Museum Days for 2009
Workdays for volunteers are usually held the first Saturday of each month from 8 a.m. until evening. There are a wide variety of tasks carried out under the guidance of Museum Director Bill Clark. Curation of specimens, construction of cases and displays, library collation and cataloguing, collection cataloguing, and general collection maintenance are just a few of the tasks carried out by volunteers. The next scheduled workdays and (associated lunch seminars) are:
- January 10 John Keebaugh & Don Zaroban - "Introduction to Specify - the Museum's new daabase."
- February 7 Margaret Stallknecht - "Wonderful World of Rocks and Gems with a hand's on show and tell"
- March 7 Dr. Alan Gillogly - "Introduction to Back-Country Panama."
- April 4 Howard Emry - "Geology and Vertebrate Paleontology of Pleistocene Deposits at American Falls Reservoir, Idaho."
- May 2 Jan Summers Duffy - "Idaho Archeology Month."
- June 6 Dr. Paul Castrovillo - "Idaho's Most Distinctive Butterflies" and "Training for the Fourth of July Butterfly Count."
- July 11 Kathy Hamlett - "Mayan site of Copan."
- August 1 Dr. Don Mansfield - "Owyhee Flora Project."
- September 12 Gwen-Alyn Hoheisel - "Walnut Twig Beetle/1000 Canker Disease."
- October 3 Dr. Barbara Ertter - "American Iranian Botanical Program."
- November 7 - Amy Truksa - "Water on Mars, Past and Present"
- December 5 Richard Salisbury - "Idaho land shells, Fresh water snails and a few marine cousins."
We supply coffee and hot water for drinks as well as a taco lunch for volunteers. We usually have a brief research seminar at noon.
In addition to official museum workdays, the Museum is open to the public by appointment. To arrange for group Museum tours please contact JoAnn Bellon or Bill Clark to verify.
The museum needs your help!We need lumber (plywood, particleboard, masonite and 1"X2" Stock) map cases; fireproof files; and library file boxes for journals. Funds are needed for specific Museum projects, contact Bill Clark for the details. The Museum collects aluminum for recycle. Please leave in the Museum or contact Bill Clark, John Keebaugh, or Dr. Eric Yensen.