When I tell people I work at the university herbarium as a museum assistant & that we maintain a collection of approximately 1,700,000 plant specimens for study, no one really has any idea what I’m talking about. Really, I didn’t either until I was hired &, four months later, I’m still learning a lot about the herbarium & the types of work they do.
Yesterday I took the camera to work with me & took some photos.
[Having a new camera is so exciting!!]
Some day to day tasks at the herbarium.
my work desk in the range
"the range" - where all the specimens are kept
gluing annotations onto a specimen
beautiful card catalog in the range
an unmounted specimen
each specimen we loan out is put in a stamped folder
a specimen from mexico
the best herbarium seal i've seen
the first & only specimen I've seen marked "poisoned"
That’s an idea of what I do at work!
I took a lot more photos today, but I’ll just be putting those on Flickr instead of posting long, mostly likely boring, photo entries.
Now off to pick up Joel from work & to meet his parent’s at Zingerman’s for his birthday dinner. His birthday is tomorrow, which happens to be New Years Eve, so he has the misfortune of often having his birthday smushed together with Christmas, but on the upside, there’s always a party! We decided to go to Zingerman’s because neither of us have been there, it’s a quintessential Ann Arbor thing to do, but we’d never go get $15 sandwiches on our own.
I’m sure I’ll have pictures to post soon.
xoxoxo
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- Plants, hurricanes and rapidly approaching holidays
- Photos from my bus ride and campus
- A chance to breathe & a moment of quiet
- Onwards & Upwards
- Archival practice accompanied by podcasts
Wednesday, December 30th, 2009, 4:13 pm | 
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