Welcome to the Climate Change Workshop Sponsored by: The Academy of Natural Sciences and the...

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Welcome to the Climate Change Welcome to the Climate Change Workshop Workshop Sponsored by: The Academy of Natural Sciences and the Partnership for the Delaware Estuary

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Welcome to the Climate Change Welcome to the Climate Change WorkshopWorkshop

Sponsored by: The Academy of Natural Sciences and

the Partnership for the Delaware Estuary

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•Founded in 1812 in Philadelphia

•Incorporated in 1817 by State legislation

•Oldest natural science research institution and museum in the Americas

•1846: Smithsonian•1869: American Museum of Natural

History•1889: Bishop Museum•1893: The Field Museum

The Academy of Natural SciencesThe Academy of Natural Sciences

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Cultivation and Encouragement of the Sciences

MissionMission

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How can Natural History Museums help in Understanding Climate Change?

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Savannah River Macroinvertebrate Species Richness

Long Term Environmental Datasets are Also Needed to Evaluate the Impacts of Climate Change

Patrick Center Archives

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Museum Collections Can Be Useful Tools

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THE DIATOM PALEOLIMNOLOGY DATA COOPERATIVE (DPDC)

The DPDC is a NSF-sponsored web-accessible database of diatom and associated data contributed by the paleo community.

• Contains data on stratigraphic (e.g., sediment core) and surface-sample calibration sets.

• Long-term data related to climate change, eutrophication, acid precipitation and other global environmental issues.

From Lotter (1998)

Chesapeake Bay Core

From Charles, Potopova, Ponader (ANSP)

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