paccardenas.bsky.social
Curator of zoology at Museum of Evolution (Uppsala University), in charge of the Linnaeus collection, marine biologist (sponges), naturalist and wannabe natural product researcher.
👤 Joined on 22 November 2024
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@paccardenas.bsky.socialDay 5 of our "Deep-sea Biodiversity and Applied Taxonomy Workshop" 🇿🇦 End of the group assignments (identification of 3 unknown sponges) with measurements 📐 and use of the scanning electron microscope! Followed by presentations. Congratulations to all! 😃 Thanks to @biodiversa.eu and @fao.org.
Show PostDay 4 of our "Deep-sea Biodiversity and Applied Taxonomy Workshop" in Cape Town 🇿🇦 The participants gave some talks, visited the molecular labs at Iziko Museum, discussed about biodiversity datasets. Finally they continued to work on their sponge identifications.😅 @biodiversa.eu @dsbsoc.bsky.social
Show PostDay 3 of our "Deep-sea Biodiversity and Applied Taxonomy Workshop" in Cape Town 🇿🇦 Discussions about the importance of natural history collections followed by a visit of the rich Iziko Museum zoology collections, more than 500 000 specimens! 🤩 @biodiversa.eu @fao.org @dsbsoc.bsky.social
Show PostDay 2 of our "Deep-sea Biodiversity and Applied Taxonomy Workshop" in Cape Town 🇿🇦 The participants finally meet the #sponges from the Iziko Museum collection, all collected in South Africa 🪸 Lots of excitement and curiosity 😀 @biodiversa.eu @dsbsoc.bsky.social
Show PostA successful 1st day of our "Deep-sea Biodiversity and Applied Taxonomy Workshop" in Cape Town, South Africa 😀 An intro to #deep-sea biology and #sponges, and the first practical on Image-based identification using BIIGLE. @biodiversa.eu @dsbsoc.bsky.social
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