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Photo Gallery: Rural Alaska Honors Institute Tour

Alaska Public Media | By Museum of the North
Published August 10, 2011 at 2:42 PM AKDT

Students from the Rural Alaska Honors Institute toured the museum on Friday, July 15. Operation manager Kevin May, genomic resources specialist Aren Gunderson and many of the museum's technicians showed off the labs and parts of the collection that most people don't get to see.

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Exploring the frozen tissue collection in the Genomic Resources storage facility, one...

RAHI students listen closely.

Reaching into the deep freeze.

A tower of specimens.

Watching the ice fog.

Aren Gunderson pulls out one of the more than 160,000 tissue samples archived in the ...

Introducing the mammal lab.

A closer look at a skull.

Marmots

Eyeballs and other specimens in the mammal lab.

A closer look.

The mammal collection includes extensive chronological series of carnivores, shrews, ...

Introducing ARCTOS, the database for museums.

Moving into the collection storage stacks.

A look at mammal specimens in storage.

Lots of shelves and drawers and doors.

This ichthyosaur specimen sat in the Brooks Range for almost 210 million years before...

Moving into the Ice Age mammal collection.

Walking among the fossils of the museum's paleontology collection, which houses both ...

Squeezing into the stacks.

Specimens from the earth science collection, including minerals and gems from Alaska ...

Exploring the entomology lab and the insect collection, the northern-most facility of...

A vial-full of entomology specimens.

Look what we found at Toolik Lake! That's where the RAHI students were headed next.

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The University of Alaska Museum of the North is a popular visitor attraction, a vital component of the university and the only research and teaching museum in Alaska. The museum’s collection – 1.4 million artifacts and specimens – represents millions of years of biological diversity and thousands of years of cultural traditions. The collections are organized into 10 disciplines (archaeology, birds, documentary film, earth sciences, ethnology, fine arts, fishes, insects, mammals, and plants) and serve as a resource for research on climate change, contaminants and other issues facing the circumpolar North.

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