Welcome to the blog of the Biodiversity and Global Change Lab at the VMNH! Here you will find posts about lab updates, herpetology & natural history interest pieces, and short articles written by the Smithsonian Leadership for Change interns!
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Why we digitize: Making collections accessible & visible
by Benjamin Dye and Megan Vaughn (Smithsonian Leadership for Change) Natural history museums are filled with numerous specimens (Over 1.1 billion objects between the 73 largest natural history museums in the world!) that can be used by scientists around the globe for research—but what makes a specimen “usable”? The record of each specimen must be…
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Creating & maintaining natural history collections: how & why?
by Benjamin Dye and Megan Vaughn (Smithsonian Leadership for Change) Millions of visitors flock to natural history museums each year to visit public exhibits, but these spaces only scratch the surface of what natural history museums have to offer: behind the scenes, a wealth of valuable data can be found in meticulously curated and preserved…
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Welcome Smithsonian Leadership for Change Interns!
This summer the VMNH Herpetology & Recent Invertebrate labs will be co-hosting two interns from the Smithsonian Leadership for Change Program! Over the next 8 weeks, VMNH Smithsonian Affiliate interns will be focusing on understanding global change impacts on Virginia’s native wildlife and ways to interpret and disseminate this knowledge for local community members throughout…
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Coming soon!
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