{"id":1577,"date":"2015-07-29T16:37:09","date_gmt":"2015-07-29T21:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/?post_type=news&#038;p=1577"},"modified":"2015-09-06T14:43:41","modified_gmt":"2015-09-06T19:43:41","slug":"museum-herpetologist-jeff-beane-named-tar-heel-of-the-week-by-no","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/news\/museum-herpetologist-jeff-beane-named-tar-heel-of-the-week-by-no\/","title":{"rendered":"Museum herpetologist Jeff Beane named Tar Heel of the Week by N&#038;O"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BY MARTI MAGUIRE<br \/>\nCorrespondent for the News &amp; Observer<\/p>\n<p>RALEIGH \u2014\u00a0Jeff Beane isn\u2019t what you\u2019d typically call a \u201cpeople person.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As manager of the N.C. Museum of Natural Science\u2019s herpetology collection, he works with the thousands of dead snakes, salamanders, turtles and frogs that float in jars at a West Raleigh lab.<\/p>\n<p>He spends much of his free time radio-tracking snakes or counting road kills. He\u2019ll admit with deadpan humor that he finds most of the species he\u2019s encountered in decades of exploration more interesting than humans.<\/p>\n<p>Yet much of his tireless work, which has earned him several conservation awards, has a distinctly human element. Whether he\u2019s writing magazine articles, speaking to museum groups, or patiently helping a caller identify a backyard visitor, Beane is continually educating people about the natural world he loves.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsobserver.com\/news\/local\/counties\/wake-county\/article28649425.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read more at the News and Observer<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1578\" src=\"http:\/\/calendar.naturalsciences.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Jeff_Beane.png\" alt=\"Jeff Beane\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Jeff_Beane.png 640w, https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Jeff_Beane-500x375.png 500w, https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/Jeff_Beane-300x225.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Photo: Tegan Johnston &#8211; tjohnston@newsobserver.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1578,"menu_order":0,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/1577"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/1577\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}