Deck Development – see this post for details.
- (Web) May 30, 2012
(Physical) Tentatively Mid July
- The Beaty deck features custom illustrations by five Canadian artists: Alexandria Neonakis, Lindsay Chetek, Victoria Heryet, Kyu Hwang, and Kyle McQueen. All organisms included in the deck can be found in Vancouver, B.C. This deck requires the use of dice for one of the cards.
- Beaty Biodiversity Centre, University of British Columbia, 2212 Main Mall, Vancouver, B.C. (google map).
- The Beaty Biodiversity Museum is a natural history museum in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. Its collections include over two million specimens, including a 25-metre skeleton of a female blue whale buried in Tignish, Prince Edward Island. The Beaty Biodiversity Museum and the Biodiversity Research Centre are located in the Beaty Biodiversity Centre, University of British Columbia, 2212 Main Mall, Vancouver (From Wikipedia, 30 May 2012).
The Beaty Biodiversity Museum is home to the largest blue whale skeleton on display in Canada!
- Beaty Biodiversity Museum | Home Card | card
Black Bear | Ursus americanus | card
Blue Whale | Balaenoptera musculus | card
Clark’s Nutcracker | Nucifraga columbiana | card
Climate Change | Event | card
Dragonfly | Anisoptera infraorder | card
Earthworm | Lumbricus terrestris | card
European Honeybee | Apis mellifera | card
Giant Kelp | Macrocystis pyrifera | card
Habitat Loss | Event | card
Himalayan Blackberry | Rubus armeniacus | card
Human | Homo sapiens | card
Isothecium cristatum (Moss) | Isothecium cristatum | card
Killer Whale | Orcinus orca | card
Marbled Murrelet | Brachyramphus marmoratus | card
Mosquito | Culicinae subfamily | card
Moss Mite | Oribatida order | card
Mycorrhizal Fungi | Oidiodendron | card
Oil Spill | Event | card
Pacific Krill | Euphausia pacifica | card
Polluters | Event Card | card
Phytoplankton | Marine and Freshwater variety | card
Purple Sea Urchin | Strongylocentrotus purpuratus | card
Salal | Gaultheria shallon | card
Sea Otter | Enhydra lutris | card
Sockeye Salmon | Oncorhynchus nerka | card
Species Protection | Event | card
Steller Sea Lion | Eumetopias jubatus | card
The Green Party | Event | card
Three-spined Stickleback | Gasterosteus aculeatus | card
Whitebark Pine | Pinus albicaulis | card
Wildfire | Event | card
Zooplankton | Copepoda subclass | card
FOOD CHAIN FLOWCHART:
- Alexandria Neonakis | link
Himalayan Blackberry – Rubus armeniacus
Stellar Sea Lion – Eumetopias jubatus
Stickleback – Gasterosteus aculeatus aculeatus
Human – Homo Sapiens
Wildfire – Event Card
Lindsay Chetek | link
Giant kelp – Macrocystis pyrifera
Clark’s Nutcracker – Nucifraga columbiana
Black Bear – Ursus americanus
Purple Sea Urchin – Strongylocentrotus purpuratus
Climate Change (Warming Trend) – Event card
Victoria Heryet | link
Krill (pacific) – Euphausia pacifica
White bark pine – Pinus albicaulis
Moss – Isothecium cristatum
Marbled murelet – Brachyramphus marmoratus
Sea otter – Enhydra lutris
Kyu Hwang | link
Phytoplankton – Marine and freshwater varieties
Killer Whale – Orcinus orca
Mosquito – Culicinae subfamily
Earthworm – Lumbricus terrestris
Oil Spill – Event card
Brandy Masch | link
Sockeye Salmon – Oncorhynchus nerka
Dragonfly – Anisoptera infraorder
Blue Whale – Balaenoptera musculus
Zoo Plankton – Copepoda
Species Protection – Event Card
Kyle McQueen | link
Salal – Gaultheria shallon
European Honeybee – Apis mellifera
Mite – Oribatida
Mycorrhea – Oidiodendron
Habitat Loss (Development) – Event Card
Specimen jars on display at the Beaty Biodiversity Museum
[ Photo credits: Derek Tan and Artiom Shostak, Beaty Biodiversity Museum. Decorative font: Clumsy by Kyle Steed.]
