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Redpath Mews – Winter 2007 Winter 2008 NEWSLETTER Co-Editors: Ingrid Birker Linda Cooper & Anthony Howell Editorial note visitors were young people who came in By Ingrid Birker pre-arranged groups. There were twice as many French students as English First published in the of Fall 1988 students, and university students as an internal document to keep museum represented 28% of the annual personnel and students aware attendance, which is four times the of events and museum proportion in a general public museum. developments, the Redpath With the dedicated help of 36 News is sent biannually to over student guides from the Redpath 300 external addresses and 50 McGill Museum Club and 14 Welcome Desk subscribers. It is also posted on the volunteers the Museum organized a Redpath Museum website. variety of public events and activities The distinctive red Redpath including flashlight tours on Nuit News heading was created in the early Blanche (March 3), Earth Day (April 1990s by Janet MacDonald, a museum 22), 24 hours of Science / 24 heures de designer and educator. Modeled on the science! (May 11), a Mother's Day red signature of Redpath sugar products workshop on Cleaning without Cancer created from John Redpath’s handwriting (May 13), and Montreal Museums Day in 1830, this signature remains the (May 27). world's oldest logo for a food product. At the start of 2007, the museum In the Fall of 2008, the Redpath News hosted a weekend symposium in will be made into booklet format. We collaboration with the Secretariat of the welcome feedback from our readers. Convention on Biological Diversity: The Editors: Linda Cooper, Saving Biodiversity-- channeling data Ingrid Birker, Anthony Howell. into policy. Attracting over 160 people and contributors from government, industry and the research sector, the Public Program and Science formal outcome of the meeting was a statement presented to the International Outreach Mechanism of Scientific Expertise on By Ingrid Birker Biodiversity (IMoSEB) calling for the urgent need to bridge the gap between At the start of 2008, it’s biodiversity science and conservation appropriate to summarize last year’s policy through increasing access to public milestones. The Museum had a biodiversity data, tools and technical record-breaking number of visitors for a advice. total of 37,000. One-third of these i In late April a giant Origami Science Outreach website at Pteranodon was created by Robert www.mcgill.ca/science/outreach/. Lang, a nuclear physicist and world master of the art. Funded by McGill Biodiversity Division Associates and the McGill community, By Andrew Hendry as well as through public donations, this unique sculpted creature from the As we continue our quest to Cretaceous now hangs above the understand the evolution of biological museum’s dinosaur. diversity, some obstacles are inevitable. During the summer of 2007 the Witness this fall’s Trinidad expedition museum offered McGill Tree tours, by graduate students Amy Schwartz, Stones and Beer bike and walking tours, Jean-Sébastien Moore, Ann McKellar, a live presentation of the Al Gore award and Maryse Boisjoly. winning documentary on climate change, After a successful collecting trip, and eight weeks of REACH!osaurus; a they arrived at the Trinidad airport with bilingual McGill summer day camp 30 2-L bottles of live guppies in their attended by 80 children from all corners luggage. In the past this had not been a of Montreal as well as the south shore, problem, but it certainly was this time. the Ottawa Valley area, France, and Air Canada refused to transport these Lebanon. fish, and no amount of pleading (or even The Science Outreach program logic – guppies are not explosive) could for 2007 was highlighted by Hot Talks/ sway them. So Amy and Ann stayed in Cool Science where McGill scientists Trinidad to solve the problem – which presented talks at local highschools and proved to be ridiculously difficult. Air CEGEPS, by a lively series of Hands-on Canada refused to ship the fish by cargo science in the classroom sessions, and and couriers refused to ship them too. In by a weekly Sunday Afternoon Science the end, they were shipped on Zoom Documentary film series. Science Airlines to Toronto, where they were Outreach Coordinated STARS (Science picked up by researchers at the Talks About Research for Staff), the University of Toronto and looked after popular luncheon series of ‘inreach’ talks until Amy and Ann, flying standby, were for the Faculty’s support staff, and a able to bring them by train to McGill. total of 16 different Freaky Friday Some guppies succumbed to these insults presentations where McGill scientists but most survived – a tribute to Amy and bust myths and clarify popular Ann’s perseverance. misconceptions. The total number of We recently experienced two participants in science outreach programs major transitions. On the one hand, was close to 18,000; almost half the Jean-Sébastien Moore completed his museum’s visitorship for the whole year. MSc degree and has departed for a PhD An exciting roster of outreach at UBC. On the other hand, Maryse and public programs begins with Darwin Boisjoly has joined us for an MSc Day on Sunday Feb. 10. Our guest degree. We also published a number of speaker is Dr. Rees Kassan, a McGill new and exciting scientific papers, which grad who will tell us how he learned are listed below. One that I wish to everything he needed to know about highlight is about ageing in sockeye evolution from a Methodist. salmon as an evolutionary consequences See the front page of the Redpath News of bear predation. Sockeye salmon for a full listing of events, lectures and undergo a dramatic physical decline tours for 2008, or check the Museum (ageing) from when they start breeding website at www.mcgill.ca/redpath, or the 2 until they die, a scant two weeks later. During this period, some populations are 5. DiBattista, J.D., K.A. Feldheim, S.H. subject to intense predation by bears. We Gruber, and A.P. Hendry. In press. showed that the rate of ageing in salmon Are indirect genetic benefits depended on the predation history of the associated with polyandry? Testing population. In particular, populations predictions in a natural population of subject to predation that targeted older lemon sharks. Molecular Ecology. individuals were the populations that aged most slowly. Perhaps if we humans 6. Foster, D., J. Podos, and A.P. are to attain the fountain of youth, we Hendry. 2008. A geometric need to bring back the predation. morphometric appraisal of beak shape in Darwin’s finches. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 21:263-275. 7. Hendry, A.P., T. Farrugia, and M.T. Kinnison. 2008. Human influences on rates of phenotypic change in wild animal populations. Molecular Ecology 17:20-29. 8. Moore, J.-S., J.L. Gow, E.B. Taylor, and A.P. Hendry. 2007. Quantifying An Alaskan bear polishes off a sockeye the constraining influence of gene salmon (by Andrew Hendry) flow on adaptive divergence in the lake-stream threespine stickleback Some new publications (Biodiversity system. Evolution 61:2015-2026. Division members are underlined) 1. Carlson, S. M., A. P. Hendry, and B. Invertebrate Zoology & H. Letcher. 2007. Growth rate Biological Invasions Division differences between resident native By Anthony Ricciardi brook trout and non-native brown trout. Journal of Fish Biology The American Museum of 71:1430-1447. Natural History has produced a short documentary film called Invasive 2. Carlson, S.M., R. Hilborn, A.P. Species, which features research by Hendry, and T.P. Quinn. 2007. graduate students in Prof. Ricciardi's lab. Predation by bears drives senescence The filmmakers followed a team of in natural populations of salmon. divers led by Lisa Jones and Åsa PLoS ONE Issue 12, e1286. Kestrup to the field sites where the students conduct their studies of zebra 3. Correa, C., and M. Gross. In press. mussels, quagga mussels, round gobies Chinook salmon invade southern and European crustaceans. The film is South America. Biological Invasions. one of the "Bio Features" that can be viewed on the AMNH website 4. Crispo, E. 2007. The Baldwin effect (www.amnh.org/sciencebulletins/) and genetic assimilation: revisiting Lisa Jones was recently awarded two mechanisms of evolutionary a two-year research scholarship from the change mediated by phenotypic Department of Fisheries and Oceans. plasticity. Evolution 61:2469-2479. This will fund a major component of her 3 doctoral research on predicting the By Virginie Millien & Anthony Howell invasion success and impact of aquatic animals based on their life history traits. General Two new MSc students have joined the Ricciardi lab. Kathleen The curatorial division and its Church will investigate how aquatic staff have temporarily been relocated to invaders modify each other's success and the basement due to major construction impact through facilitative and work. A large part of the mammal competitive interactions. Her research is collections are currently unavailable and funded through the Canadian Aquatic we will be unable to process loans or Invasive Species Network – a federally- requests for specimens. We are unable to funded group of university and anticipate when things will be back to government researchers that study the normal, and we thank you for your problem of invasions in Canadian inland patience in that matter. waters. Rebekah Kipp, a recipient of a Policy regarding access to the Canada Graduate Scholarship, was collections: Please, make sure to contact previously working in the lab as a in advance either Anthony research assistant under contract with the ([email protected]) or U.S. National Oceanic & Atmospheric Virginie ([email protected]) if Administration to develop a database for you need access to the collections.
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