Highlights

  • Expeditions

    Learn about the Philippine Biodiversity Expedition
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  • PhyloCluster

    280-core Supercomputer
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  • Galapagos Tortoise Collection

    History

    Collecting herpetological specimens since 1853.
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  • PROJECTS

    Current CCG research
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  • Harbor Seal, taxonomic name "Phoca vitulina"

    MARINE MAMMALS

    Marine Mammal Stranding Network
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  • Expeditions

    Expeditions

    Herpetology in Myanmar and the Gulf of Guinea
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  • A2 Lynx projection

    Visualizations

    New Visualization & Outreach program
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  • Collections

    Collections

    Explore Herpetology's vast collections
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Academy Research Departments

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News

California Academy of Sciences Announces 2011 Fellows
Biodiversity Heritage Library project mentioned in Washington Post online
Dr. Rebecca Johnson
Dr. Rebecca Johnson's Nudibranch Research Featured on KQED Science Blog

Read KQED's story about California Academy of Science researcher Dr. Rebecca Johnson's study of evolutionary color patterns in chromodorid nudibranchs. 

SSI Interns 2001
Welcome Summer Systematics Institute Interns!

The Summer Systematics Institute is an 8 week research internship that hands-on, collections-based undergraduate research experience at the California Academy of Sciences.

 

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Connecting Content featured at the Field Book Project Blog
Southwestern Luzon
Hearst Expedition to the Philippines

The Research Division of the California Academy of Sciences is about to embark on an ambitious expedition to the Philippines.  The goals of the expedition include exploration, discovery,...

Now Available: Occasional Paper #158

Scientific Publications of the California Academy of Sciences, 1854-2010.

Research Expeditions

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Center for Exploration and Travel Health

The Center for Exploration and Travel Health (CETH) at the California Academy of Sciences has two missions:

 

  1. To excel in providing exploration health services to the museum community.
  2. To be a leading academic center in travel medicine research and education.

 

Research at the California Academy of Sciences aims to discover new knowledge about life’s diversity. We apply that knowledge in seeking to sustain life on the planet and better understand evolutionary change. We undertake expeditions across the globe to study organisms in nature, and we maintain organismal and molecular collections for our research regarding life’s past, present and future.

There is a new urgency to gaining knowledge of the natural world, as awareness grows that organisms and species, rapidly declining in numbers, are key components of the ecosystems which provide our food, water, shelter and energy.

The Academy was founded in 1853 to conduct natural science research. The Academy Research group currently includes about 100 people, with 20 curator scientists, eight collections managers, and a dedicated group of postdoctoral researchers, students, curatorial assistants, and library and support staff, as well as a network of accomplished research associates working with us around the world.

We work closely with all staff throughout the Academy to increase the public understanding and engagement with science via personal interaction, communication, and development of exhibits.

Contact the Dean's Office

  • Mailing Address:
  • California Academy of Sciences
  • 55 Music Concourse Drive
  • San Francisco, CA 94118

Academy Fellows

The Fellows of the California Academy of Sciences are a group of distinguished scientists, nominated and appointed in recognition of their outstanding contributions to the natural sciences. They help us extend the positive impact of the Academy in its research, public engagement and education mission, through individual and collaborative efforts with Academy researchers and staff. Fellows have an Academy governance role, including ratification of nominations for the Board at the annual Fellows meeting.

Summer Systematics Institute

The Summer Systematics Institute (SSI) is a hands-on, collections-based, summer research program in evolutionary biology and an internship in biological illustration for undergraduate college/university students who are U.S. citizens or resident aliens.  SSI and Biological Illustration internships will be offered in summer of 2012.  The Academy's SSI and BI internships are now open to submission of applications according to the instructions given on this page.   

 

Kristina Louie Memorial Fund

The fund will provide support in the amount of $5,000 to a graduate student enrolled either at Occidental College or UCLA, or involved with biological research at the California Academy of Sciences.  Applications must be submitted by June 1, 2011. Selection will be made and announced on July 1, 2011.