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Citizen Scientist’s Insect Collection Continues Family Legacy | Natural History Museum of Utah
As we celebrate Citizen Science Month, it’s a great opportunity to recognize the impact that citizen scientists have made on the Museum’s collections. And our ongoing digitization projects are offering opportunity for citizen science to play an integral role in the modernization of museum collections expanding their accessibility to the world.
Citizen Science Comes Alive Through Museum Projects | Natural History Museum of Utah
As we celebrate Citizen Science Month, it’s a great opportunity to recognize the impact that citizen scientists have made on the Museum’s collections. And our ongoing digitization projects are offering opportunity for citizen science to play an integral role in the modernization of museum collections expanding their accessibility to the world.
Adventuring with Paleoanthropologist Ella Al-Shamahi | Natural History Museum of Utah
Ella Al-Shamahi is a paleoanthropologist, a television personality, an intrepid explorer, and even a stand-up comic. What’s more, she’s everything you want your daughter to be when she grows up: successful, fearless, well-spoken, intelligent, and a delight to be around. Born of Yemeni parents in England, she’s much more than a modern-day female Indiana Jones – she’s helping to
Looking Beyond the Temples at the People of Angkor – with Alison Carter, PhD | Natural History Museum of Utah
Angkor is an archaeologist’s dream, and a few of them are looking beyond the temples that draw 2.5 million tourists a year to better understand the people who lived and worked there. One of these archaeologists is Alison Carter, PhD.
The Maya and the Angkorians: Climate Change Cousins (And Other Lessons from Richard Paine, PhD) | Natural History Museum of Utah
Richard Paine, PhD, is fascinated by human ingenuity. In particular, he has a keen appreciation for how past civilizations have managed to maintain large settlements in difficult landscapes.
Angkor: The “Lost City” that Never Needed to be Discovered | Natural History Museum of Utah
Nothing gets people’s hearts racing like the idea of a “lost city.” Reading a novel about a mysterious civilization or watching Sandra Bullock evade danger in the jungle might be enjoyable entertainment, but it can be misleading and problematic to refer to many ancient cities as “lost.”
Writer and Sleuth Jason Felch Pieces Together the Antiquities Black Market | Natural History Museum of Utah
Starting in 2005, investigative reporter Jason Felch helped to break open a sordid tale of antiquities curators, shady middlemen, and modern looted artifacts in museums across the USA. Over the next seven years, Felch and his co-authors published nearly 40 articles in the LA Times, many of them front page stories. The tale was so complex that it took a book, Chasing Aphrodite:
Ten of the Most Interesting Science Stories of 2022 | Natural History Museum of Utah
As 2022 comes to a close, let’s take a look at ten of the year’s most interesting science stories. From mysterious ice volcanoes to the speed of sound on Mars to a charismatic treehopper named after NHMU Executive Director Jason Cryan, these stories highlight the relentless curiosity and constant discoveries that makes this such a fascinating time to be alive.
Honoring Legacy and Future of NHMU | Natural History Museum of Utah
On the evening of Tuesday, November 29, 2022, the Natural History Museum of Utah honored its former executive director, Dr. Sarah B. George, and featured a surprise announcement by the president of the University of Utah, Dr. Taylor Randall.
A Tale of Terroir: Porcini Mushrooms Have Evolved with a Preference to Local Adaptation | Natural History Museum of Utah
The Dentinger Lab at the Natural History Museum of Utah has published a provocative new paper in the journal New Phytologist that describes their work with the much beloved mushroom, Boletus edulis, better known by gastronomers worldwide as the porcini.
New Native Voices Enrich the Collections | Natural History Museum of Utah
From the first plans of our museum’s space, especially the Native Voices exhibit on the top floor, we have worked to include more than just objects from Native cultures in our region. Their perspectives, history, and actual voices are an important way to more fully present their culture to the wide museum audience.
Angkor: A Living Window into the Past | Natural History Museum of Utah
Angkor is a vast complex of temples and other archaeological structures rising out of the jungle in northern Cambodia. It covers an astonishing 400 square kilometers, or 154 square miles. To put this in perspective, this is an area equivalent to the entire eastern half of Salt Lake City from 600 North to I-215 in the south. This massive site was the home to arguably Southeast
Ecological Tipping Point: Five El Niño Events Per Century | Natural History Museum of Utah
A team of researchers led by the University of Utah created a fine-grained analysis of El Niño’s impact on animal communities spanning the past 12,000 years. The study was published in the journal Science on Sept. 8, 2022.
Studying the Past, Present, and Future of Bats | Natural History Museum of Utah
Every year during the last week of October leading up to Halloween, bat researchers, conservationists, and enthusiasts celebrate Bat Week. Bats have historically been the star of spooky books, movies, and decorations so it is the perfect season to celebrate and bring awareness to these fascinating and diverse creatures. However, due to their misrepresentation in terrifying