Tour of the Burke Museum Sea Mammal Collections!!
13th Annual Workshop on
February 29, 2012,
in Seattle,
Washington
Mike Etnier will lead us on a tour of the sea mammal collections at the Burke Museum in Seattle:
The 2012 ACZ
Workshop will
consist of a two-part tour of
vertebrate research collections.
One
half of the tour will be a behind-the-scenes look of the Burke
Museum’s
Mammalogy and Ornithology divisions.
The
Burke’s on-site collections contain one of the largest series
of bird skeletons
in the country, and also have a large series of marine mammal and
terrestrial
mammal skeletons.
The other half of the
tour will be of the National Marine Mammal Laboratory’s
(NMML) marine mammal
research collection.
This is one of the
richest marine mammal research collections in the country.
There will be a group lunch
outing in between the two
tours.
Transportation to NMML will
be
provided as part of the registration fee.
Transportation to/from the
Burke (on the University of Washington
campus) will be on your own.
Because NMML’s
collections are housed on a federal facility,
pre-registration is MANDATORY.
We must
provide NMML a copy of your identification (valid driver’s
license or passport)
before
entering the facility. Specific
scheduling of tours will be announced (watch this
web page)., but anticipate the Burke tour in the morning (ca. 2 hours),
followed by lunch, then the tour of NMML’s collections.
Please go to the registration link to register before February 15th, 2012. Registrationwill be $40 for regular fees, and $15 for students. The costs cover materials for the lab and travel and honorarium for the instructor. (Normally a late registration is $45 and $20 to cover costs for additional materials for unexpected participants but we are not be able to accommodate late registrants this year because we need to let our hosts know how many people are coming and we need to provide information to the National Marine Mammal Laboratory before the tour.)
If you have pictures from the 2011 Workshop on Pathologies, please contact Diane Hanson
Some pictures from the 2010 Workshop on Pleistocene mammals in Anchorage, Alaska:
Some pictures from the 2009 Workshop:
The 2008 Workshop was held in Anchorage when Joan Dale and Monica Shah presented information about distinguishing ivory, bone, and antler.
These pictures are from the 2007 workshop in Fairbanks. Lee Post was our guest instructor and showed the participants how to make laboratory specimens. Everybody worked on a beaver because there wasn't enough time for each person to assemble a skeleton on their own.
Our 2006 Workshop was in Kodiak with Pat Shipman as our Guest Lecturer speaking about taphonomy:
And Lee Lyman joined us in 2005 to talk about Quantification in Whitehorse:
