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Ohio State News highlighted a recent Ecological Indicators publication by EEOB Ph.D. student, Seth Drake, EEOB assistant professors, Casey Pennock and Lindsey Bruckerhoff, and EEOB/MBD…
The Museum of Biological Diversity, The Columbus Zoo & Aquarium, and the Ohio Environmental Council partnered to develop a traveling pop-up exhibit and educational program on freshwater mussels…
COSI’s Science Festival is Ohio’s largest annual science event and features dozens of virtual events showcasing great science being done in Ohio. The festival’s goal is to show science is…
The Ohio Biodiversity Conservation Partnership (OBCP) at Ohio State University is hosting a VIRTUAL symposium on freshwater mussel conservation in honor of the late G. Thomas Watters on Wednesday,…
The first virtual internship offered by the Triplehorn Insect Collection this summer was featured prominently in a news story on Elon University's website.
"Virtual…
New publication highlights the value of collection specimens and the importance of making specimen level data widely available to the scientific community.
A single specimen of Carpenter…
Origin and evolution of the symbiosis between sea anemones (Cnidaria, Anthozoa, Actiniaria) and hermit crabs, with additional notes on anemone-gastropod associations C. Gusmão, Vanessa Van Deusen,…
The Graduate Evolution and Ecology Students Organization (GEES) is working with the Museum of Biological Diversity (MBD) to launch a series of Facebook live events featuring grad students doing Q…
Interspecific Eavesdropping on Ant Chemical Communication
Rachelle M. M. Adams, Rachel L. Wells, Stephen P. Yanoviak, Christopher J. Frost, and Eduardo G. P. Fox. 2020. Front. Ecol. Evol. https:/…
The 2020 Museum of Biological Diversity Open House is postponed indefinitely. We make this decision to support the health of our staff, volunteers, and community.
We apologize for any…
The 2020 Museum of Biological Diversity’s annual Open House, planned for Saturday, March 21, was suspended until further notice. This disappointing decision was made after considering University…
The biology of Megalolaelaps colossus (Acari: Dermanyssina)
EEOB Professor, Bryan Carstens, begins a one-year appointment with University Libraries as Faculty Fellow for Transforming the Scholarly Publishing Economy, starting with the new year. He will…
The Jewel Mudbug, a new crayfish species, was described by Bronwyn Williams (WLU), Zac Loughman (NCSM) and EEOB Grad student, Mael Glon. The authors named the crayfish (Lacunicambarus dalyae…
Specimen drawers from the Triplehorn Insect Collection among others are featured in an exhibit going on at Hopkins Hall Gallery. The exhibit, curated by Ardine Nelson, Professor…
Jim McCormac discusses "mudbugs" with EEOB graduate student, Mael Glon, and Museum of Biological Diversity Alumnus, Roger Thoma. Read the entire article on the Columbus Dispatch website.
Professor Emerita in the Department of Art Ardine Nelson is exhibiting works in Hopkins Hall Gallery, that features images of specimens from the Museum of Biological Diversity …
The National Science Foundation has awarded a grant to Bryan Carstens & Tara Pelletier for a project titled "Aggregating and Repurposing Phylogeographic Data". This project…
EEOB PhD student, Heather Glon, was featured in Arts and Sciences News this week. Glon, whose advisor is EEOB Professor Meg Daly, is attempting to gather a globally representative collection of…
EEOB Associate Professor Emeritus, Rich Bradley, shares advice on dealing with spiders in an Ohio State Insights article entitled Don’t let these bugs ruin your summer. You can read the…
Genomic signatures of sympatric speciation with historical and contemporary gene flow in a tropical anthozoan (Hexacorallia: Actiniaria) Benjamin M. Titus, Paul D. Blischak, Marymegan Daly. 2019…
The American burying beetle is slowly returning to Ohio, thanks to reintroduction efforts spearheaded by researchers in the Department of Evolution, Ecology and Organismal Biology. Watch the video…
EEOB Assistant Professor, Rachelle Adams, will be presenting for the Columbus Science Pub on July 11 at 7:30PM. The even will be held at Up Front at ShadowBox Live. To find out more about her talk…
An ASC News article shares what it is like to visit the Museum of Biological Diversity. Readers follow Edward in a class trip to learn more about how collections can be used for conservation.
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The OSU Herbarium at the MBD dedicated the archives of the Herbarium to Ronald Stuckey. Ron is a life time collector and curator of all things botany. His works included collected details of…
Mesfin Tadesse, curator of vascular plants at the Museum of Biological Diversity, recently returned from a trip to Ethiopia, where he was honored with an award for his contributions to botany…
Marc Kibbey, Assistant Curator in the fish collection, was surprised by Arts and Sciences Dean Jan Steffensmeier, who visited the fish collection and presented him with the ASC Distinguished Staff…
Evolutionary history of New World ticks of the genus Dermacentor (Ixodida: Ixodidae), and the origin of D. variabilis Paula Lado and Hans Klompen. 2019. Biological Journal of the…
Tropical Behavioral Ecology and Evolution students are at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institution in Panama, where they are studying the evolutionary processes that influence the ecology of…
Complex interplay of ancient vicariance and recent patterns of geographical speciation in north-western North American temperate rainforests explains the phylogeny of jumping slugs (Hemphillia spp.)…
Riparian forest fragments in rice fields under different management: differences on hymenopteran parasitoids diversity G. S. Silva, S.M. Jahnke, N.F. Johnson. 2019. Brazilian Journal of Biology. http…
EEOB Graduate Student, Mael Glon, is the winner of the 2019 EEOB Outstanding GTA Award. This award recognizes excellence in furthering the teaching mission of the department and university…
Dr. Tom Watters, Curator of Molluscs at the Museum of Biological Diversity, was interviewed by Columbus Underground for an article on Big Darby Creek. Darby Creek, recognized as both a State…
Tick development on sexually-active bull moose is more advanced compared to that of cow moose in the winter tick, Dermacentor albipictus
Jay A. Yoder, Peter J. Pekins, Cameron J. Dobrotka,…
Researchers, including a team from The Ohio State University, have published new findings showing that the DNA of the tube anemone does what few other species’ mitochondrial genomes have been shown…
The Triplehorn Insect Collection is seeking the public’s assistance in creating a digital archive of thousands of Arctic butterflies. The data will help answer questions about taxonomy and climate…
Check it out! Our recent citizen science expedition on Notes from Nature made the College of Arts and Sciences News today. Notes from Nature, one of the many…
Congratulations to Adams Megalomyrmex Ant Lab PhD student, Matt Boot, who received an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program award (GRFP)! Matt studies leafcutter ants in Panama to understand…
A new genus and species of the seldom-studied platygastroid subfamily Sceliotrachelinae is described from Australia. Calixomeria is a tiny (less than 1 mm long!), uniparental (females…
Calixomeria, a new genus of Sceliotrachelinae (Hymenoptera, Platygastridae) from Australia Zachary Lahey, Lubomír Masner, Norman F. Johnson. 2019. ZooKeys 830: 63-73. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys…
Relationships between Tertiary relict and circumboreal woodland floras: a case study in Chimaphila (Ericaceae) Zhen-Wen Liu, Jing Zhou, Hua Peng, John V Freudenstein, Richard I Milne. 2019. Annals of…
Feeding on sexually-active bull moose advances development of the winter tick, Dermacentor albipictus Jay A.Yoder, Peter J.Pekins, Cameron J.Dobrotka, Kelli A.Fisher, Lee Kantar, Scott McLellan, Matt…
The Tetrapod Collection at the Museum of Biological Diversity was featured in ASC's Daily Post and ASCent Online. You can read the entire ASCent article here.…
The Tetrapod Collection at the Museum of Biological Diversity was featured in ASC's Daily Post and ASCent Online. You can read the entire ASCent article here.…
Curator of the Acarology Collection at the MBD and EEOB Research Associate, George Keeney, discusses inhabitants and educational experiences at the Insectary with The Lantern. Read the whole…
EEOB Graduate student, Mael Glon, won the photo contest at last year's International Association of Astacology symposium in Pittsburgh. The association has chosen his image for the cover photo on…
A Naturalist's Guide to the Fishes of Ohio is available for pre-order! This book was written by former EEOB and MBD staff member Brian Zimmerman and used our collections to verify and interpret…
The Museum has been joined by Dr. Tamaki Yuri (yuri.1@osu.edu), our new curator of the Tetrapod collection and instructor for Ohio Birds (EEOB 2220). Dr. Yuri is an expert in bird phylogeny who…
The Museum has been joined by Dr. Tamaki Yuri (yuri.1@osu.edu), our new curator of the Tetrapod collection and instructor for Ohio Birds (EEOB 2220).
Dr. Yuri is an expert in bird phylogeny…
EEOB Professor and Museum of Biological Diversity Director, Meg Daly, has accepted the position of Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education. Since joining Ohio State's faculty in 2004, she has…
Evie Moran & Jordan Reynolds, two artists associated with the Triplehorn Insect Collection, are presenting their collection-based, science…
Emeritus Professor Tod Stuessy, past Director of the OSU Herbarium, has been awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Concepción in Chile.
The award ceremony was held on August 8…
Arctic Oeneis butterfly specimens from the Triplehorn Insect Collection at Ohio State are now up on Notes from Nature, a citizen science platform that connects museum collections with the…
"Wasps to Human Surgery: Inspiration From Nature", video created by Jessika Raisor (Columbus College of Art and Design) in collaboration with Huayan Chen and Luciana Musetti (Ohio…
Chen, H-y, Talamas, EJ, Masner, L, Johnson, NF (2018). Revision of the world species of the genus Chromoteleia Ashmead (Hymenoptera, Platygastridae, Scelioninae).
Please join us on Friday, July 20 from 2-4 pm in Aronoff 104 for poster presentations by the EEOB REU students. They have done fantastic work in their short time here!
Huayan Chen defended his PhD thesis on Monday, July 2, with a seminar entitle "Systematics and Evolution of the Superfamily Platygastroidea (Insecta: Hymenoptera)."
EEOB Professor and Museum of Biological Diversity Director, Meg Daly discusses the lifespan of a lobster with NBC 4. Read the article here.
EEOB Professor, Norm Johnson, and Triplehorn Insect Collection Curator, Luciana Musetti, had their work on parasitoid wasps featured on the front page of the May 14th Columbus Dispatch. Read the…
Reporter Marion Renault visited the Johnson Lab and the Triplehorn Insect Collection to learn about parasitoid wasps, a megadiverse group of fascinating and tremendously important insects that are…
Join us at the STEAM Factory for our newest core program, scheduled on the last Saturday of every month for a morning program for the whole family!
The first program on March 31, 10am - noon…
Join us for our new Book Trek program, a collaboration of the Museum of Biological Diversity and Orton Libraries. Each month we will discuss a book and you can ask scientists questions.
We…
Mussel pain: The crisis engulfing our freshwater molluscs
"Freshwater mussels are among the planet’s most endangered animals. Extreme conservation…
Chen, H-y, Talamas, EJ, Masner, L, Johnson, NF (2018). Revision of the world species of the genus Habroteleia Kieffer (Hymenoptera, Platygastridae, Scelioninae). ZooKeys…
We have reached the first big milestone in the LepNet project: the skipper butterfly specimens in the collection, 15,761 specimens to be precise, are now in our online database and freely…
We love collaborating with artists and this time the show featuring 16 sound files from our archive will be especially exciting as it takes place right after the peak of the (partial) solar…
The Fish Division under the lead of Brian Zimmerman and with a grant from ODNR is carrying out a project to survey the Muskingum river watershed for invasive fish species. Last Friday Marc Kibbey…
Lisa Miller, a Zoology major at OSU, now graduate with honors, did all the hard lab work for this study: supported by an NSF-REU grant she genotyped 285 blood samples collected from Puget Sound…
Fifteen participants (grades 6-8) of the Bug Summer camp visited our insect collection and DNA lab today.
On 3-May-2017 undergraduate student assistant Grant Terrell faciilitated a visit of 3rd graders to the Tetrapods collection.
Participants in the Mathematical Biosciences Institute summer undergraduate program visited the MBD on 7 June, 2017. Their first stop was in the herbarium where Dr. John Freudenstein showedd them…
Ohio State Ph.D. student Mael Glon is conducting a study on burrowing crayfishes. These crayfishes are adapted to life in habitats such as roadside ditches and vernal ponds that occasionally flood…
Ieva Roznere, now Postdoctoral researcher and visiting sceintist, studied for her PhD project "Health assessment of freshwater mussels using metabolomics". Ieva recently published some of her…
On May 1 Luciana Musetti, curator of the Triplehorn insect collection, and 11 other OSU staff members were honored with the Distinguished Staff Award for their remarkable accomplishments,…
The Triplehorn Insect Collection is featured in the May issue of the Columbus Monthly Magazine. The article, entitled 'Winging it at the Ohio State University', highlights the…
Dr. Luciana Musetti, Curator of the Triplehorn Insect Collection, has received the Distinguished Staff Award, Ohio State University's highest honor for…
Congratulations to Dr. Luciana Musetti, curator of the Triplehorn Insect collection, on winning the OSU Distinguished Staff Award! Lu is one of 12 individuals honored for her outstanding service,…
Ethan Calvert, undergraduate student researcher here at the Triplehorn Insect Collection & the Johnson Lab, presented a scientific poster at the prestigious Denman Undergraduate Research Forum on…
Nesheim KC, Masner L, Johnson NF (2017). The Phanuromyia galeata species group (Hymenoptera, Platygastridae, Telenominae): shining a lantern into an unexplored corner of…
Popovici, Vilhelmsen, Masner, Mikó & Johnson. (2017). Maxillolabial complex in scelionids (Hymenoptera: Platygastroidea): morphology and phylogenetic implications. Insect…
OSU undergraduate students in the mammalogy class taught by Bryan Carstens learned today about museum techniques in the MBD from collection manager Stephanie Malinich.
The students helped…
Chen H-y, Masner L, Johnson NF (2017). New World species of the genus Calliscelio Ashmead (Hymenoptera, Platygastridae, Scelioninae). ZooKeys 648: 1-136.
This new…
Tom Watters, curator of mollusks at the Ohio State Museum of Biodiversity, will hold a Mussel ID workshop at the 2017 symposium of the Freshwater Mollusk Conservation Society in Cleveland, OH…
Tom Watters, curator of mollusks at the Ohio State Museum of Biodiversity, gave a talk at the Annual Meeting of the Three Valley Conservation trust on January 28, 2017. Tom spoke about freshwater…
Angelika Nelson received a staff professional development grant to attend the 50th Annual Environmental Education Council of Ohio conference at Deer Creek State parl on April 6-9, 2017.
She…
Like every spring semester the Ohio Birds class is in full swing! 56 students are eager to learn about the life of birds and how to identify birds in the field. We use our museum specimens to take…
On January 13, 2017 a drawing class from the Columbus Cultural Arts Center worked with some of the more unique tetrapod specimens for varying media pieces.
THANK YOU everyone for your contribution to our fundraiser. We exceeded our goal of $5,500 and are getting ready to roll our extinct specimens to safety.
If you want to watch some of those…
Let’s make October the month of tetrapods. Think about the changes in the lives of these four-limbed creatures in fall as they prepare for a long cold period with limited access to food. Birds…
Let’s make October the month of tetrapods. Think about the changes in the lives of these four-limbed creatures in fall as they prepare for a long cold period with limited access to food.
Huyan Chen, graduate student in Norman Johnson's lab and collection associate, won the first prize on the Graduate Student Oral Competition: Morphology, Systematics, and Phylogeny:…
Staff and students associated with the Triplehorn collection attended the 2016 Entomological Collections Network & the International Congress of Entomology in Orlando, Florida.
In antecipation of the emergence of the 17-year cicadas of Brood V here in Ohio, The Columbus Dispatch came to visit the Triplehorn Insect Collection to see what other species of cicadas are known…
Dr. Luciana Musetti, Curator in the Triplehorn Insect Collection, has been awarded an Outstanding Staff Award by the College of Arts and Sciences. She is one of six individuals college-wide who…
The Museum of Biological Diversity at Ohio State and its amazing specimens were featured in the Columbus Dispatch today.
The article includes a very nice video of the scientists and…
Recent publication by Dr. Watters, Curator of the Division of Molluscs at the Museum of Biological Diversity.
Watters, G.T. 2016. A new species of
Recent publication by Dr. Watters, Curator of the Division of Molluscs at the Museum of Biological Diversity.
Watters, G.T. 2016. The Abbottella moreletiana
A recent publication from the Johnson Systemarics Lab documents thirteen new species of egg parasitoid wasp of the genus Oxyscelio (Insecta: Hymenoptera: Platygastridae)
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On October 15th the Triplehorn Insect Collection received the David Parshall Butterfly Collection, a gift of over 50,000 pinned specimens, plus many thousands more preserved in envelopes. This is…
Museums around the globe, including at Ohio State University, are trying to harness the power of digital technology to make available collections that have long lay dormant on shelves and in dusty…
The purpose of the museum blog is to share with the community the happenings, news, and successes (and sometimes failures) of the research collections (herbarium, ticks & mites, insects, molluscs,…
The work of curatorial staff and volunteers of the Triplehorn Insect Collection is featured in the Columbus Dispatch article 'Making a dent in the backlog: Volunteers help catalog specimens in…
Citizen scientists tracking Ohio bumblebees: Curator Luciana Musetti is featured in an article in the Columbus Dispatch ‘Nature’s barometer’ facing challenges, possibly due to…
Taxonomic research is crucial for the early detection of invasive species and the rapid development and deployment of effective biological control programs. The publication by Talamas, Johnson &…
Stephanie Malinich and Rebecca Price have been preparing bird specimens for the museum collection all autumn. If you are interested in learning this skill or would like to watch them prepare a…
The Triplehorn Insect Collection specimen digitization effort is featured in the Columbus Dispatch.
"Digital images allow collections to share specimens with researchers around the…
All of the Ohio State University Herbarium's specimens from Ohio have been imaged and databased and are available online.
This project was made possible by funding from the National…