Conversations with Collections

Santa Barbara Habitats

The exhibit highlighted unique and threatened habitat types found in Santa Barbara (Coastal Southern California).

Chaparral

Vernal Pools

Coastal Sage Scrub

Riparian

12 participants in the 4-week long Cheadle Center's Photography-Ecology workshop came together to examine local ecology, methods in plant and insect collection and curation, and photographic seeing.




Conversations with Collections was supported by the UCSB Associated Students Coastal Fund Grant and National Science Foundation award Collaborative Research: Digitization TCN: Extending Anthophila research through image and trait digitization (Big-Bee). Award number: DBI:2102006 .