Holiday Gift Guides: For the Scientist
It’s that time of year again–holiday shopping can be stressful under normal circumstances, but this year social distancing and venturing out to a busy store add another curveball. That’s why this year, we at the Museum of the Earth have created a gift guide for you to ease away that holiday stress.
This week’s featured gift guide, “For the Scientists”, includes some of our favorite items that are perfect for the geologist, biologist, or paleontologist in your life. Or anyone who just likes dinosaurs and the earth!
Up first is “The Ends of the World: Volcanic Apocalypses, Lethal Oceans, and Our Quest to Understand Earth's Past Mass Extinctions”, by Peter Brannen.
Part road trip, part history, and part cautionary tale, The Ends of the World takes us on a tour of the ways that our planet has clawed itself back from the grave, and casts our future in a completely new light.
This book takes us inside “scenes of the crime,” from South Africa to the New York Palisades, to tell the story of each extinction. Brannen examines the fossil record—which is rife with creatures like dragonflies the size of sea gulls and guillotine-mouthed fish—and introduces us to the researchers on the front lines who, using the forensic tools of modern science, are piecing together what really happened at the crime scenes of the Earth’s biggest whodunits.
| $17.95
This pint glass features the famous naturalist, geologist, and biologist best known for his contributions to the science of evolution. Raise a glass to Charles Darwin! Perfect for collecting specimens from breweries the world over, select your favorite beverage, and say ‘cheers’ to this Hero of Science!
Notebooks | $14.05
These pocket notebooks will find themselves at home or in the field with you, wherever your research might lead. Record your paleontological findings, make notes on today's peculiar cloud formations, or record data on the sheet of schist you've just unearthed.
Each notebook has a different type of inside pages: (Lined, Graph, Dot Grid, and Blank), so pick the one that's right for today's field notes and you're ready for your next adventure.
Trilobites crawled along the bottom of shallow seas for around 300 million years, from the beginning of the Cambrian Period to the end of the Permian Period. The name “trilobite” means “three lobes.” They were an ancient kind of arthropod, the group that includes insects, spiders, and crustaceans.
Greenops boothi is a trilobite found in the Devonian Period marine rocks of Central and Western New York. Our version is playfully colored green, but in fact Greenops is named after the 19th century paleontologist Jacob Green.