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Ecology
January 13th, 2011
The Museum offers a modest number of grants and fellowships to visiting scientists and students for research and training in our scientific collections. Grants are open on a competitive basis to all individuals in the national and international scholarly community working on problems related to natural history.
January 13th, 2011
Exhibition ran from Jun 17 2009 - Sep 20 2009. Every language has a word for water; no living thing exists without water. It soothes the spirit and sustains the body; its beauty inspires art and music. Employed by cultures around the world in rituals and ceremonies, water bathes us from birth to death. Water is essential to life as we know it. And as it cycles from the air to the land to the sea and back again, water shapes our planet—and nearly every aspect of our lives
January 13th, 2011
Engaging youth from Chicago and Fiji in the stewardship of coral reefs
January 12th, 2011
With graduate training in protozoology and herpetology respectively, the unlikely team of Jeffries and Voris, audaciously began research on pedunculate barnacles of the genus Octolasmis in the mid-seventies.
January 11th, 2011
The Nestedness Calculator measures the extent of the order present in nested presence-absence matrices, as well as provides a risk assessment of the extinction probability of the various species' populations isolated on islands of fragmented habitat.
January 11th, 2011
Scientists have discovered that in the Philippines, faunal regions were determined largely by the configuration of the Ice Age islands. We can map these configurations easily by drawing the shoreline as it existed about 20,000 years ago, when the seas were 120 meters below their present level. An entirely new image of the Philippines then emerges: "the Galapagos Islands times ten."
January 11th, 2011
Historically research in the Asia Division has focused on the evolution of technology and trade and the development of complex societies during the late Neolithic period in northern China. Today, Curator Gary Feinman conducts archaeological survey in Shandong, China.
January 10th, 2011
The bird database contains approximately 500,000 catalogue records from all orders of birds, all but one family, and more than 90% of the world's genera and species. It includes skins, skeletons, alcoholics, tissues, nests and eggs, stomach contents, and syringes.
January 10th, 2011
The Bird Division egg and nest collection has more than 21,000 egg sets and nests.