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How you can help
The new Center for Biodiversity and Ecosystems draws upon and enhances the museum’s existing diverse scientific specialties by encouraging collaborations with many other partnering institutions. The Center will create interdisciplinary research and educational projects that address some of the most pressing scientific questions of our time: questions regarding changes to the environment—past, present, and future—and how these changes affect life on Earth. Give today and help the museum inspire new discoveries in science—for our region, and for the world. Learn more about how you can support Carnegie Museum of Natural History as a Member, as part of the Carnegie Discoverers program, or with an individual donation. Or, take the Laurel Foundation challenge! The Laurel Foundation will match your adoption donation dollar for dollar, up to a total of $20,000! Photos: (Left) magnolia warbler and (right) sharp-shinned hawk banded at Powdermill Nature Reserve |
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In the fifty years since the museum's banding station was founded, more than half a million birds have been banded, with data on those birds informing discussions on today’s toughest environmental issues such as climate change, habitat loss, and population change.
As one of the best natural history museums in America, Carnegie Museum of Natural History plays a unique role in our region. Supporting the museum helps provide educational and cultural programming for our region; it creates the exhibitions families love to visit together; and it maintains the research and collections that make critical contributions to scientific understanding of life. Today the bird research programs at Powdermill Nature Reserve form an integral part of the Center for Biodiversity and Ecosystems, launched in January 2011 by Carnegie Museum of Natural History.