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Monthly Archive: December
ROM Research Colloquium: BLOG-A THON (Day 5)
Five researchers, five questions, five days.
Join us for the ROM Research Colloquium on February 23 and meet our researchers! Stay for the Vaughan Lecture given by Dave Rudkin.
ROM Research Colloquium: BLOG-A THON (Day 4)
Five researchers, five questions, five days.
Join us for the ROM Research Colloquium on February 23 and meet our researchers! Stay for the Vaughan Lecture given by Dave Rudkin.
What are the big unanswered questions in your field that keep you up at night?
ROM Research Colloquium: BLOG-A THON (Day 3)
Five researchers, five questions, five days.
Join us for the ROM Research Colloquium on February 23 and meet our researchers! Stay for the Vaughan Lecture given by Dave Rudkin.
How does your research help us understand the world?
ROM Research Colloquium: BLOG-A THON (Day 2)
Five researchers, five questions, five days.
Join us for the ROM Research Colloquium on February 23 and meet our researchers! Stay for the Vaughan Lecture given by Dave Rudkin.
ROM Research Colloquium: BLOG-A-THON (Day 1)
Follow five of the ROM’s researchers and learn about what fascinates them, what questions are irking them and how their research helps us figure out the world.
Have you got 15 minutes to be part of something BIG?
Guest blog written by Bird Studies Canada's Toronto Projects Coordinator, Emily Rondel
What if you could be part of a global conservation project by standing in your yard (or local park, or well…anywhere) for 15 minutes? This coming Family Day weekend (Feb 12-15), be part of the Great Backyard Bird Count (GBBC), a four day worldwide “blitz” of wild birds. The GBBC is an invaluable snapshot of worldwide bird abundance and distribution; and it’s only possible due to the participation of tens of thousands of “citizen scientist” volunteers around the globe.
Our NBA All-Star Starting 5
Imagine if Dinosaurs could play in the NBA All-Star game? We did!
Remembering Kiowa Wind McComb
Kiowa was the Indigenous Youth Intern in the ROM Learning Department through the generous support of Miziwe Biik Aboriginal Employment and Training and was an exceptionally promising young man.
Mexican Cartel lands are home to a newly described species: Goode’s Thornscrub Tortoise
ROM curator of reptiles and amphibians, Dr. Bob Murphy and a team of international scientists use leading edge genetic techniques and dangerous fieldwork activities to describe a new species of tortoise in Mexico and shine light on the conservation status of other rare and threatened tortoises from the region
Clay sealings from Edfu, Egypt in the Greek & Roman collection
Over a century after they were acquired Ptolemaic artifacts at the Royal Ontario Museum, Greek & Roman collection, get new homes
