Research impact

Ted Pietsch retired in July after 37 years as Burke Museum curator of fishes and professor in the UW School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences.

WA State Dept. of Ecology scientist Maggie Dutch partners with the Burke’s Puget Sound Foram Research Lab to study Puget Sound.

The recovery and preparation of Washington's first dinosaur fossil nicknamed Suciasaurus.

Matt McElroy hopes to answer how and why biological evolution occurred in the past, and what role thermal adaptation played in this process.

By extracting phytoliths from once-living plants, scientists were able to uncover a story of vegetation change in response to climate.

The Zambian and Tanzanian fossil beds preserved both plants and animals, providing information on paleoclimate before and after extinction.

The mystery of these tiny, but hearty, birds' migratory patterns is starting to unfold.

In total, 253 fish species have been recorded in the Salish Sea, and that’s about 14 percent more than in the last count.

That’s a face only a mother could love!… Or maybe a scientist?