Volunteering

Biodiversity in Frankfurt  

Support us in Frankfurt/Main with the digitization of urban biodiversity mapping

Help us with the digitization of the biotope type maps. Your main task is to identify the individual biotopes of the scanned maps on the PC.

Butterflies in the head

Support us in Müncheberg with the survey of butterflies

Help us with population studies of butterflies by means of trapping, marking and recapture.

Diversity to marvel at  

Support us in Frankfurt/Main with the maintenance of the database African Plants Photo Guide

Maintaining the African Plants Photo Guide database is mainly about rating and uploading images.

For book lovers

Support us in Frankfurt/Main with the supervision of the geoscientific library

Our green archive  

Support us in Frankfurt/Main in the collections of the Herbarium Senckenbergianum.

Help us with herbarium assembly, sorting work, redetermination (depending on interest and level of knowledge).

Witnesses of earth history  

Support us in Frankfurt/Main in the maintenance of the geoscientific collections.

Take on collection-related work, such as cataloging geoscience collection items or maintaining glycerin collections.

Digitize our green archive

Support us in Frankfurt/Main with the digital recording of herbarium specimens

Decipher historical labels to digitize the botanical collection.

Fascination amber

Support us in Frankfurt am Main with the digital recording of amber inclusions

Digitization is of great importance for the amber collection and the trilobite collection. Support us in this!

Find incredible things… maybe  

Support us in Tübingen with sorting archaeological excavation material

Cleaning and sorting work on sifted material has brought to light priceless pieces of art and provides the basis for new insights into life, climate and environment of former times.

Fossils 2.0 (old bones in a virtual world)

Support us in Frankfurt am Main with image processing, virtual reconstruction of teeth and database evaluation

Using these data, we explore the evolution of small animals.

Much more than stones

Support us in Dresden with geological collection work

Support us in Dresden with the preparation of heavy mineral data, sampling in open pits and literature analysis

Something for bookworms

Support us in Frankfurt am Main with the supervision of the paleontological library

Together we will improve the efficiency and usability of our library.

Stranger things  

Support us in Frankfurt/Main in the description of of plant parasites

Join us in discovering new plant parasites by helping us microscope and make drawings.

The appeal of the Unknown

 Support us in systematic sorting and management of deep-sea specimens

Moreover, help us with microscopic sorting, data entry and macrophotography.

Tooth fairy needed

Support us in Frankfurt/Main with the recording and digitization of collection objects

The objects mainly derive from the fossil small mammal collection.

You like spiders?

Support us in Frankfurt/Main in the arachnological collection and in database maintenance

Help us by sorting, reorganizing, labeling and georeferencing datasets.