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    <pubDate>Mon, 23 Nov 2009 08:00:00 EST</pubDate> 
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  NYSGS TO PLAY KEY ROLE IN NATIONAL GEOTHERMAL ENERGY SEARCH]]></title>
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  ALBANY - As part of a nationwide  project to identify and assess new sources of renewable geothermal energy that  could help mitigate global warming, the New York State Geological Survey (NYSGS)  has received a $280,000 federal grant to collect data that will help scientists  to better understand the potential for geothermal resources  in New York State.
Energy Secretary Stephen  Chu has announced awards totaling $338 million for geothermal energy research  across the country that includes the  ...]]></description>
        <pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 08:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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  NYS MUSEUM TO HOST CHOCOLATE EXPO, HOLIDAY GIFT MARKET DEC. 6]]></title>
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  ALBANY - Shoppers  can sample chocolate treats, listen to holiday carolers and purchase  hand-crafted gifts from more than 40 vendors at the New York State   Museum's fourth annual Chocolate  Expo & Holiday Gift Market on Sunday, December 6. 
The Expo,  from 11 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., will offer samples and sales of chocolates, desserts,  wines and specialty foods. Vendors  from New York State  and New England will also sell a variety of hand-crafted  jewelry, glassware, ornaments, handmade bath and ...]]></description>
        <pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 08:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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  Noted Historian to Speak Nov. 19 at NYS Museum]]></title>
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  ALBANY, NY - Nationally-known  historian Kenneth T. Jackson will   present a lecture on "The Future of History in New York State" on  Thursday, November 19 at the New York State Museum. 

One of the country's leading scholars  in American history, Jackson will address New York State's powerful and unique, but largely  unheralded role in American history in a free public lecture at 7 p.m. in the  Huxley Theater. 
Jackson has for years championed the  importance and excitement of New    York St ...]]></description>
        <pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 08:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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  MASTODON TUSK MAY BE LARGEST EVER UNCOVERED IN NYS]]></title>
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  ALBANY, N.Y.   - Research under way at the New York  State Museum  indicates that a huge mastodon tusk, recently excavated by Museum scientists in  Orange County,  may be the largest tusk ever found in New York State.

              The nearly complete but fragmented tusk,  measuring more than 9 feet long, was one of two excavated this past summer in  the Black Dirt area of Orange County at the confluence of Tunkamoose Creek and  the Wallkill River, on the property of Lester Lain of Westtown.  ...]]></description>
        <pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 08:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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  NYS MUSEUM'S HALLOWEEN EVENTS BEGIN OCT. 24]]></title>
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  ALBANY - This year's Hudson-Fulton-Champlain  Quadricentennial celebration provided inspiration for the New    York State Museum's 8th annual "Haunted  Museum of Unnatural History - the 1609 Quadricenterror."

      The "Haunted   Museum" will be open  October 24 and 25 from 11 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., October 30 from 6 to 10 p.m.  and on Halloween, October 31 from 11 a.m. to 4  p.m. and 6 to 10 p.m. It will be located in the Student Center  on the Museum's first floor.  
       The "Monster Mash & ...]]></description>
        <pubDate>Thu, 15 Oct 2009 08:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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  FAMILY FUN WEEKEND OCT. 17-18  FOCUSES ON DUTCH INFLUENCE]]></title>
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  ALBANY, NY  - Visitors to the New York   State Museum's  Family Fun Weekend October 17-18 can join in the celebration of this year's Hudson-Fulton-Champlain  Quadricentennial, with Dutch folk music and dancing and other activities focusing  on "400 Years of Dutch Influence."

              On Sunday,  from 1 to 4 p.m., the musical group &quot;Peter, Paul and George,&quot; from  Dance Flurry, will perform Dutch folk music and lead visitors in Dutch dancing.  Dance Flurry is a non-profit organiz ...]]></description>
        <pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2009 08:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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  NEW NYS MUSEUM PHOTO EXHIBIT FOCUSES ON THE GREAT DEPRESSION]]></title>
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  ALBANY, NY - A new traveling exhibition opens at the New York State Museum  on October 17 showcasing the works of a legendary group of photographers who  documented the lives and struggles of Americans enduring the Great Depression.

This Great  Nation Will Endure, open through March 14, 2010, features more than 150  images of America  taken between 1935 and 1942 by the legendary photographic unit of the Farm  Security Administration (FSA). This remains the largest documentary photography  pro ...]]></description>
        <pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 08:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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  NYS MUSEUM'S BIOLOGY/CONSERVATION LECTURE SERIES BEGINS OCT. 7]]></title>
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  ALBANY - The New York State Biodiversity Research Institute  (BRI) and the New York State Museum  will present weekly lectures in October focusing on recent biodiversity  research, conservation and education initiatives in New York State. 

     All lectures are free and will be held on  Wednesdays at noon in the Huxley Theater. The lecturers will focus on the  results of research that was funded by the New York State Biodiversity Research  Institute. Lecture topics and  dates are: 

  Octob ...]]></description>
        <pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 08:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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  STATE MUSEUM RESEARCHERS CO-AUTHOR STUDY ON COYOTES]]></title>
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  ALBANY, NY (September 23, 2009) - Two New York State Museum  scientists have co-authored a new study  published today in a major scientific journal that explains how coyotes evolved  to be larger and stronger over the past 90 years, dramatically expanding their  geographic range and becoming the top predator in the Northeast.

Dr. Roland Kays, the museum's curator  of mammals, and Dr. Jeremy Kirchman, curator of birds, co-authored an article  on their research that was published in Biology  Le ...]]></description>
        <pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 08:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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  NYS MUSEUM SCIENTIST USES ANCIENT DNA IN NEW STUDY]]></title>
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  ALBANY, NY (September 23, 2009) - Documenting one of the  first studies of its kind, a New York State Museum scientist has co-authored a  research article published today in a leading scientific journal showing how  ancient DNA sequences were used to support the hypothesis that a controversial  hummingbird species is a valid, presumably extinct species.

The article, co-authored by Dr.  Jeremy Kirchman, an ancient DNA expert and the Museum's curator of birds, appears  today in Biology Letters, ...]]></description>
        <pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 08:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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