These designs showcasing the 15th annual UC Davis Biodiversity Museum Day will "draw you in."
The BioDiv Committee recently sponsored a design contest and selected the two winners. They are....drum roll...
Haylie Wilcox, a first-year master's degree student in the lab of Professor Neal Williams, a pollination ecologist in the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology, and Christopher Mulligan, a fifth-year doctoral student in the paleobiology lab of associate professor David Gold, Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences
Wilcox created a wheel design, and Mulligan's art symbolizes BioDiv Day museum and collection participants.
"We lucked out that these scientists have a passion for art and entered our contest this year," commented BioDiv coordinator Tabatha Yang, education and outreach coordinator for the Bohart Museum of Entomology.
The Biodiversity Museum Day, a free and family friendly event known as "Super Science Day" and a "Day of Discovery," is set Saturday, Feb. 21. It is an opportunity to talk to the scientists and see their work. The participating museums or collections will soon be announcing the hours they will be open.
Scheduled to participate this year are:
UC Davis Arboretum and Public Garden, Anthropology Museum, Bee Haven, Bohart Museum of Entomology, Botanical Conservatory, California Raptor Center, Center for Plant Diversity, Nematode Collection, Museum of Wildlife and Fish Biology, Paleontology Collection, and the Phaff Yeast Culture Collection. More details will be announced later. Check the UC Davis Biodiversity Museum Day website for updates.
Cover image: Blue morpho butterflies at the Bohat Museum of Entomology. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)