Australian Museum Evolutionary Biology Unit

Scanning Electron Microscopy Research Projects

Staff from the various disciplines at the Australian Museum all have the opportunity to use the SEM for their particular interests and studies. Scanning electron micrographs have been used both for research purposes and in exhibitions and other projects:

• Anthropology
• Ichthyology (fish)
• Malacology
• Marine Invertebrates
  • Animal Optics and Evolution
  • Arthropod Phylogeny
  • Crustacea
    • Armadillidae
    • Phreatoicidea
• Materials Conservation
  • The effects of freezedrying on photographic emulsion
  • The identification of structure and nature of materials primarily used in the manufacture of cultural material from Indigenous Australian and Southern Pacific sources
• Palaeontology
• Mineralogy

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