
A Year in Review: Bird Banding 2024

(De)Forested Flight: An Eagle Scout Project at Powdermill

Michael J. Bainbridge Wins the 2024 Carnegie Mineralogical Award

Celebrating Indigenous Peoples’ Day 2024 in The Greater Pittsburgh Area

Natural History Collection Managers: The Stewards of Time Travel

What’s in a Name? The History of the Naming of the Eastern Mole

The Moon Snails Neverita duplicata and Euspira heros: Cannibal Predators of the Sea! … who also enjoy a nice algae salad

The Busyconidae Whelks, Homebodies of the East Coast

Mineral Gazing

Life Lessons from Dead Birds

Botanists Gone Wild! Perspectives from the Record-Breaking Finish for City Nature Challenge 2024

Slipper Snails Slide Between Sexes in Stacks

Pressed Flowers Come Alive by Telling Their Pollination Story

Type Specimens: What are they and why are they important?

City Nature Challenge: Noticing Invasive Plants

Remembering Albert Kollar, Collection Manager of Invertebrate Paleontology

Snags, Logs, and the Importance of a Fallen Tree

Celebrating Women in the Natural History Art Collection

When Nature Meets Art: Crinoid Fossils as Cultural Beads

Scientific Names Matter in March Mammal Madness

World Pangolin Day 2024 – The Mysterious Mammalian “Wishbone”

A Year in Review: Bird Banding 2023

The Hermit Crab and the Moon Snail

Groundhog Day 2024: Punxsutawney Phil’s Alpine Cousin

2023 Rector Christmas Bird Count Results

Collected On This Day: Witch Hazel, January 1923

Oysters Swim Towards a Siren Soundscape

Happy Retirement, Pat McShea!

A Three Rivers Waterkeeper Biocube

Birds in “Twelve Days of Christmas”: a Museum Search

What’s in a Name? Japanese Knotweed or Itadori

Art and the Animal

Tribal Museums Day and Promoting Indigenous Authors

A Tree Pittsburgh Biocube

Turtle-Centered Learning

Museum Connections to a College Lab

Hispanic Heritage Month Scavenger Hunt: Three Birds and a Butterfly

Celebrating Indigenous Peoples’ Day 2023

2023 Point Counts at Powdermill Avian Research Center

We Get Questions: Climate Change, Hope, and Action

Do No Harm: Dealing with Spotted Lanternflies

A Summer Internship at Powdermill

The Nose that “Sees”

Hummingbird Lessons

Staff Favorites: Dolls in the Museum’s Care

Tracking Migratory Flight in the Northeast

Ruffed Grouse or Scarlet Tanager: Debating the Pennsylvania State Bird

From Collections User To Collections Manager

Wolverine: Status Check For a Tournament Champion

Collected On This Day: White Trillium from May 28, 1993

Bringing A Little O-Gah-Pah to Pittsburgh

Can’t Choose Just One: Asking an Entomologist to Name Their Favorite Native Species

New Vision of Old Rock Art

Building Birding Skills

March Mammal Madness 2023: Learn and Win

World Pangolin Day 2023 – The Mysterious Brain Bone

Echoes of Freedom in an Owl’s Call

Beyond the Simple Ecosystem Graphic: Teaching About Biodiversity and Pollination

Groundhog Day 2023

2022 Rector Christmas Bird Count Results
