Publications
Behm, R., Chung, C., Solomon, L., & Seltmann, K. (2019). Imaging Protocols for the UCSB Invertebrate Zoology Collection. UC Santa Barbara: Cheadle Center for Biodiversity and Ecological Restoration. Retrieved from https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2rv3m3q2
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This guide was developed at UC Santa Barbara as a general guide for how to image specimens and labels of pinned invertebrate zoology specimens for use as exemplar specimens and as vouchers for databasing. The guide was created by students to help new collection curation students learn and understand the imaging protocols specific for our collection.
The UCSB Invertebrate Zoology Collection is a small collection with taxonomic strengths in Hymenoptera and Diptera. Originally used as a teaching collection for a general entomology course taught from 1961 to 1993, this collection's diversity (9,000 insects in 21 orders and 246 families) makes it a valuable historical record of insects in endangered coastal California habitats. This report was developed as part of the Institute of Museum Library Services Grant (award #MA-30-16-0387-16) to curate and digitize the Adrian Wenner Historic Insect Collection at University of California, Santa Barbara. |
Behm, R., & Seltmann, K. (2019). A key to common adult insect taxa. UC Santa Barbara: Cheadle Center for Biodiversity and Ecological Restoration. Retrieved from https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7b91g0mz
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This guide was developed at UC Santa Barbara as a general guide for how to identify common insects to order. It was developed as a training guide for students that are unfamiliar with entomology or technical terminology, and is based on insects and other arthropods found near UC Santa Barbara in California. This key was developed as part of the Institute of Museum Library Services Grant (award #MA-30-16-0387-16) to curate and digitize the Adrian Wenner Historic Insect Collection at University of California, Santa Barbara.
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Behm, R., Horsley, P., & Seltmann, K. C. (2018). An Update on the Invertebrate Zoology Collection at the University of California, Santa Barbara. UC Santa Barbara: Cheadle Center for Biodiversity and Ecological Restoration. Retrieved from https://escholarship.org/uc/item/01s3q625
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We are in the second year of a project to revitalize entomology at the University of California, Santa Barbara and have new updates of its impact on the campus to report. The UC Santa Barbara Natural History Collection (UCSB) at the Cheadle Center for Biodiversity and Ecological Restoration formed the UCSB Invertebrate Zoology collection from about 10K historical specimens that were found in a basement on the UCSB campus. The collection has continued to grow rapidly through Coastal California arthropod survey efforts, donated student collections, and faculty research projects. New results from the project include the formation of an outreach program through the UCSB Extension Department and discovery of several extirpated rare or endangered insects that once occurred on the UCSB campus. We will report on how the discovery of extirpated species on campus has received some press and the development of a collection on campus has raised the profile of entomology and insect conservation in the area.
This poster was presented at the 2018 Entomological Collections Network meeting held in Vancouver, Canada on November 10-11. |
Behm, R., & Seltmann, K. (2017). From rejection to collection! A new entomology collection at the University of California, Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History takes the university by swarm. UC Santa Barbara: Cheadle Center for Biodiversity and Ecological Restoration. Retrieved from https://escholarship.org/uc/item/90j9s4jh
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The Cheadle Center for Biodiversity and Ecological Restoration (CCBER) has formed an insect collection from 10,000 historical specimens that were rediscovered in a basement on the UCSB campus and a little funding. Since its discovery, the UCSB collection has grown rapidly through Coastal California arthropod survey efforts, donated student collections, and faculty research projects. These surveys, conducted by the Cheadle Center for conservation and restoration monitoring, are hugely valuable as the coastal regions of Santa Barbara and Ventura County are critically endangered habitats, with over 95% of these areas lost to human disturbance.
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Presentations
Entomological Society of America Annual Meeting 11/2018 Vancouver, Canada
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Poster 1.
An Update on the Invertebrate Zoology Collection at the University of California, Santa Barbara. On display at the Entomological Collections Network poster symposium. Poster 2. Flies (Diptera) of the Palmyra Atoll. On display at the Entomological Society of America student poster competition symposium. Talk 1. Ophioninae (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae) in California and the inclusion of new taxa into a subfamily phylogenetic re-analysis. 15-minute presentation for the International Society of Hymenopterists student spotlight. Talk 2. Ophioninae wasps (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae) in California. 10-minute presentation for the ESA student competition. Affiliated talk. Diptera of Palmyra Atoll: New Survey, new discoveries presented by Dr. Matt Bertone at the North American Dipterists' Society. |
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Santa Barbara Entomology Club 3/16/2018
I was invited to present my research on Ophioninae of Coastal Southern California to entomologists in Santa Barbara County at the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History. |
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Entomological Collections Network 11/2017
Abstract
The Cheadle Center for Biodiversity and Ecological Restoration (CCBER) has formed an insect collection from 10,000 historical specimens that were rediscovered in a basement on the UCSB campus and a little funding. Since its discovery, the UCSB collection has grown rapidly through Coastal California arthropod survey efforts, donated student collections, and faculty research projects. These surveys, conducted by the Cheadle Center for conservation and restoration monitoring, are hugely valuable as the coastal regions of Santa Barbara and Ventura County are critically endangered habitats, with over 95% of these areas lost to human disturbance.
Abstract
The Cheadle Center for Biodiversity and Ecological Restoration (CCBER) has formed an insect collection from 10,000 historical specimens that were rediscovered in a basement on the UCSB campus and a little funding. Since its discovery, the UCSB collection has grown rapidly through Coastal California arthropod survey efforts, donated student collections, and faculty research projects. These surveys, conducted by the Cheadle Center for conservation and restoration monitoring, are hugely valuable as the coastal regions of Santa Barbara and Ventura County are critically endangered habitats, with over 95% of these areas lost to human disturbance.
