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Lights Out Philly

Philly skyline with lights on
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
Philly skyline with some lights off
large group of dead birds
This large group of dead birds resulted from Philly window strikes one day in fall 2020.
Credit: Stephen Maciejewski
rows of bird specimens
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

2 girls with fish on a string
Learning by doing in the Ichthyology Collection.
girls in waders in stream
Field work in a stream with Academy scientists.
girls field work at road cut
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