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34557
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Using volunteers to search for prehistoric North Carolina fossils has been a valuable tactic used by the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences’ Fossil Lab. Field workers spend hours digging through the mud for small fossil finds, while other volunteers spend time curating the finds in the lab.
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In an effort to create more public outreach programs, the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences has created Outreach North Carolina. With the help of federal grant money, Outreach North Carolina has brought environmental education programs to ten underserved counties that have a large amount of natural resources. Five different programs catering to the public, children, and Spanish-speaking communities are now in effect.
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With new technology becoming more easily accessible and cost-effective, the museum has begun incorporating different techniques to study animals in the wild. The Southern Hognose snake in Sandhills and the Yellow-bellied Sapsuckers in the Appalachian mountain range are two species that have been studied using technological advancements. These approaches have already led to new observations regarding these species.
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34579
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Two of the museum employees capture the natural world around them in different ways. One uses a digital camera, and the other one sketches and paints. By making their subject matter the natural life of North Carolina, they hope to inspire people of all kinds to go out into nature and try it for themselves.
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North Carolina State University Libraries is teaming up with paleobotanist Elisabeth Wheeler in order to catalog thousands of species of wood. The collection, “Inside Wood”, will be available on the free public database, and showcase thousands of samples from different trees around the world. Wheeler has also donated her personal collection of 25,000 samples to the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences.
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The Chimney Swift, a migratory bird that nests in North Carolina in early April, is well-known for their chimney roosting habits. These birds collect by the thousands in chimneys across North Carolina from dusk until dawn. With the disappearance or capping of chimneys in residential areas, conservationists have begun designing towers made from brick or concrete for the swifts to live in.
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The purple martin spends their breeding and nesting season in North Carolina and spend the winter in South America. After finding martin houses unattended, the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences teamed up with the Wake Audubon Society to tend to the houses and move them to more desirable locations. The new locations also allow the public to observe the behavior of the purple martins.
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This spring, Raleigh and the greater Triangle region competed in the nationwide event called City Nature Challenge, coming in sixth place. Competitors took pictures all over the city of animals and plants in order to determine what metropolitan area had the most wildlife. This collection, while a fun competition, also builds a baseline for species occurrence and diversity.
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Art and science interconnect with the work done by Joana Ricou. As Carla Burgess revealed, samples of microbes Ricou took from belly buttons (what she dubbed “the other self”). Through these samples, Ricou was hoping to understand how the microbial world inhabiting human beings shapes their identities. Samples slide images became a group selfie that contained microbes from two dozen plus participants.
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