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Museum Scientists' Favorite National Parks
We canvassed curators and collections managers from around the Museum for their favorite national parks. Here are their travel recommendations!
September 1, 2016
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Field Journal: Tracking and Trapping a Bear
It took quite some time and a lot of patience, but we’ve trapped a bear! Here's what happens now.
July 25, 2016
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Field Journal: How to Collar A Bear
To understand how bears and humans live together, we have to first learn where the bears are, says Dr. Rae Wynn-Grant.
July 21, 2016
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Field Journal: Living Alongside Bears
Center for Biodiversity and Conservation researcher Rae Wynn-Grant tracks bears in the American West, hoping to prevent them from...
July 14, 2016
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Analyzing Leech Meals to Track Cambodian Mammals
During an expedition to Cambodia, Museum researchers experimented with a new method of tracking endangered animals by analyzing the...
July 8, 2016
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Field Journal: Finding Ghosts
The team encounters one of the most poorly known birds in the world—an elusive kingfisher previously glimpsed just once in the wild.
September 23, 2015
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Field Journal: The Sound of Dawn in Guadalcanal
Dawn is a magical time, especially for those interested in birds, whose choruses of sound at first light in tropical forests is something...
September 21, 2015
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Field Journal: Chupukama Camp Emerges
Chupukama Camp will be our base and the expedition's "city center" for the next week of surveys, exploration, and discovery.
September 18, 2015
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Field Journal: Dawn on a Sky Island
The cultural and scientific significance of the area we are surveying on this expedition are closely intertwined.
September 15, 2015
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Field Journal: Arrival in the Solomon Islands
Arriving in the Solomon Islands, where any shift in light or wind could reveal some of the world's least studied bird species.
September 14, 2015
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Field Journal: The Link Between Conservation and Nutrition
This summer, Georgina Cullman from the Museum’s Center for Biodiversity and Conservation worked in the Solomon Islands on a project...
September 2, 2015
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Field Journal: The Business End Of A DNA Database
Researchers are building a new DNA database on a foundation of primate poop.
July 30, 2015