Dedicated to the study, exploration, and appreciation of
natural history in the Santa Ynez Valley region.

Mammals Magnified: The appreciation of collections-based research in the 21st century:

Thursday, November 12, 2026

Free live lecture with Ally Coconis
Co-Sponsored by the Solvang Library
Research collections in natural history museums are important repositories of biological specimens, providing vast datasets for studies of ecological shifts across space and time. More recently, there has been a great expansion in the use of collections through both increased digitization efforts and the growth of molecular and chemical techniques in ecology. This has led