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Academy of Natural Sciences
JANUARY 17, 2025
Written by Mark Sabaj, PhD, Curator of Ichthyology Our story begins in the year 1878 with the birth of Henry Weed Fowler in Holmesburg, a village on the right bank of the Delaware River that had been incorporated into Philadelphia twenty-four years earlier.
Academy of Natural Sciences
JANUARY 12, 2023
By collecting specimens of uncommon birds on both banks of the Roosevelt River, they found evidence that different bird species may be nearly identical on either bank of a river, but their genetics suggest they are divergent. Populations on the east bank have a gray throat, whereas populations on the west bank have a black throat.
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Academy of Natural Sciences
AUGUST 9, 2021
The Academy and Philadelphia clothier United By Blue are joining forces and calling for community participation in a partnership aimed at removing trash and debris from the banks and trail system around Cobbs Creek in West Philadelphia. On Saturday, Aug. 21 from 9 a.m.
Academy of Natural Sciences
JULY 30, 2021
As a city located at the bottom of two large watersheds and between two tidally influenced rivers, Philadelphia is already vulnerable to flooding from creeks and rivers overtopping their banks.
Academy of Natural Sciences
MARCH 16, 2022
We initially did some work in Africa on issues about energy access, and we will follow with a deep dive in South Africa, working with South Africa’s leadership; there are opportunities to bring the capabilities of both faculty and students to work with the World Bank.
Environmental Science
AUGUST 17, 2018
As an applied science, it can take many years of trial and error to work out a mathematical solution - that is as true for building a mine as it is for calculating the distance between our planet and other planetary bodies, and for technology as it is for finance investment. Why is Mathematics Important to Science? Sponsored Content.
Academy of Natural Sciences
APRIL 14, 2022
Built on the banks of the river and powered by the flow of the water itself, the Water Works pumped thousands of gallons of water up to the large reservoir, now the site of the Art Museum. Written by Roland Wall, Director of the Patrick Center for Environmental Research at the Academy of Natural Sciences.
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