Asian Beetle, New In This Country, Threatens Brooklyn's Shade Trees
..., Cornell senior extension associate and assistant curator in entomology. It did not have a ticket to ride. "I don't know how it got here from Asia," Hoebeke said. "As if the trees in an urban environment are not traumatized enough as it is. This doesn't bode well for a tree that is under a lot of pressur...Bog Beetle, Misidentified For 85 Years, Is 'Discovered' At Cornell
...s K. Liebherr, Cornell professor of entomology and curator of the Cornell insect collection, were working through the university's insect collection when they stumbled upon a species that looked familiar but which they could not immediately identify. "Kip and I were sorting through the Cornell insect collect......rtment of Ornithology; Mark A.Norell, chairman and curator in the Museum's Department of VertebratePaleontology; and James M. Clark, the Ronald Weintraub Assistant Professor ofBiology, Department of Biological Sciences, George Washington University. In addition to support from the American Museum of...Purdue Herbarium -- A Noah's Ark For Egyptian Plants
...e two ways to look at it," says Anthony Swinehart, curator of the Purdue Department of Botany and Plant Pathology's Arthur and Kriebel Herbaria, which houses a cataloged collection of dried plants. "In Biblical times the area was vegetated, so you could look at it as taking back the desert and restoring it t...New Species Of Winged Dinasaur Named For Yale Professor
...ics, editor of theAmerican Journal of Science, and curator emeritus of vertebrate paleontology atthe Peabody Museum of Natural History, where he is also editor emeritus of thePeabody Museum Bulletin and Postilla....New Fossil Discoveries Clinch Ancient Age Of Human Ancestor
...re. The research team includes Meave G. Leakey, curator of paleontology at the National Museums of Kenya; Craig S. Feibel, assistant professor of anthropology at Rutgers University; Ian McDougall, professor of earth sciences at the Australian National University; Carol Ward, assistant professor of ant...Virginia Tech Offers Biotechnology 2001 Conference for Educators
...maceuticals of Gaithersburg, Md. Terry Sharrer, curator of health sciences at the Smithsonian, will talk about "Cancer History and Gene Therapy Trials." David Magnus of the Center for Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania will address "Bioethical Implications of Mammalian Cloning." And Paula G...Genetic Study Reveals Sumatran Tigers Are A Distinct Species From All Mainland Tigers
... The research team was led by Joel Cracraft a curator in the AmericanMuseum of Natural History's Department of Ornithology. The team analyzed bloodsamples of thirty-four captive tigers, representing all tiger groups with theexception of the South China tiger, and one lion, to serve as a point ofcompari...New Evidence From Dinosaur Footsteps Show Massive Herds Once Roamed Northern Alaska
...lled and armored dinosaurs," said Roland Gangloff, curator ofearth sciences at the UA Museum. "Now we know dinosaurs flourished in Alaska even earlier than ourprevious work had indicated," he said. The largest track is 18 inches long and contains threelarge toe impressions made by a carnivorous dinosaur, p...First Complete Fossil Of Fierce Prehistoric Predator Found In South Africa
...covery was made Nov. 17. Roger Smith, the museum's curator ofgeology, found a small bone fragment jutting from sedimentary layer associatedwith the latest part of the Permian period. The layer marks the geologicalboundary between the Permian and Triassic periods. Smith and Peter Ward, a UWgeological sciences...UF Researcher: New Techniques Help Reconstruct Ancient Diets
...fessor in thedepartment of geological sciences and curator of vertebrate paleontology at theUniversity of Washington's Burke Museum. "The research by MacFadden andcolleagues provides impressive quantitative evidence that permits precisestatements to be made about a partitioning by these related genera of die...New Findings On Primitive Shark Contradicts Current View Of Jaw Evolution
...the evolutionary origins of the jaw, JohnMaisey, a curator in the Department of Vertebrate Paleontology at the AmericanMuseum of Natural History, disclosed the first detailed description of a400-million-year-old primitive shark relative from Bolivia named Pucapampella. This new fossil discovery contradicts ...Urban Restorer Sees Trash Trees, Beetles As Signs Of Hope
...will co-convene, withDr. Susan Thompson, assistant curator of botany, Carnegie Museum of NaturalHistory, a symposium, "Post-Industrial Landscapes: Vegetation, Ecology andEcosystems-Based Regeneration," at the 16th International Botanical Congress inSt. Louis, Mo., in August. The Penn State faculty m...New paleontology research from Natural History Museum of L.A. at international conference
... A Camel in Goat's Disguise: Dr. Dave Whistler, curator of vertebratepaleontology, has uncovered a mass of...m UCLA and Duke University, Dr. John Harris, chief curator of the PageMuseum, has recently examined more than 19,000 large mammal specimens from thecurrent Pit...Peter H. Raven voted president-elect of AAAS
...h Stanford University and served as taxonomist and curator of the Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden in Claremon...professor of zoology and of geology at Harvard and curator of invertebrate paleantology at that university's Museum of Comparative Zoology, will succeed M. R. ...Scientists discover 66-million-year-old dinosaur with a heart
...ogist at NC State University and a senior research curator at the N.C. Museum of Natural Sciences. The finding suggests the dinosaur's circulatory system was more advanced than that of reptiles, and supports the hypothesis that dinosaurs were warm-blooded, Russell says. "This challenges some of our most ...National Science Foundation awards research grant for $1.1 million to UA Museum
...seum Chief Curator Joe Cook, who also works as the curator of mammalogy. "The addition of an insectcollection will make the museum's collections truly representative of biodiversity in Alaska." Known throughout the international science community for its world-class holdings in aquatics, botany,mammalogy, or...Intriguing archaeological sites, isolated lake targets of Kuril Expedition
...Peninsula. Ted Pietsch, UW fisheries professor and curator of fishes at the UW's Burke Museum, says this is the first Kuril expedition to have a major archaeological component, following successful seasons studying the flora and fauna of the islands. All the expeditions have been funded by the National Scie...Microscopic bone evidence supports dinosaur-bird evolution link
...Rensberger, a UW geological sciences professor and curator of vertebrate paleontology at the Burke museum. Rensberger and Mahito Watabe of the Hayashibara Museum of Natural Sciences in Okayama, Japan, made their comparisons using fossilized dinosaur bones collected from the Gobi Desert in China and from the ...Florida scientist finds eight new snails that may give water quality clues
...about it," he said. Robert Hershler, a zoology curator at the Smithsonian Institution, described Thompson as "the foremost authority on this taxonomically diverse fauna. Dr. Thompson's discoveries, when published in the form of species descriptions, will help direct wildlife agency efforts to conserve an...