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SUMMARY:Science Talk! Marshall Boyd\, VMNH: What’s in a Name? How Taxonomy Fuels Museums
DESCRIPTION:We’re kicking off the series on Tuesday\, September 16th with Marshall Boyd\, Research & Collections Technician at the Virginia Museum of Natural History. \nHis talk is titled What’s in a Name? How Taxonomy Fuels the World of Museums. \nTopic: Taxonomy (the science of naming\, describing\, and classifying organisms into\ngroups based on shared characteristics) plays a key role helping scientists in museums\nto categorize specimens in order to study the relationship between each described\ngroup. Many names within taxonomy come from describing the specimen itself using\nphysical attributes\, the habitat in which it lives\, etc. It could even be named after the\npeople who discovered it! This presentation will give just a small step into the world of\nnatural history museums\, the collections from behind the scenes\, and the work that\ngoes into describing a new species. \nSpeaker: Marshall Boyd is a Research and Collections Technician at the Virginia\nMuseum of Natural History in Martinsville\, VA. He has a long background in biology\nstarting from an early age\, always having a passion for the outside world and a\nconstant curiosity about everything concerning zoology (the scientific study of animals).\nMarshall studied forest birds as a master’s student at Salisbury University earning his\ndegree in 2015. Later he was an adjunct faculty member for local Maryland community\ncolleges before discovering his passion for natural history museum work at the\nSmithsonian Museum of Natural History in Washington\, D.C. Marshall worked within the\nInvertebrate Zoology department for several years where he fueled his interests in\nzoology\, eventually leading him to his current position at the Virginia Museum of Natural\nHistory. Marshall has become a part of the team at VMNH working alongside the\ncurators and other technicians for education and outreach\, assisting in the constant\ncare for museum collections\, and working with the executive staff to help shape the\nfuture of VMNH. \n \nIf you missed our last Science Talk of the Spring 2025 season\, Revitalizing an EPA Brownfield: South River Preserve and Rockfish Run with Stormwater Engineer Jessica Slagle of the Timmons Group\, you can find the video and all our past Science Talks on the Virginia Museum of Natural History YouTube Channel. \n 
URL:https://southriverwatershed.org/event/science-talk-marshall-boyd-vmnh-whats-in-a-name-how-taxonomy-fuels-museums/
LOCATION:The Wayne Theatre\, 521 West Main Street\, Waynesboro\, Virginia\, 22980
CATEGORIES:Featured,Science Talks
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ORGANIZER;CN="Virginia Museum of Natural History":MAILTO:information@vmnh.virginia.gov
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