums Studies concentration from the University of South Carolina where she held a graduate assistantship at McKissick Museum in Columbia. She serves on the Board of the Friends of the Brown University Library and is a graduate of the Seminar for Historical Administration.About Maureen Taylor:Maureen is a frequent keynote speaker on photo identification, photograph preservation, and family history at historical and genealogical societies, museums, conferences, libraries, and other organizations across the U.S., London and Canada. She's the author of several books and hundreds of articles and her television appearances include The View and The Today Show (where she researched and presented a complete family tree for host Meredith Vieira). She's been featured in The Wall Street Journal, Better Homes and Gardens, The Boston Globe, Martha Stewart Living, Germany's top newspaper Der Spiegel, American Spirit, and The New York Times. Maureen was recently a spokesperson and photograph expert for MyHeritage.com, an internationally known family history website and also writes guidebooks, scholarly articles and online columns for such media as Smithsonian.com. Learn more at Maureentaylor.comDid you enjoy this episode? Please leave a review on Apple Podcasts.
On our last Back To School series episode, I interview Eons co-host and Collections Manager of the UM Paleontology Center, Kallie Moore, about what she does day to day as a collections manager, her love for prehistoric life, why the Triassic period is underrated, and more! Tune in for National Fossil Day events:Kallie gives a tour of the University of Montana Paleontology Collection as part of the Let's Tour! Livestream event at 10am Pacific Time with a Q&A afterwards.Eons will be doing a virtual scavenger hunt live stream! We'll be live this Wednesday (10/14), at 8pm ET: https://youtu.be/hW6XW1YgAlU Follow Kallie:https://www.instagram.com/fossil_librarian/https://twitter.com/FossilLibrarianWatch Eons - https://t.co/n9feFm5kxH?amp=1Donate to the Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/seejurassicright Follow along with the show:https://twitter.com/sjrpod https://www.instagram.com/seejurassicright/ https://www.facebook.com/seejurassicright/ https://twitter.com/stevenraymorris Thank you to Caitlin Thompson & Tim Ruggeri, Molly McAleer, Laurah Norton, Alie Ward, Heather Mason, Stephanie Cooke, Sara Iyer, and you!#staysafestayjurassic See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.
Tim is a Collections Manager/Lead natural history researcher at the World Fossil Finders Museum in Hot Springs, South Dakota. Studying and finding ways to chase his passion for paleontology and ways to show people its much more than what were shown. Using ways to show growth and adaptation of certain climates and species and preserving the remains for further generations to enjoy.
Welcome to HMSC Connects! where Jennifer Berglund goes behind the scenes of four Harvard museums to explore the connections between us, our big, beautiful world, and even what lies beyond. Today, Jennifer is speaking with Jenny Brown, Collections Manager of Harvard's Collection of Glass Flowers. These flowers were made by hand more than 100 years ago by Rudolph and Leopold Blaschka.Buy the new book Glass Flowers: Marvels of Art and Science at Harvard
Have you ever wanted to know more about animals without backbones (invertebrates)? In this episode, Dr. Jen Bauer, Collections Manager at the University of Michigan Museum of Paleontology, talks to us all about invertebrates and the 2 million fossils in the museum that she manages! She tells us all about sea urchins, sea stars, and what its like to work with 2 million fossils! She describes ancient invertebrates and how she studies family trees going back hundreds of millions of years! Here are links to things we've mentioned throughout the episode: University of Michigan's online fossil repository https://umorf.ummp.lsa.umich.edu/wp/ Dr. Bauer's website Time Scavengers https://timescavengers.blog/ Venomous sea urchins - https://www.liveabout.com/are-sea-urchin-spines-venomous-2962963 Sea star stomach: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DFXGafpGkQ Fossil Focus: Blastoids https://www.palaeontologyonline.com/articles/2018/fossil-focus-blastoids/ For listeners to explore other fossil types: https://www.digitalatlasofancientlife.org/vc/ Heart urchin: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heteraster#/media/File:Heteraster_oblongus.jpg Devonian sea star: http://michiganbasinfossils.org/viewrecord/8 Cryptoschisma: https://www.steinkern.de/steinkern-de-galerie/spanien/blastoidea-cryptoschisma-schultzii-de-verneuil-d-archiac-1845-12855.html --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
On The Bird Banter Podcast #72 with Kimball Garrett we talk about Kimball's extensive experience as a Los Angeles County, CA birder, his work as the Collections Manager for the L.A. Natural History Museum Ornithology Collection, of his time in the golden days of California birding, and his birding story and experiences. Enjoy. Here is a link to Kimball's bio and contact info at the museum. Check out the blog post on BirdBanter.com for more information related to the episode.
In the wake of the murder of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer, many have engaged in conversations about race and racism, especially those who truly believed America was a "post-racial" society. But what about the people who remain silent, either out of fear, denial, or determined acceptance that racism and racist actions will always be a part of the American fabric? We begin our Race: Let's Talk About It conversation: When Silence Speaks Volumes. How does silence actually perpetuate racism and racist actions? What is the right way to talk about such a sensitive subject? How do well meaning people keep racist actions "alive" through behaviors called microaggressions? Who's responsibility is it to speak up and call out racist actions? Panelists Dr. Cassandra Newby-Alexander, Historian and Dean of the College of Liberal Arts at Norfolk State University; Dr. Eric Claville, Director of the Center for African American Public Policy at Norfolk State University; and Veronica Gallardo - Casemate Museum Operations and Collections Manager, Fort Monroe Authority, and Jonathan Zur, President/CEO of the Virginia Center for Inclusive Communities speak candidly about these issues.We invite you to join our conversation at noon on Another View - and then again at 6:30 PM for our virtual Race: Let's Talk About It Town Hall.
Levi Shinkle, Collections Manager for Wyoming Dinosaur Center, joins us today to share a day in the life of a dinosaur caretaker. Every discovery—no matter how revolutionary—required the careful diligence of a Collections Manager to keep the results authentic. For Levi, whose museum (which is more like an Organic Dinosaur Farm) sits at the crossroads of wonder and discovery, the responsibilities are far-reaching and vital to the living science of paleontology. Listening is only half the fun! Watch the full episode at YouTube.com/DWABA
Today, we have the second of our Academy of Natural Sciences COVIDCalls—today we talk about the collections of this amazing institution and how they’ve fared in this extraordinary time of COVID-19.Mark Sabaj began studying fishes as an undergrad at the University of Richmond, Virginia. After completing his Masters degree there, he moved to the University of Illinois where he earned a Ph.D. He joined The Academy as a Collections Manager in 2000 and is now the Interim Curator. He has collected fishes throughout the US and on 43 expeditions to 12 countries on four continents. He has deposited over 10,000 lots of over 84,000 specimens into The Academy fish collection, about 800 lots shy of the leading contributor, the late James Böhlke. Mark is also a fish photographerNiki Ciccotelli Stewart is the chief learning and engagement officer at The Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University. In her current role, she oversees the exhibits, learning, visitor services, and volunteer services departments and is charged with creating an outstanding, meaningful, and relevant visitor experience for every single person that comes to the museum.Niki holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Ringling School of Art and Design in Sarasota, Florida, where she majored in Illustration and minored in Photography. She has studied at Johns Hopkins University, The College of New Jersey, and Moore College of Art and Design.
Murder Hornets - Not What You Think... Smithsonian Inside Science Interview with Dr. Floyd Shockley Welcome to The Not Old Better Show. I'm Paul Vogelzang, and this is episode #449. As part of our Smithsonian, Inside Science interview series, we have the latest buzz…Giant 2-inch insects known as “murder hornets” have arrived in the U.S. from Asia for the first time. They got their name because of the potential threat they pose to bees, and now there's a rush to stop them before they multiply. “Bee lives matter.” Asian giant hornet attacks and destroys honeybee hives. A few hornets can destroy a hive in a matter of hours. The hornets enter a "slaughter phase" where they kill bees by decapitating them. They then defend the hive as their own, taking the brood to feed their own young. They also attack other insects but are not known to destroy entire populations of those insects. While they do not generally attack people or pets, they can attack when threatened. Their stinger is longer than that of a honeybee and their venom is more toxic. They can also sting repeatedly. If it becomes established, this hornet will have negative impacts on the environment, economy, and public health of the United States. Here to help us understand these hornets is Smithsonian's, Dr. Floyd Shockley. Dr. Floyd Shockley is the Collections Manager for the Department of Entomology at Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History. According to Dr. Shockley, “More people die of honey bee stings in the U.S. than die annually, globally, from these hornets." About 60 to 80 people die from allergic reactions to honey bee stings; only about 40 people die per year in Asia. mostly in Japan, from reactions to the giant hornet stings. That said, the sting of the Asian giant hornet is far more painful and toxic than that of a honey bee. Researchers have likened the sensation to having a hot nail driven into one's flesh. However, Shockley says giant hornets are only dangerous if provoked and tend to keep to themselves unless threatened, but they're not a new thing… That, of course, is our guest today, Dr. Floyd Shockley, and now please join me, via internet phone, in welcoming to The Not Old Better Show, Dr. Floyd Shockley. My thanks to Dr. Floyd Shockley, from the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. My thanks, as always, to the Smithsonian team for all they do to support the show. And my thanks always to you, my wonderful Not Old Better Show audience. Remember, stay safe everyone, practice smart social distancing, and Talk About Better. The Not Old Better Show. Thanks, everybody. https://notold-better.com
Episode Eighty Four - Special Collections! Susie Tofte, Associate Archivist and Collections Manager for the Jim Henson Company graciously talked to us about preserving the legacy of Henson's work -- in the past and going forward.
Dr. Lisa Buckley (she/her) is part paleontologist, part glamourous bird. Lisa is a vertebrate Palaeontologist and Ichnologist who worked as a Curator & Collections Manager, so she has the tea on what it’s like to work at a museum. Now, Lisa is an independent paleontologist, taking on various jobs and science communication initiatives. This includes a lovely, stunning, gorgeous #BirdGlamour! -- COVID-19 Resources World Health Organization guidelines If you're in Ontario, here's your COVID-19 guidelines and self-assessment information Science.Sam's COVID-19 resources -- Why we do a land acknowledgement: Land acknowledgments at Canadian universities and colleges Land acknowledgments in Ontario A Guide to Land Acknowledgments by The Native Governance Centre Indigenous Land Acknowledgements, Explained by Delilah Friedler (Teen Vogue) Supporting Indigenous folks (General Resources) An interactive map of territories, languages, and treaties (Native-Land.ca) Beyond territorial acknowledgments Indigenous Ally Toolkit -- You can find me (your host, Ive) on Twitter, Insta, and YouTube. Let's be friends! Any feedback on the show? Let us know on Twitter at @ScienceSucksPod --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/sciencesucks/support
Susanna Crum is an artist and educator in Louisville, Kentucky, where she teaches printmaking as an Assistant Professor at Indiana University Southeast and at Calliope Arts, a shared print media workspace she cofounded in 2015. She is President of the Mid America Print Council, and just spent a month fishing and conducting a research-based mapping project in the small town of Alvik, Norway. Julia Lillie is a PhD Candidate at the Bard Graduate Center in New York, where she studies early modern European print culture. She is currently based in Auburn, Alabama, and is at work on her dissertation, which investigates a network of exiled Protestant engravers active in the Catholic city of Cologne in the late sixteenth century. She was previously a Collections Manager in the Department of Drawings and Prints at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Containing an estimated 1.4 million specimens that span nearly 250 years of botanical history, the National Herbarium of New South Wales is a treasure trove of botanical information. Recently, the Royal Botanical Gardens Sydney, with the help of many volunteers, has undertaken a massive effort to digitize all 1.4 million specimens and make them available for download to anyone and everyone who might be interested. Join me as I chat with Collections Manager, Dr. Shelley James to talk about this incredible effort and learn what the average person can do to help make all of this botanical data available to the world. This episode was produced in part by Alana, Laura, Alice, Sarah, Rachel, Joanna, Griff, Philip, Paul, Matthew, Clark, Bobby, Kate, Steven, Brittney, McMansion Hell, Joey, Catherine, Brandon, Hall, Vegreville Creek and Wetlands Fund, Kevin, Oliver, John, Johansson, Christina, Jared, Hannah, Katy Pye, Brandon, Gwen, Carly, Stephen, Botanical Tours, Moonwort Studios, Liba, Mohsin Kazmi Takes Pictures, doeg, Clifton, Stephanie, Benjamin, Eli, Rachael, Plant By Design, Philip, Brent, Ron, Tim, Homestead Brooklyn, Brodie, Kevin, Sophia, Mark, Rens, Bendix, Irene, Holly, Caitlin, Manuel, Jennifer, Sara, and Margie.
Shane talks in-depth about spiders with Collections Manager at the Sam Noble Museum at The University of Oklahoma, Melissa Sadir. Charity Of The Week - The Humane Society https://www.humanesociety.org/ Please visit our sponsors The Great Courses www.thegreatcoursesplus.com/hereweare Libro.fm is the first audiobook company to make it possible for you to buy audiobooks directly through your local bookstore. Offer code: hereweare for 3 months for the price of one. https://libro.fm/redeem/HEREWEARE Outro Music “Know Past Know Future” by The Multiple Cat Audio Production by JimmyFro Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Shane talks in-depth about spiders with Collections Manager at the Sam Noble Museum at The University of Oklahoma, Melissa Sadir. Charity Of The Week - The Humane Society https://www.humanesociety.org/ Please visit our sponsors The Great Courses www.thegreatcoursesplus.com/hereweare Libro.fm is the first audiobook company to make it possible for you to buy audiobooks directly through your local bookstore. Offer code: hereweare for 3 months for the price of one. https://libro.fm/redeem/HEREWEARE Outro Music “Know Past Know Future” by The Multiple Cat Audio Production by JimmyFro Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Gary Green is a past president of both the Crow's Nest Officers Club and the Crow's Nest Military Artifacts Association which jointly administer the Crow's Nest National Historic Site of Canada. He has written journal articles on the Crow's Nest and has contributed to books on the role of St. John's and the Royal Canadian Navy in the Battle of the Atlantic 1939-1945. Gary and his wife Ruth, Collections Manager for the Crow's Nest Military Artifacts Association, conduct research in both national and provincial archives and museums. We talk about the history of the Crow’s Nest, its collection of WWII-era gunshield art, the club’s U-boat periscope, the preservation challenges of maintaining the collection, and stories from the club’s colourful past.
Local municipal elections in times long past! Anne tackles this topic with a helping hand from Jean-Philippe Stienne, Archivist & Collections Manager of Touchstones Nelson Museum of Art and History. Further on, the discussion highlights our local history resources including ghost town newspapers…
One of the biggest challenges facing media artists today is the concept of preservation. Any work of art needs to be restored, touched up and preserved to last over time. But with rapidly evolving technology, it's become hugely necessary to regularly maintain and put systems in place to keep tech-art alive and functioning as it should. In this episode, we speak with Morgan Kessler, Media Collections Manager at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) who oversees the preservation of the museum’s collection of Time-Based art. Artworks Discussed in this Episode:Mungo Thomson, Composition for Marimba, 2016Nam June Paik, Video Flag Z, 1986 -About Morgan Kessler-Morgan Kessler has been working with museums and artists as an Audio Visual Specialist since 2008. She joined LACMA in 2012 as a Time-Based Media Technician in the Gallery Media department. In her current role as Media Collections Manager, she is charged with the care of the museum’s collection of Time-Based artworks.You can tweet Morgan @IamtheMogie
Anne Harlow (Otago Museum Humanities Collections Manager on Taoka Digitisation) Interview by Jamie Green on Radio One 91fm Dunedin
Anne Harlow (Otago Museum Humanities Collections Manager on Taoka Digitisation) Interview by Jamie Green on Radio One 91fm Dunedin
Josh Liller at the Jupiter Inlet Lighthouse Museum In the third and final episode for "Florida Week," Jeremy D'Entremont interviews Josh Liller, Historian and Collections Manager for the Loxahatchee River Historical Society and Jupiter Inlet Lighthouse & Museum. Josh gives numerous presentations related to local history in the Jupiter area throughout the year. Jupiter Inlet LighthousePhoto by Jeremy D'Entremont Jupiter Inlet Lighthouse is in Jupiter, Florida, on Florida’s east coast. The 108-foot brick tower was designed by Lieutenant George Meade of the Bureau of Topographical Engineers and went into service in 1860. Jupiter Inlet Lighthouse & Museum, operated by the nonprofit Loxahatchee River Historical Society, offers climbing tours of the tower, and the museum features 5000 years of local history. In the history segment, Jeremy and co-host Cindy Johnson discuss the vital 1843 report to Congress by the civil engineer I. W. P. Lewis that led to the restructuring of the nation’s lighthouse administration. And there's another trivia contest with prizes to be given away.
We interview Ciara Farrell who is the Library and Collections Manager at the Kennel Club, the UK’s largest organisation dedicated to protecting and promoting the health and welfare of dogs. If you have almost any question about a dog, then this specialist library, founded in 1873, has the resources to answer it.
In this episode of the CultureRich Podcast, host Joan Wheeler talks with Peter Shrake, Archivist and Collections Manager at Circus World Museum. Circus World Museum holds the largest collection of records pertaining to the American Circus in the United States. Peter tells about his work with the collection and how the Circus World collection is used by collectors, historians, and just plain folks. Photo Credit: Joan Wheeler Links: Circus World Baraboo http://www.circusworldbaraboo.org/ Robert L. Parkinson Library & Research Center http://www.circusworldbaraboo.org/our-treasures/library-research-center/
For three days on two screens, Bay Area Film Events presented 10 great fantasy films from the master stop-motion animator and special effects wizard Ray Harryhausen at the Balboa Theater in San Francisco. For the three-day film festival, in between the screenings, there were presentations made by Connor Heaney, the Collections Manager for The Ray and Diana Harryhausen Foundation, and Ray and Diana’s daughter, Vanessa Harryhausen. Vanessa and Connor spoke on many topics related to Vanessa’s father’s life and work. The talks, with audience question and answer sessions following, included a wide range of topics, including Vanessa’s experiences at home and on set with her father and his film work. Mark Redfield was able to steal Vanessa and Connor away for a few minutes during the weekend festival to dig a little deeper into what the duo were up to in making preparations for Ray Harryhausen’s cenntenial in 2020. Including a grand museum exhibition planned to celebrate the life and legacy of the brilliant animator. Here’s Mark Redfield, in conversation with Connor Heaney and Vanessa Harryhausen. Find more great audio at www.RedfieldArtsAudio.com
"Be ready to wing it" - Steve Furnett Steve Furnett is the Exhibition and Collections Manager at the Dunn Museum. Before that, he worked at the Field Museum in Chicago for seven years as a Supervisor of Interactives. In this conversation, we cover how Steve he wound up in the museum industry. A common theme in this podcast is captured by this simple quote, "Be Ready to Wing It," and in general, Steve is an excellent example of a jack of all trades. His field is a blending of different categories in new ways. For show notes head to https://feedingcuriosity.net/ --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/feedingcuriosity/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/feedingcuriosity/support
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To honor our recent collaboration with TheSciCommunity, we sat down with the founders Dan and Gabe and discussed the importance of science communication. Dan and Gabe share their values and mission to spread science in a transparent and direct way. Also in this episode, we discuss our pathways into science, how to improve the dialogue between scientists and the public, and fake news. We also talk about the Skype A Scientist program that connects scientists with classrooms around the world. Finally, we answer the question: Is scicomm enough? About Dan Dan is a science writer and founder of Instagram's theSciCommunity, a science-centered networking page that strives to bring scientists and science enthusiasts from all over the world together to share their love of the STEAM fields. Dan strives to prove to as many people willing to listen that science is for everyone. Connect with Dan on Instagram. About Gabe Gabe Santos is a paleontologist from Los Angeles, California where he is the Collections Manager and Outreach Coordinator for the Raymond M. Alf Museum of Paleontology. As Collections Manager, Gabe is responsible for the care, cataloging, and organization of the Alf Museum’s research fossils. Also as Outreach Coordinator, he organizes the museum’s outreach and education programs, such as Skype in the Classroom and Discovery Days. Gabe also assists in teaching the Museum After School program. He received his B.Sc. in biology at University of California-Irvine, and his M.Sc. in geology at California State University-Fullerton. His research interests focus on the Eocene vertebrate fauna of Southern California and the paleobiology of marine mammals, particularly in the extinct hippo-like desmostylians. Gabe is also an active science communicator and co-founder of the Cosplay for Science Initiative, which connects pop culture with science education to make science more relatable and scientists more approachable. Connect with Gabe on Instagram. Also check out Cosplay for Science. More Information Follow even more awesome science communicators on Instagram @silli_scientist @beyond.the.ivory.tower @susannalharris @chem.with.kellen @becky.outside @animedia_science @science.bae @caimarison @patrickkelly_ @thescalex.of.science @mark_thescienceguy @ph_d_epression Want to learn more about science communication? Listen to Episode 20: Biomedical Engineering and Science Education with Stephanie Teeter to hear a discussion about difficulties in science education recorded at ComSciCon Triangle. Any other questions? Let us know! We appreciate your feedback. You can now support the podcast at https://www.patreon.com/sfspodcast. Many thanks to our past and present supporters! Thanks to Plant Warrior for their support. Use discount code SFS10 at checkout for 10% off your purchase of plant-based protein.
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Patricia Greene, the actress who plays Jill Archer, makes the case for Elizabeth, Countess of Shrewsbury, or Bess of Hardwick as she's more commonly known. Like her heroine, Patricia was born in Derby and was aware of the nearby grand stately home Hardwick Hall. 'More glass than wall' was the local saying; as the key feature of this 1590s house was the exuberant use of this rare material. Only recently did she discover that the initials 'ES', which are blatantly carved on the turrets, stood for a woman - Elizabeth Shrewsbury. And so began Patricia Greene's admiration and obsession. Who was this woman born in Tudor times, when women had few if any rights at all? Bess ended up becoming the richest woman in the land after Queen Elizabeth I, but she was portrayed by some as a 'cold hearted shrew' who only became rich by marrying four husbands, Patricia's job is to defend her hero. The expert witness is Dr Nigel Wright, the House & Collections Manager with National Trust at Hardwick Estate. The presenter is Matthew Parris and the producer is Perminder Khatkar .
We're live from the YMCA Theatre in Scarborough with Sir Michael Parkinson, folk legend Martin Carthy, surfer Tori Gower and Jennifer Dunne on the exhibition the Ancient Seas of the Yorkshire Coast. With Inheritance Tracks from Kiki Dee. Sir Michael Parkinson talks about his early life in Yorkshire, happy memories of holidays in Scarborough, his passion for cricket and forthcoming tour - An Evening With Sir Michael Parkinson. Jennifer Dunne is Collections Manager, Scarborough Museums Trust. She describes the Rotunda Museum's new exhibition for the Scarborough's Dinosaur coast, which includes a recently discovered fossilized Walrus skull. Tori Gower discovered surfing while on a visit to Scarborough and stayed. She's now a qualified surf instructor and RNLI beach lifeguard in Scarborough. When she's not in the water, she's usually painting - she's created seascapes as well as surfboard art. Ben Davis is running some 470 miles around Yorkshire. He set off on Yorkshire Day 1 August and he finishes in Scarborough today. He describes the journey and benefits of running for his mental health - and his weight. Folk legend Martin Carthy performs live, including a new arrangement of Scarborough Fair. He recalls his family's musical roots, his acting ambitions and what brought him to the area. Kiki Dee shares her Inheritance Tracks - Some of Your Lovin by Dusty Springfield and Calling All Angels, Jane Siberry. Producer: Louise Corley Editor: Eleanor Garland.
Kentucky Humanities Executive Director Bill Goodman hosts this edition of Eastern Standard for a look at our passion for history, how it's faring in these early years of the 21st century and some ways technology may be helping or hindering our comprehension of the past. (Left to Right) Stuart Stanton, History Advocate for the Kentucky Historical Society; Bill Goodman (interim host); Aaron Genton, Collections Manager for Shaker Village. (Not Pictured) Erin Mast, Executive Director at President Lincoln's Cottage in Washington D.C.
Kentucky Humanities Executive Director Bill Goodman hosts this edition of Eastern Standard for a look at our passion for history, how it's faring in these early years of the 21st century and some ways technology may be helping or hindering our comprehension of the past. (Left to Right) Stuart Stanton, History Advocate for the Kentucky Historical Society; Bill Goodman (interim host); Aaron Genton, Collections Manager for Shaker Village. (Not Pictured) Erin Mast, Executive Director at President Lincoln's Cottage in Washington D.C.
Cynde Moya, Collections Manager at Living Computers: Museum + Labs Cynde Moya is Collections Manager at Living Computers: Museum + Labs. Located in Seattle, Washington, Living Computers is a computer museum that provides hands-on experiences using computers ranging from micros to mainframes. (Last time I was there, there was a Xerox Alto, an Apple I, and yes, an Atari 400 with a number of game carts, plus big iron like a Control Data 6500 and DEC PDP-10 - all those machines and more usable by visitors.) As Collections Manager, Cynde takes care of the museum's collection, and catalogs it. This interview took place on April 9, 2018. “It's definitely not all glory when you're cleaning dead rats out of an old computer." Cynde on Twitter Living Computers Museum + Labs
Since 2004, Angela Golden has been helping dental practices improve their success, and increase the value of their dental practices with her customizable consulting plans. With over 25 years of dental experience in both private practice and corporate dental offices, she understands the needs of your dental practice. Angela started her career in the dental industry in 1992, in a small rural town in Northern Nevada. Over the years, she has utilized her skills as a Dental Hygienist, Dental Assistant, Office Manager, Insurance Specialist, Collections Manager, and Multi-Practice Regional Manager. She has attained the ability to grasp new ideas and integrate them into desired results. Angela has implemented several pragmatic management systems into all aspects of dental practices. She is a dynamic, results-oriented problem solver and experienced in providing project management, consulting and marketing services in the dental field. Angela is passionate about the links between oral health and systemic health. She enjoys teaching other health care professionals and community the importance of oral health and how oral health contributes to such a wide variety of systemic disease. Angela is an affiliate member of the American Association of Dental Consultants and an active member of the Speaking and Consulting Network , American Academy of Dental Office Managers, American Dental Hygiene Association and served on the 2006 Editorial Advisory Board for The Coding Institute’s Strategies for Success in Dental Practice Management. In her spare time, Angela helps in fundraising efforts for the Northern Nevada Dental Health Program, Adopt a Vet Dental Program and Oral Cancer Awareness as well as spending time with her children and granddaughter. https://www.goldenodc.com/
In this episode, you will learn about making sure your destination has a successful tomorrow by building lasting partnerships today from Drew Alberti. Drew Alberti has been the Program Manager for Lakes to Locks Passage since 2008. He is responsible for community outreach, product development, and brand awareness. Some of his accomplishments include authoring From Forest to Fields: A History of Agriculture in Champlain Valley, producing the Waterways of War guidebook series and serving as editor for the Lakes to Locks Passage and National Geographic co-branded geo-tourism website. Previous work experience includes Collections Manager at the New York State Museum in Albany and Park Ranger at the Martin Van Buren National Historic Site in Kinderhook. He holds an MA in Public History from the University at Albany. A transcript of this episode is available here: http://destinationontheleft.com/drew-alberti/
Local herpetologist Carl Franklin shares his knowledge of and passion for turtles, and provides tips on local places for viewing these fascinating “herps.” Carl serves as Biological Curator and Collections Manager for the Amphibian and Reptile Diversity Research Center at the University of Texas at Arlington.
Dana Williamson is one of those guys that kind of does - or has done - everything. He designed boat hulls at MIT, restored British cars and then Corvettes for a living, daily drives a vintage Land Rover. He's a bit of a renaissance man and he's one of the most interesting people at the Petersen. Kyle finally cornered him and bribed him with African currency featuring an engraving of a Land Rover and he agreed to sit down and tell us his story. Enjoy!
Karen Louvar is Collections Manager at Stratford Hall. She now lives in Virginia, but her moves across the country tell us a lot about surviving in the 21st century economy. Karen talks with Colin about growing up in West Virginia, her years in college in Kentucky, and the eternal resting place of "Socks," the presidential cat.
The 2016 Summer Olympics games kick off this week in Rio, and to celebrate, the Watkins Museum of History in Lawrence currently has an Olympic-themed exhibition – as well as a series of events and activities – that celebrate Kansas- and Douglas County connections to the summer Olympics. The exhibition is titled "Faster, Higher, Stronger: Douglas County Olympians,” and features a wealth of information, artifacts and interesting stories of athletes with connections to Kansas and Douglas County. There are even some interactive features and fun photo opportunities for the family to get into the Olympic spirit. Brittany Keegan, Curator and Collections Manager with the Watkins Museum, joins us to tell us more about this exhibition and the history of Douglas County Olympians. --- The Rolling Wave theme music by OILS http://oilsoilsoils.bandcamp.com/
This week's episode of Travel Today with Peter Greenberg from the third largest city in California and a destination worth putting on your radar: San Jose, California. Joining Peter Greenberg will be Tim Ritchie, President of the Tech Museum, one of the great innovation centers in the city and a great environment for education and scientific exploration for both children and adults. Mayor Sam Liccardo talks about San Jose being the tenth largest city in the United States and how it is preparing for Super Bowl 50. Mark Purdy, sports columnist for the San Jose Mercury News, gives insider tips on how to get tickets to the big game, as well as cut-rate deals on Super Bowl merchandise (no matter who is playing in the game). Ken Middlebrook, Collections Manager at History San Jose, talks about the state’s former capital and how San Jose both prospered from—and barely survived—the gold rush. Last but not least, local hero and former NFL quarterback Jim Plunkett dissects the changes in professional football over the last 30 years. He also talks about the necessity for the new Levi’s Stadium and how this may be a game changer for the city. There’s all of that and more as Travel Today with Peter Greenberg comes from the Fairmont San Jose in San Jose, California.
This week's episode of Travel Today with Peter Greenberg from the third largest city in California and a destination worth putting on your radar: San Jose, California. Joining Peter Greenberg will be Tim Ritchie, President of the Tech Museum, one of the great innovation centers in the city and a great environment for education and scientific exploration for both children and adults. Mayor Sam Liccardo talks about San Jose being the tenth largest city in the United States and how it is preparing for Super Bowl 50. Mark Purdy, sports columnist for the San Jose Mercury News, gives insider tips on how to get tickets to the big game, as well as cut-rate deals on Super Bowl merchandise (no matter who is playing in the game). Ken Middlebrook, Collections Manager at History San Jose, talks about the state’s former capital and how San Jose both prospered from—and barely survived—the gold rush. Last but not least, local hero and former NFL quarterback Jim Plunkett dissects the changes in professional football over the last 30 years. He also talks about the necessity for the new Levi’s Stadium and how this may be a game changer for the city. There’s all of that and more as Travel Today with Peter Greenberg comes from the Fairmont San Jose in San Jose, California.
Renee Crist is the Collections Manager at the LeMay - America’s Car Museum located in Tacoma, Washington. There she is responsible for over 300 historic automobiles that span over 100 years of automotive history. Renee is a member of the Advisory Board for the Pacific Northwest Concours d’Elegance and is a member of the Classic Car Club of America, the Cadillac LaSalle Club of America and numerous other local and regional automotive clubs. She is also a member of the National Association of Automotive Museums and Registrars Committee Western Region (RCWR), the Society of Automotive Historians, and the Historic Vehicle Association (HVA).
Gil Mansergh hosts a special Grateful Dead version of Word By Word Conversations With Writers on North Bay Public Media KRCB-FM. His guest is librarian and cultural historian David Dodd, author of a massive book with the rather long title: The Complete Annotated Grateful Dead Lyrics: The Collected Lyrics of Robert Hunter and John Barlow, Lyrics to All Original Songs With Selected Traditional and Cover Songs. In addition to being a Dead Head, David is also the Collections Manager for the Sonoma County Library System and is especially interested in identifying and collecting the work of Sonoma County writers, musicians and visual artists. The conversation is enhanced with snippets of music from some of David's favorite songs and tales of the Dead to which "only David Dodd has approved access."
Discover Library and Archives Canada: Your History, Your Documentary Heritage
In this episode, retired Collections Manager of Artworks Gilbert Gignac and Art Archivist Mary Margaret Johnston-Miller, both from Library and Archives, join us to discuss William Hind, an artist who played a key role in the development of art in Canadian society. We explore who William Hind is, his unique contributions to art in Canada, and what is included in Library and Archives Canada’s William Hind Collection.
Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation (SCAF) presents Collection+: Sopheap Pich, curated by a curatorium consisting of Erin Gleeson, Artistic Director and Co-Founder of SA SA Bassac, Phnom Penh, Dolla Merrillees and Gene Sherman, working with the artist and Aaron de Souza, Collections Manager, The Gene & Brian Sherman Collection. In this film, Gene Sherman speaks about SCAF and this iteration of the Collection+ series. Collection+: Sopheap Pich, SCAF Project 19, was at SCAF from 4 October – 14 December 2013.
Joan Ball is a UC Berkeley Grad student in the College of Natural Resouces. Peter Oboyski is Collections Manager & Sr. Museum Scientist at the UC Berkeley Essig Museum of Entomology. www.notesfromnature.orgTranscriptSpeaker 1: Spectrum's next Speaker 2: [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible]. Speaker 1: [00:00:30] Welcome to spectrum the science and technology show on k a l x Berkeley, a biweekly 30 minute program bringing you interviews, featuring bay area scientists and technologists as well as a calendar of local events and news. Speaker 3: Hey there and good afternoon. My name is Renee Rao and I'll be hosting today's show. Today we get to hear about an exciting citizen science project from Joanie Ball and Peter Oh Boyski. [00:01:00] Joni is a UC Berkeley graduate student in the College of natural resources where she focuses her research on dragonflies. Peter is a collections manager and senior museum scientist at the UC Berkeley Asig Museum of entomology. They spoke to Brad Swift about the new cal project. The ASIG is collaborating with Zooniverse to run the cal bog website, which allows anyone with an internet connection to help digitize the vast collection of bugs specimens in nine California natural history museums [00:01:30] just over 3000 citizens, scientists have joined the project today. We'll learn more about cal vogue and bugs in general in today's interview, Speaker 4: Joanie Ball and Peter O. Boyski, welcome to spectrum. Thank you. Thank you. Let's talk about the cal bug project that you're both part of and how did that get started? What was the genesis of the project? Speaker 1: So Quebec started in 2010 as a collaboration of the major entomology collections in California. And [00:02:00] as a group, the collections were awarded an NSF grant to database their entymology collections through this program called advancing digitization of biological collections. And the goal is to digitize over 1 million specimens. The purpose is to capture the collection information from the labels, like the species name, when the specimen was collected, who collected it and when it was collected. Speaker 4: So the ECIG museum is an insect collection at UC Berkeley and our collections go back about a hundred years. [00:02:30] And these represents the research of our faculty and students over that period of time. And it's a representation of what's lived in California all this time. So each one of those specimens in the museum is a data point. It tells you what lived where at what time. And so the problem is it's all locked up in these specimens. It's on these tiny little labels sitting in a museum somewhere. And nobody has access to this information. So the point of this project is to make that data available to, to the research community, into the public cause this all [00:03:00] goes online free to everybody to look at. So that's the big point of this is to make this a hundred years of of data available to people, researchers and to do this, you know, is it's a pretty overwhelming task. Speaker 4: Now, other museums have done this before with their vertebrate collections. For instance, the Museum of vertebrate zoology here on campus, they've already database their entire collection and they're able to do wonderful things with it. They're looking at distributions of different species and what time of year they occur. But entomology museums have lagged behind just [00:03:30] because of the sheer volume of specimens that we have. We have orders of magnitude more specimens than some of these other museums and we just thought that was too big of a job and nobody wanted to tackle that job. But now with this funding from the National Science Foundation, we feel like, okay, we can take a shot at this now let's take a stab at it. How big is the collection? Well, we don't actually know, but uh, when you multiply how many specimens per drawer and all the jurors that we have that comes out somewhere around five to 6 million specimens that we have in our collection, and that's [00:04:00] just a USAC, that's just the ecig museum and then combine that with the eight other institutions that we're working with. We're talking tens of millions of specimens among all of us. So to do the 1 million is just a, you know, the tip of the iceberg, but it's a place to start. Speaker 1: In the beginning of the project, we were hiring students to enter the data manually directly from the specimens themselves, but we found that that was taking a really long time. So we started taking photographs of the specimens, which is [00:04:30] beneficial in that we then have a record of both the specimen itself and the labels so we can go back and check specimens later. People can also enter this data from the images from wherever they are online. That's how we've started this notes from nature project where we have an interactive database now for people to enter. The specimen data online. As of this morning we had to over 2,790 people entering data. We're approaching 170,000 [00:05:00] total transcription people entering data online through this project, which started just a few weeks ago. Speaker 4: Wow, that's impressive. It is. Have you tried to calculate how many people you think need to volunteer to help? So when we initially started this project, and we are even in the planning stages, we thought, well how long would it take us to actually database? Just our collection alone. You look at the amount of staff that we have in the budget that we [00:05:30] have, and we figured at least a century to do this in house. So we hired some students to help us out, take some of these images, and they started doing the database for us, but we realized, okay, that cut it down to maybe half a century. It's still, that was going to be too long. We needed more help in having these images that you can be sitting online anywhere in the world and jump online and help us transcribe these images. So that was a huge step forward. It's incredibly simple step to take, but it was a very important one. And how did that idea bubble up? Well, we heard about Speaker 1: Zooniverse, which does a citizen [00:06:00] science organization that creates these web interfaces. In particular, we saw this project called old weather. What this project did was enter weather records from ship logs from World War One. The purpose is to improve climate models for the oceans in that time period. So we knew we wanted to do something similar with with our images. I submitted an application to them. What won them over I think was the actual photos of our specimens with the [00:06:30] pen sticking through them. They're really impressed with that and that's also something that the citizen scientists really like as well. They really enjoy seeing the actual pictures of the insects. Speaker 5: [inaudible] you're listening to spectrum. I'm KLX Berkeley, I guess today are Joanie Ball and Peter Boise from the Calvin project. In the next segment they discuss how they choose which specimens to begin at. Speaker 6: [00:07:00] Talk a little bit about the people at the ECIG that keep it all going. Speaker 4: Yeah, we do have a pretty limited staff in the museum, but I have to say the real work gets done by the undergraduates. These are either volunteers or work study students and they put in endless hours and they're the ones who are taking these images that were putting up online without them work just doesn't get done on campus. They really are the, the workforce of this campus. Speaker 6: Going back to the involvement of the citizen scientists, the transcription [00:07:30] work that they do, how would you characterize who's good at it? What sort of person would enjoy this? Do you have a sense of who that is or do you think people should just try it and see? Speaker 1: Does anyone who's curious and has little time to help out? But it tends to be people who are really enjoy contributing to something. Speaker 4: Yeah, it is an opportunity to be part of a larger community. People enjoy that and I think some people are surprised when they, they like it. So some people just log on, Eh, it's okay. [00:08:00] And some people, it just doesn't do it for them. But they took a look and now they know. But other people, they kind of surprise themselves like, oh, this is actually kind of fun. And in a way you're following an expedition. You can see where these things are coming from, what year they were collected. We had some really funny comments about one of our professors who is still actively collecting. Somebody suggested perhaps he's a vampire because he's been collecting for 50 years and the specimens are still coming in. So a little observations like that and people just, they become part of our community without even knowing it. Speaker 1: Yeah, and some people [00:08:30] who never really had an interest in insects before find themselves now more interested in what's around them. One woman mentioned that as she was driving and insect splattered on her car and she was trying to identify it or you know, suddenly she had this new appreciation for insects, which was pretty neat. Speaker 6: How are you choosing the million specimens start? Speaker 1: Uh, well actually one of the groups that we've decided to focus on [00:09:00] start with are the dragon flies. The reason for that is that we have good collections for them over the hundred years where we have our collections. They've been well collected over time. They're pretty charismatic group. They're also used as biological indicators for stream ecosystem health. So that's one of the groups that we're focusing on. We're also focusing on certain insects that are used in applied research like pollinators or biological control agents. What are the, some of the other groups, Speaker 4: the approach we use to slicking [00:09:30] the groups where groups that we have well-represented in the museum, groups that have some significance regarding global change, whether it be land use change that be climate change, changing the way water is distributed. So which groups are more sensitive to that. That might give us some indication of of what's happened in the past. The other criteria and we use was places where we have longterm collections because museums have some biases in them and we have [00:10:00] to recognize that when we do this kind of research people when to a particular place at a particular time because there's something interesting there for them. So some places we have fewer collections over the years, other places we have nice longterm data sets. So we also focused on locations where we knew we had nice longterm data. That makes sense. Yeah, so collecting is ongoing. Speaker 4: It is consumer. We continually collect the museum specimens. The insect collection comes from a number of sources. The most common [00:10:30] is research that's done right here on campus. Professors, students who are doing research projects, they deposit what we refer to as voucher specimens in the museum. So you write a publication that says you found this species at this place. Somebody else reads it and says, well that sounds odd. I don't think that thing occurs there. Well, you have to be able to go back to that specimen and look at it. Oh yeah, sure enough, there it is. I wouldn't believe that. So we have to voucher these specimens in a museum. So that's a large part of where our collection comes from. In 1939 professor ESIG, [00:11:00] the namesake of our museum, had this idea to start the California insect survey. UC Berkeley is a land grant school, which means we owe a certain responsibility back to the community, to agriculture, to forestry, to the urban ecosystem. Speaker 4: And we need to be able to answer questions. But if we don't have representatives of the insects that are out there, then it's much harder to answer the sort of questions. So that was his logic in launching the California Insec survey, sending professors and students all over the state. And that was in 1939 [00:11:30] so our collections go back earlier than that, but that's where the real boost began in our collections. So from that point on, we've had regular collecting trips. People in the museum, professors, other folks will go out and collect all over the state and then deposit their material. Another source of our specimens, our donations, there's a lot of hobbyists, enthusiasts that aren't necessarily professional entomologists, but they enjoy butterflies or beetles or whatever group. At some point when have their family and their kids and they've got these big boxes taken [00:12:00] up a lot of space in their house. They said, well, Geez, you know, I really like having these here, but yeah, maybe I should give them to a museum somewhere. So I get a lot of that kind of stuff as well. Just in the past couple of years we've had, I don't know about 10,000 donated specimens, which has been really nice. We don't do much in the way of trading there. There are museums out there that'll buy and sell specimens, but because the main interest of our museum is answering questions about California, we can go out and get most of that stuff ourselves. Speaker 5: [00:12:30] Our guest today on spectrum are Joanie, Baal [inaudible]. In the next segment they talk about how cal bug is already affecting research. This is k LX Berkeley. Speaker 4: So how is the end product affecting research do you think from pre digitization and now post digitization? [00:13:00] How are people able to leverage what they have in a database now that they couldn't do previously? Speaker 1: I am doing research using the Jag and fly collections from a few different angles. One of my projects is to resurvey sites that were originally sampled in 1914 for Jag and flies. So this collector clearance, Hamilton Kennedy went around California and Nevada collecting dragonflies that in 1914 and create a list of species [00:13:30] for all of the sites that he visited, which turns out to be around 40 sites throughout the region. The problem was he didn't include the dates that he visited these sites. That information is on his specimen. So I use the collection to reconstruct the dates that he went to these specific sites. And then I revisited those sites on the same day. And now what I'm doing is I'm comparing my surveys to the original surveys that were done in 1914 to see how things like species richness and that proportion of habitat [00:14:00] generalist versus specialist and some other community metrics have changed over that time period. Speaker 1: Another project that I'm working on will be using all of the museums specimens for dragon flies and I'll be comparing communities for different counties for the different time periods throughout that hundred years that we have collections. So I'm looking to see which time periods have enough specimens for a comparison. For example, there was a lot of collecting activity in the 70s there's a lot of current [00:14:30] collecting activity through another group, actually dragon fly enthusiast group who report their sightings, so I'm using their sightings for current species distribution throughout California. One of the last projects that I'm working on is creating species distribution models, which is something that a lot of ecologists are doing right now with historical data. The museum collections are points for that. You can create a latitude and longitude for where you find individual specimens throughout time. I'm using these to [00:15:00] look at changes in species distribution over recent decades in relation to factors like climate and land use. So I started analyzing some of the changes in the dragon fly communities based on the resurvey and some of the things that I'm finding so far is are that communities are becoming more similar throughout this survey. Previously you might find much more different species of at different sites, whereas now you're finding a lot of the same things over and over again. So we're seeing kind of a homogenization [00:15:30] of Jag and fly communities. Speaker 4: A lot of researchers have come to the museum to do similar sorts of studies to Joanie's where they're looking at one species. It's distribution over time. And that meant coming into our museum, looking at our specimens, typing that up, they would bring that home and put that into their database, write up a report on that. But that didn't always end up back in our database. And there's only one species at a time. So the advantage to what we're doing now is we can look at whole communities at a time Joanie's case, the whole dragon [00:16:00] fly dams will fly community rather than looking at one species at a time. So you couldn't do that before without one of these larger databases. We keep thinking in terms of the research, which is one of the main reasons why we're doing this, but there's a lot of practical outcomes for the general public as well. Speaker 4: For instance, maybe you're a fly fisherman and you're going up to this particular drainage basin or this river and you want to know what, what's flying up there? I want to know what kind of flies I should be tying. So at some point in the future you'll be able to pull up in our database and see, well what's flying at that time of year in that area? Or you find a spider in your [00:16:30] house and you want to know what kinds of spiders are found in my area, you should be able to go to our database and find that. Or yeah, you're a farmer and you're thinking about rotating to some new crop that you haven't planted before and you want to know what kind of pests should I be worried about? What things feed on this plant in this area? So those are the kinds of questions that other folks outside of the museum community should be able to use. And like I say, this is all freely available online once it's all been database. So this is, you know, it's not just for us, it's for everybody. Speaker 4: What ends up [00:17:00] being the most diverse species of insects. If you were mentioning dragonflies aren't really all that diverse. Beatles. There's a famous geneticists Haldane. When asked, what has he learned in his studies about the creator? Said the creator had an inordinate fondness for beetles. Certainly beetles are the most species rich out there, and within the Beatles, the weevils, a lot of these are very hosts specialized, and so for every species of plant out there, you may have several species of weevil that specialize on them. So [00:17:30] it said that if you were to take one of every species, take a black tail deer, a blue whale, a sequoia tree, every species of insects out there and lined them all up, four out of 10 would be a beetle. So 40% of the diversity of the macro diversity. Now, when I say this to people who study bacteria and viruses, they say, ah, yeah, well, I see. Okay, you right, you're right. There are, there's a lot out there with that, but of multicellular animals and plants, the insects, certainly out number, most other things. Speaker 3: [00:18:00] I'm Renee Rao and you're listening to spectrum. Today's guest are Jody ball and Peter Boyce. In the next segment, they discuss the importance of entomology. This is Kayla Berkeley. Speaker 4: What is the most studied insect? The more charismatic things, as you might guess, get a lot more attention. Butterflies get a lot of attention there. Show either out during the day, they're conspicuous, they don't hide [00:18:30] themselves. It makes them easy to study and for hobbyists to notice them. The more obscure things, the tiny, the brown, the cryptic things that are much more diverse but are much harder to study and there's far fewer people that actually study them. It's just human nature. Yeah. We were attracted to some things that we find aesthetically pleasing and other things that we don't. It takes a special kind of person to look at them. We call them entomologists. Speaker 4: Within the current environment. Are [00:19:00] Insects ascending or is, are they struggling or is it case by case? Very much case by case and again, the more charismatic things we know a lot more about, I know of about 20 species that are listed as endangered in California. 14 of those are butterflies. Then there is a large [inaudible] three pretty charismatic beetles, lion of grasshopper, so these are all pretty conspicuous sort of things. A lot of them are endangered because of habitat loss. They specialize in a particular plant that only occurs in a particular habitat and especially meadows. [00:19:30] So many meadows had been turned into grazed plots or housing developments or golf courses. There's been all kinds of lawsuits around what to do with this meadow and that sort of thing, but there's probably a lot more out there that have become very rare that we just don't know about it because nobody has looked at them in any great depth. Speaker 4: That said, some of the things we do also promote some insects. Certainly our agriculture is this great field of food for not just us, but for insects as well, so some pest species where we consider them past, you know, they're just trying to live, they flourished. There's other things [00:20:00] prescribed burning where you open up a habitat and let the new vegetation grow back in. There are some insects that specialize on that. Unfortunately, the things that specialize in more stable habitat, say old growth forest, they're having less of a good time about it because those habitats, once you disturb them, it takes a long time for them to get back into balance. So yeah, it's a case by case basis. Somethings are doing well, others are not. Speaker 1: The other thing that we're seeing is like in many other groups, habitat generalists are really expanding because they can [00:20:30] live in a variety of different environments and they're more tolerant to changes in the habitat so they can even live in urban areas. So a lot of the habitat generalists are really expanding while the habitat specialists are more likely to be declining. Speaker 4: So I think to some extent we've talked about it, but is there anything specific about the importance of studying insects that you want to mention? Well, we like to think that humans rule the world and [00:21:00] uh, but you know, if our species was to disappear tomorrow, the world would probably go on. Okay. Maybe even better. But if insects were to disappear tomorrow, most ecosystems would collapse pretty quickly. And so I think that's a pretty compelling reason right there to look at them. The act as pollinators, they're recycling nutrients, they're keeping plants and checks are the plants don't over run the world. They're keeping other insects and checks so they don't overrun the world. It kind of keeps things in balance. The act as food for a lot of other organisms. So they're, they're, uh, one of [00:21:30] the most important components of the ecosystem. And to me that's enough reason to study them. Speaker 4: But beyond that, their biology, their behavior sometimes just fascinating to just sit by a pond and watch a dragon fly. It's, it's just amazing to see how they move and how they can move. I mean, they've inspired so many things. I think the, uh, the helicopter was inspired by dragonflies. It's the same kind of design, you know, beyond that, their physiology, there's just so many things about them that are fascinating. And that's where I came from in all of this as an undergraduate, I was an electrical [00:22:00] engineering major for three years and finally realized that biology was really my passion. By coincidence. My first entomology professor got his phd here at Berkeley in entomology and this is at the University of Connecticut. He's the one who got me excited about it. For me, every day of that classroom was just fascinating. Everything I learned was telling me about this world that has been all around me my whole life, but I've never noticed it. Speaker 4: And then all of a sudden somebody opened my eyes [00:22:30] and I just started noticing more and more and it just fascinates me. I mean it's, it's 20 something years later. I still am just as fascinated today as I was before. But I think some of the more obvious things are things like pollination. Our crops depend on having pollinators in with colony collapse disorder going on with the honey bees. What does that mean? So there's a lot of very compelling reasons too, is to study insects. But I think for most of us it's because we love it. They're just fascinating. Great. Joanie ball and Peter o Boyski. Thanks [00:23:00] very much for coming on spectrum. My pleasure. Thank you. If you think you might want to get involved with cal bag. Here's Peter with some more information about how to do that. There's a number of websites where you can find information about us. The ECIG museum. If you go to our website, ecig.berkeley.edu I'm the collections manager, Peter Boyski and you can contact me directly. Gordon Deshita is one of the coordinators of our project. He's on that website as well. There is a cal bug website, get's cal bug.berkeley.edu [00:23:30] and that also has information about the project. Okay. Speaker 2: [inaudible]Speaker 5: the science and technology events happening globally over the next two weeks. Brad switch will join me in presenting the calendar Speaker 3: next Monday. The California Academy of Sciences will host a lecture [00:24:00] by Dr. Anthony [inaudible] Guerra and associate professor of physics at UC Santa Cruz. Dr. Guerra will speak about the evolution of models that scientists use to understand and study the universe. For over two decades, scientists have been refining the standard model they currently use with new data. In light of this, the concept of inflation has been revised in many cases, inflation completely upends. Our picture of the large scale structure of the universe and suggests that the universe may not actually have a beginning. [00:24:30] An object of such enormous size and complexity can only be described as a multi-verse. Dr. Guerra will walk through the development of these ideas and describe other aspects of the multi-verse that scientists wish to test. The lecture will be held on Monday, August 5th at 7:30 PM in the California Academy of Sciences. Planetarium tickets will be available online@calacademy.org Speaker 6: the August East Bay Science Cafe Presents Huta Greys Hammer Phd, [00:25:00] a science officer at the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine, the state stem cell agency that manages bond funds dedicated to support basic translational and clinical stem cell and regenerative medicine research in California. Her research background is in the study of embryonic development, elucidating how the cells of mouse and chick embryos assemble into functional organs. Udo will explore the power of the promise and the problems [00:25:30] of stem cells. That's Wednesday night, August 7th, 2013 in the Cafe Valparaiso, 41 30 Solano Avenue in Berkeley from seven to 9:00 PM Speaker 5: on spectrum. We also like to cover science stories, so we found particularly interesting. Brad swift flew join me in presenting papers. Speaker 6: A multidisciplinary team at the University of Texas Southwest Medical [00:26:00] Center has found that measuring the oxygenation of tumors can be a valuable tool in guiding radiation therapy, opening the door for personalized therapies that keep tumors in check with oxygen enhancement in research, examining tissue oxygenation levels and predicting radiation response. University of Texas southwest scientists led by Dr. Ralph Mason reported in the June 27th online issue of magnetic resonance in medicine [00:26:30] that countering hypoxic and aggressive tumors with an oxygen challenge, which amounts to inhaling oxygen while monitoring tumor response coincides with a greater delay in tumor growth in irradiated animal model. The next step is clinical trials to assess tumor response to radiation therapy says Dr. Mason. If the results are confirmed in humans, the implication for personalized therapies for cancers could mean fewer radiation treatments [00:27:00] or perhaps one single high dose treatment. In some cases, the simple addition of oxygen to stereotactic body radiation greatly improves response. The key is to identify those patients who will benefit Speaker 3: an android app released Monday. Allow smart phone owners to donate their phones, computing power to scientific research around the world. The app was developed by the Berkeley Open infrastructure for network computing or Boy Inc a project [00:27:30] that is best known for developing similar software for personal computers. The app install software that allows the charging phone's processing power to be used to analyze data or run simulations that would normally require expensive supercomputers. The app supports a variety of projects ranging from a program that searches radio telescope data for spinning stars called pulse eyes to one that searches for a more effective aids treatment through a community grid points creator. David Anderson [00:28:00] noted that the computing power of the nearly 1 billion android devices currently being used around the globe exceeds that of the world's largest conventional super computer. The app is currently available at the android app store, but I found you should keep an eye out as Anderson's next project maybe to design a version compatible with apple systems. Speaker 2: Okay. 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Joan Ball is a UC Berkeley Grad student in the College of Natural Resouces. Peter Oboyski is Collections Manager & Sr. Museum Scientist at the UC Berkeley Essig Museum of Entomology. www.notesfromnature.orgTranscriptSpeaker 1: Spectrum's next Speaker 2: [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible] [inaudible]. Speaker 1: [00:00:30] Welcome to spectrum the science and technology show on k a l x Berkeley, a biweekly 30 minute program bringing you interviews, featuring bay area scientists and technologists as well as a calendar of local events and news. Speaker 3: Hey there and good afternoon. My name is Renee Rao and I'll be hosting today's show. Today we get to hear about an exciting citizen science project from Joanie Ball and Peter Oh Boyski. [00:01:00] Joni is a UC Berkeley graduate student in the College of natural resources where she focuses her research on dragonflies. Peter is a collections manager and senior museum scientist at the UC Berkeley Asig Museum of entomology. They spoke to Brad Swift about the new cal project. The ASIG is collaborating with Zooniverse to run the cal bog website, which allows anyone with an internet connection to help digitize the vast collection of bugs specimens in nine California natural history museums [00:01:30] just over 3000 citizens, scientists have joined the project today. We'll learn more about cal vogue and bugs in general in today's interview, Speaker 4: Joanie Ball and Peter O. Boyski, welcome to spectrum. Thank you. Thank you. Let's talk about the cal bug project that you're both part of and how did that get started? What was the genesis of the project? Speaker 1: So Quebec started in 2010 as a collaboration of the major entomology collections in California. And [00:02:00] as a group, the collections were awarded an NSF grant to database their entymology collections through this program called advancing digitization of biological collections. And the goal is to digitize over 1 million specimens. The purpose is to capture the collection information from the labels, like the species name, when the specimen was collected, who collected it and when it was collected. Speaker 4: So the ECIG museum is an insect collection at UC Berkeley and our collections go back about a hundred years. [00:02:30] And these represents the research of our faculty and students over that period of time. And it's a representation of what's lived in California all this time. So each one of those specimens in the museum is a data point. It tells you what lived where at what time. And so the problem is it's all locked up in these specimens. It's on these tiny little labels sitting in a museum somewhere. And nobody has access to this information. So the point of this project is to make that data available to, to the research community, into the public cause this all [00:03:00] goes online free to everybody to look at. So that's the big point of this is to make this a hundred years of of data available to people, researchers and to do this, you know, is it's a pretty overwhelming task. Speaker 4: Now, other museums have done this before with their vertebrate collections. For instance, the Museum of vertebrate zoology here on campus, they've already database their entire collection and they're able to do wonderful things with it. They're looking at distributions of different species and what time of year they occur. But entomology museums have lagged behind just [00:03:30] because of the sheer volume of specimens that we have. We have orders of magnitude more specimens than some of these other museums and we just thought that was too big of a job and nobody wanted to tackle that job. But now with this funding from the National Science Foundation, we feel like, okay, we can take a shot at this now let's take a stab at it. How big is the collection? Well, we don't actually know, but uh, when you multiply how many specimens per drawer and all the jurors that we have that comes out somewhere around five to 6 million specimens that we have in our collection, and that's [00:04:00] just a USAC, that's just the ecig museum and then combine that with the eight other institutions that we're working with. We're talking tens of millions of specimens among all of us. So to do the 1 million is just a, you know, the tip of the iceberg, but it's a place to start. Speaker 1: In the beginning of the project, we were hiring students to enter the data manually directly from the specimens themselves, but we found that that was taking a really long time. So we started taking photographs of the specimens, which is [00:04:30] beneficial in that we then have a record of both the specimen itself and the labels so we can go back and check specimens later. People can also enter this data from the images from wherever they are online. That's how we've started this notes from nature project where we have an interactive database now for people to enter. The specimen data online. As of this morning we had to over 2,790 people entering data. We're approaching 170,000 [00:05:00] total transcription people entering data online through this project, which started just a few weeks ago. Speaker 4: Wow, that's impressive. It is. Have you tried to calculate how many people you think need to volunteer to help? So when we initially started this project, and we are even in the planning stages, we thought, well how long would it take us to actually database? Just our collection alone. You look at the amount of staff that we have in the budget that we [00:05:30] have, and we figured at least a century to do this in house. So we hired some students to help us out, take some of these images, and they started doing the database for us, but we realized, okay, that cut it down to maybe half a century. It's still, that was going to be too long. We needed more help in having these images that you can be sitting online anywhere in the world and jump online and help us transcribe these images. So that was a huge step forward. It's incredibly simple step to take, but it was a very important one. And how did that idea bubble up? Well, we heard about Speaker 1: Zooniverse, which does a citizen [00:06:00] science organization that creates these web interfaces. In particular, we saw this project called old weather. What this project did was enter weather records from ship logs from World War One. The purpose is to improve climate models for the oceans in that time period. So we knew we wanted to do something similar with with our images. I submitted an application to them. What won them over I think was the actual photos of our specimens with the [00:06:30] pen sticking through them. They're really impressed with that and that's also something that the citizen scientists really like as well. They really enjoy seeing the actual pictures of the insects. Speaker 5: [inaudible] you're listening to spectrum. I'm KLX Berkeley, I guess today are Joanie Ball and Peter Boise from the Calvin project. In the next segment they discuss how they choose which specimens to begin at. Speaker 6: [00:07:00] Talk a little bit about the people at the ECIG that keep it all going. Speaker 4: Yeah, we do have a pretty limited staff in the museum, but I have to say the real work gets done by the undergraduates. These are either volunteers or work study students and they put in endless hours and they're the ones who are taking these images that were putting up online without them work just doesn't get done on campus. They really are the, the workforce of this campus. Speaker 6: Going back to the involvement of the citizen scientists, the transcription [00:07:30] work that they do, how would you characterize who's good at it? What sort of person would enjoy this? Do you have a sense of who that is or do you think people should just try it and see? Speaker 1: Does anyone who's curious and has little time to help out? But it tends to be people who are really enjoy contributing to something. Speaker 4: Yeah, it is an opportunity to be part of a larger community. People enjoy that and I think some people are surprised when they, they like it. So some people just log on, Eh, it's okay. [00:08:00] And some people, it just doesn't do it for them. But they took a look and now they know. But other people, they kind of surprise themselves like, oh, this is actually kind of fun. And in a way you're following an expedition. You can see where these things are coming from, what year they were collected. We had some really funny comments about one of our professors who is still actively collecting. Somebody suggested perhaps he's a vampire because he's been collecting for 50 years and the specimens are still coming in. So a little observations like that and people just, they become part of our community without even knowing it. Speaker 1: Yeah, and some people [00:08:30] who never really had an interest in insects before find themselves now more interested in what's around them. One woman mentioned that as she was driving and insect splattered on her car and she was trying to identify it or you know, suddenly she had this new appreciation for insects, which was pretty neat. Speaker 6: How are you choosing the million specimens start? Speaker 1: Uh, well actually one of the groups that we've decided to focus on [00:09:00] start with are the dragon flies. The reason for that is that we have good collections for them over the hundred years where we have our collections. They've been well collected over time. They're pretty charismatic group. They're also used as biological indicators for stream ecosystem health. So that's one of the groups that we're focusing on. We're also focusing on certain insects that are used in applied research like pollinators or biological control agents. What are the, some of the other groups, Speaker 4: the approach we use to slicking [00:09:30] the groups where groups that we have well-represented in the museum, groups that have some significance regarding global change, whether it be land use change that be climate change, changing the way water is distributed. So which groups are more sensitive to that. That might give us some indication of of what's happened in the past. The other criteria and we use was places where we have longterm collections because museums have some biases in them and we have [00:10:00] to recognize that when we do this kind of research people when to a particular place at a particular time because there's something interesting there for them. So some places we have fewer collections over the years, other places we have nice longterm data sets. So we also focused on locations where we knew we had nice longterm data. That makes sense. Yeah, so collecting is ongoing. Speaker 4: It is consumer. We continually collect the museum specimens. The insect collection comes from a number of sources. The most common [00:10:30] is research that's done right here on campus. Professors, students who are doing research projects, they deposit what we refer to as voucher specimens in the museum. So you write a publication that says you found this species at this place. Somebody else reads it and says, well that sounds odd. I don't think that thing occurs there. Well, you have to be able to go back to that specimen and look at it. Oh yeah, sure enough, there it is. I wouldn't believe that. So we have to voucher these specimens in a museum. So that's a large part of where our collection comes from. In 1939 professor ESIG, [00:11:00] the namesake of our museum, had this idea to start the California insect survey. UC Berkeley is a land grant school, which means we owe a certain responsibility back to the community, to agriculture, to forestry, to the urban ecosystem. Speaker 4: And we need to be able to answer questions. But if we don't have representatives of the insects that are out there, then it's much harder to answer the sort of questions. So that was his logic in launching the California Insec survey, sending professors and students all over the state. And that was in 1939 [00:11:30] so our collections go back earlier than that, but that's where the real boost began in our collections. So from that point on, we've had regular collecting trips. People in the museum, professors, other folks will go out and collect all over the state and then deposit their material. Another source of our specimens, our donations, there's a lot of hobbyists, enthusiasts that aren't necessarily professional entomologists, but they enjoy butterflies or beetles or whatever group. At some point when have their family and their kids and they've got these big boxes taken [00:12:00] up a lot of space in their house. They said, well, Geez, you know, I really like having these here, but yeah, maybe I should give them to a museum somewhere. So I get a lot of that kind of stuff as well. Just in the past couple of years we've had, I don't know about 10,000 donated specimens, which has been really nice. We don't do much in the way of trading there. There are museums out there that'll buy and sell specimens, but because the main interest of our museum is answering questions about California, we can go out and get most of that stuff ourselves. Speaker 5: [00:12:30] Our guest today on spectrum are Joanie, Baal [inaudible]. In the next segment they talk about how cal bug is already affecting research. This is k LX Berkeley. Speaker 4: So how is the end product affecting research do you think from pre digitization and now post digitization? [00:13:00] How are people able to leverage what they have in a database now that they couldn't do previously? Speaker 1: I am doing research using the Jag and fly collections from a few different angles. One of my projects is to resurvey sites that were originally sampled in 1914 for Jag and flies. So this collector clearance, Hamilton Kennedy went around California and Nevada collecting dragonflies that in 1914 and create a list of species [00:13:30] for all of the sites that he visited, which turns out to be around 40 sites throughout the region. The problem was he didn't include the dates that he visited these sites. That information is on his specimen. So I use the collection to reconstruct the dates that he went to these specific sites. And then I revisited those sites on the same day. And now what I'm doing is I'm comparing my surveys to the original surveys that were done in 1914 to see how things like species richness and that proportion of habitat [00:14:00] generalist versus specialist and some other community metrics have changed over that time period. Speaker 1: Another project that I'm working on will be using all of the museums specimens for dragon flies and I'll be comparing communities for different counties for the different time periods throughout that hundred years that we have collections. So I'm looking to see which time periods have enough specimens for a comparison. For example, there was a lot of collecting activity in the 70s there's a lot of current [00:14:30] collecting activity through another group, actually dragon fly enthusiast group who report their sightings, so I'm using their sightings for current species distribution throughout California. One of the last projects that I'm working on is creating species distribution models, which is something that a lot of ecologists are doing right now with historical data. The museum collections are points for that. You can create a latitude and longitude for where you find individual specimens throughout time. I'm using these to [00:15:00] look at changes in species distribution over recent decades in relation to factors like climate and land use. So I started analyzing some of the changes in the dragon fly communities based on the resurvey and some of the things that I'm finding so far is are that communities are becoming more similar throughout this survey. Previously you might find much more different species of at different sites, whereas now you're finding a lot of the same things over and over again. So we're seeing kind of a homogenization [00:15:30] of Jag and fly communities. Speaker 4: A lot of researchers have come to the museum to do similar sorts of studies to Joanie's where they're looking at one species. It's distribution over time. And that meant coming into our museum, looking at our specimens, typing that up, they would bring that home and put that into their database, write up a report on that. But that didn't always end up back in our database. And there's only one species at a time. So the advantage to what we're doing now is we can look at whole communities at a time Joanie's case, the whole dragon [00:16:00] fly dams will fly community rather than looking at one species at a time. So you couldn't do that before without one of these larger databases. We keep thinking in terms of the research, which is one of the main reasons why we're doing this, but there's a lot of practical outcomes for the general public as well. Speaker 4: For instance, maybe you're a fly fisherman and you're going up to this particular drainage basin or this river and you want to know what, what's flying up there? I want to know what kind of flies I should be tying. So at some point in the future you'll be able to pull up in our database and see, well what's flying at that time of year in that area? Or you find a spider in your [00:16:30] house and you want to know what kinds of spiders are found in my area, you should be able to go to our database and find that. Or yeah, you're a farmer and you're thinking about rotating to some new crop that you haven't planted before and you want to know what kind of pests should I be worried about? What things feed on this plant in this area? So those are the kinds of questions that other folks outside of the museum community should be able to use. And like I say, this is all freely available online once it's all been database. So this is, you know, it's not just for us, it's for everybody. Speaker 4: What ends up [00:17:00] being the most diverse species of insects. If you were mentioning dragonflies aren't really all that diverse. Beatles. There's a famous geneticists Haldane. When asked, what has he learned in his studies about the creator? Said the creator had an inordinate fondness for beetles. Certainly beetles are the most species rich out there, and within the Beatles, the weevils, a lot of these are very hosts specialized, and so for every species of plant out there, you may have several species of weevil that specialize on them. So [00:17:30] it said that if you were to take one of every species, take a black tail deer, a blue whale, a sequoia tree, every species of insects out there and lined them all up, four out of 10 would be a beetle. So 40% of the diversity of the macro diversity. Now, when I say this to people who study bacteria and viruses, they say, ah, yeah, well, I see. Okay, you right, you're right. There are, there's a lot out there with that, but of multicellular animals and plants, the insects, certainly out number, most other things. Speaker 3: [00:18:00] I'm Renee Rao and you're listening to spectrum. Today's guest are Jody ball and Peter Boyce. In the next segment, they discuss the importance of entomology. This is Kayla Berkeley. Speaker 4: What is the most studied insect? The more charismatic things, as you might guess, get a lot more attention. Butterflies get a lot of attention there. Show either out during the day, they're conspicuous, they don't hide [00:18:30] themselves. It makes them easy to study and for hobbyists to notice them. The more obscure things, the tiny, the brown, the cryptic things that are much more diverse but are much harder to study and there's far fewer people that actually study them. It's just human nature. Yeah. We were attracted to some things that we find aesthetically pleasing and other things that we don't. It takes a special kind of person to look at them. We call them entomologists. Speaker 4: Within the current environment. Are [00:19:00] Insects ascending or is, are they struggling or is it case by case? Very much case by case and again, the more charismatic things we know a lot more about, I know of about 20 species that are listed as endangered in California. 14 of those are butterflies. Then there is a large [inaudible] three pretty charismatic beetles, lion of grasshopper, so these are all pretty conspicuous sort of things. A lot of them are endangered because of habitat loss. They specialize in a particular plant that only occurs in a particular habitat and especially meadows. [00:19:30] So many meadows had been turned into grazed plots or housing developments or golf courses. There's been all kinds of lawsuits around what to do with this meadow and that sort of thing, but there's probably a lot more out there that have become very rare that we just don't know about it because nobody has looked at them in any great depth. Speaker 4: That said, some of the things we do also promote some insects. Certainly our agriculture is this great field of food for not just us, but for insects as well, so some pest species where we consider them past, you know, they're just trying to live, they flourished. There's other things [00:20:00] prescribed burning where you open up a habitat and let the new vegetation grow back in. There are some insects that specialize on that. Unfortunately, the things that specialize in more stable habitat, say old growth forest, they're having less of a good time about it because those habitats, once you disturb them, it takes a long time for them to get back into balance. So yeah, it's a case by case basis. Somethings are doing well, others are not. Speaker 1: The other thing that we're seeing is like in many other groups, habitat generalists are really expanding because they can [00:20:30] live in a variety of different environments and they're more tolerant to changes in the habitat so they can even live in urban areas. So a lot of the habitat generalists are really expanding while the habitat specialists are more likely to be declining. Speaker 4: So I think to some extent we've talked about it, but is there anything specific about the importance of studying insects that you want to mention? Well, we like to think that humans rule the world and [00:21:00] uh, but you know, if our species was to disappear tomorrow, the world would probably go on. Okay. Maybe even better. But if insects were to disappear tomorrow, most ecosystems would collapse pretty quickly. And so I think that's a pretty compelling reason right there to look at them. The act as pollinators, they're recycling nutrients, they're keeping plants and checks are the plants don't over run the world. They're keeping other insects and checks so they don't overrun the world. It kind of keeps things in balance. The act as food for a lot of other organisms. So they're, they're, uh, one of [00:21:30] the most important components of the ecosystem. And to me that's enough reason to study them. Speaker 4: But beyond that, their biology, their behavior sometimes just fascinating to just sit by a pond and watch a dragon fly. It's, it's just amazing to see how they move and how they can move. I mean, they've inspired so many things. I think the, uh, the helicopter was inspired by dragonflies. It's the same kind of design, you know, beyond that, their physiology, there's just so many things about them that are fascinating. And that's where I came from in all of this as an undergraduate, I was an electrical [00:22:00] engineering major for three years and finally realized that biology was really my passion. By coincidence. My first entomology professor got his phd here at Berkeley in entomology and this is at the University of Connecticut. He's the one who got me excited about it. For me, every day of that classroom was just fascinating. Everything I learned was telling me about this world that has been all around me my whole life, but I've never noticed it. Speaker 4: And then all of a sudden somebody opened my eyes [00:22:30] and I just started noticing more and more and it just fascinates me. I mean it's, it's 20 something years later. I still am just as fascinated today as I was before. But I think some of the more obvious things are things like pollination. Our crops depend on having pollinators in with colony collapse disorder going on with the honey bees. What does that mean? So there's a lot of very compelling reasons too, is to study insects. But I think for most of us it's because we love it. They're just fascinating. Great. Joanie ball and Peter o Boyski. Thanks [00:23:00] very much for coming on spectrum. My pleasure. Thank you. If you think you might want to get involved with cal bag. Here's Peter with some more information about how to do that. There's a number of websites where you can find information about us. The ECIG museum. If you go to our website, ecig.berkeley.edu I'm the collections manager, Peter Boyski and you can contact me directly. Gordon Deshita is one of the coordinators of our project. He's on that website as well. There is a cal bug website, get's cal bug.berkeley.edu [00:23:30] and that also has information about the project. Okay. Speaker 2: [inaudible]Speaker 5: the science and technology events happening globally over the next two weeks. Brad switch will join me in presenting the calendar Speaker 3: next Monday. The California Academy of Sciences will host a lecture [00:24:00] by Dr. Anthony [inaudible] Guerra and associate professor of physics at UC Santa Cruz. Dr. Guerra will speak about the evolution of models that scientists use to understand and study the universe. For over two decades, scientists have been refining the standard model they currently use with new data. In light of this, the concept of inflation has been revised in many cases, inflation completely upends. Our picture of the large scale structure of the universe and suggests that the universe may not actually have a beginning. [00:24:30] An object of such enormous size and complexity can only be described as a multi-verse. Dr. Guerra will walk through the development of these ideas and describe other aspects of the multi-verse that scientists wish to test. The lecture will be held on Monday, August 5th at 7:30 PM in the California Academy of Sciences. Planetarium tickets will be available online@calacademy.org Speaker 6: the August East Bay Science Cafe Presents Huta Greys Hammer Phd, [00:25:00] a science officer at the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine, the state stem cell agency that manages bond funds dedicated to support basic translational and clinical stem cell and regenerative medicine research in California. Her research background is in the study of embryonic development, elucidating how the cells of mouse and chick embryos assemble into functional organs. Udo will explore the power of the promise and the problems [00:25:30] of stem cells. That's Wednesday night, August 7th, 2013 in the Cafe Valparaiso, 41 30 Solano Avenue in Berkeley from seven to 9:00 PM Speaker 5: on spectrum. We also like to cover science stories, so we found particularly interesting. Brad swift flew join me in presenting papers. Speaker 6: A multidisciplinary team at the University of Texas Southwest Medical [00:26:00] Center has found that measuring the oxygenation of tumors can be a valuable tool in guiding radiation therapy, opening the door for personalized therapies that keep tumors in check with oxygen enhancement in research, examining tissue oxygenation levels and predicting radiation response. University of Texas southwest scientists led by Dr. Ralph Mason reported in the June 27th online issue of magnetic resonance in medicine [00:26:30] that countering hypoxic and aggressive tumors with an oxygen challenge, which amounts to inhaling oxygen while monitoring tumor response coincides with a greater delay in tumor growth in irradiated animal model. The next step is clinical trials to assess tumor response to radiation therapy says Dr. Mason. If the results are confirmed in humans, the implication for personalized therapies for cancers could mean fewer radiation treatments [00:27:00] or perhaps one single high dose treatment. In some cases, the simple addition of oxygen to stereotactic body radiation greatly improves response. The key is to identify those patients who will benefit Speaker 3: an android app released Monday. Allow smart phone owners to donate their phones, computing power to scientific research around the world. The app was developed by the Berkeley Open infrastructure for network computing or Boy Inc a project [00:27:30] that is best known for developing similar software for personal computers. The app install software that allows the charging phone's processing power to be used to analyze data or run simulations that would normally require expensive supercomputers. The app supports a variety of projects ranging from a program that searches radio telescope data for spinning stars called pulse eyes to one that searches for a more effective aids treatment through a community grid points creator. David Anderson [00:28:00] noted that the computing power of the nearly 1 billion android devices currently being used around the globe exceeds that of the world's largest conventional super computer. The app is currently available at the android app store, but I found you should keep an eye out as Anderson's next project maybe to design a version compatible with apple systems. Speaker 2: Okay. [00:28:30] [inaudible] [inaudible] music in the show is written produced by Alex Simon, edited by Renee Brown. Speaker 5: [00:29:00] Thank you for listening to spectrum. If you have comments about the show, please send them to us via email. Our email address is spectrum, Doug K l x@yahoo.com join us in two weeks at this same time. Speaker 2: [00:29:30] [inaudible] [inaudible]. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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