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Brattleboro Museum & Art Center – Robin Crofut-Brittingham: Migrations

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DENIN Environmental Research Symposium (poster session)

CEH Eco-Writers Prize for Graduate Research

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Inuit mosquito art

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Vintage Aquarium Piosters

Vintage Great Barrier Reef Tourism Posters

[Deniz Martinez]

Greetings, I’m Deniz! I’m the UDAAWG group founder/leader, Art History Animalia head animal, and a PhD student in the UD Art History department (early modern global track). My research is focused on intersections of natural history with art & visual culture history, primarily animal iconography. I am interested in animals across time and space and haven’t settled on a dissertation topic yet, but much of my recent research has centered on parrots (and “exotic” birds in general), opossums and coatis, and frogs, and I also have an emerging project focused on animal alphabets!

I’m currently reading for my minor exam in eco-criticism, with a major exam in early modern global on the horizon for fall semester.

I have had many pets and animal friends over the years, but currently just have a trio of rescue cats in the family: Freyja, Ziggy, and Junebug (aka The Baby).

Cheers, Deniz

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MARCH MEETING RECAP:

Sheng shared info about marine microorganisms as pigments (dinoflagellates, zooanthellae), and gender fluidity in fish! (Deniz has a few books about both color in nature and “queer natural history,” will share recs later)

Carolyn discussed ongoing research about mosquito nets and mosquitoes as sentient agents, and burrowing crawfish as troublemakers in dams & levies! Also discussed book recs re: liquid ecologies. Deniz shared a book rec (Moaquito from the Reaction Books’ Animal series) and recalled seeing mosquitos as a recurring theme in Inuit art. (Examples found and sent to Carolyn, will share with group on forum later too)

Deniz shared book recommendation list for “water” theme, and digital collections of vintage public aquarium posters and Great Barrier Reef travel posters. (Will post links to forum later)

Deniz also promised to work on the website over the weekend to set up an asynchronous meeting space for the group, but we’d still like to keep scheduling monthly Zoom meetings too for those able to attend (will send out poll for April days/times next week). UPDATE: I got this discussion board up and running! 👋

Cheers, Deniz

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CMCS Grant Opportunities:
CMCS Grants
Annual deadlines: March 15 and November 15

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SCIENCE:
“Ancient Peruvians transported live parrots across the Andes”
Pre-Inca elites wore headdresses made of feathers from Amazonian macaws
10 MAR 2026 BY CHRISTINA LARSON

On Peru’s arid coast, some ancient elites signaled their power and standing by wearing headdresses festooned with brilliantly colored feathers from birds found in distant rainforests.

A new study reveals how they acquired these showy ornaments more than 800 years ago: from wild Amazonian parrots captured hundreds of kilometers away in the Amazon and transported, live, high over the Andes.

Learn more:
Ancient Peruvians transported live parrots across the Andes

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Michener Museum exhibitions

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