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Accession 98-016

Smithsonian Institution. Office of Public Affairs

Smithsonian Institution Research Reports, 1979-1993

Repository:Smithsonian Institution Archives, Washington, D.C. Contact us at osiaref@si.edu.
Creator:Smithsonian Institution. Office of Public Affairs
Title:Smithsonian Institution Research Reports
Dates:1979-1993
Quantity:1 cu. ft. (1 record storage box)
Collection:Accession 98-016
Language of Materials:English
Summary:

This accession consists of a reference set of the newsletter "Smithsonian Institution Research Reports," and photographs used in each issue.

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This accession consists of Smithsonian Institution Research Reports and photographs.

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Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 98-016, Smithsonian Institution. Office of Public Affairs, Smithsonian Institution Research Reports

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Smithsonian Institution Research Reports (files with 2 issues each): No. 24, Spring 1979 to No. 74, Autumn 1993

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Research Report Photos: No. 24, Spring 1979 to No. 74, Autumn 1993 (No. 54, Spring 1988 is MISSING)

Dr. Elisabeth Gantt, a biologist at the Smithsonian's Radiation Biology Laboratory in Rockville, Maryland, studies algae in solution, 1979. Photograph by Richard K. Hofmeister. [Image nos. SIA2011-1158 and 79-14206-12A]
Dr. David Pawson, curator of echinoderms at the National Museum of Natural History, sits at a table on which there is a microscope, 1980. Photograph by Chip Clark. [Image no. SIA2009-2206]
A lightweight ultrasonic telemeter attached across the top shell of this Atlantic blue crab enables Dr. Anson Hines of the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center to track its movements after it is released into the Rhone River, a sub-estuary of the Chesapeake Bay, 1986. Photograph by Jeffrey Ploskonka. [Image nos. SIA2011-1166 and 85-16142-19A]
Dr. Raymond B. Manning, of the Department of Invertebrate Zoology in the National Museum of Natural History, and William D. Lee, Smithsonian Marine Station research assistant, use a "slurp" gun to search for stomatopods, a type of marine crustacean, at an inlet near the Smithsonian Marine Station (SMS) at Fort Pierce, Florida, 1983. Photograph by Dane A. Penland. [Image no. SIA2011-1164]
Dr. Anson Hines of the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center (SERC) uses a directional hydrophone to track an ultrasonically telemetered blue crab on the Rhode River, 1986. Photograph by Jeffrey Ploskonka. [Image nos. SIA2011-1165 and 85-16140-9A]
Rector of the University of Panama Abdiel Adames and Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute Director Ira Rubinoff exchange copies of a renewal agreement for scientific collaboration, 1990. Photograph by Marcos Guerra. [Image no. SIA2009-1280]
Biologist Bert Drake of the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center checks Spartina, a common Atlantic Coast marsh grass, which he grows in a miniature greenhouse near Maryland's Chesapeake Bay, 1982. Photograph by M. E. Warren. [Iamge nos. SIA2011-1163 and 80-14774]
Dr. James F. Lynch, a zoologist at the Chesapeake Bay Center for Environmental Studies, now known as the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, sets out baits for ants, the subject of Lynch's study on the behavioral patterns for a group of insects who have an important role in the overall ecology of the Earth, 1980. Photograph by Madeleine Jacobs. [Image no. SIA2011-1161]
Agricultural engineer John Sager, a researcher at the Smithsonian's Radiation Biology Laboratory, Rockville, Maryland, measures lettuce leaf area, 1980. Photograph by Richard K. Hofmeister. [Image nos. SIA2011-1160 and 80-2438-26]
Darius Nassiry, an assistant of Dr. Bert Drake, a plant physiologist at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center (SERC), examines a marsh plant in a steel pressure cylinder at SERC near the Chesapeake Bay in Edgewater, Maryland, 19897. Photograph by Eric Long. [Image nos. SIA2011-1167 and 87-8953/34]
Dr. Donald J. Ortner, a physical anthropologist in the National Museum of Natural History, is examining a skull, 1986. Photograph by Dane A. Penland. [Image no. SIA2010-0617]
Dr. Meredith L. Jones, invertebrate zoologist and one of the world's leading experts on the anatomy of worms, at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, holds a preserved sample of his namesake Riftia pachyptila Jones, a giant tube worm, 1981. Photograph by Harold E. Dougherty. [Image no. SIA2010-1520]
Dr. Mason Hale, a National Museum of Natural History botanist, sits beside a microscope and holds in his hand lichen that he is examining, 1979. Photograph by Harold E. Dougherty. [Image no. SIA2009-2208]
Dr. Neal Smith traces on a map the limited distribution of the beautiful day-flying moth, 1981. Photograph by Richard K. Hofmeister. [Image no. SIA2011-1162]
Dr. Judith A. Blake, biological technician at the Smithsonian's new Molecular Systematics Laboratory operated by the National Museum of Natural History at the Smithsonian's Museum Support Center in Suitland, Maryland, stores tissue samples from plants and animals at temperatures of -148 degrees Fahrenheit, 1990. Photograph by Harold E. Dougherty. [Image no. SIA2009-2209]
Aerial view of Barro Colorado Island shows the docks with boats tied up to them, and new dormitory facilities for students and visiting scientists, 1973. Photograph by Carl C. Hansen. [Image no. SIA2011-1168]
Archaeologist Bruce D. Smith of the National Museum of Natural History examines arrowheads found on a Missouri farm, 1979. [Image no. SIA2009-2207]
Measuring marsh grass productivity in this Plexiglas box, 1979. [Image no. SIA2011-1159]
In the dim recesses of the basement of the National Museum of Natural History, marine researcher Walter H. Adey and a team of co-workers succeeded in developing a functioning, growing coral reef, 1979. Photograph by Richard Farrar. [Image no. SIA2009-2204]
Feather expert Roxie Laybourne examines one of the many feathers that arrive at her office, 1990. Photograph by Laurie Minor-Penland. [Image no. SIA2009-2205]
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