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20953
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Martin explains how digitized maps are helping scientists to research nesting habits and migrations of birds, like the tree swallow, brown pelican, and yellow-bellied sapsucker. Documentation at one time was limited to researchers, but with the coming of the Internet, such digitized maps and information are readily available to the general public and school systems for study.
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20965
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Pishney describes the \"Life on the Edge: Exploring Deep Ocean Habitats\" program funded NOAA and taking place off the coast of North Carolina and the \"Teachers at Sea\" program. The latter program takes teachers down in a small submersible to 1,500 feet to the ocean floor where they work with scientists and communicate back to their classrooms. This program began in 1990.
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20966
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Freshwater mussels are declining to the point of bring imperiled. Bridges and stream culverts have been implicated in their decline. A study conducted by the NC Museum of Natural Science and NC State University seeks to find a solution.
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20975
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Genomics is the study of genes and their functions. In North Carolina genomics and biotechnology are revolutionizing the state's industries from health care to agribusiness. Molly Broad, president of the 16-campus University of North Carolina, answers questions on how the state should respond to the genomic revolution.
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20976
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This article reports on the work of Vince Schneider, Curator of Paleontology at the NC Museum of Natural Science, and his staff, in extracting hundreds of rare fossils dating from the Triassic Period from a stretch of red clay basins in Durham, Chatham, Lee, and Anson counties.
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20977
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There are seventeen species of bats known to be in North Carolina. They are the main predators of night-flying insects, as well as agricultural pests like hickory shuckworms and corn earworms. Burgess explains how Lon Coulter of Crumpler in this state and Frank and Teresa Bibin of Georgia utilize bat houses to control pests. Bat colonies number about 1,000 in North Carolina and between 3,000 and 4,000 in Georgia.
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20978
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Honeybees are in trouble nationwide. Over 90 percent of the feral bee colonies have been decimated, and the state's managed colonies have declined about 50 percent since the 1980s. Kemp examines some of the reasons for this. Pollination for crops is essential and farmers have to import colonies during the blooming season. Kemp discusses the benefits of backyard beekeeping.
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20979
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Jeff Beane, Collections Manager for Herpetology at the NC Museum of Natural Science, explains what a herpetologist does in the wintertime.
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21011
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Sea turtles, especially the most common one--the loggerhead--that live along the state's coast are becoming threatened and in need of help by mankind. This presents an ironic situation because humans, the only group with the skills to help turtle survive, are also the group that inflicts the most harm to them. For example, plastic bottle strips tossed into the ocean where turtle get entangled or eat them and large gill nets used by fishermen all are threats to the turtles.
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21012
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The Prothonotary Warbler, a brilliantly colored orange-yellow bird with a distinctive song, summers among Eastern North Carolina's coastal woodlands, swamps, and rivers. It winters in Central and South America. Warblers nest in cavities in small trees, usually a few feet from water in streams, in swamps and wet woodlands. This has a dangerous side, though, because flooding can cause substantial nest failure each year.
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Burgess describes the fascinating courtship ritual of the American woodcock and reports on what John Conner, coordinator of the NC Museum of Natural Science's Naturalist Center, has learned of the bird through his research.
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21014
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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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21021
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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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21022
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This article describes whelks, a large marine gastropod, or snail, common to the temperate waters along the East Coast. It can be found in the state's offshore waters or its shell can be encountered while walking along the beaches.
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In January 2007, NC Museum of Natural Science Curator of Herpetology Alvin Braswell received the Wildlife Conservationist of the Year Award in the 2006 Governor's Conservation Awards Achievement Program. These awards are the highest natural resource honors in the state.
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