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Meet the 2024 DIG Field School Instructors

April 19, 2024

Meet some of the students and Burke staff who will be out supporting the 2024 DIG Field School this summer.

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Estella Leopold: Researching the past to inform the present

March 20, 2024

Dr. Estella Leopold, a pioneering paleobiologist and professor emerita of biology at UW, passed away on February 25, 2024, at the age of 97.

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Unexpected Early Whales in the North Pacific

February 26, 2024

The paleontology collections have been busy with visiting researchers. Let's meet a few!

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Gorgonopsids and Growth Strategies

February 26, 2024

Meet Alex Acker, a recent visiting researcher who came to the Burke as part of the Vertebrate Paleontology Collection Study Grant.

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Fusion Evolution of Whale Mandibles

February 26, 2024

Meet Rebecca Strauch, a recent visiting researcher who came to the Burke as part of the Vertebrate Paleontology Collection Study Grant.

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The Origin of Complex, Bird-like Lungs in Archosaurs

February 26, 2024

Meet Paul Byrne, a recent visiting researcher who came to the Burke as part of the Vertebrate Paleontology Collection Study Grant.

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New video project creates shared definitions of common DEAI words through storytelling

February 22, 2024

Through personal stories and unique perspectives, this video series presents community members' interpretation of words like decolonization and diversity, and invites viewers to reflect on their own definitions.

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2023 DIG Field School Classroom Connections, Part 3

February 9, 2024

2023 DIG Field School participants are excited to bring what they learned back to their classroom.

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2023 DIG Field School Classroom Connections, Part 2

December 19, 2023

More 2023 DIG Field School participants share what they learned during the program.

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The archaeology of Seattle's West Point

A 1992 construction site led to a significant discovery of cultural remains of local Native Americans that lived at and used the site for thousands of years.

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Washington Wildflowers App

The Burke Museum Herbarium and its partners have released plant identification apps for the wildflowers of Washington. 

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Consortium of Pacific Northwest Herbaria

More than 2.4 million plant, fungal, lichen, and algal specimen records from the Pacific Northwest.

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