Hi all - I wanted to let you know about a Bell Museum program that might of interest to Minnesota birding community. We are staging an expedition-style program to show how scientific specimens are prepared, preserved, and used for research. We will be training students and doing dissections outside on the Bell’s Learning Landscape Terrace from July 6-16. Many of the specimens we will be working on are from the Bird-Safe Project. All are welcome to stop by, watch dissections, ask questions, and learn more about the importance of natural history collections.
Best, Sushma https://www.bellmuseum.umn.edu/expeditions-to-the-bell/ Expeditions to the Bell Join scientists and students on an expedition at the Bell! During July 6–16, we invite you to join us on the Bell’s Terrace to observe and ask questions about the process of measuring, cataloging, and preparing natural history specimens! In an expedition-style set up outside of the museum, students from our internship pilot program and scientists will work together to demonstrate how scientific collections are created. Visitors will be able to watch live dissections as the team works together to take various data, preserve different types of samples, and produce specimens for the Bell Museum natural history collections, an active research institution utilized by scientists around the world. Visitors to natural history museums encounter biodiversity specimens that offer close-up views of nature. Their awe is often followed by questions about where and how specimens were obtained. Even more shocking to visitors is that the specimens on display are a small percentage of the holdings of a museum collection. The Bell aims to address some of these questions of why museums have specimens and how they are obtained, preserved, and used. Read more on our blog! Sushma ---- Join or Leave mou-net: http://lists.umn.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=mou-net Archives: http://lists.umn.edu/archives/mou-net.html During the pandemic, the MOU encourages you to stay safe, practice social distancing, and continue to bird responsibly.
