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Digitizing and preserving UCMP's fossil insect collections

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  • Member Institutions
    • American Museum of Natural History
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    • Illinois Natural History Survey
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    • Yale Peabody Museum
    • Virginia Museum of Natural History
    • Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County
    • Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument
    • National Museum of Natural History
  • The UCMP Insect Collections
    • Stewart Valley, Nevada
    • The UCMP Amber Collection
      • Preservation of the Mexican Amber Collection
        • Pre-Embedding
        • Specimen Embedding
        • Post-Embedding
      • Imaging the Mexican Amber Collection
      • Digitization of the UCMP Amber Archives
    • Southern California Tar Pits
      • McKittrick Collection
      • Rancho La Brea
    • Crystal Caverns Millipedes (Diplopoda)
  • Accessing the Collections
  • URAPs Corner
    • Hiep’s bug blog
    • Meschelle’s bug blog
    • Asma’s bug blog
    • Julia’s bug blog
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    • Ammabel’s bug blog

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Project Posts

  • Ammabel’s bug blog
  • Madeline’s bug blog
  • Julia’s bug blog
  • Asma’s bug blog
  • Marwa’s Crush – Frans Blom & “Forever Amber”
  • Meschelle’s bug blog
  • Hiep’s bug blog
  • Bringing UCMP’s Fossil Insects to Light and More!

These projects made possible by NSF award EF 1503671 and IMLS award MA-30-18-0083-18. Any opinions, findings, and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation or Institute of Museum and Library Services.

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