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MEET A DINOSAUR: The Burke Museum will host its annual Dinosaur Day from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, March 2, with plenty of hands-on activities for the whole family. You’ll be able to see plant and insect fossils from 50-million-year-old Eocene deposits in Eastern Washington, peer over scientists’ shoulders as they excavate fossil bone from rock and look at the Burke’s fossil collection. Members of the Northwest Paleontological Association will be there too, displaying their collections and chatting with visitors.
CLIMATE COUP: Cecilia Bitz, a scientist with the Applied Physics Laboratory’s Polar Science Center, has won the 2002 Community Climate System Model (CCSM) Distinguished Achievement Award. Bitz developed a state-of-the-art physical-numerical sea ice model that is fully coupled with a global climate model. The award is given by the CCSM Science Steering Committee.
PHOTO HISTORY: Nicolette Bromberg, curator of photography and graphics at UW Libraries, is the proud author of the newly published Wisconsin Then and Now, a book of photographs that places historical scenes next to similar contemporary ones. Bromberg was the director of the Sesquicentennial Rephotography Project in Wisconsin and formerly was the curator of the Visual Materials Archive at the Wisconsin Historical Society.
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