This morning, I had a new paper published on the beautiful darkling beetles in the genus Eleodes - commonly known as the 'Desert Stink Beetles'. In this paper I described a new species I discovered from doing field work in Nevada during the summer of 2015. When I tell people about my research, that I discover and describe new species of beetles, I am more often than not greeted with surprise and the question "I thought we knew all the species on the planet, how do you find new ones?" This blog post is my attempt to explain the process by telling the story of Eleodes... Read More
Posted by mjohns22 on December 29, 2016 - 9:29am in Graduate Students
Posted by mabasham on August 25, 2016 - 5:47pm in Learning Events
Posted by wfertig on July 13, 2016 - 4:33pm in Collections
Are Herbaria Still Relevant in the 21st Century?
By Walter Fertig, Arizona State University herbarium
Originally published in Sego Lily 2016 Vol 39(1):6-8.
The oldest herbaria date to the Middle Ages when European physicians first learned that dried and pressed plants could retain their color and appearance for decades if properly preserved. Initially specimens were bound in books to provide doctors with a handy reference for identifying the sources of herbal medicines. Over time it became more convenient to keep specimens on loose sheets that could... Read More
Posted by nfranz on April 25, 2016 - 3:17pm in Courses
Posted by mwilsons on April 25, 2016 - 12:06pm in Informatics
We have two workshops sponsored by BioKIC coming up. Please register if you plan on attending so we can plan accordingly for food and for future workshops.
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Deadline for registration is midnight Wednesday May 4th.
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CoGe workshop: http://goo.gl/forms/lhqnB13HAJ
Wednesday May 11
9:00am-5:00pm
ASU Natural History Collections
734 W. Alameda Drive, Tempe AZ 85282
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Posted by nfranz on February 15, 2016 - 8:26pm in Graduate Students
2015 - present: M.Sc. Student in Biology, School of Life Sciences, ASU
2014 - B.Sc. in Biology & Ecology (with concentration in Marine Biology), Louisiana State... Read More
Posted by nfranz on February 14, 2016 - 9:27am in Collections
The Hasbrouck Insect Collection is named in honor of Dr. Frank F. Hasbrouck, an expert on the "burrowing webworm moth" family Acrolophidae (Lepidotera) who was recruited to Arizona State University in 1962. Hasbrouck presided over the collection for nearly 25 years. Under his energetic and meticulous curatorship, the collection grew from approximately 50,000 specimens - which had been accumulated gradually since the 1910s and mainly in service of teaching endeavors - to about 650,000 specimens... Read More
Posted by nfranz on February 12, 2016 - 10:29pm in Collections
Opportunities for making gifts in kind
The Hasbrouck Insect Collection has established a clear and efficient process for facilitating donations of specimens as "Gifts in Kind". Such gifts are ultimately processed through the ASU Foundation, with an option to utilize the charitable donation to receive tax deductions (see also... Read More
Posted by nfranz on February 12, 2016 - 4:37pm in Collections
Our specimens are available for study
The Hasbrouck Insect Collection actively seeks to increase the value and use of our specimens through reliable loans to inter-/national researchers in the biological disciplines. Scientists who wish to request a loan should contact the collection manager, Dr. Sangmi Lee. We have a generous three-year loan... Read More
Posted by nfranz on February 11, 2016 - 2:17pm in Research
The following paper was published in late 2015, with Nico Franz and Guanyang Zhang as ASU co-authors.
Thessen, A.E. et al. (including N.M Franz and G. Zhang). Emerging semantics to link phenotype and environment. PeerJ 3:e1470. Link to publication: https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1470
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