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83rd Meeting of the American Malacological Society

Researchers gathered in a hotel meeting room
Participants of Mollusks in Peril 2017 session at the 83rd Meeting of the American Malacological Society. Top row, from left: Rüdiger Bieler (Field Museum of Natural History), Jay Cordeiro (AMS Conservation Committee), Amanda Haponski (Museum of Zoology, University of Michigan), Ken Hayes (Howard University), Chris Hobbs (Canterbury Christ Church University, UK), Tim Collins (Florida International University); bottom: Megan Paustian (Howard University), Tim Pearce (Carnegie Museum of Natural History), Norine Yeung (Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum), José H. Leal (Bailey-Matthews National Shell Museum, organizer). Not in photo: Dan Hua (Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency).

Dr. Tim Pearce, assistant curator and Head of Section of Mollusks, was recently featured in the Curator’s Corner—a newsletter from Dr. José H. Leal, science director and curator at the Bailey-Matthews National Shell Museum—after he participated in the 83rd Meeting of the American Malacological Society at the University of Delaware.

“Some of the highlights of the meeting included a special workshop sponsored by iDigBio (Integrated Digitized Biocollections) on mollusks collections online, Digitizing the 2nd Largest Invertebrate Phylum: Mollusks; the President Symposium, Mollusk research in a digital world: creating, integrating and mining large datasets; and Mollusks in Peril 2017 (MIP 2017, organized by yours truly), a follow-up to the successful Mollusks in Peril 2016 Forum, held in May 2016 at the Shell Museum and sponsored by Smoky and Stephanie Payson.”

-Dr. Leal

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Researchers and scientists at work

specimens from the section of Invertebrate Zoology

researchers at work

moth and caterpillar specimens

Albert talking to visitors in Benedum Hall of Geology

visitors meeting our dinosaur experts

researchers in the section of Invertebrate Zoology

researchers in the section of Vertebrate Palentology

Did you know researchers and scientists are at work in the museum every day?

Visitors got an inside look at the behind-the-scenes science of our museum by interacting with Carnegie scientists at a special Super Science Saturday—Scientist Takeover!

Entomologists, paleontologists, anthropologists, and other scientists spent Saturday, July 22 in the galleries showing off their cool collections, answering questions, and discussing their work with curious museum-goers. Visitors also enjoyed tours and hands-on activities like sifting through soil to find Pennsylvania land snails.

Super Science Saturdays is a program at Carnegie Museum of Natural History that invites visitors of all ages to explore a special theme through hands-on activities, experiments, demonstrations, discussions with museum experts, and more. Events are free with museum admission.

Don’t miss our next event, Whiskers and Woofs, on August 19.