Public Education and Citizen-Science project:
- 2014-present Thursday Sorting, HUJ, Israel (monthly activities at the National Arachnid Collection and other collections of the NNHC, open to the public; 15-80 participants per event).
- Training of INPA (Israel Nature & Parks Authority) rangers and staffers in identification of reptiles & amphibians (planned project, work in progress).
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- Training of SPNI (Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel) guides and workers in identification of reptiles & amphibians (planned project, work in progress).
Courses that use the collections (http://shnaton.huji.ac.il/yearbook.php):
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- The Zoogeography of Vertebrates in Israel (Prof. Gila Kahila Bar-Gal). Students participating in the courses listed below visited the collections for a full day (over 6 hours) of lectures and scientific explanation during the visit to each collection.
- New Technologies in research and conservation of cultural heritage in Israel (Prof. Gila Kahila Bar-Gal).
- Plant and animal domestication (Prof. Gila Kahila Bar-Gal).
- Genomic diversity and ancient DNA in populations evolution (Prof. Gila Kahila Bar-Gal).
- Vegetation and Flora of Israel (HUJI) – Dr. Ori Fragman-Sapir.
- Vegetation Ecology and Ornithology of Israel (Tübingen University, Germany) - Prof. Katja Tielbörger.
- Phytogeography and Ecology of Vegetation in Israel (HUJI) – Prof. Jaime Kigel.
- An Introduction to Organismic Biology (Prof. A. Chipman). A first year undergraduate course for Biology students. The course includes a lab section which makes extensive use of the invertebrate teaching collection.
- Evolution of the Animal Kingdom (Prof. A. Chipman). An advanced graduate level course (open to final year undergraduates). The students in the course study fossils from the paleontological collection (both teaching collections and research collections) and prepare written projects on them.
- Introduction to Paleontology (Prof. R. Rabinovich), an undergraduate course to Geology students. The course includes lab sections which makes extensive use of the invertebrate and vertebrate teaching collection.
- Introduction to Archaeozoology (Prof. R. Rabinovich), an undergraduate course to Archaeology students. The course includes lab sections which makes extensive use of the invertebrate and vertebrate teaching collection.
- Microscopic taphonomy (Prof. R. Rabinovich) and undergraduate and graduate advanced course for Archaeology students. The course includes lab sections which makes extensive use of the taphonomy comparative collections.
- Ongoing guided tours to the collections as part of university courses such as: ATGAR class (HUJI), Introduction to Paleontology (Ben-Gurion University), ESHMOR course (Ben-Gurion University)
Courses using the Arachnid Collection
- 2012, Spiders of Israel: Taxonomy and functional morphology, HUJ, Israel (5 days ITI supported course; Instructor: Dr. Robert Raven, Queensland Museum, Australia) (coorganizer Dr. Efrat Gavish-Regev, Dr. Ariel Chipman, HUJ; Prof. Yael Lubin, BGU).
- 2013, Systematics and Diversity of Scorpions, with Introduction to the Israeli Fauna,
- 2017, Israel Taxonomy Initiative (ITI) Course, Harvestmen (Arachnida, Opiliones) of Israel: Taxonomy, morphology, and biogeography Instructor: Taxonomy, morphology, and biogeography, HUJ, Israel (5 days; Instructor: Prof. Prashant P. Sharma, University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, WI, USA) (co-organizer Dr. Efrat Gavish-Regev, Prof. Ariel Chipman, HUJ; Prof. Yael Lubin, BGU).
Scientific Meetings
Guided tours to the collections for participants of international meetings, for example reappraisal of Hominin Group Size in the Lower Paleolithic –Israel Institute for Advanced Studies Conference (International) (2017)
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