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More than Just Curiosities

Inherited from past generations,
maintained in the present,
and bestowed to future generations.

Slides

Title Slide:

The image of a historic photograph of a faculty member posing with a specimen of a dinosaur fossil, juxtaposed against a modern photo of the same thing.

Slideshow Title: More than Just Curiosities

Slide 1

The image of a skull taken in the Vertebrate Museum, filtered to be black and white and look old. This slide transitions to a color version of the same image.

Caption: Inherited from past generations, maintained in the present, and bestowed to future generations.

Slide 2

An unfiltered color image of a skull photographed in the Museum of Vertebrates.

Slide Title: More Than Just Curiosities
Slide Caption: The specimens contained in the University of Wyoming's natural science collections are scientific, and cultural artifacts, institutional treasures with many layers of value.

Slide 3

A historic image of Aven Nelson on a collection trip, surrounded by specimens next to an image of a staff member at the Herbarium posing with one of the specimens from that trip.

Title: Mores than Just Curiosities. 

Caption 1: The collections managed and curated by University of Wyoming were all originally established by founding members of the university more than a century ago.

Caption 2: Aven Nelson, botanist, University of Wyoming president, and founder of the Rocky Mountain Herbarium, sorting through plant specimens collected on a research trip to Yellowstone Park in 1899.

Caption 3: The Rocky Mountain Herbarium, which he established in 1893, still keeps the specimens he collected on that trip

Slide 4

A historic photo of the UW Geology Museum curator in 1912 posing with a fossil. In a juxtaposed image, the contemporary curator and museum manager pose with the same specimen in the UW Geology Museum.

Slide Title: More Than Just Curiosities
Caption: The continuity of these collections and ongoing technological advances in genetics, stable isotope analysis, and shared relational databases make these collections more and more valuable as time passes

Slide 5

An image of the Geology Museum curator and manager posing with a fossil, juxtaposed next to a historic image that show a group of women and men posing for a photo with the fossil in the late 1800's.

Slide Title: More Than Just Curiosities
Caption 1: With these new tools we can extract more insight from specimens, both historic and new, than our curious forefathers could have ever imagined.
Caption 2: Likewise, years, even decades from now, new analytical techniques will allow researchers to use the same specimens to answer new questions.