The scientists at the Natural History Museum study the vast natural diversity on Earth, and the processes shaping it. Through fieldwork they collect important data for understanding how nature works.
The museum has approximately 70 scientific researchers in botany, mycology, zoology, geology and paleontology. Here you get to know some of them and how they do their fieldwork.
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High and low in search for plant knowledge
Botanist Charlotte Sletten Bjorå takes care of more than a million dried plants, lectures students and pupils, and study plants in different corners of the world.
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Hunts for fossils in the north
Paleontologist Hans Arne Nakrem searches for fossils at Svalbard and Greenland and is responsible for the fossil collection at the museum.