April
2009 - October10,2009
The CSU Chico
Herbarium Workshops:
--May 16, 2009 -- Botanical
Illustration.
by Judy McCrary.
Category: General Interest/Technical
Want to draw plants and flowers? Here’s your chance! Local
illustrator and teacher, Judy McCrary, will lead this one day
workshop on botanical illustration. The workshop will concentrate
on pencil and ink techniques, although other media may be explored
depending on the interests of the participants. Please bring a
2B or a regular #2 pencil. If you already have a crow-quill pen
base and nib, and black ink, bring those, too. You are welcome
to borrow pencils, pens, ink, and paper if you want to try things
out before making any purchases. You can find everything you could
want at Ellis Art & Engineering Supplies in downtown Chico,
a few blocks from the class. Let’s all bring plant cuttings
and flowers to share and draw. Please also bring a lunch.
Click here for more details and registration form (pdf)
--May 30, 2009-- Plant Photography
by Ernesto Sandoval
Category: General Interest
Instruction during this workshop will focus on learning techniques
for improving the quality of images we make whether with a digital
or a film camera. The use of terminology will be limited and the
emphasis will be on techniques such as working and managing available
lighting, and composition.
Click
here for more details and registration form (pdf)
--June 13, 2009 -- Introduction to the Willows of California (Salicaceae).
by John Bair.
Category: General Interest/Technical
Cottonwoods and willows are the most common riparian hardwood
species in California and yet many of us have little idea of how
to tell them apart.This workshop will focus on the leaf, stem,
and growth characteristics that are useful in making an identification
while also emphasizing the regional distributions of the different
species. The goal of the workshop is to instill confidence about
vegetative characteristics used in the identification keys in
The Jepson Manual.
Click
here for more details and registration form (pdf).
--June 22-28, 2009 -- Flora of the western Great Basin.
To be held at the Eagle
Lake Field Station.
by Mike Williams.
Category: Technical/General Interest
Details coming soon.
--August 15, 2009 -- Ethnoecology
of California Wetland Plants.
by Michelle Stevens, Judy & Pete Bunting,
and friends.
Category: General Interest/Technical
Details coming soon.
--September
12, 2009 -- Asteraceae.
by John Dittes.
Category: Technical
With over 1,300 genera and 21,000 species recorded, the sunflower
family
(Asteraceae) is the largest plant family in the world, and with
over 207 genera represented, it is also the largest family in
California. Come and learn the taxonomy of this remarkably diverse
group with John Dittes, local botanical consultant. John will
lead this one day workshop during which participants will key
as a group and individually, using The Jepson Manual.
Click
here for more details and a registration form (pdf).
--October 10, 2009-- Oak Woodland
Ecology and Management
by Doug McCreary
Category: General Interest/Technical
Oak woodlands are an integral and conspicuous part of the California
landscape. This workshop, led by Doug McCreary, will cover such
topics as the importance of native California oaks, benefits of
oaks to property owners and to the environment, threats to native
oaks, methods for growing oaks and restoring woodlands, insects,
diseases, and other pests of oaks, legal protection of oaks, and
oak management in the urban landscape.
The workshop will meet for the morning in the CSU Chico Herbarium,
followed by an afternoon field visit to the oak woodlands in Upper
Bidwell Park, Chico.
Click
here for more details and registration form (pdf).
*Workshops sponsored by The
Friends of the Herbarium. *
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Educational Podcasts
The museum offers several educational audio
podcasts. The museum has 2 quality radio productions with KCHO/KFPR
Northstate Public Radio, the
Blue Dot Report and In a North State Garden.
We also offer select recordings of past Museum Without Walls presentations.
Click here for the entire list.
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Other Educational Items of Interest:
Groundbreaking
Women in Science
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Photo by Ernesto Sandoval, whom is leading the Plant Photography
Workshop May 30, 2009
Photo credit: Flickr
Asteraceae on the campus of CSU Chico being pollinated.
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