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Tag Archives: taxonomy
World’s largest botany conference: “Care for Plants, Care for our Future”
What’s big, green and full of plant scientists? The International Botanical Congress, of course! This past July, in Shenzen, China, three Museum of Nature botany researchers gathered with 7000 others at the world’s largest gathering of plant scientists. Read museum researcher Jeff Saarela’s behind-the-scenes account. Continue reading
What’s in a Name? A Year in Taxonomy at the Canadian Museum of Nature
A total of 34 new species were described by museum scientists in 2015, all with new scientific names. Some of our experts even had species named after them! Continue reading
Minerals Are Species Too!
The definition of a mineral species and its classification are based on the chemistry and the atomic structure of the mineral. Consequently, defining a mineral species is more straightforward than defining a biological species. Continue reading
Posted in Research, Rocks and minerals
Tagged Noel Alfonso, Paula Piilonen, species discovery and change, taxonomy
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Species Discoveries in 2014 at the Canadian Museum of Nature
Discovery of new species is a specialty of the museum’s scientific research, and a bumper crop was named and classified in 2014. Continue reading
Posted in Animals, Fieldwork, Fossils, Plants and Algae, Research, Rocks and minerals
Tagged project benthic communities, project changes vertebrate, project environmental mineralogy, project marine protists, project reptiles mesozoic, project weevils Americas, Robert Anderson, species discovery and change, taxonomy
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The Alphabet Soup of the Science World
Dr. Mark Graham describes the museum’s link to international efforts that conserve species and promote taxonomy. Continue reading
Posted in Animals, Plants and Algae, Research
Tagged biodiversity, Conservation, Mark Graham, taxonomy
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The Last “W”: Why Our Flora Is Important (and Urgently Needed)
During each of the last three fieldwork seasons in the North, Paul Sokoloff and his team discovered a plant species that was previously unknown in Canada, the Arctic or the local region. Continue reading
Time for Taxonomy
The Canadian Museum of Nature represents Canada and plays an active role in the international plan for the advancement of taxonomy, explains Mark Graham. Continue reading
Bottom Dwellers
At the Canadian Museum of Nature there is scientific excellence in Arctic research, a regular part of our work in the last 100 years. The museum experts unlock the stories of the natural world and one of our specialties is … Continue reading
Posted in Research
Tagged Animals, Canadian museum of nature, natural history, researcher, taxonomy
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Field Work
One of my favourite museum quotes is, “museums are organisms that ingest but do not excrete”, and is from noted museum professional Suzanne Keene. The implication is that museums are actively gobbling up specimens to the collection vaults and are … Continue reading
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Tagged Animals, Canadian museum of nature, Fossils, Minerals, Plants and Algae, researcher, taxonomy
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Our Six-Legged Neighbours
There is a famous religious reference that intersects with natural history. The British geneticist J. B. S. Haldane was asked by clerics what his studies on nature told him about God. He replied that, “the Creator seemed to have an … Continue reading