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Recent Blog Posts:
- 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
- Stepping Back in Time
- A New Building at Powdermill
- A Bit of Presque Isle, Erie, PA in the Hall of Botany
- What Does Pittsburgh Have in Common with Mount Vesuvius?
- Shark-ish Beasts Versus Cephalopods: Which is Predator, Which is Prey, and is One an Artist?
- The Vine That Ate Pittsburgh? Not yet.
- Feather and Bone Connections to American History
- An Intern’s Experience Studying the Ecosystem at Powdermill
- Celebrating Indigenous Peoples’ Day 2022
- How to Hunt for Microbes
- Two Perspectives on Attending a Course on Moths and Butterflies in the Southwest
- An Intern’s Point of View
- Encounter With an Orb Weaver Spider: Is It Predator or Prey?
- GETTING FROM THE FERN HOLLOW BRIDGE TO THE FRICK FAMILY
- Chimney Swift Conservation
- A Deep Look Inside Reptiles and Amphibians
- A Trip to Grave Creek Mound
- Messages in Tardigrade Plastic Time Capsules
- “Moldly” Exploring Fungal Functions
- Prozac and Caffeine in Our Wastewater: Effect on Freshwater Mollusks
- Finding Answers: From Museum to Mountains and Back Again
- Do Any Mammals Lay Eggs?
- Cryptocurrency and Its Environmental Impact
- Exploring the Role of Leaf Litter In Our Forests
- City Nature Challenge: A 2022 Reflection
- Sharing a City Park With a Resident Reptile
- Wonderment Returns
- Using iNaturalist in the City Nature Challenge and beyond
- Reckoning with Indigenous sovereignty and US public lands through place names in national parks
- The Art of Making Fish Familiar
- Learning From Misinterpretations
- For the Love of Dead Plants
- Facing Outward, Looking Ahead: Richard Serra’s “Carnegie” As Part Of An 125 Year Legacy Of Architecture and Outdoor Sculpture
- Tracking Pittsburgh’s Paddlefish
- March Mammal Madness and Middle School Science Class
- St. Patrick and Our Fear and Fascination With Snakes
- Reptiles, and Amphibians, and Bones? Oh My!
- Antarctica and the Anthropocene: Novel Species to the Polar South and Their Ecological Impact
- “To Cross A Bridge”: Fern Hollow Bridge in Pittsburgh, A Geology Story
- Fall 2021 Lights Out Pittsburgh Overview
