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7 article(s) for June 2012

Cool Stuff in Image Archives-China and Japan 1870-1910 Part II

Posted 06/21/2012 by Library | Comments

Expedition to China & Japan 1870-1911, Part II
A wooden crate containing 34 boxes of glass and nitrate negatives was shipped from an unknown source to the Museum in 1985. The crate indicated a date of 1907 but paper found inside one of the crates dates to 1870. The image…
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- Archives
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- Photography
Wyoming fieldwork, 49 million years to the present

Posted 06/20/2012 by John Demboski | Comments

Was out this past week and a half with students in the Bridger (Green River) Basin of southwestern Wyoming. Highschool Teen Science Scholars, undergraduate students, other scientists, DMNS volunteers, and a few dogs. The Green River Basin is a treasure trove of Eocene critters that lived…
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- Zoology
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- Teen Science Scholars
- Chipmunks
Blue Tongue Luv 4 Denver Post & YourHub

Posted 06/13/2012 by Nicole Garneau | Comments

The Genetics of Taste Lab is thrilled to do a shout out to the Denver Post and YourHub. Thanks to reporter Carri Wilbanks for showcasing our one-of-a-kind community-based genetics lab at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science. Carri's picture is worth a 1000 words, th…
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- Health Sciences
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- Blue Tongue
June Sky Calendar 2012

Posted 06/13/2012 by Marta Lindsay | Comments
June Sky Calendar (pdf) Highlights this month's sky phenomena and celestial happenings with local dates and times. (Mountain time zone). 2012 Sky Calendars May April March February January
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- Space Sciences
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- Sky calendar
2012 Interns have arrived!

Posted 06/07/2012 by Isabel Tovar | Comments
The DMNS Anthropology Collections staff is happy to welcome three collections interns which will be helping us during the summer. They are already hard at work rehousing and processing archaeological collections as well as completing research in response to tribal requests for information. …
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International Archives Day - June 9, 2011

Posted 06/06/2012 by Library | Comments
June 9, 2011 is International Archives Day! Today we reach out to our community to remind them of the importance of archival collections, and to encourage them to learn through the study of the primary sources we preserve. We are celebrating this year with the debut of our blog, which will fe…
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- Archives
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- Collections
The Egg Craters! Take 2

Posted 06/04/2012 by John Demboski | Comments

The redhead duck egg clutch we saw in the last installment of "The Egg Craters" is shown above. Zoology department volunteer Alika Brooks designed and fabricated this hand-made "egg crate" to properly house the 36 eggs in this set. The box is made from acid-free cardboard and the eggs …
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- Zoology
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