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Lights Out Philly
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Philadelphia skyline on a regular spring night (above) and with fewer lights blazing (below) during spring bird
migration, thanks to Lights Out Philly and Bird Safe Philly.
Photos by Victoria Sindlinger/Delaware Valley Ornithological Club
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This large group of dead birds resulted from Philly window strikes one day in fall 2020.
Credit: Stephen Maciejewski
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Rows of bird specimens in the Ornithology Collection of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel
University.
Credit: ANS
President and CEO Scott Cooper, PhD
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Scott Cooper, PhD, took over as president and CEO of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University in
mid-December 2017.
Women in Natural Sciences
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Learning by doing in the Ichthyology Collection.
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Field work in a stream with Academy scientists.
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Scouring a road cut in Red Hill, Pa., for Devonian fossils.
Ruth Patrick
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Dr. Ruth Patrick examines diatom slides at the Academy of Natural Sciences in the 1940s.
Credit: ANSP Archives coll. 457
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Dr. Ruth Patrick (fourth from left) and the team she assembled in 1948 to examine the health of Conestoga River
in Lancaster County, Pa.
Credit: ANSP Archives coll. 457
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Dr. Ruth Patrick, in her signature pith helmet, collecting organisms from a stream; circa 1970
Credit: ANSP Archives coll. 457
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Dr. Ruth Patrick in the 1980s
Credit: ANSP