Blog Archive: conservation

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Posted Mon, 04/12/2021 - 11:27am

Community Scientists Help Wasatch Wildlife Watch

Trail camera images are documenting the wildlife all around us.

Tags: conservation, citizen science

Posted Fri, 04/09/2021 - 11:25am

Trailblazing Women in Science: Nalini Nadkarni

Nadkarni is known as "queen of the forest canopy."

Tags: conservation, lecture series

Posted Fri, 04/02/2021 - 3:42am

Trailblazing Women in Science: Ayah Bdeir

Ayah Bdeir's career thrives at the intersection of art and technology.

Tags: conservation

Posted Tue, 03/30/2021 - 10:21am

Trailblazing Women in Science: Ayana Elizabeth Johnson

Saving our seas is key to healing the planet.

Tags: conservation

Posted Sun, 02/23/2020 - 3:16pm

How Museum Designers Invented Diorama 2.0

A combination of traditional design and new tech creates a diorama unlike any seen before.

Tags: conservation

Posted Fri, 12/20/2019 - 4:53am

NHMU 50: The Museum's First Curator

Eric Rickart's fascination with nature from an early age, led him to becoming the Museum's first scientific curator.

Tags: conservation

Posted Wed, 12/04/2019 - 3:07pm

The Curious Case of Myrtle Spurge

The legacy of an prolific garden plant raises questions about how we shape the landscape around us.

Tags: botany, conservation

Posted Thu, 11/14/2019 - 10:13am

How Humans are Making Novel Ecosystems

Human activities are creating environmental interactions that have never happened before.

Tags: conservation

Posted Mon, 10/21/2019 - 3:03am

What Does "Nature" Mean?

The idea of nature has had many different meanings throughout history.

Tags: conservation

Posted Sat, 10/01/2016 - 1:16pm

Irons, Paint & Pulleys

Moving the 60-foot-by-12-foot Barrier Canyon Mural to our new museum location in 2011 took a lot of planning, and more than a little conservation of the aging mural.

Tags: conservation