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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.

  • 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.

    Will Sillin’s Connecticut River Valley Diorama

    By

    Sofia Zavatone-Zeth '25

    21st Century, Beneski Museum of Natural History, Climate, North America, Painting, Sun, Weather and Amherst, Weather and Science, Weather and Time
  • A slab from a column of basaltic rock that formed when lava from a Massachusetts volcano cooled 190 million years ago.

    Jurassic Basalt Column

    By

    Gabrielle Price '28

    Beneski Museum of Natural History, Climate, North America, Prehistory, Specimen, Weather and Destruction, Weather and Science
  • A large, gray slab of rock features a mottled, undulating surface and a jagged edge.

    Early Jurassic Slab with Raindrops

    By

    Donovan Pitts '27

    Beneski Museum of Natural History, North America, Prehistory, Rain, Specimen, Weather and Science, Weather and Time
  • Book cover, brown with the title "Cloud Crystals A Snow Flake Album" in gold lettering

    Frances Chickering’s Cloud Crystals

    By

    Vivi Caruso '27

    19th Century, Book, Frost Library Archives, North America, Snow, Weather and Nature, Weather and Science
  • A wide view of a rocky prehistoric lakeside with sparse vegetation and tiny grazing dinosaurs under a cloudy sky

    Will Sillin’s Painting of the Connecticut River Valley

    By

    Nico Berger '27

    21st Century, Beneski Museum of Natural History, Climate, North America, Painting, Sun, Weather and Amherst, Weather and Science, Weather and Time
  • Colored stripes undulate across a diagram and form peaks & valleys labeled subsidence, elevation, erosion, & gorge.

    Orra White Hitchcock’s Drawing of Vallies

    By

    Jackson Carter '25

    19th Century, Climate, Drawing, Frost Library Archives, North America, Rain, Weather and Amherst, Weather and Science, Weather and Time

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