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2018 Ask a Curator Day, Part 2 | California Academy of Sciences

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Channel: California Academy of Sciences · 2018 · Science & Technology

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On Sept. 2, the National Museum of Brazil suffered a fire that resulted in a terrible loss of scientific collections. To honor and explain that loss, our curators used #AskACurator Day to talk about the value of collections by highlighting a specimen important to them—one that represents a critical part of their research, changed something within their field, is connected to whatever inspired them to become a scientist, or drives their determination to keep exploring and learning today. 

In Part 2, entomology curator Lauren Esposito shows off extra-special scorpions; Steinhart Aquarium director and curator Bart Shepherd highlights a new discovery and an old talisman; invertebrates curator Pim Bongaerts introduces the deepest reef coral ever collected from the Great Barrier Reef; and botany curator Nathalie Nangalingum shows a specimen that survived the Academy's own near-destruction—during the 1906 earthquake—thanks to the feats of legendary curator Alice Eastwood. 

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