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We finished our field clothing ‘try-on’ this afternoon and have been told to report tomorrow (Weds) at 7:00 am. for our flight to the Ice. Of course, we’ve also been told that the weather is currently bad there, so we may not fly. Already, the ‘hurry up and wait’ that is so typical of Antarctic field work has started!

New Websites Highlight Biodiversity Research

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The Biodiversity Institute has a new home on the web and a new site for the institute's Natural History Museum.

Prominent on the institute's new web site, biodiversity.ku.edu, are the research, collections and discoveries of its scientists and graduate students who explore and document the life of the planet.

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bstoppel
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New Biodiversity Institute Web Sites

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image/jpeg iconWhen it launches in fall 2010, the archaeology website will feature photos of artifacts in the archaeology collection.
image/jpeg iconFuture websites for research divisions such as botany, left, are thematically tied to the specimens its researchers study.
image/jpeg iconThe future website for Entomology.
image/jpeg iconThe future website of the genetic sequencing lab will provide streamlined access to services.
image/jpeg iconSeveral of the new websites will prominently feature news of recent accomplishments, expeditions and publications.
image/jpeg iconThe upcoming ichthyology website.
image/jpeg iconThe future website for informatics, which will highlight its Specify software.
image/jpeg iconThe future invertebrate paleontology website.
image/jpeg iconThe upcoming invertebrate zoology website.
image/jpeg iconSome of the future research websites, such as the site for mammalogy, will feature animal identification keys.
image/jpeg iconBiodiversity modeling and policy is one of two research areas that will have websites for the first time.
image/jpeg iconPhotograph galleries will be a part of future research websites such as this site for ornithology.
image/jpeg iconThe new research sites will come online in fall 2010.
image/jpeg iconThe upcoming site for the Paleontological Institute.
image/jpeg iconThe future site for vertebrate paleontology.
image/jpeg iconParasitology's web site.

The Biodiversity Institute has a new home on the web and a new site for the institute's Natural History Museum. Revamped websites for the Biodiversity Institute's research divisions, such as mammalogy, herpetology and botany, are also in development.

Paleobotany Details

There are more than 84,000 entries and in the Paleobotany Collections Database. They encompass all aspects of the paleobotanical collections at the University of Kansas, including permineralized and compression/impression specimens, prepared slides, teaching slides, research slides, figured negatives from published papers, and figured and duplicate peels. The collections consist of tens of thousands of specimens with a large percentage being made up of Permian, Triassic and Jurassic silicified peats and compression/impression plant fossils from Antarctica.

Established: 
1888
Number of Specimens: 
90,000 lots with an estimated 400,000 specimens
Research Strengths: 
The anatomy, morphology and reproductive biology, as well as plant-animal and plant-microbe interactions of the flora of the Late Permian (~250 million years ago) and Middle Triassic (238 mya) floras from Antarctica.
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etaylor
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tntaylor
Collection Manager: 
serbet
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