February 2016 – The Academy of Natural Sciences

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Paleopalooza Returns

February 24, 2016 Carolyn Belardo Education, Evolution, Featured, Fossil, Interactive, Live Animals, Paleontology, People

The Festival of Fossils

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Young women rafting

Winning After WINS

February 22, 2016 maryalicehartsock Botany, Education, Entomology, Environmental Science, Featured, People, WINS

Academy program gives young women a head start in science

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Index for the Delaware

February 17, 2016 Carolyn Belardo Botany, Entomology, Environmental Science, Featured, Herpetology, Ichthyology

By Alissa Falcone One way to assess impacts to an ecosystem and express it to the public is to compile[…]

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Beth Watson in Field

Wetland Ecology Then and Now

February 15, 2016 maryalicehartsock Environmental Science, Featured, People

Beth Watson on sea-level rise, coastal erosion, and more.

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Tantalizing Tarantula Facts

February 10, 2016 Carolyn Belardo Education, Entomology, Exhibit, Featured, Interactive, Live Animals

How much do you really know?

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Bartram Papers

Climate Change on Paper

February 8, 2016 maryalicehartsock Environmental Science, Featured, Library

What can archives tell us about climate change?

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Live Tarantulas!

February 4, 2016 Carolyn Belardo Education, Entomology, Exhibit, Featured, Interactive, Live Animals

Are you brave enough?

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Monarch Butterflies

Photoblog: Climate Change

February 1, 2016 maryalicehartsock Entomology, Environmental Science, Featured, Ornithology, People, Photoblog

Climate change through the lens of Academy research

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