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    1. Senior Scientist, Dr. Denise Breitburg, directs the Marine & Estuarine Ecology Lab at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, and has developed novel ways to investigate the impacts of dead zones and acidification on Chesapeake Bay fish and invertebrates. #Groundbreaker

      Women in Science Wednesday: Dr. Denise Breitburg

      • Date: January 28, 2015
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: Senior Scientist, Denise Breitburg, directs the Marine & Estuarine Ecology Lab at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, and has developed novel ways to investigate the impacts of dead zones and acidification on Chesapeake Bay fish and invertebrates. #Groundbreaker

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    3. 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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      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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      Fashion in Place of Fish: A Glimpse into Web Preservation

      • Date: August 13, 2019
      • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
      • Description: Why would a fashion video appear on an environmental blog? That’s the question I found myself asking while performing web quality assurance (aka web QA) on the blog for the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center (SERC), which has more to do with fish than it does with fashion. As an intern in the Digital Services Division at the Smithsonian Institution Archives, my work in

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      Wonderful Women Wednesday: Judy Gradwohl

      • Date: May 22, 2019
      • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
      • Description: Judy Gradwohl was a researcher, curator, environmental policy specialist, digital content developer, and leader at the Smithsonian, 1985–2016. She conducted research at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute and National Zoo, and eventually became the MacMillan Associate Director for Education and Public Engagement at the National Museum of American History in 2004.

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    11. From Plantations to Islands of Science: Travels in Costa Rica and Panama - Part II

      • Date: January 31, 2013
      • Description: George C. Wheeler and his travel in the Caribbean illustrate the interplay between science and tourism in Latin America.

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      Wonderful Women Wednesday: Dr. Maria A. Faust

      • Date: May 11, 2022
      • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
      • Description: Each week, the Archives features a woman who has been a groundbreaker at the Smithsonian, past or present, in a series titled Wonderful Women Wednesday.

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    15. 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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      Wonderful Women Wednesday: Dr. Sabrina Sholts

      • Date: June 27, 2018
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: Research Anthropologist Dr. Sabrina Sholts, Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, uses bones to study the effects of environmental contaminants on people in the past and present, and directs the Smithsonian Institution Bio-Imaging Research Center. #Groundbreaker

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      Another Smithsonian Gem

      • Date: November 19, 2019
      • Creator: Lynda Schmitz Fuhrig
      • Description: The Archives also preserves ecological research.

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      Smithsonian’s First Earth Day

      • Date: April 20, 2021
      • Creator: Emily Niekrasz
      • Description: How did the Smithsonian take part in the first Earth Day on April 22, 1970?

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    23. Wonderful Women Wednesday: Dr. Susan Kaplan

      • Date: July 26, 2017
      • Creator: Effie Kapsalis
      • Description: Arctic anthropologist and archaeologist, Dr. Susan A. Kaplan (left), formerly of the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History , directs the Peary McMillan Arctic Museum & Arctic Studies Center, and studies Inuit responses to environmental change and Arctic exploration. #Groundbreaker

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