Blog archive: November 2014
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Science
High-energy drinks support larger parrot populations
Suburban landscapes provide more consistent floral nectar than native bushland and support a greater abundance of large nectar-feeding birds
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Science
Snail mountain: the amazing snails of Mount Kaputar
An extinct volcano in NSW is home to an endangered community of land snails, including a bright scarlet slug.
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Education
Community Engagement
The Australian Museum joined Sydney's largest BioBlitz with a display at Basecamp and running surveys.
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Science
A light in the night? What’s nightlighting?
Steve and Sally examining Anna's nightlighting catch.
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Museullaneous
Oliver Chalmers - the man behind the mineralogist
Chalmers by name and charming by nature
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Science
Our Global Neighbours: The Mystery of a Drinking Bottle
From an ancient pre-Columbian graveyard to the Captain Cook Collection.
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Museullaneous
DigiVol: DigiVols as Code Breakers
The immense task of digitising our collections raises many challenges for our digitisation and transcription team, the DigiVols.
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Science
Our Global Neighbours: Cloth and its Meaning
Textiles of Southeast Asia are amongst the richest in diversity and design in the world.
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Science
Anything in the pots? Baited traps in Southern French Polynesia. Blog 1, setting the traps.
“Anything in the pots?” is a question I am frequently asked by crew of the RV Braveheart and my fellow scientists as we document samples.
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Science
Anything in the pots? Baited traps in Southern French Polynesia. Blog 3, invertebrates and processing the samples.
Apart from use in the seafood industry baited traps (or pots) are also a great way to collect marine specimens for scientfic study.
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Anything in the pots? Baited traps in Southern French Polynesia. Blog 2, retrieving the catch.
Apart from use in the seafood industry baited traps (or pots) are also a great way to collect marine specimens for scientific study.
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Science
Eureka Prizes: 2014 wrapped up
The 25th anniversary of the Eureka Prizes saw plenty of entries, news stories and outstanding Australian science rewarded.
