Tegan Alberts was a wildlife major interested in studying museum practices and reproductive biology. In his free time, he enjoys embroidering, playing Dungeons & Dragons, painting, and collecting South African succulents. His favorite animals are sea otters and thylacines. 

BIOL 499 Project: "Identifying Pleistocene Ursus fossils from dental morphology analyses of American black bear (Ursus americanus) and brown bear (Ursus arctos) specimens". Tegan will be using specimens from Humboldt's Vertebrate and Wildlife Museums, in addition to UC Berkeley's Museum of Vertebrate Zoology and Museum of Paleontology.

Shea served the vertebrate museum in a variety of roles, including as an interim student collections manager. She is a talented artist and speaker and conveys boundless enthusiasm when teaching and leading museum tours.

Aviva is excited to be a part of a community that addresses conservation in a meaningful way. She loves learning about all kinds of plants and animals in her classes and enjoys field work as well. Her favorite outdoor activities are hiking and birdwatching, and she absolutely loves filling her home with houseplants. She also cherishes the time she gets to spend with friends and family. Her favorite bird is the green-winged teal - because they are so cute and funny. Her favorite type of flower is an orchid - she loves how beautiful and diverse they are! 

BIOL 499 Project: "Mechanisms of echocation in the shrew". Aviva uses CT scans of museum specimens to study the hyoid-tympanic anatomy of various shrew genera and its relation to echolocation.

Ghennya Shain, a biochemistry major, has been our intrepid taxidermy live mounter. She braved the live mounting of both a skunk (you might have smelled it around SciC!) and 'Jeb' the gray fox (pictured here). Beyond her interest in the fringe, Ghennya is a talented chemist and, as part of her undergraduate research project, tested  mammlian hair samples from our museum for the presence of 2,4-D Amine Weed Killer.