Contributors to our blog

   One of the major focuses of this blog is to introduce you all to all of the neat organisms we are encountering while cataloging our collection here at the Sam Noble museum. There have been several people who have been a huge help in accomplishing this goal, including: undergraduate and graduate students, staff members, and our curator Dr. Braun, who wrote or co-wrote several grants that have funded the endeavor. I'm going to ask them permission if we can put their names on here first before we thank them personally, but without their help we wouldn't have so many neat stories and finds to talk about. So far we have cataloged over 130,000 individual specimens, just over half of our collection!

Example of pinned beetle specimen we discovered cataloging our European material from the early 19th Century

   

    There are going to be several contributing authors to our blog: I [Miridae] am going to take a more formal approach and talk about more of the nitty-gritty science stuff since I'm a trained Entomologist [science of insects]. We also will have contributions from other members of our department who will have their own writing styles and experience working with invertebrates, each contributing different perspectives and stories about what they're learning. As we get going, I'm excited to introduce everyone to the contributing members, and hope you enjoy learning about our department!