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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…

Six people standing in front of exhibit display about freshwater mussels

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…

Marc Kibbey holding a Fish

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…

Mussel conservation flyer for March 24, 2021 event

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…

Carpenter bee

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…

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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,…

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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…

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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:/…

picture of a bird specimen next to a ruler

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…

Volunteer holding a stick insect during the 2014 Museum Open House

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…

Megalolaelaps

The biology of Megalolaelaps colossus (Acari: Dermanyssina)

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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…

jewel mudbug

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…

Ardine Nelson photography

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…

Mael Glon holding crayfish

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.

portion of Nelson's photo of a few specimens from Triplehorn Collection

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 …

bryan carstens

The National Science Foundation has awarded a grant to Bryan Carstens & Tara Pelletier for a project titled "Aggregating and Repurposing Phylogeographic Data". This project…

Heather Glon

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…

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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…

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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…

Hans Klompen

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American Burying Beetle

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…

Rachelle Adams sitting at desk

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…