Attention all fun seekers: Shark Fest is happening this Saturday from 10 am to 1 pm at Museum of the Earth!!! Hope you can join us for a chompin' good time!🦈

Happy Tuesday! We are pleased to announce that Museum of the Earth recently had a live camera feed of our Hyde Park Mastodon installed by Earth Cam! Check out the live feed here: https://mastocam.priweb.org And learn more about our mastodon here: https://www.priweb.org/blog-post/hyde-park-mastodon

Join us for our weekly Tree Buds phenology walk today at 3 pm at the Cayuga Nature Center! Rain or shine, Dr. Ingrid Zabel (our Climate Change Education Manager) will teach folks about the mechanisms behind seasonal changes and how they are influenced by a changing climate. 🌲🍃

Meet Abigail MacAlpine, one of our newest interns! Abigail focuses on harmful algal blooms (HABs) education. Experiment with her miniature “watershed,” create runoff of nutrients and pollution, and test solutions to help protect the lake next time you're at the Museum!

It's that time again! Come to TCPL's BorgWarner room tonight at 5 pm to see our very own Director of Outreach, Rob Ross, in a hands-on program exploring dinosaurs and other amazing ancient vertebrates from the Mesozoic Era. See you there!

It's BioBlitz time again! Join us for this summer's edition from today to Monday. Here's the project page: https://ow.ly/If3Y50ZsmSS As a special addition, we will be leading a guided discovery hike this Saturday, July 25 at 10 am in Dotson Park, Danby, NY. Hope to see you there!

Thank you for coming to our fossil collecting trip last Saturday! If you weren't able to make it this time, we'll have another one on August 29th near Schoharie, NY. Register here: https://ow.ly/7YVj50Zs8r6 Hope you can join us!

Our Museum has a deep commitment to making it possible for anyone to visit us. One such program that supports this mission is YNAP (Young Naturalist Access Program), which provides young people (under the age of 17) who face difficult circumstances with a free one-year membership.

We have another full day of events going on today! Join us for our weekly Tree Buds phenology walk at 3 pm at the Cayuga Nature Center. After that, come see PRI's own Rob Ross teach folks about the Hyde Park Mastodon at 5 pm in TCPL's BorgWarner Room. See your there!

Come to our first fossil hunting trip of the year this Saturday from 11 am to 2 pm! We'll meet near Sheds, NY (~1 hour from Ithaca), and all tools will be provided. To register, please fill out this form: https://forms.gle/VLp5PsHsF1E1VypW9 For more info, please contact Rob Ross: ross@priweb.org

Ithaca folks: Please stay inside as much as you can due to the poor air quality! Read all about the wildfire smoke in Ithaca in our new blog post (https://www.priweb.org/blog-post/smoke-aqi), and make sure to visit Museum of the Earth this week, where you can live footloose and smoke free! 🔥🌲

We have 3 events going on today that you won't want to miss! 1: Mask Monday, 10 am to 5 pm @ Museum of the Earth 2: Tree Buds Phenology Walk, 3 pm @ Cayuga Nature Center 3: Unearth a Story - Family Fossil Adventure, 5 to 6 pm @ TCPL (BorgWarner Room) See you there!

We are excited to announce that our very own Dr. Ingrid Zabel will be speaking about what we can all do about climate change for the "Unearth a Story" summer reading series run by the Tompkins County Public Library! Come see her presentation tonight from 6-7 pm in the BorgWarner Room East at TCPL.

Enjoy the rainy Ithaca weather at Museum of the Earth this Saturday and Sunday, where we will be hosting a pay-what-you-wish weekend sponsored by BorgWarner! When registering for a ticket, you will be able to choose from a donation range as your admission price. See you there!

MUSEUM OF THE EARTH CLOSURE: We will be closed tomorrow (July 2) and Friday (July 3) due to extreme heat. We'll be back on Saturday! 🥵☀️

Following up on yesterday's post, here are some photos of our evening PRI-de in the Pub event! It was a gay old time!!! 🌈✨🏳️‍🌈 Also, here is a link to the entire panel discussion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vaWr_klKtdw

Thank you for coming to our yearly Natural Queeriosity PRI-de event! Here are some photos of the morning's events:

Thank you to Tompkins Weekly for a wonderful feature article about this Friday's PRI-de event at the Museum! Family-friendly craft event from 10-1, pub lecture from 7-9. Come and bring a friend!!!

Thank you to Beginnings Credit Union for supporting this year's Natural Queeriosity event at Museum of the Earth! Stop by the Museum this Friday, June 26th at 7 pm for a killer climate science panel, with some local wine and beer to boot. Free entry, cash bar. See you there!

Happy Summer Solstice!!! This evening, Museum of the Earth will have Sensory Friendly Hours from 5 to 7 pm, which gives visitors with Sensory Processing Disorder (or other developmental disabilities) an opportunity to enjoy a more sensory-friendly Museum experience.

SAVE THE DATE: 1 week from tomorrow, Museum of the Earth will be joining the Sciencenter and the History Center in a friendly, exercise-based fundraising competition called Move for Museums! Register here: https://charity.pledgeit.org/moveformuseums/teams/@museum-of-the-earth

No pub lecture would be complete without drinks! Come and taste local wine and beer from our drink sponsors, Treleaven Wines and Liquid State Brewing Company, at our pride celebration on June 26th at 7 pm!!! 🌈🍺🍷

This week's Tree Buds Phenology Walk is CANCELLED. Sorry for the inconvenience, but we'll hopefully see you next week!

Meet Jeff White, one of the presenters on our Natural Queeriosity panel. Dr. Jeff White is an avian ecologist specializing in penguins and other seabirds of the Southern Ocean. Learn more about his research on Friday, June 26th at 7 pm at the Museum! No cover charge, cash bar, donations accepted.

Hello beautiful fossil-heads! Did you find a rock in your backyard that you think might be a fossil? We're here to help! Bring it in on Saturday if you want a hand with identifying it. Dr. Maureen Bickley will be working in the Prep Lab and is happy to assist you! 🪨🦴🦖

Come to Danby this Saturday, June 13th to learn to ID trees with a good friend of PRI's, Dr. Marvin Pritts! Please wear appropriate footwear and bring water. The meeting spot will be emailed out closer to the day. $20 or PWYC Register here: https://ccetompkins.wufoo.com/forms/m1ldb3t612v62zf/

Thank you for coming to World Ocean Day on Sunday! Special thanks to the visitors and volunteers for helping start our 2026 World Ocean Day quilt (and to Dr. Maureen Bickley for making the quilt itself)!!

As always come to the Cayuga Nature Center today at 3 pm for a Tree Buds Phenology Walk hosted by Ingrid Zabel! Get out and enjoy the fantastic weather this afternoon and find some new "buds"! 🌳🌲🍃

Today, and every 2nd Monday of the month, is Mask Monday at the Museum! We recognize that some guests may feel more comfortable visiting the museum while others wear masks. Your safety is our top priority - see you with your masks on! 😷

SAVE THE DATE: Pride @ the Museum will be on June 26th! 10 am to 1 pm: Pride-themed button making, flag making, and scavenger hunt. 7 to 9 pm: Pub-style lecture, featuring a panel of four LGBTQ+ climate/environmental scientists: Jasmine Dillon, Morgan Irons, Jason Londo, and Jeff White.