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Category: Climate

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.

Sara Press’s Earth

  • Author By Manuel Rincon '25
  • Categories: 21st Century, Book, Climate, Frost Library Archives, North America, Weather and Destruction, Weather and Nature, Weather and Time
Large textbook next to a custom clamshell box, featuring a drawing of the Earth with its core exposed. The background is partially composed of red swirling lines that don’t cover the entire surface.

Ian van Coller’s Lundi

  • Author By Mia Raven '27
  • Categories: 21st Century, Book, Climate, Europe, Fog, Frost Library Archives, North America, Weather and Destruction, Weather and Nature
Cover of Lundi by Ian van Coller, featuring an intricate orange cutout design on green fabric, with stylized puffins and floral motifs.

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.

The Dresden Codex Facsimile

  • Author By Ellerman Mateo Mateo '25
  • Categories: 11th Century, Book, Central America, Climate, Frost Library Archives, Rain, Storm, Weather and Culture, Weather and Destruction
Two masked figures convene around a pedestal, one holding a headless bird

Satō Shintarō’s Shinkoiwa, Katsushika-ku (Snow)

  • Author By Harrison Lundy '25
  • Categories: 21st Century, Asia, Climate, Mead Art Museum, Photograph, Snow, Weather and Culture, Weather and the Built Environment
Dense three and four-story white and yellow buildings fill most of the image in an incongruous pattern, with snow-covered roofs. In the background, several bridges cross a river, and three skyscrapers dot the far skyline under a dark night sky.

Rookwood Pottery’s Earthenware Pitcher

  • Author By Elle Mader
  • Categories: 19th Century, Climate, Mead Art Museum, North America, Sculpture, Weather and Nature, Weather and Time
Small pitcher with a handle and glazed in orange and green ombre. Decorated with two painted hawthorne flowers.

Triassic Petrified Wood Specimen

  • Author By Natalie Fu '27
  • Categories: Beneski Museum of Natural History, Climate, North America, Prehistory, Specimen, Weather and Nature, Weather and Time
Image of petrified wood taken from above highlighting the colorful cross-section.

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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