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Section
of Botany Tour Go behind-the-scenes in the historic Section of Botany
with the Museum's Man on the Scene, Exhibition Developer Matt Phillips.
Botany
Part 1: Intro (3:39 minutes)
Meet Dr. Cynthia Morton, CMNH's Curator of Botany, and get
a behind-the-scenes look at the Museum's botany collection,
comprising about half a million specimens from around the
world.
Botany Part
2: Saving the Sycamores(4:44
minutes)
Learn about Dr. Morton's genetic research and how it helped
save the sick sycamores of Pittsburgh's Schenley Plaza.
Botany Part
3: World-reaching research(2:35
minutes)
Learn
more about CMNH botanical research and how the collection helps
monitor the health of Pennsylvania's natural resources and its
ramifications for the world at large.
Bird
Banding, Bioacoustics, and Breeding:
Research at Powdermill
Avian Research Center Avian
research at Powdermill was started in 1961. Since then, the dedicated
ornithologists and volunteers have banded an average of about 10,000
birds annually over the course of the program's 47-year history.
Powdermill's bird-banding database currently contains over a half
million records representing almost 200 species.
In this video, learn
about the many areas of bird research conducted for nearly 50
years at Powdermill Nature Reserve, the biological research
station of
Carnegie Museum of Natural History.
Powdermill
Avian Research Center (5:15 minutes)
Alcohol
House Tour Enjoy
a behind-the-scenes tour of the Alcohol House, a mysterious (and
slightly creepy) Museum collection area. The Museum's Man
on the Scene, Exhibition Developer Matt Phillips, walks us through
the history of
Carnegie
Museum of Natural History's pickled paradise of preservation!
Alcohol
House Part 1: Intro (5:45 minutes)
Meet
Collection Manager Steve Rogers, keeper of all things
crawly.
Alcohol
House Part 2: The Second Floor(4:35
minutes)
Frogs are today's canaries in the coalmine. Learn how frog
mutations in the collection serve as a barometer of environmental
health.
Alcohol
House Part 3: 210,000 Specimens(5:45
minutes)
Continue touring this spectacular collection, including sandworms,
winged lizards, and hairy toads. Learn how scientists around
the world use the collection as a lending library of life.
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Dinosaurs
and More with David Bear, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Travel Editor
Follow along
as David Bear previews of some of the topics
you'll encounter in the Dinosaurs in Their Time exhibition.
The Dinosaurs
and More series
originally aired in September 2007 on WDUQ 90.5 FM Pittsburgh,
supported by a
grant from
PNC Financial
Services.
Curator Profiles Hear some of the world's top researchers describe their research in
their own words! These clips were produced in 1999 for a Museum exhibition.
To learn more about
the cutting-edge research performed every day at Carnegie Museum
of Natural History, visit the Research
& Collections page.
Emeritus
Curator of Anthropology Dr. Jim Richardson discusses the
research and collections of Carnegie Museum of Natural
History's Section of Anthropology. Click
here for more information on Dr. Richardson
Curator
of Invertebrate Zoology Dr. John Rawlins discusses the
collections of Carnegie Museum of Natural History's Section
of Bugs, and biodiversity and interaction among insects. Click
here for more information on Dr. Rawlins
These
video clips are from Monsters of the Past,
a 1922 silent film that chronicles the fieldwork of Carnegie
Museum of Natural History paleontologists at Dinosaur National
Monument. The film features such paleontological luminaries as
Earl Douglass, O.A. Peterson, Arthur Coggeshall, and J. Leroy
Kay.
Carnegie
Science Center
Carnegie
Museum of Art
The
Andy Warhol Museum