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      Adventures of an Ecologist

      • Date: January 7, 2014
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: A Flickr Set from the field work of Helmut Buechner.

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    3. A handwritten map. On a square box are tiny, labeled circles. The paper is dated 1992.

      Love a Tree (Every)Day

      • Date: May 16, 2019
      • Creator: Jennifer Wright
      • Description: On Love a Tree Day, the Archives discusses the Smithsonian's dedication to trees throughout the world.

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    5. Link Love: 07/10/2020

      • Date: July 10, 2020
      • Creator: Deborah Shapiro
      • Description: Link Love: a weekly post with links to interesting videos and stories about archival issues, technology and culture, and Washington D.C. and American history.

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      Link Love: 10/12/2018

      • Date: October 12, 2018
      • Creator: Deborah Shapiro
      • Description: Link Love: a weekly post with links to interesting videos and stories about archival issues, technology and culture, and Washington D.C. and American history.

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    9. A woman looks away from the camera and leans on a tree trunk.

      Wonderful Women Wednesday: Dr. Kristina Anderson-Teixeira

      • Date: July 31, 2019
      • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
      • Description: Dr. Kristina Anderson-Teixeira, Forest Ecologist, Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute & Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, 2012–present, leads the ForestGEO Ecosystems and Climate Program. In 2019, she won the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers. #Groundbreaker

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    11. An image from the Smithsonian Institution Global Earth Observatories website showing Barro Colorado Island an the location of the 50-ha plot and a visualization of data collected by the Forest Dynamics Project.

      How to Fit a Forest in Five Boxes

      • Date: February 11, 2014
      • Description: Field maps illuminate the origins of the Smithsonian’s long-term forest-monitoring project.

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    13. National Zoo reproductive biologist JoGayle Howard holding black-footed ferret kits, an endangered species, c. 1997.

      Smithsonian Optimism for the Blue Planet

      • Date: April 27, 2017
      • Creator: Pamela M. Henson
      • Description: An overview of the history of environmental conservation activities at the Smithsonian, since its founding in 1846.

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    15. Dr. Melissa K. McCormick, Plant Ecologist at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, studies the interaction between plants and soil microbes. She uses genomics to understand endangered orchids. #Groundbreaker

      Women in Science Wednesday: Dr. Melissa K. McCormick

      • Date: April 15, 2015
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: Dr. Melissa K. McCormick, Plant Ecologist at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, studies the interaction between plants and soil microbes. She uses genomics to understand endangered orchids. #Groundbreaker

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    17. Community Ecologist Dr. Sunshine A. Van Bael, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, studies how plants co-opt other organisms to aid in their own defense and, to what extent sustainable land-use practices support biodiversity conservation. #Groundbreaker

      Women in Science Wednesday: Dr. Sunshine A. Van Bael

      • Date: June 10, 2015
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: Community Ecologist Dr. Sunshine A. Van Bael, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, studies how plants co-opt other organisms to aid in their own defense and, to what extent sustainable land-use practices support biodiversity conservation. #Groundbreaker

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      Earth Day

      • Date: April 19, 2012
      • Creator: Mitch Toda
      • Description: In September 1989 the Smithsonian sponsored a discussion between scientists and journalists about how the media can responsibly report on environmental issues.

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    21. In May 1956, Faye Marley, editor of Independent Woman, asked Jane Stafford to contribute an article about women scientists. Record Unit 7091 - Science Service, Records, circa 1910-1973, Smithsonian Institution Archives.

      Playing Against Type: Women, Science, and Stereotypes

      • Date: April 8, 2014
      • Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
      • Description: Even enlightened publications and workplaces can succumb to the fallback position of choosing stereotyped images of female scientists.

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      Ready-made Home for a Scimitar Horned Oryx and Przewalski’s Horse

      • Date: June 25, 2015
      • Creator: Pamela M. Henson
      • Description: When Dr. Ted Reed became director of the National Zoological Park in 1959, he committed himself to carrying out the zoo’s complete set of mandates that included research, education, and conservation of endangered species. All these came together in a new non-public facility, the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute, founded in 1975 in Front Royal, Virginia.

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