People
Jennifer C. Girón, Ph.D.
Acting Collections Manager and Research Aide
I oversee all activities at the collection: processing loans and new accessions, curation
and identification of specimens, training of students and volunteers.
I also participate from several research projects at TTU and elsewhere.
More information about my research can be found on my personal website.
Alyssa DeWaele
Graduate student, Heritage & Museum Sciences
I'm pursuing a M.A. in Museum Sciences with minors in Anthropology and Heritage Management.
I have been working in the Invertebrate Zoology Collection since February 2021, digitizing
the bee collection and helping with various other collections tasks. During this time
I developed a protocol for digitizing insect specimens using free online tools, which
I presented as a poster at the Mountain-Plains Museums Association meeting in 2021.
I also created some educational content on invertebrate pollinators and presented the talk: "Expanding Access: Creating Outreach Tools from Entomological Collections" at the Annual Meeting of the Entomological Collections Network in November 2021.
Shelby Hernandez
Undergraduate student, Department of Plant and Soil Science
I'm actively working on a B.S. in Horticulture and Animal Science as a double major. I have been digitizing and organizing the leaf beetle specimens in the Invertebrae Zoology Collection since September 2021. I presented a poster about my work with the leaf beetle collection at the Undergraduate Research Conference at TTU in the spring of 2022.
Sofia Rodriguez
Undergraduate student, Department of Plant and Soil Science
I'm currently a freshman Plant and Soil Science major at Texas Tech. I'm working with
the entomological collections team to sort, catalog, and mount confiscated butterflies
from all over the world.
Volunteers
We currently have two volunteers who are retired TTU professors and wish to remain anonymous. One of them is identifying and digitizing the hover fly collection (Diptera: Syrphidae) and the other is imaging the Medical Zoology slide collection and updating those records in SCAN.
Additional Resources
- Back to overview of the Collection
- Background and History of the Collection
- Insect Exhibit: Tiny and Mighty Creatures
- Opportunities
- Curatorial basics
- Our specimens in publications
- Our specimen database via SCAN
- Our specimen database via GBIF
- Documenting Invertebrates around the Museum using iNaturalist
- Guide to commonly observed invertebrates at the Lubbock Lake Landmark