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Our new temporary exhibit presents a variety of artwork focused on the issues facing humans and biodiversity
Recent field work in Uganda includes determining the voice of Willard's Sooty Boubou
Spicer Lake is a 320-acre state dedicated nature preserve join St. Joseph County Parks for their BioBlitz on June 9th
The Field Museum will receive a high-quality meteorite from a fireball that exploded over California and Nevada last month. The 4.6-billion-year-old meteorite, donated by private collector Terry Boudreaux, is extremely rare and valuable to science. It weighs about one-third of an ounce (10 grams) and has been tentatively classified as carbonaceous chondrite.
Photo gallery from the 2012 members night at the Robert A. Pritzker Center for Meteoritics and Polar Studies.
Robert A. Pritzker Assistant Curator of Meteoritics and Polar Studies Philipp Heck and co-authors from the Max-Planck-Institute for Chemistry in Germany had their paper on the first isotopic analysis of sulfur-rich comet dust published in the April issue of the journal Meteoritics & Planetary Science. The dust was captured during a flyby of Comet Wild 2 by NASA’s Stardust Mission and returned to Earth.
Here are the pictures from Member's Night this year. I hope everyone had as much fun as I did!