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Celebrating Women In Science and Museum Day Live

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March is Women’s History Month, a month dedicated to celebrating the contributions of women to events in history and contemporary society. In recognition of this celebration, the Smithsonian is coordinating a special edition of its signature Museum Day Live!
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March 3, 2016byGrace Costantino
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Early Land Plants and the Global Strategy for Plant Conservation

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Bryophytes are green land plants that lack true vascular tissue. They encompass mosses (Bryophyta), hornworts (Anthocerotophyta) and liverworts (Marchantiophyta). Bryophytes form an important component in many ecosystems, offering microhabitats for an abundance of biodiversity including single-celled eukaryotes, protozoa, and many invertebrates (Gerson 1982). They also play an important part in the global carbon budget and can support climate change research by serving as “indicators of past climate change, [validating] climate models, and as potential indicators of global warming”.

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March 1, 2016byGrace Costantino
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Planned Outage of BHL Website for Scheduled Maintenance 3/1/2016 at 6pm CST

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There will be a planned outage of the BHL website for scheduled maintenance on Tuesday, 1 March 2016, beginning at 6pm CST and lasting approximately two hours. We apologize for the inconvenience and thank you for your patience. During the outage, you can access BHL’s content via Internet Archive.

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February 29, 2016byGrace Costantino
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Humboldt and Bonpland’s Essai sur la géographie des plantes and its significance

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Over 210 years after Alexander von Humboldt and Aimé Bonpland’s work titled Essai sur la géographie des plantes was published, climate science, book conservation, and botanical research have converged around this 1805 work. This book was digitized and made available in 2008 by the Missouri Botanical Garden for the Biodiversity Heritage Library. In 2015, scientists published a paper detailing their findings as they retraced the path that Humboldt and Bonpland took on their ascent up the dormant volcano, Chimborazo, in Ecuador.
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February 25, 2016byRandy Smith
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The Latest News from BHL

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There have been some exciting developments in BHL-land, including new projects to add more content to BHL such as in-copyright titles, materials from new contributors, and field notes. These new projects come with new funding as well. We’ve also expanded our consortium with two new affiliates and participated in some fun outreach activities.
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February 24, 2016byGrace Costantino
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BHL Website Issues Resolved 2/23/2016

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UPDATE: The technical issues we were experiencing with the BHL website have been resolved. All services back up and running. Thanks for your patience! The BHL website is currently down due to technical difficulties. We are working to correct the issue as soon as possible, and apologize for the inconvenience. Thanks for your patience and stay tuned for more updates. While we work to resolve the technical issues w/ the BHL website, you can explore our collections on Internet Archive.

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February 23, 2016byGrace Costantino
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The Impact of Coordinated Social Media Campaigns on Online Citizen Science Engagement

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Smithsonian staff members recently presented a poster at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Annual Meeting in Washington, DC, 11-15 February, 2016. The poster, entitled “The Impact of Coordinated Social Media Campaigns on Online Citizen Science Engagement” by Lesley Parilla (Cataloging Coordinator, The Field Book Project) and Meghan Ferriter, Ph.D.
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February 18, 2016byLesley Parilla and Meghan Ferriter
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