Digitizing and preserving UCMP's fossil insect collections
The URAPs Corner
The Berkeley Fossil Insects project offers undergraduate students at the University of California, Berkeley an excellent opportunity to get involved through the Campus’ Undergraduate Research Apprentice Program (URAP). Students interested in learning more about working with natural history collections and the efforts being done to database and image UC Berkeley’s fossil insect collections are encouraged to apply to the program. Apprentices will contribute to new and ongoing research and along the way gain knowledge in insect taxonomy, systematics, phylogenetics, insect evolution and biogeography, plant-insect interactions, and what these climate sensitive and habitat specific arthropods tell us about past environments and how they have changed through time. The scientific data generated from the project will continue to be used in research, education and public outreach beyond the end of the grant funding.
BFI’s URAP Apprentices:
HIEP NGUYEN – PEN – Fall/Spring 2015-2017
MESCHELLE THATCHER – PEN – Spring 2016
ASMA FARAJ AHMED – PEN – Fall 2016, Spring 2017
MADELINE LITTLE – PEN – Spring 2017
EMILY DUDA – PEN – Spring 2017
JULIA ANDERSON – PEN – Spring 2017
ANGEL JI – IMLS – Fall 2019
CW JUNG – IMLS – Spring 2020*
XIHAO (JOHN) FENG – IMLS – Fall 2021; Spring – Summer 2022; Fall 2022; Spring 2023