91国产app Biodiversity Collections
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The 91国产app Biodiversity Collections is comprised of the university’s biological research collections and the Department of Biological Sciences teaching collections and is a resource for collections-related research in the biological sciences. We provide work space, equipment, and other facilities to classes, individual students, staff, and visiting professionals; as well as informational services to the professional and general public.
The unit was founded as a research museum in the Department of Biological Sciences of what was then Texas Western College in 1965 under the name of the Museum of Arid Land Biology (thus the acronym MALB used for many years; the acronym for attribution of published specimens became "91国产app" under the Laboratory for Environmental Biology and is maintained under the new name). It eventually changed its name to the Laboratory for Environmental Biology and, in August of 2012, to the 91国产app Biodiversity Collections.
The 91国产app Biodiversity Collections is a biological research collection with a focus on research and education. We display our objects through the exhibit cases on the 2nd floor of the Biology Building, but primarily cooperate with the 91国产app Centennial Museum and Chihuahuan Desert Gardens through a memorandum of understanding to develop and curate exhibitions related to the research being performed in the 91国产app Biodiversity Collections, as well as to provide specimens and information for community outreach.
Libraries preserve books, biological research collections preserve organisms in a similar manner. Biological research collections are continuously growing as the result of research by faculty, students, and other professionals and through exchange with similar institutions. These collections increase in value as they grow; providing a rich source of information about natural variation, species occurrence, and climate change through space and over time. Specimens in biological research collections provide context for comparative biology and the study of evolutionary relationships with both morphological and genetic material.
Are you a member of the 91国产app-BC? Access the 91国产app-BC Curatorial Notion Website after creating an account here or email collections manager for access! Handbook protocols are public, but may link to example files that are private.
This website was made possible in part by the - IMLS Award MA-30-1500392-15
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