History of Collecting in El Paso
The UTEP Biodiversity Collections currently archives over 15,000 plants, animals, and fossil records that have been collected in El Paso for over 100 years. These collections have been built by 623 collectors, which represent our curators, students, faculty, staff, and community.
This project was funded in part by the Institute of Museum and Library Services (CAGML-247505-OMLS-21)
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Currently 160 collectors have improved information on their profile pages on the Arctos database, listed below. If you'd like to contribute information, on these collectors or research a collector for whom we do not have information for yet, please email mzhuang@utep.edu.