Jepson Herbarium Education and Outreach Resources


   

As part of our Education and Outreach program, the herbaria have been involved in the production of several videos describing a wide range of botanical subjects.
Links to the videos are provided below.

   
   

The Jepson Videos: Visual Guides to the Plants of California

A new series of short plant identification videos, hosted on YouTube.
To be notified when new videos are posted, please subscribe to the Jepson Herbarium YouTube channel and turn on notifications.

Recordings from Jepson Mini-wokshops
A Survey Course in Twelve Parts:
Introduction to Botany, Ecology, and Conservation Biology

Intro frame

A series of short videos, hosted on YouTube with recordings on these topics:

Ferns, bryophytes, plant indentifcation, seaweeds, lichens, floristics, spatial phylogenetics, fungi, paleobotany, ecology, documenting diversity, and climate change

To be notified when new videos are posted, please subscribe to the University and Jepson Herbaria YouTube channel and turn on notifications.

Other University and Jepson Herbaria Videos

Ixchel González-Ramírez
Un Vistazo al Laboratorio: Ixchel González-Ramírez, Bióloga Evolutiva de Plantas, UC Berkeley
By Ixchel González-Ramírez, UC/JEPS graduate student
A Spanish language video explaining herbaria and some of the research done, produced by Un Vistazo al Laboratorio in association with Science at Cal and the Mexican Consulate in San Francisco.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2itcLlLi4Y

Facilitating plant conservation through the Jepson Flora Project
By Bruce G. Baldwin, Presentation at Botany 2021.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yomYRpAVFQc

Symbiotic forms and the lichenized phenotype
By Klara Scharnagl, Presentation at Botany 2021.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nrvg_hJ29SA

Application of the PhyloCode at the level formerly known as species, with examples from Mosses
By Brent D. Mishler, Presentation at Botany 2021.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQ5LEuMI7IU

Preserving the forest of the sea
By Sheraz Sadiq, Quest, KQED Science, featuring Kathy Ann Miller, Curator of Algae.
ww2.kqed.org/quest/2013/02/05/science-on-the-spot-preserving-the-forest-of-the-sea/

The sex lives of Christmas trees
By Joshua Cassidy, KQED Science, Deep Look, with special thanks given to Bruce Baldwin and Andrew Doran.
ww2.kqed.org/science/2015/11/24/the-sex-lives-of-christmas-trees/

Plant collecting and herbarium research, part 1
By Science in your life host Molly Edwards, featuring UC Berkeley Ph.D. students Joyce Chery and Carrie Tribble.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4OzLI1qYh8

Plant collecting and herbarium research, part 2
By Science in your life host Molly Edwards, featuring UC Berkeley Ph.D. students Joyce Chery and Carrie Tribble.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=eKEZfzlYWEo

Calscape.
By Tim Didion, ABC 7 News, featuring Andrew Doran and Staci Markos.
abc7news.com/hobbies/new-website-helps-gardeners-go-native/1410352/

Caleb Caswell-Levy uses a hand lens to identify tiny mosses
These ‘Resurrection Plants’ Spring Back to Life in Seconds.
By Gabriela Quirós, KQED Science, Deep Look, with special thanks given to Brent Mishler, Caleb Caswell-Levy, and the University and Jepson Herbaria.
(Photo: Biologist Caleb Caswell-Levy uses a hand lens to identify
tiny mosses on a tree in Berkeley, California.
(Gabriela Quirós/KQED Science).

ww2.kqed.org/science/2015/06/25/these-resurrection-plants-spring-back-to-life-in-seconds/