NEWS and EVENTS
In January 2019, CUMV team members traveled to Tel Aviv, Israel to work with collaborators Roi Dor and Amos Belmaker to grow scientific collections for both the Steinhardt Museum of Natural History in Tel Aviv and the Cornell University Museum of Vertebrates. Below are a handful of photos from this recent trip.
Group photo, from left to right, includes: Daniel Berkowic, Amos Belmaker, Chris Wood, Sievert Rohwer, Roi Dor, Vanya Rohwer, and Augie Kramer.
Tag-team preparation of a young Great White Pelican, with a wingspan of 9 feet(!) that was salvaged from a power line collision.
Overlook of the Zin Valley, Negev Desert, at the Ben Gurion memorial near Sde Boker, Israel.
July 2018, members of the CUMV recently returned from field work in Nebraska and Colorado, revisiting sites originally surveyed in the 1950's for studies of avian hybridization.
Periodically the CUMV pulls a diversity of specimens and invites artists of all skill-levels for an evening of specimen-inspired sketching. This most recent event in March 2018 was made all the more special with the help of Liz Clayton Fuller, Jillian Ditner, and Phillip Krzeminski, Bartels Science Illustration interns at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, who offered tips and advice to participants.
The Cornell Museum of Vertebrates now has three California condor specimens in its collection, thanks to a donation by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service. READ FULL STORY...
Preparing specimens can take anywhere from 1 to 6 hours depending on the size of the bird and experience level of the preparator. This video compresses the whole process to 1 minute! The specimen in this video is a Black-billed Magpie that was salvaged from Washington State.
Euchilichthys royauxi is a species of catfish native to the Congo Basin in central Africa. This high resolution CT-scan of a 20 cm E. royauxi’s, illustrates its massive head, unique teeth, and serrated spines in the pelvic fins.
