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Dec 19, 2020
Beginning in January, the Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History will feature the exhibit âPlaces of Power: Painted Photographs of Sacred Landscapes by Corson Hirschfeld.â
Opening Jan. 6 in the second-floor Higginbotham gallery, the exhibit will feature hand-painted photographs of ancient, sacred spaces, including cultural and archaeological sites, cultural landscapes and petroglyphs from over 20 countries.
Hirschfeld came to Norman in 2006 to be with his wife, Tassie Hirschfeld, who is a professor in the Department of Anthropology in the University of Oklahoma College of Arts and Sciences.
In his earlier days, he was a herpetologist studying reptiles and amphibians. He also had a long career as a studio photographer in Cincinnati before moving to Norman. His published three suspense novels.
Coastal News Today | World - Study Focuses on Evolutionary Determinism and Convergence in Marine Fishes coastalnewstoday.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from coastalnewstoday.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Credit: Lutjanus viridis photographed by R. Betancur, Mosquera & Seymour, Galapagos, 10 Feb. 2017.
The stickleback is a well-studied system in freshwater lakes, but the evolution of convergent morphotypes that occupy different positions in the water column in marine environments is less clear. An international group of scientists led by researchers at the University of Oklahoma decided to test the extent to which independent transitions from bottom to midwater habitats in marine fish species from different oceanic basins resulted in the recurrent evolution of body shape morphologies, comparable to those documented in sticklebacks.
The motivation for this study was based on the book, Wonderful Life (ca. 1989), by noted Harvard University paleontologist and evolutionary biologist Stephen J. Gould.
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Global climate conditions demand a response by institutions that are here for the long haul-as museums are-to collect, preserve, and interpret in perpetuity. Environmentally friendly practices are crucial to the mission of our museums, which, as houses of preservation, are uniquely suited to modeling green behavior and sustainability. In The Green Museum, authors Sarah Brophy and Elizabeth Wylie offer a complete handbook to guide museum staff in incorporating green design into new construction and day-to-day operations. Sustainable practices can save on operating costs and even make museums attractive to new fundraising sources, as Brophy and Wylie show in case studies of museums that have already taken steps to become green. In this easy-to-read book, the authors demystify the process of going green, including detailed explanations of the basics of recycling, options for environmentally friendly exhibit design, and how to conduct energy audits. The Green Museum is full of practical