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H. H. and C. S. Brimley, immigrant English boys, came to Raleigh in 1880. Herbert became an outstanding taxidermist and worked for the Museum of Natural Science for sixty years, fifty-one as curator and director. Clement was an entomologist for the Agriculture Department. He published over two hundred animal-related papers and two landmark books, The List of Insects of North Carolina and Birds of North Carolina. The Brimleys were the state's most influential naturalists, whose work left a lasting mark on the state.
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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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The article reviews plans for a new facility for the Museum of History to be built between the Capitol and Legislative Building. Paired with this new museum building is a second project to construct a new Museum of Natural Science nearby. Both projects aim to create new museum spaces for these important collections, modernize Raleigh's urban design, and promote tourism.
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The old museum is right next door to the new North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences. Estimates are that it will take at least five months to move the heavy boxes of books, delicate containers of plates, and over 3,000 live animals, not to mention the offices of nearly one hundred staff people. Walters explains what it will take to move the Southeast's largest natural history museum.
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Pishney traces the development of the North Carolina Museum of Natural History from 1887 to the present. Two English immigrants, H.H. and C.S. Brimley, guided the museum's growth through its first half century and laid the path the museum would follow in the succeeding years.
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Almost a year ago an Eastern screech owl arrived at the NC Museum of Natural Science from the Carolina Raptor Center in Charlotte. The owl had been struck by a car and the accident had left it nearly blind. If returned to the wild, the owl would die because of its inability to find food; however, it now has a future as part of the museum's educational programs.
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The NC Museum of Natural Science has built a 38-acre outdoor education station known as Prairie Ridge. The purpose of the construction was to build eleven shallow ponds ranging from sizes of 15x30 feet to one acre that would attract and provide frogs, toads, and salamanders with a place to lay their eggs. Burgess provides a description.
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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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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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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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25684
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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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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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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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