THE AMNH (NYC, USA): “THROUGH SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH AND EDUCATION”

Published on Wednesday, 11 May 2016 08:37

The American Museum of Natural History (AMNH, Central Park West at 79th Street, New York City, USA) with its divisions of Anthropology, Invertebrate Zoology, Paleontology, Physical Sciences, Vertebrate Zoology (Herpetology, Ichthyology, Mammalogy, Ornithology), Center for Biodiversity and Conservation, Sackler Institute for Comparative Genomics, Southwestern Research Station, etc. is a leading research institution with world-class facilities and researchers: more than 200 scientists who work across the broad disciplines of biology, anthropology, paleontology, astrophysics, Earth & planetary sciences, etc., and carry out about a hundred research expeditions around the world each year. The Museum Library’s research collection is made up of more than 450,000 volumes as well as electronic resources and microform materials.

The extraordinary collections of the American Museum of Natural History contain over 32 million specimens of plants, animals, minerals, rocks, meteorites, and artifacts, etc. (Note: AMNH is one of the largest museums in the world and gets about five million visitors each year (http://www.amnh.org).

The Museum's educational programs include outreach to schools in NYC by the Moveable Museum. In 2006, the Museum launched the Richard Gilder Graduate School, which embraces graduate training, post-doctoral fellowships, and undergraduate training programs at the Museum, through both independent activities and partnerships with universities (http://www.amnh.org/our-research). The Richard Gilder Graduate School offers a PhD in Comparative Biology (accredited in 2009) and is the first American and the only museum in the USA to award the Ph.D. (doctoral) degree (http://www.amnh.org/our-research).

The mission statement of AMNH is: ”To discover, interpret, and disseminate through scientific research and education”.

See more about AMNH at: http://www.amnh.org

In the photographs:

1. The main entrance; 2. Entomology Lab; 3. Suzanne Rab Green (Curatorial Assistant: Lepidoptera), Courtney Richenbacher (Scientific Assistant: Amber, Diptera, Isoptera and Lepidoptera), and Jonas R. Stonis (visiting); 4. Suzanne Rab Green and Steven R. Davis(Postdoctoral Fellow); 5. David A. Grimaldi (Curator: Amber, Diptera, Isoptera, Lepidoptera, Holometabolous Minor Orders and Professor of the Richard Gilder Graduate School); 6. Suzanne Rab Green (an Arctiidae expert, whose activities outside of AMNH include frequent participation in oceanographic research expeditions throughout the world, etc.) and Jonas R. Stonis; 7, The Rose Center for Earth and Space, with Hayden Big Bang Theater; 8, 9. The Museum is surrounded by a lovely city park known as Theodore Roosevelt Park.