Founded: 1894
Full Time: 5
Part Time: 3
Budget: 396,000.00
Director: Henry L. Bart, Jr.
Museum of Natural History
Belle Chasse, LA 70037
Telephone: 504/394-1711 FAX: 504/394-5045 E-Mail: hank@museum.tulane.edu
Web site: www.museum.tulane.edu
Research Areas:
The museum comprises nationally and internationally significant collections of fishes, amphibians, reptiles, mammals, decapod crustaceans, and vascular plants. Studies involving specimens in the Museum are presently ongoing in all of these areas.
Areas of Expertise:
Collections in the Museum serve as research resources for scientific study of taxonomy, systematics, ecology, natural history, and conservation of plants and animals.
Special Capabilities and Facilities:
The aquatic biota of the southeastern United States (freshwater and marine) is highly represented in the Museum, including a high degree of standardized, repetitive sampling of fixed stations over long periods of time (periods of 25 years in some instances). As a consequence, collections in the Museum--especially the fishes--are uniquely suited for a wide range of ecological and environmental studies (e.g., studies of life history variation, population and environmental monitoring, ecotoxicology). The Director is an ecologist by training.
Research Equipment:
("s" indicates shared equipment)
High speed, local-area computing network(s)
Geographic Information System computing equipment and software(s)
Keywords:
0309000 History
1002063 Taxonomy, Animal
1002064 Taxonomy, Plant
1002022 Ichthylogy
1002020 Herpetology
1002031 Ornithology
1002026 Mammology
1002047 Zoology
1002013 Botany
1002123 Synecology
1002005 Biology, Conservation