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November 2023

Mon 13
Dr. Abby D’Ambrosia Carroll
November 13, 2023, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Moriarty Science Seminar: Impacts of Extreme Warming Events on Early Eocene Mammals and Ecosystems

At the Museum 4400 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA, United States

R.W. Moriarty Science Seminar Presents: "Impacts of Extreme Warming Events on Early Eocene Mammals and Ecosystems" Speaker: Abigail Carroll, University of Pittsburgh. How might animals and ecosystems respond to today’s warming planet? Looking to Earth’s past may help us answer this question. A series of extreme warming events during the early Eocene (beginning 56 million […]

December 2023

Mon 11
Luis Ceríaco
December 11, 2023, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Moriarty Science Seminar: A time-machine to Africa: revisiting the collections of the Pulitzer Expedition to Angola at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History

At the Museum 4400 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA, United States

R.W. Moriarty Science Seminar Presents: "A Time-Machine to Africa: Revisiting the Collections of the Pulitzer Expedition to Angola at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History" Speaker: Luis Ceríaco, Carnegie Museum of Natural History. In 1930, the newspaper mogul Ralph Pulitzer funded an expedition to Angola, southwestern Africa, for the Carnegie Museum of Natural History. Aimed […]

January 2024

Mon 22
Dr. Marek and students in the field in Viet Nam
January 22, 2024, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Moriarty Science Seminar: Glow-in-the-Dark Millipedes, Mimicry Rings, and the 1,306-Legged Millipede

At the Museum 4400 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA, United States

R.W. Moriarty Science Seminar Presents: "Glow-in-the-Dark Millipedes, Mimicry Rings, and the 1,306-Legged Millipede" Speaker: Paul Marek, Virginia Tech. A myriapod is a many-legged arthropod in the subphylum Myriapoda. They include centipedes, millipedes, and the poorly known symphylans and pauropods. They are an ancient group, and the first evidence of land animals are late Silurian fossil […]

February 2024

Mon 12
Emily Cohen
February 12, 2024, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Moriarty Science Seminar: ‘Chancing on a spectacle:’ co‐occurring animal migrations and interspecific interactions

At the Museum 4400 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA, United States

R.W. Moriarty Science Seminar Presents: "‘Chancing on a Spectacle:’ Co‐occurring Animal Migrations and Interspecific Interactions" Speaker: Emily Cohen, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science. This event will take place Monday, February 12, 2024 at Noon in person at Earth Theater. Seminar 164 .

Mon 26
A green and purple crystal
February 26, 2024, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Moriarty Science Seminar: Minerals as the Bedrock of the Energy Transition

At the Museum 4400 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA, United States

R.W. Moriarty Science Seminar Presents: "Minerals as the Bedrock of the Energy Transition" Speaker: Barbara Dutrow, Louisiana State University. Minerals, the fundamental solid material comprising planet Earth, are critical to solving some of society’s most pressing challenges, including global warming and the climate crises. Minerals provide the essential chemical constituents needed for the lower carbon […]

March 2024

Mon 11
Christine Johnson and a flooded Egyptian temple
March 11, 2024, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Moriarty Science Seminar: River Life in Ancient Egypt: The Nile and its Varied Environments

Online

R.W. Moriarty Science Seminar Presents: "River Life in Ancient Egypt: The Nile and its Varied Environments" Speaker: Christine Johnston, Western Washington University. Ancient Egyptian society developed around and was dependent on the Nile River. It was the physical and cultural heart of the pharaonic state, playing important roles in transportation and trade, agriculture and subsistence, […]

Mon 25
March 25, 2024, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Moriarty Science Seminar: Conservation of an Ancient Egyptian Wooden Boat: Documentation, Analysis, and Intervention

At the Museum 4400 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA, United States

R.W. Moriarty Science Seminar Presents: "Conservation of an Ancient Egyptian Wooden Boat: Documentation, Analysis, and Intervention" Speaker: Mostafa Sherif, Carnegie Museum of Natural History. This event will take place Monday, March 25, 2024 at Noon in person at Earth Theater. Seminar 167 .

April 2024

Mon 15
Dr. Carol Mahan and a Nittany Lion
April 15, 2024, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Moriarty Science Seminar: Nittany Lions, Peruvian Chinchillas, and Mammalian Cognition: 25+ Years of Collaboration Between Penn State and the Carnegie Museum of Natural History

At the Museum 4400 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA, United States

R.W. Moriarty Science Seminar Presents: "Nittany Lions, Peruvian Chinchillas, and Mammalian Cognition: 25+ Years of Collaboration Between Penn State and the Carnegie Museum of Natural History" Speaker: Carolyn Mahan, Penn State. Since 1994, I have worked with the Section of Mammals at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History (CMNH) to explore conservation issues and to […]

May 2024

Mon 20
Moriarty Science Seminar May 20
May 20, 2024, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Moriarty Science Seminar: Leveraging the Digital Extended Specimen Model of Extensible Biodiversity Data for Advancing Collections-Based Research and Education

At the Museum 4400 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA, United States

R.W. Moriarty Science Seminar Presents: "Leveraging the Digital Extended Specimen Model of Extensible Biodiversity Data for Advancing Collections-Based Research and Education" In recent decades, digital data has been added to the physical objects housed in natural history collections around the world, allowing researchers, educators, and policy makers easy access to centuries of information about Earth’s […]

September 2024

Mon 23
Dr. John Wible
September 23, 2024, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Moriarty Science Seminar: Searching for Thylacines

Hybrid: Online and At the Museum

Searching for Thylacines (Tasmanian Wolves or Tigers) in Natural History Collections Monday, September 23, 2024, 12:00 - 1:00 p.m. Earth Theater and online via Zoom Featuring John Wible, Curator of Mammals at Carnegie Museum of Natural History This lecture is free. Museum admission is not required. Europeans settled Tasmania in 1803. One-hundred and twenty-seven years […]

October 2024

Mon 7
Molly Hardy
October 7, 2024, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Moriarty Science Seminar: How the Herbarium Shaped Botany

Hybrid: Online and At the Museum

Imperial Order: How the Herbarium Shaped Botany from the Enlightenment to the Early United States Monday, October 7, 2024, 12:00 - 1:00 p.m. Earth Theater and online via Zoom Featuring Molly Hardy, National Endowment for the Humanities This lecture is free, museum admission is not required. A product of the Enlightenment, the herbarium cabinet lays […]

Mon 21
Aaron Bauer, Villanova biology professor, poses for a portrait inside his lab at the Mendel Hall at Villanova University in Villanova, Pa., on Tuesday Feb. 8, 2022. Bauer has more than 233 species of reptiles that he has described and out 161 are geckos.
October 21, 2024, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Moriarty Science Seminar: How Geckos Rule the Night

Hybrid: Online and At the Museum

Photo Credit: Tyger Williams, TNS How Geckos Rule the Night: From Ancient Amber to Modern Stowaways Monday, October 21, 2024, 12:00 - 1:00 p.m. Earth Theater and online via Zoom Featuring Aaron Bauer, Villanova University This lecture is free. Museum admission is not required. With more than 2300 extant species, geckos are one of the […]

November 2024

Mon 11
keith crandall
November 11, 2024, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Moriarty Science Seminar: Genomics, Informatics, and Conservation

Hybrid: Online and At the Museum

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December 2024

Mon 9
Kathy Hollis
December 9, 2024, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Moriarty Science Seminar: Future-proofing Museum Collections

Hybrid: Online and At the Museum

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January 2025

Mon 13
Chris Emproto in the field
January 13, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Moriarty Science Seminar: Gender in Mineral Names

Hybrid: Online and At the Museum

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February 2025

Mon 10
Matt Halley
February 10, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Moriarty Science Seminar: Long-distance migration in Nightingale-thrushes

Hybrid: Online and At the Museum

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March 2025

Mon 3
Susanne Pierre
March 3, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Founding an Independent Research Lab to Change our Planetary Future

Hybrid: Online and At the Museum

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Mon 17
Annie Lindsay
March 17, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Moriarty Science Seminar: Using Bird Banding Datasets to Track Trends in Bird Populations

Hybrid: Online and At the Museum

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April 2025

Mon 14
Aja Lans
April 14, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Dismantling the Diorama: A Model for Tracing the Origins of Unidentified Human Remains

Hybrid: Online and At the Museum

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May 2025

Mon 12
Tim Pearce holding a mollusk shell
May 12, 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Moriarty Science Seminar: Michigan Land Snail Distribution Influenced by Past Glaciers

Hybrid: Online and At the Museum

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