Our Staff
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Research & Collections
The specimens we collect and conserve document the occurrence of individual organisms in space and time.
Research & Collections News
Our Research Departments
Our Research Departments
- Anthropology
- Archives & Library
- Community Science
- Conservation & Collection Care
- Crustacea
- Dinosaur Institute
- DISCO
- Echinoderms
- Entomology
- Herpetology
- History
- Ichthyology
- Invertebrate Paleontology
- Malacology
- Mammalogy
- Marine Biodiversity Center
- Mineral Sciences
- Ornithology
- Polychaetous Annelids
- Rancho La Brea
- UNRC
- Vertebrate Paleontology
Our positions, policies, and processes
Our collections operations are governed by our institutional collections policies.
To request a loan or plan a visit to the collections, please contact the department that holds the materials you’re interested in using.