The San Francisco State University Marine Invertebrate teaching collection

Housed on the second floor of Hensill Hall on the main SFSU campus on 19th Avenue in SF, the collection comprises over 742 marine invertebrate specimens focused on Pacific Ocean collection sites ranging from Washington state to Baha California in Mexico.  The oldest specimen dates from 1897 and the collection contains invertebrates identified by many collectors, including students, researchers, and natural historians, including a few by Ed Ricketts of Cannery Row fame, in Pacific Grove, California.  Containing 15 phyla, the collection includes a wide array of diverse marine invertebrate species.

 

Many students have assisted in curating the collection for use in the Marine Invertebrate Zoology and Marine Ecology classes. Recent student curators include: 

Fall 2017--Margaret Johnson, Cecilia Hernandez, and Rachel Weinberg

Previous years, an incomplete list--Benson Chow, Noah Jaffe, Anton Horwath, Joseph Spaulding, Ann Holmes, Katie Nuessly, and more.

For information on specimens, please contact Dr. Sarah Cohen, sarahcoh@sfsu.edu.
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The collections at the Oceanography Institute in Nha Trang, Vietnam are on public display, allowing the public to see a view of the cataloging of natural history into a systematics collection.

photo: CS Cohen 

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Special Invertebrate Chordate papers at San Francisco State University
 

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Ascidian reprints, personal papers, and books collection of Dr. Todd Newberry, Emeritus Professor of Biology, University of California, Santa Cruz and Dr. Donald P. Abbott, Hopkins Marine Station, Stanford University.

 

These materials were generously donated by Dr. Todd Newberry. With funding from an SFSU IRA award, graduate student Benson Chow is sorting, cataloging, archiving, and scanning selected materials, some of which will be available on the web in the future.

This collection is housed at the EOS Center at the Romberg Tiburon Campus of San Francisco State. If you wish to use the materials, please contact Dr. Sarah Cohen, sarahcoh@sfsu.edu. Some materials are additionally on loan to Gretchen Lambert, Seattle, Washington. The wet collections associated with Dr Abbott's work at Stanford are housed in the California Academy of Sciences.
 

Marine parasitology references donated by Dr. Michael Moser, UC Berkeley

 

A variety of reference works and textbooks kindly donated by Dr Michael Moser are available at EOS/Romberg Tiburon Center. Please contact Sarah Cohen, sarahcoh@sfsu.edu, for further information.

 

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Collecting Information

California Fish and Game permits

NOAA National Marine Sanctuary permits

Other local useful permit information

 

Other collections

 

Other invertebrate resources

 

CAS Pillar Point Invertebrate Biodiversity survey pictures:  https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/pillar-point-tidepools-bioblitz