Sagehen Mammal Quest on Zooniverse

Sagehen's EDI data fellow, Georgia Titcomb, is helping us get some of Sagehen's historic data into the EDI repository this summer for easier researcher access and future security. Watch our website for updates.

One additional project that Georgia has just finished is posting our camera trap monitoring photos to Zooniverse. The Sagehen Mammal Quest now allows the interested public to help us identify which images have animals in them. These photos help us evaluate the effects of the Sagehen Forest Project on wildlife.

Take a look and help out!

 

4-2-2020 UPDATE: thanks to COVID lockdowns, the project finished almost immediately! More info.

The Sagehen Mammal Quest on Zooniverse.

Herbarium Curation

Sagehen uses volunteers to manage its collections, including our herbarium. Here are some useful documents to help you understand the principles and strategy.

IMPORTANT! Be scrupulous about your field and lab notes. Keep a lab journal and field notebook. Document everything you do! Your effort is wasted--or even destructive--if you (and others) cannot later figure out what you did.

Organization and Management

• Sagehen Herbarium Curation and Workflow, 2020
• Sagehen Herbarium Guidelines 
• Digital collection. Sagehen's herbarium vouchers have been digitized and are available online at CCH2.org. 
• Herbarium Collection Needs & Notes, 2020

https://www.capturingcaliforniasflowers.org/workflow--protocols.html

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Thanks to all our Sagehen Herbarium volunteers to date!

• Erica Krimmel: program development; collections organization; digitizing; herbarium expansion; volunteer management.
• Alex Gallandt: accessioning; mounting; collecting; updating taxonomy; reorganizing collection schema.
• Angele Carroll: plant mounting; voucher filing
• Hannah Johansson: accessioning assistance
• All the California Naturalists and Weed Warriors who have helped at plant mounting days!