Karen Rowe

Curator of Birds at Museums Victoria.
Views expressed are my personal views only.

[Karen Rowe @MVBirds]

Find out what happens when a community group with a passion for nature embarks on a #citizenscience #ecoacoustics project
A collaboration between @museumsvictoria @vnpatweets and Connecting Country Why should we listen to nature?
https://t.co/UYSD8njAMm

@WILDLABSNET @CitSciOZ

[Jane Melville AM @MVLizards]

Job opportunity at @museumsvictoria . Bird and mammal research! Come join our fab team. @MVMammals research assistant position collecting field-based wildlife data related to bushfire research and management. See https://t.co/sSo4EyFsbS

https://t.co/CeKP0P2mn5

[Karen Rowe @MVBirds]

Have an interest in fire ecology, #Mammals and #fieldwork ? Join the team @museumsvictoria working with @UniMelb as a Research Assistant, Mammalogy https://t.co/oUKSw4Ei4i

[Karen Rowe @MVBirds]

Congratulations Dr. Potter!

[Macquarie University School of Natural Sciences @mqnatsci]

Congrats to Dr. Sally Potter @SpotterOz for winning a highly competitive ARC-Future Fellowship! Sally will be studying the role of genome reorganisation in adaptation and speciation. We look forward to hosting you at Macquarie in 2022!

[Joanna Sumner @joanna_sumner99]

Getting out into the bush, to see the animals that we have spent our lives studying is a biologist's jam! I'm looking forward to sharing the research that builds on these field trips and collections. Plus lizard photos. There will be lizards.

[Melbourne Museum @melbournemuseum]

In case you're living under a rock (another pun): right now we're looking for the #Fossil #State #Emblem of #Victoria. We had a hard time narrowing down all the amazing possible fossils to just 8 species. Now it's your turn to chose the official one: https://t.co/rcdtO2moD0

[Karen Rowe @MVBirds]

Choose now, people of #Victoria ! Meet the fossils that helped shape our understanding of life on our planet and vote for your choice to be our state #fossil emblem!

[Museums Victoria @museumsvictoria]

#Breaking: Voting officially opens today to select Victoria’s State Fossil Emblem! 🗳️

[Joanna Sumner @joanna_sumner99]

Do you love wildlife conservation technology and museum collections? Come work with me at Melbourne Museum, looking at the feasibility of cryobanking as a wildlife conservation tool in Victoria.
Details at https://t.co/gsCEy5ssO5 with a closing date of 4th August.

[Karen Rowe @MVBirds]

@joannaxwu I put them on my work ID lanyard. Jealous of the American Robin (my PhD thesis species! 😊)...

[Melbourne Museum @melbournemuseum]

To get a deeper insight into the Treasures of the Natural World exhibition, attend this Saturday’s lecture where I’ll be speaking more about #TreasuresoftheNaturalWorld alongside MV curators @curatorcurious, @MVBirds and Ken Walker! https://t.co/eYxAzGmviz

[Museums Victoria @museumsvictoria]

…others are busy in collection spaces and home offices, digitizing Victorian specimens so that specimen information and images are available for comparison, assessment and ultimately protection of our fauna. @DELWP_Vic #DigitsForGood @melbournemuseum

[Museums Victoria @museumsvictoria]

At Museums Victoria current #bushfire research is focused on assessment and recovery – hear from some of our scientists ➡️https://t.co/q1V7Wx3Mkz
#DigitsForGood #BushfireRecovery #StubbornOptimism

[Museums Victoria @museumsvictoria]

Data and collections from a 2016 @BushBlitz biodiversity survey of Croajingolong National Park gives us a baseline to help assess damage from the recent fires
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https://t.co/GQ26xJqCxm
#DigitsForGood #Biodiversity #BushBlitz

[Museums Victoria @museumsvictoria]

Watch a video about research into how fire has affected the Smoky Mouse🐁population and our Grampians #Bioscan with @ParksVictoria
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https://t.co/59Dbbo9FRL
#DigitsForGood

[Museums Victoria @museumsvictoria]

Wade into the waters of the Cumberland River with Dr Julian Finn & Dr Richard Marchant and learn more about work done with @ParksVictoria on the Otway Bioscan here: 👇https://t.co/7Wm8RWapue #DigitsForGood

[Museums Victoria @museumsvictoria]

Extreme #bushfires saw a tough start to 2020 for Victorian #biodiversity, but our scientists are not giving up! It’s time to “Get engaged and pay attention to your wildlife” says @MVMammals Snr curator Dr Kevin Rowe🐁Digitising brings researcher➡️wildlife➡️us #WDPD2020

[Museums Victoria @museumsvictoria]

Here's a great thread from @MVBirds The #DigitalPreservation of more than 5000 sounds of nature deepens knowledge via a uniquely transformational medium for identifying biodiversity in place “Communities Listening for Nature Collection” #WDPD2020 #DigitsForGood

[Museums Victoria @museumsvictoria]

Today is World Digital Preservation Day, and we have our Senior Images Coordinator @MuseumLAR taking over our Twitter feed until 5pm to talk all things #digitalpreservation in the Museum! 👋👀

[Museums Victoria @museumsvictoria]

Visualising sound expands the possibilities of studying bird song complexity. This spectrogram of a Superb Lyrebird’s song shows how #DigitalPreservation of sounds improves knowledge of vocal mimicry and how it shapes remarkable behaviours. @MVBirds #WDPD2020

[Museums Victoria @museumsvictoria]

Knowing where threatened species make their home is the first step in conserving their habitats. Wildlife soundscape recordings can be used to digitally preserve their presence in space & time, leading to better conservation outcomes for species like the Powerful Owl. #WDPD2020

[Museums Victoria @museumsvictoria]

The film “Why should we listen to nature?” shows how dedicated community groups improve outcomes for wildlife through the #DigitalPreservation of Victoria’s unique natural soundscapes
https://t.co/ymMCt5yrIJ #WDPD2020