Description: Sarah Putman, an endocrinologist at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute's Sarah Putman, a.k.a. the "Poop Sleuth," monitors the panda's feces for reproductive hormones to help time natural breeding and/or artificial inseminations
Description: As one of the Smithsonian's 1st female managers, Helena Weiss was responsible for the central filing system of public mail, accession reports, loans and exchanges, shipping, foreign travel, customs regulations, insurance, and workman's compensation.
Description: Maya Yamato, a Peter Buck Postdoctural Fellow at the Smithsonian, is studying baleen whale ears to understand how ocean noise pollution may be affecting marine mammals living in a rapidly changing ocean environment. #Groundbreaker