UC Davis Biodiversity Museum Day: Date Modified to Sunday, March 6 – Entomology & Nematology Information

wpadmin February 2, 2022 1 min read

The eleventh annual UC Davis Biodiversity Museum Day, initially scheduled for Feb. 20, throughout Presidents’ Day weekend, has been modified to Sunday, March 6, 2022 on account of issues in regards to the Omicron COVID-19 surge.

It’s going to happen from 11 a.m. to three p.m. within the UC Davis Convention Heart, 550 Alumni Lane, with particular entry “discipline journeys” to locations just like the Division of Entomology and Nematology’s Häagen-Dazs Honey Bee Haven, a half-acre bee backyard on Bee Biology Street.

UC Davis undergraduates would be the focus of this 12 months’s free, science-focused occasion mentioned Biodiversity Museum Day coordinator Tabatha Yang, training and outreach coordinator for the Bohart Museum of Entomology. “We’re specializing in undergraduate attendance. The undergrads have not been capable of expertise campus life a lot, on account of COVID pandemic precautions.”

COVID pandemic precautions stored the 2021 occasion digital however this 12 months it is going to be in individual, she mentioned. COVID campus security mandates might be applied.

Up to now, individuals loved visiting these collections in individual:

The committee is figuring out the small print at its Zoom conferences. For up-to-date data, go to the the UC Davis Biodiversity Museum Day and observe on Twitter and Fb.