Research at the Yale Peabody Museum

Overseen by a board of curators from the Yale University faculty, the exceptional collections of the Yale Peabody Museum are at the heart of University teaching, the interdisciplinary studies of researchers from around the world, and Museum exhibitions that communicate the importance and excitement of studying the earth’s history and diversity. There are more than 11 million specimens and objects held by the Museum’s 11 curatorial divisions, less than 1% of which can be displayed to the public at any given time.

Current Research

The George Gaylord Simpson Prize
An annual award for a paper on evolution and the fossil record
Current recipients

Peabody Scientists Assemble the Tree of Life

Fall 2004, Yale Environmental News 10(1):10–12.

The Peabody Museum Home to the Trichoplax Genome Project

Spring 2004, Yale Environmental News 9(2):8.

Recent Acquisitions in the Peabody’s Division
of Invertebrate Paleontology

Susan Butts. Fall 2004, Yale Environmental News 10(1):9.

A Remarkable Fossil Discovery

Derek Briggs. Spring 2004, Yale Environmental News 9(2):7.

Early Evolution of the Cacti

Erika Edwards. Fall 2004, Yale Environmental News 10(1):14.

The Complexities of Siphonophores

Casey Dunn. Fall 2004, Yale Environmental News 10(1):17.

Mesoamerican Archaeologist Canuto Joins Anthropology Department and the Peabody Museum of Natural History

Spring 2004, Yale Environmental News 9(2):6.

Ornithologist Joins the Department of the Ecology & Evolutionary Biology and the Peabody Museum of Natural History

Spring 2004, Yale Environmental News 9(2):4–5.

Current Projects

ORNIS

Reed S. Beaman. Fall 2004, Yale Environmental News 10(1):14.

Ornithological and Herpetological Explorations in the Equatorial Guinea

Kristof Zyskowski. Fall 2003, Yale Environmental News 9(1):10–13.

HERBIS Is the Erudite Recorded Botanical Information Synthesizer

Reed S. Beaman, Nico Cellinese and Michael Donoghue. Spring 2004, Yale Environmental News 9(2):14.

Peabody Museum Caught in HerpNET

Gregory J. Watkins-Colwell and Reed S. Beaman. Fall 2003, Yale Environmental News 9(1):15.

Climatic Change and Human Evolution

Andrew Hill. Fall 2003, Yale Environmental News 9(1):16–17.

Georeferencing: Finding a Place for Natural History Collections

Reed S. Beaman. Fall 2003, Yale Environmental News 9(1):17.

Online Databases

Yale Peabody Museum Collections
http://research.yale.edu/peabody/COLLECTIONS/

BioGeoMancer
http://www.biogeomancer.org

The Connecticut Butterfly Atlas Project
http://www.peabody.yale.edu/collections/ent/ent_cbap.html

Geographic Names Information System (GNIS)
http://research.yale.edu/peabody/COLLECTIONS/gnis/

HERBIS
http://www.herbis.org

ORNIS
http://ornisnet.org/

Paleoportal
http://www.paleoportal.org

TOLKIN
http://www.tolkin.org/

For Information

Tim White
Assistant Director
for Collections and Operations
203.432.3767
Fax 203.432.9816
tim.white@yale.edu

The Yale Peabody Museum’s collections are available to legitimate researchers for scholarly use. Loans are issued to responsible individuals at established institutions. Loans and access to the collection can be arranged through the Collections Manager of the appropriate Division.

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