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The museum produces several basic publications to help advertise our facility and keep interested people informed as to our activities.
Quicklinks: | Newsletter | Brochure | Key to Courtyard Symbols | Volunteer Flyer | Tornado Basics Information Sheet
The newsletter is distributed quarterly (typically in January, April, July, and October) and updates subscribers on current events in the Pacific Museum of the Earth, including the status of displays which are under development, current and upcoming programming, and events the museum staff plan to attend and reports on events attended in the past, among other things.
Newsletter distribution is restricted to Museum Members. Click here to find out how to become a member.
The Pacific Museum of the Earth brochure consists of a single double sided sheet of 8.5 x 11 paper intended to be folded in thirds for placement in brochure display racks. It contains basic information on the museum's programs and facilities and provides contact information where more thorough information can be acquired. We encourage you to print copies of the brochure and distribute them.
Outside of the building that hosts the museum (Earth and Ocean Sciences -- MAIN) there is a landscaped courtyard which features 21 Earth, ocean, and atmospheric science themed pavement insets. Many of these symbols are technical and their meaning not obvious, so the museum provides a guide to their meanings, with pictures.
We are always in need of volunteers to help out with gift shop staffing, display maintainence, and ongoing projects. Please feel welcome to print, post, and distribute this one page flyer.
This double-sided sheet was created to go with the museum's "Tornado Machine," which creates a funnel cloud with many of the properties of tornadoes. The information sheet explains what tornadoes are, how their strength is measured, and how the different types of tornadoes are classified.
Download the tornado basics information sheet by clicking here.
Our first featured exhibit is our Lambeousaurus skeleton. Vertebrate
fossils are extremely rare in British Columbia. Only a few are known,
and none are part of a complete skeleton. Our neighbouring province of
Alberta, however, is rich in fossils, including dinosaurs. This
specimen was found and excavated in Alberta by Charles H. Sternberg and
his sons. It was prepared at the National Museum of Canada and
presented to UBC in 1950.
Lambeosaurs are a type of duckbilled dinosaurs. Duckbills are also
called hadrosaurs. Hadrosaurs were the most common large herbivores in
many North American Late Cretaceous ecosystems. The Lambeosaurs are
characterized by the fact that their crests are hollow. The purpose of
the crest is still in dispute; evidence exists for theories as wide
ranging as the ideas that it was for sexual display or that it was used
as a resonating chamber to make low-frequency calls.
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