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Meet A Paleoartist

Art Lectures & Workshops Open to the Public

Christopher DiPiazza is a paleoartist, an illustrator who is commissioned by museums and scientists specifically to reconstruct prehistoric life. A New Jersey native, Chris now calls Maryland home. He has a degree in animal science from Rutgers University, worked as a zookeeper for over a decade in New York and New Jersey, and worked as […]

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The Puritan Tiger Beetle and Other Endangered Insects of Maryland

Lectures & Workshops Open to the Public

Those of a certain age can remember car grills and windshields caked with insect bodies. Today you are hard pressed to find any insect remnants on a car. Recent research has shown that insect populations have declined by more than 45% since the 1980s, and another 40% of all insect species will be at risk […]

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Fossil Club: Living Fossils, or Modern Wonders? Evolution of the Horseshoe Crab

Clubs Fossils Lectures & Workshops Open to the Public

Often referred to as “living fossils”, horseshoe crabs have inhabited the Earth’s water for nearly half a billion years. They have survived all of our planet’s recorded mass extinctions, witnessed the rise and fall of the dinosaurs, and have done it all while maintaining more or less the same body plan. It’s easy to assume […]

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Cownose Rays in the Chesapeake Bay

Lectures & Workshops Open to the Public

Cownose rays (Rhinoptera bonasus) are a relatively large, coastal pelagic species of batoid (flat sharks) that migrate seasonally along the East Coast of the US in very large schools. Those that spend the summer months in Chesapeake Bay generally spend their winters in Florida. Conspicuous predators of a wide array of invertebrates, primarily of relatively […]

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The Bearded Lady Project: Challenging the Face of Science

Lectures & Workshops Open to the Public

During a discussion of how women are treated in traditionally male-dominated fields, paleobotanist Ellen Currano lamented to filmmaker Lexi Jamieson Marsh that, as the only young and female faculty member in her department, she was not taken seriously by her colleagues. If only she had the right amount of facial hair, she joked, maybe they […]

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iNaturalist for Beginners – A Primer with Bill Curtis

Community Science For the Family Lectures & Workshops Open to the Public

In this workshop learn everything you ever wanted to know about iNaturalist but were afraid to ask. Get prepared to participate in the 2025 City Nature Challenge, and learn more about the natural world around you. What is iNaturalist? iNaturalist is a lot of different things, but at its core, iNaturalist is an online social […]

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Crayfish of Maryland

Lectures & Workshops Open to the Public

Freshwater crayfishes play important roles in Maryland’s freshwater aquatic ecosystems. As keystone species, crayfishes affect physical habitat and substrate composition, breaking down leaves, woody debris, and aquatic vegetation, and they serve as an important food source to dozens of animals. Maryland is home to 14 species including 9 natives and 5 introduced species. This presentation […]

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