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