Outreach Activities
Past Activities
BREC Bioblitz 2023
"Discovering plants older than dinosaurs" was our topic. We enjoyed showing the public about lycophytes occurring in the Baton Rouge area. We also had an exposition about what botanists usually do in the field!
More info: https://www.brec.org/bioblitz
BREC Bioblitz 2023 - Kids listening about extant and extinct lycophytes.
BREC Bioblitz 2023 - A visitor searching for spores in a fern.
BREC Bioblitz 2023 - Herbarium krewe
BREC Bioblitz 2023 - Observing ferns
Girl's Day at the Museum 2023
"Resurrection plants" was the name of our table. We enjoyed showing 8th-grade girls about Pleopeltis polypodioides, a resurrection fern occurring as an epiphyte on the beautiful live oaks at the LSU campus.
More info: https://www.lsu.edu/science/diversity/girls-day-at-the-museum.php
Girls at the Museum 2023 - School girls checking a resurrection fern with a microscope.
Girls at the Museum 2023 - School girls listening about the physiology of resurrection ferns.
Girls at the Museum 2023 - Looking at stomata in resurrection ferns.
BREC Bioblitz 2022
We shared with the public about our work in the herbarium, plant diversity and poisonous plants around Baton Rouge.
More info: https://www.brec.org/bioblitz
Night at the Museum 2020
It was a pre-pandemic event open to the public where we shared about plant, flower and fruit diversity, as well as our regular herbarium activities.
More info: https://www.lsu.edu/mns/education/night-at-the-museum.php
Night at the Museum 2020 - Sharing about herbarium work: mounting specimens
Night at the Museum 2020 - Talking about flower color
Night at the Museum 2020 - Sharing about fruit diversity
Night at the Museum 2020 - Talking about plant diversity