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39512
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Among the things North Carolina Natural Museum’s staff voted as the best from its Nature Exploration Center and Nature Research Center: Diving Pelican, Coastal Hall Exhibit; Mountains to the Sea; Maine Lobster, Arthropod Zoo; Window on Animal Health; Micro World iLab; and Touchable Meteorites.
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A new statewide camera trap survey offers beautiful pictures for citizens and data for scientists. The camera trap is part of a three-year citizen science project at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences’ Candid Critters program that seeks the help of North Carolina residents to figure out what animals are living there.
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Wildlife in North Carolina
(NoCar SK 431 W54x), Vol. 81 Issue 2, Mar/Apr 2017,
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28447
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Liani Yirka is the accessibility and inclusion coordinator at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences. Yirka helped introduce technologies and programs enabling fully independent navigation for people of varying abilities. All exhibit content is available regardless of visual impairments or hearing loss.
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North Carolina is a place for the pursuit of hoppy-ness in the form of beer. Brewers use unique combinations of yeast, honey, barley, and malt to create local flavors. The unique creations can be sampled at the fourth annual Natural Selections event at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences.
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In September, the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences celebrates the 21st annual Bugfest. This year will highlight the unique dragonfly species present throughout North Carolina.
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25683
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Peperpot Nature Park in Suriname is a protected area with exceptional biodiversity and is also in close proximity to Paramaribo, the capital of Suriname. As urbanization and land conversion advance, efforts are being made to safeguard the country’s natural resources. Part of this conservation work is led by Dr. Brian O’Shea, who is studying bird populations in the park.
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Dr. Julie Urban studies desert hoppers, species of plant hoppers that inhabit North American deserts. Since 2010, she has been collecting plant hoppers from around the world and sequencing their DNA in order to reconstruct their evolutionary relationships. Urban hopes to discover the features that allow desert hoppers to inhabit desert environments.
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25685
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Digitizing collections data has become a major initiative for the scientific community, but it is also a labor-intensive process that requires staff and funding. Museums are beginning to overcome this problem by enlisting the help of the public through citizen science transcription projects. Soon, citizens will be able to help the North Carolina Museum of Natural Science transcribe data through the new program CitSciScribe.
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Whale sharks are occasional visitors to the coast of North Carolina, especially when warmer-than-average water travels up from the south. In 1934, a whale shark larger than 40 feet long was found dead in the Cape Fear River; Herbert Hutchinson Brimley, affiliate of the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences, was able to record the tail and create part of an exhibition. Since then, the whale shark has become a much more active part of the North Carolina ecosystem.
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Wildlife in North Carolina
(NoCar SK 431 W54x), Vol. 80 Issue 3, May/June 2016,
p24-29, il, por
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Alvin Braswell has retired after over forty years as curator of herpetology of the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences. Beginning his career in 1968, Braswell has mentored students and published comprehensive volumes on the reptiles and amphibians of North Carolina.
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22596
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Since 1893, thirteen diamonds have been discovered in North Carolina as a result of gold or monazite panning. One such diamond found in Burke County, North Carolina resides in the Geology Collection of the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences. It was donated from the estate of J.A.D. Stephenson who discovered emeralds and hiddenite in Alexander County, North Carolina.
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This precious stone’s features perhaps need no hyperbole to underscore its importance in North Carolina. In the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences are four of the largest emeralds discovered in North America. Among these stones is the 64 carat Carolina Emerald, described as the largest cut emerald in North America.
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Installation of an outdoor globe being called Daily Plant just finished at the N.C. Museum of Natural Sciences. Visitors will see the Southern Hemisphere displayed prominently and with a high degree of accuracy. The State Employee's Credit Union Foundation funded the project which is part of the new Nature Research Center at the Museum of Natural Sciences.
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Independent Weekly
(NoCar Oversize AP 2 .I57 [volumes 13 - 23 on microfilm]), Vol. 29 Issue 15, Apr 2012,
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17721
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The North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences holds a myriad of coastal treasures from fossils to sea stars.
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Liz Baird, NC Museum of Natural Science in Raleigh, has been named Environmental Educator of the Year by the Environmental Educators of North Carolina. Baird has had a 15-year career with the museum. The award recognizes \"an educator who stands out, exemplifies excellence, lends credibility to the field, and is regarded as a \"dynamo\" that other environmental educators strive to emulate.\"
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