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  Harvard University's Caribbean Insects: About Us   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
The long history of scientific exchange between the Caribbean and the Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ) at Harvard and neighboring institutions places Harvard University in a position to foster research in this important biogeographic region.
Many more expeditions followed on the Blake while she was under the charge of Dr. Alexander Agassiz, Director of the MCZ (1873-1910), who was accompanied by Samuel Garman, herpetologist.
Current MCZ Director Dr. James Hanken focuses his research on the development of the Puerto Rican tree frog, the coqui.
mcz-28168.oeb.harvard.edu /caribbean/harvardincarib.htm   (870 words)

  
 BiologyDaily.com -- Museum of Comparative Zoology - Harvard University
The Museum of Comparative Zoology was founded in 1859, through the efforts of Louis Agassiz (1807-1873).
Agassiz, a zoologist from Neuchatel, Switzerland, served as the Director of the Museum from 1859 until his death in 1873.
A brilliant lecturer and scholar, he established the Museum and its collections as a center for research and education.
biosphere.biologydaily.com /help/node/5399   (112 words)

  
 Digimorph - Fruitafossor windscheffeli (Late Jurassic mammal)
Zhe-Xi Luo and John Wible of the Carnegie Museum of Natural History and Dr.
Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 150:199-246.
Prothero, D. New Jurassic mammals from Como Bluff, Wyoming, and the interrelationships of non-tribosphenic Theria.
www.digimorph.org /specimens/Fruitafossor_windscheffeli   (638 words)

  
 International Biogeography Society -- Global Mapper
Contributors include the American Museum of Natural History, Bishop Museum, California Academy of Sciences, Field Museum, Kansas Natural History Museum, Los Angeles County Museum, Missouri Botanical Garden, Museum of Comparative Zoology, and Smithsonian Institution.
This web tool has an easy interface that enables you to compare distributional information on a large selection of satellite images, maps, and aerial photographs.
Thus, for example, at a global scale http://www.discoverlife.org/20/q?kind=Quercus,Tuxedo_ maps species of Tuxedo plant bugs from specimen records from the American Museum of Natural History over Quercus records from Missouri Botanical Garden's Tropicos database and other sources.
www.discoverlife.org /pa/or/polistes/fe/2006ibs.html   (568 words)

  
 Ocean Life Institute - Educational Activities   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
He has also participated in cruises with the National Systematics Laboratory/ Northeast Fisheries Science Center surveying Georges Bank and surrounding deep waters.
Another new fish species was discovered, which he is describing with Karsten Hartel, of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard.
He also has continuing work looking at the role of zooplankton in the dynamics of red tides on the West Florida Shelf (ECOHAB: Florida).
www.whoi.edu /institutes/oli/research/education_sutton.htm   (207 words)

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