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Museum data and photo archives reveal shifting climate
2015-12-04 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
SciDevNet: Most scientists turn to conventional data sources when analysing climate change meteorological stations and satellite data, for example. Scientists at Boston University, United States, have been taking a very different approach. Theyve been digging into centuries of data from diverse sources: museum collections, photographic archives and the diaries of field naturalists, among others. Nineteenth-century naturalists such as Henry David Thoreau minutely recorded the ecological events they saw...
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