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Science Spotlight: How to Help a Scientist Find a New Species

Presented by Harvard Museums of Science and Culture and Harvard Museum of Natural History at Harvard Museum of Natural History, Cambridge MA

Mar 16 2024
Science Spotlight: How to Help a Scientist Find a New Species

Join Thalles P. Lavinscky Pereira, PhD., a Biodiversity Fellow in the Farrell Lab, to learn how residents in Alaska helped him discover and describe a new species of snakeworm gnat and learn how you, too, can participate in the scientific process.

Scientists estimate that there are over 7.5 million species of plants and animals that have yet to be discovered and described. But in a world where extinction may outpace discovery, how can citizen scientists get involved?

Join Thalles P. Lavinscky Pereira, PhD., a Biodiversity Fellow in the Farrell Lab, to learn how residents in Alaska helped him discover and describe a new species of snakeworm gnat and learn how you, too, can participate in the scientific process.

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Scientists estimate that there are over 7.5 million species of plants and animals that have yet to be discovered and described. But in a world where extinction may outpace discovery, how can citizen scientists get involved?

Join Thalles P. Lavinscky Pereira, PhD., a Biodiversity Fellow in the Farrell Lab, to learn how residents in Alaska helped him discover and describe a new species of snakeworm gnat and learn how you, too, can participate in the scientific process.

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