My interest in science and conservation began on an island surrounded by the blue waters of the Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean Sea. I spent my weekends hiking, camping, and cave exploring, and developed an interest in the ocean while getting SCUBA-certified. This led me to pursue a degree in Marine Sciences at the University of Florida. At the time, I had little direction for my academic and professional future. This changed in my sophomore year, when I took a brand-new course titled Introduction to Natural History Museums, created and taught by Adania Flemming. I knew about museums before t ..read more

My name is Adania Flemming, M.Sc. I founded BlackInNHMs because I was disenfranchised by the endless supportive statements followed by a lack of action from Natural history museums in response to the 2020 Black Lives Matter Movement. I was also tired of hearing “Black people were not interested in Natural History”. BlackInNHMs, will launch its first initiative as a social media platform on Oct 17-23rd. Currently we have a dynamic and diverse organizational team planning this event. During the event, we hope to grow our network of Black professionals working in NHMs. We have an interim board a ..read more

JC Buckner (Postdoc) discusses what it is like being a postdoc at a Natural History Museum. #BINHMs #BehindTheScenes #BINHMBehindTheScenes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0MWsnjl14s ..read more

Sheree Carter-Galvan (Senior Vice President, Lawyer and General Council) and Jessica Ware discuss what it is like working as a Senior Vice President, Lawyer and General Council at a Natural History Museum #BINHMs #BehindTheScenes #BINHMBehindTheScenes https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FK6Xdo1IooY ..read more

We held our second community conversations on Thursday March 8th from 11am to 12:30pm. During this event, Laymon Ball and Janet Mansaray shared their research with the public. Afterward, we held a discussion for Black folks only. During this conversation, board members of BiNHMs will lead a discussion on “How to find mentors or support as members of the African diaspora working within or adjacent to museums ..read more

He/Him/His Place of Work: Museu de História Natural da Bahia, Brazil Areas of Study: Research, Collections and Loans About: I am an Oceanographer with a PhD in Zoology from the University of Hawaii at Manoa and currently work as an Assistant Professor of Zoology from the Federal University of Bahia in Brazil and as a curator of Echinodermata from the Museu de Historia Natural da Bahia. I work with taxonomy and ecology of marine annelids and echinoderms ..read more

Place of Work: Yale Peabody Museum (formerly formally, pre-pandemic) Areas of Study: Collections and Loans About: During my early undergrad years (2015 to 2017) I formally worked in the Peabody's Vertebrate Paleontology collection, doing cataloguing, reorganizing, inventory, and loan retrieval of fossils for the most part. I occasionally also helped visiting researchers complete projects, like finding fossils in the collections and preparing a working space, and my ongoing/pending work on theropod teeth (as seen in my picture). Upon returning to school in late 2019 I became a tour guide for th ..read more

Place of Work: Florida Museum of Natural History Areas of Study: Paleobiology, Marine Conservation About: Hello all! I currently work at Florida Museum of Natural History as a Graduate Research Assistant in the Department of Invertebrate Paleontology-- studying the field of Marine Conservation Paleobiology as of May 2021. And although I am currently working towards figuring out my thesis I am working on a few smaller studies until I figure out what I want to focus on. One most notably being possible changes in health and predation of Transennella mollusk species and their environment over time ..read more

What is STARS? The University of California, San Diego Summer Training Academy for Research Success (STARS) program is an eight-week summer research academy for community college students, undergraduate students, recent college graduates, and masters students. Open to all disciplines, STARS offers student participants a rigorous research opportunity with esteemed UC San Diego faculty, informative transfer and graduate school preparation workshops, and educational, cultural, and social activities in sunny San Diego. Students will: Gain hands-on research experience with a faculty mentor's resea ..read more

About Director of Education & Programs: This leadership position is part of a structure that aligns museum resources around visitor engagement and experience, and elevates Education within the institution overall. This position is responsible for developing and delivering nationally-innovative programs and content aligned with the needs of visitors, the public, schools and state curricula. The Director of Education is responsible for leading Education in the development of a suite of innovative, effective, and compelling programs and educational offerings that attracts, retains, and engage ..read more