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Category: Weather and Science

The essays in this section take up the depiction of weather in scientific contexts, such as natural history museums and geology textbooks. By paying attention to artists’ choices, they challenge assumptions of scientific objectivity and uncover how conceptions of weather have changed over time.

Will Sillin’s Connecticut River Valley Diorama

  • Author By Sofia Zavatone-Zeth '25
  • Categories: 21st Century, Beneski Museum of Natural History, Climate, North America, Painting, Sun, Weather and Amherst, Weather and Science, Weather and Time
Diorama of a group of long necked bipedal dinosaurs at the shore of a lake, set in a corner of a museum gallery and artificially lit.

Jurassic Basalt Column

  • Author By Gabrielle Price '28
  • Categories: Beneski Museum of Natural History, Climate, North America, Prehistory, Specimen, Weather and Destruction, Weather and Science
A slab from a column of basaltic rock that formed when lava from a Massachusetts volcano cooled 190 million years ago.

Early Jurassic Slab with Raindrops

  • Author By Donovan Pitts '27
  • Categories: Beneski Museum of Natural History, North America, Prehistory, Rain, Specimen, Weather and Science, Weather and Time
A large, gray slab of rock features a mottled, undulating surface and a jagged edge.

Frances Chickering’s Cloud Crystals

  • Author By Vivi Caruso '27
  • Categories: 19th Century, Book, Frost Library Archives, North America, Snow, Weather and Nature, Weather and Science
Book cover, brown with the title "Cloud Crystals A Snow Flake Album" in gold lettering

Will Sillin’s Painting of the Connecticut River Valley

  • Author By Nico Berger '27
  • Categories: 21st Century, Beneski Museum of Natural History, Climate, North America, Painting, Sun, Weather and Amherst, Weather and Science, Weather and Time
A wide view of a rocky prehistoric lakeside with sparse vegetation and tiny grazing dinosaurs under a cloudy sky

Orra White Hitchcock’s Drawing of Vallies

  • Author By Jackson Carter '25
  • Categories: 19th Century, Climate, Drawing, Frost Library Archives, North America, Rain, Weather and Amherst, Weather and Science, Weather and Time
Colored stripes undulate across a diagram and form peaks & valleys labeled subsidence, elevation, erosion, & gorge.

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