July 2017

Expedition to Mt. Auburn

Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is renowned as an urban wildlife habitat.  Though it is especially famous for its birds, this summer an aquatic species has attracted attention.  A spectacular bloom of bryozoan Pectinatella magnifica is now in progress in Willow Pond.  Librarian Mary Sears joined graduate students from Harvard's Museum of Comparative Zoology and Prof. Abigail Smith of the University of... Read more about Expedition to Mt. Auburn