Understanding and Sustaining a Biodiverse Planet

Chequea esto! is a bilingual animation resource of The Smithsonian Latino Virtual Museum (LVM), an immersive education initiative, which focuses on Latino youth and STEM careers via mobile outreach. This beta version was produced under a Smithsonian Youth Access Grant (YAG) and compliments the adventure quest game Mi Tierra, Mi Mundo which serves to highlight Smithsonian research and resources focused on exploring culture and the environment and the sustainability of both.

Chequea esto! is a bilingual animation resource of The Smithsonian Latino Virtual Museum (LVM), an immersive education initiative, which focuses on Latino youth and STEM careers via mobile outreach. This beta version was produced under a Smithsonian Youth Access Grant (YAG) and compliments the adventure quest game Mi Tierra, Mi Mundo which serves to highlight Smithsonian research and resources focused on exploring culture and the environment and the sustainability of both.

Woodrow Wilson “Woody” Guthrie (1912-67) was one of the most important folk composers in American history. This podcast features rare outtakes and stories from Smithsonian archivist Jeff Place give new meaning to the life and music of American folk icon Woody Guthrie and his relationship with Folkways Records.

Genus level guide to the corals of the Western Indian Ocean Created by: Jen Hammock

This field guide is intended to provide information on all the frogs and toads (members of the order Anura) whose ranges include part or all of the Washington, D.C. Metropolitan Area (which covers the District of Columbia and parts of Maryland, Virginia, and West Virginia). You might find these amphibians in a variety of habitats from woodland streams to suburban gardens. Created by: Noah Weisz

The red knot is a tiny shorebird that undertakes a mind-boggling migration from the tip of South America all the way to the Arctic Circle. One of the few stops on that marathon journey is the Delaware Bay, an estuary that offers a banquet for migrating birds. Here, for some 20,000 years, red knots have flocked by the thousands to fuel their journey. But humans may be writing a tragic ending to this extraordinary evolutionary success story, unless biologists armed with an unusual tool can win a race against time.

Follow researchers Candy Feller and Dennis Whigham as they scramble, climb, crawl, and creep through the tangled roots of a mangrove forest. Along the way, learn what’s threatening these unique ecosystems where the ocean meets the land. Studying these flooded forests is a challenge, but pursuing science in this strange landscape has its own rewards.

Detailed accounts of the orders of birds of North America complete with lovely, full color illustrations.

In three parts, comprising I. Mammalia : II. Birds : Part III. Reptiles, amphibia, fishes, insects, worms, molluscs, zoophytes, &c. : with 91 coloured plates, including about 850 figures, and numerous adapted from the German of Professor von Schubert by W.F. Kirby.

Westwood's new edition of Dru Drury's 18th C. essential work on entomology.

A detailed account of the North American dinosaurs of the Mesozoic era

The atlas of plates illustrating the 'scientific results of the German Deepsea Expedition on board the steamship "Valdivia" 1898-1899’.

The first volume of a preeminent American publication on natural history, travel, and sport, illustrated and published by Thomas Doughty.