The Cleveland Museum of Natural History

2012/13 REPORT TO THE COMMUNITY 1 Letter from the Board PRESIDENT

The 2012-2013 fiscal year has been an extraordinary year for our Museum— one of growth, discovery and innovation. On any given day, the critical work being done by The Cleveland Museum of Natural History has a profound impact regionally, nationally and across the globe. As president of the Board of Trustees, it’s my privilege to report our Museum’s many accomplishments and progress of the year as a result of this incredible work.

Our Museum is a valued resource for science education and discovery, conservation, sustainability and regional economic growth. Inspiring people of all ages to experience the wonders of science and natural history is at the heart of our mission, and to answer our community’s ever-growing need for science education programs, we’ve expanded our award-winning programming and outreach. This past year, we’ve also made meaningful and visible improvements to our day-to-day operations and visitor experience by making much-needed updates to our facilities and exhibits. We have much to celebrate on the financial front in the 2012-2013 fiscal year as the Museum balanced its operating budget for the 36th consecutive year. With the generous support of our donors, the 2012-2013 Annual Fund reached a record $1,256,066, representing 11 percent of our total revenues. An enduring culture of fiscal stability and sound governance, combined with a strong endowment and private support base, has also earned the Museum the highest rating from Charity A. Chace Anderson Navigator, America’s premier independent charity evaluator. President, Board of Trustees In addition to these financial metrics, I am particularly proud of the management team that has developed over the last three years under the leadership of Dr. Evalyn Gates. In all facets of operations and science, we are growing more proficient by the day, and more focused on our mission. It is gratifying to watch the team push forward. Lastly, after many years of planning, the Board of Trustees voted in September 2012, to go forward with a comprehensive capital campaign to renew and re- envision our Museum’s facilities, launching the most ambitious capital expansion in our 93-year history. This remarkable transformation will vastly improve every physical aspect of our Museum from exhibit galleries, to public spaces, to the visibility of our collections and to the visitor’s interaction with our curatorial and educational staff. Most importantly, this transformation enhances our Museum’s ability to fulfill its mission of science education at a significantly deeper and engaging level. Since announcing our vision for the future, we have received an overwhelmingly positive response from stakeholders and the broader community giving us confidence that we will realize the project’s completion by our 100th anniversary in 2020. I am grateful to the Board of Trustees, our dedicated staff and for the exceptional support of so many who believe in the value of our Museum’s work. Your generous support is a true investment in our community and ensures a vibrant and prosperous future for our extraordinary Museum.

2 Letter from the Executive DIRECTOR AND CEO

It was an exceptional year marked by new discoveries, innovative educational programs and significant milestones in the Museum’s plans to transform our facilities and exhibits. Museum curators traveled across the globe collecting specimens and fossils, sending updates and tweets from Rwanda, Peru, China and Ethiopia. Paleontologist Dr. Michael Ryan made headlines with the discovery of three new dinosaur species, while archaeologist Dr. Brian Redmond and his team, including students and Museum members, completed excavations of a 3,000-year-old site in Ohio.

Our collections were enriched with the acquisition of one of the largest collections of modern African pollen, a critical research tool for paleontologists working to reconstruct prehistoric environments. It was a banner year for education, from our award-winning distance learning programming that reached a record number of students, to our newest collaboration with the Cleveland Metropolitan School District. “Inspire: Reach Every Child,” brought science to life for every second grade student and teacher in the district. Kirtlandia Research Internships offered college students unique opportunities to work with curators, while the Smead Discovery Center celebrated 10 years of engaging our youngest visitors. We strengthened existing partnerships throughout the region, and began a new program with the Cleveland Public Library to offer greater access for families across the city. Visitors were delighted with a rich program of special exhibits. Whales | Tohorā showcased rare specimens from New Zealand, while Megalodon drew large Evalyn Gates, Ph.D. crowds in an extended run. Behind the scenes, a new Human Origins Gallery was Executive Director and CEO created (unveiled September 2013). Its centerpiece is a fully fleshed-out “Lucy,” crafted by Dr. Yohannes Haile-Selassie, Museum artisans and internationally renowned paleoartist John Gurche. Sustainability and conservation remain a top priority. More than 5,800 acres of rare ecosystems are now under Museum stewardship. The ninth annual Conservation Symposium was a great success. A special symposium, Building with Nature, presented to a packed auditorium the latest in green building technologies and how we might incorporate them into our new facilities. And in June, the PNC SmartHome became the first certified passive house in Ohio! The Centennial Campaign launched in September, and we have begun the exhilarating work of designing an innovative, ultra-sustainable and highly immersive Museum that will break down the walls between science and the community, invite a diverse audience to discover the wonders of science and nature, provide exciting science education for students of all ages, and facilitate the important work of our curators. This incredible year reflects the hard work and dedication of our staff, the passion and guidance of our Board of Trustees, and the very generous support of our donors. Thank you. I am deeply appreciative of your help, support and encouragement, especially as we move forward with our exciting plans to build for the future!

3 Science The evolution of “Lucy”

The Museum now boasts the world’s most scientifically accurate and complete reconstruction of “Lucy,” the famous 3.2 million-year-old human ancestor. Visitors were introduced to this new skeletal mount of the species Australopithecus afarensis, as well as an amazingly lifelike sculpture when the new Human Origins Gallery was unveiled in September 2013.

4 Science The evolution of “Lucy”

hroughout the year, the Museum’s Lucy has served as an important reference that Exhibits staff worked in collaboration has expanded researchers’ understanding of “From a scientific point Twith Curator of Physical Anthropology the morphology and anatomy of the earliest of view, she belongs to Yohannes Haile-Selassie, Ph.D., to redesign human ancestors and increased our knowledge an early human ancestor the skeleton and develop content for the of human evolution. species that existed new gallery. Denise Su, Ph.D., curator of “While no longer the oldest human right before the first paleobotany and paleoecology, also advised on ancestor discovered or most complete fossil appearance of Homo, gallery content. specimen, Lucy is nonetheless an icon of Museum artisans cast 102 pieces in resin and paleoanthropology,” said Haile-Selassie. “From the genus that includes painstakingly reassembled Lucy’s mount to a scientific point of view, she belongs to an humans. As a result, her reflect current scientific knowledge of the early human ancestor species that existed right species is positioned at a hominin’s anatomy based on fossil evidence. It before the first appearance of Homo, the genus very pivotal point in our features a newly sculpted and reshaped rib cage that includes humans. As a result, her species is handcrafted from foam and a spine that more positioned at a very pivotal point in our quest quest to understand our accurately represents the curvature of the lower to understand our origins.” origins.” back. New elements were added, including The new reconstruction is based on knowledge casts of portions of the original fossil’s lower from specimens of her species recently — Yohannes Haile- leg and upper arm that were not in the original discovered in Ethiopia that indicate Lucy had Selassie, Ph.D. reconstruction, a symmetrical left hand and neither a funnel-shaped (ape-like) nor barrel- a knee cap cast from the Museum’s Hamann- shaped (human-like) rib cage. The shape was Todd osteological collection of human bones. an intermediate between humans and apes. Sharing the spotlight is a fully “fleshed-out” Lucy’s new home is contemporary in design. reconstruction created by an internationally It features 40 specimens, fossil casts and renowned paleoartist. It details the muscular taxidermy mounts. Lucy shares space with build and facial features of the upright walking newly acquired skeletal casts of Ardipithecus human ancestor. Posed in a striding stance, kadabba, Australopithecus anamensis, the masterful creation is arranged back to back Australopithecus sediba and Homo erectus with the skeletal cast, bringing this ancient (Turkana Boy). creature to life in amazing detail. The Human Origins Gallery highlights the Lucy’s partial skeleton was discovered in Museum’s role as one of the key centers for Ethiopia in 1974 by an international team evolutionary studies in the world. It also serves of scientists led by former Museum curator as a preview of the new exhibits that will be Donald Johanson, Ph.D. When Lucy was developed as part of the Museum’s major found, 40 percent of the skeleton was present, transformation project. representing the oldest and most complete early human ancestor ever discovered.

5 Inspire: Reach every child

“The Inspire program Launched in fall 2012, “Inspire: brings every 2nd grader in the Cleveland Reach Every Child” is a program Metropolitan School in partnership with the Cleveland district into the Museum Metropolitan School District (CMSD). each year, to reinforce the district’s science During the school year, second grade curriculum. Inspire also students visit the Museum for a full day trains all 2nd grade science teachers in best of experiential learning. The program, practices for science designed in collaboration between education that they take Museum educators and CMSD staff, back to their classrooms. This is truly a win-win.” is integrated into CMSD’s science curriculum and meets Ohio’s Academic — Eric Gordon, CEO of the Cleveland Metropolitan Content Standards in science. School District

6 Inspire: Reach every child he Cleveland Metropolitan School on-site visits. In the three-and-a-half-hour District’s flexible content experts visit, students are exposed to hands-on in science worked together with activities, live native Ohio animals and a theT Museum’s education staff to create this curriculum designed to get students excited customized program. It is based on the scope about science while connecting them to the and sequence of the second-grade curriculum. past, present and future. Inspire engages The “Inspire: Reach Every Child” program was students and teachers with science in a unique the first step in a larger CMSD initiative with and dynamic way that leaves them eager for other cultural institutions and nature centers more and sets the stage for scientific literacy. to cover science from pre-K through fifth Every student who attends an Inspire session grade. This unique collaborative is designed to gets the opportunity to bring his or her family positively transform science education in these back to the Museum at no cost. This gives the public schools. students a chance to reinforce their experience Using Museum specimens and exhibits, the by becoming the teacher as they take their academic focus of Inspire is the interactions families through the Museum. Providing this between living and extinct organisms and their opportunity for intergenerational learning habitats. Throughout the day, students, teachers strengthens the program’s impact. and chaperones spend time in Museum In keeping with the Museum’s mission, Inspire classrooms, galleries, and our Perkins Wildlife is designed to build a foundation for highly Center and Woods Garden. Teachers are effective science education in our community. empowered to extend the experience beyond The Museum is providing this program, the day at the Museum with lesson plans, including transportation for students and their activity ideas and additional resources. families, at no cost. The program would not be The program is intended to have a broad and possible without the Museum’s resources and far-reaching impact beyond the students’ community support.

“The Inspire program makes science education fun and engaging for our students by giving them hands-on time with real fossils and living species we don’t have in our classrooms. Seeing these things up close makes them more tangible and memorable.”

—Charles Byrd, principal of Riverside School

7 Kirtlandia Preparing the next generation of scientists

During the summer of 2013, 11 college students were selected from a record number of applicants to be Kirtlandia Research Interns. For eight weeks, these students worked alongside curators and staff in the Museum’s labs, outdoors in local rivers, marshes and fields—even as far away as Africa—to gain real-world science experience.

8 laine, a New York University work on the systematics of these two birds is “We have an obligation to anthropology graduate, traveled to the significant. These are specimens from North train the next generation National Museum of Tanzania with America that we have been collecting for more EDenise Su, Ph.D., curator of paleobotany than five years. They collected the first gene of biologists,” said Jones. and paleoecology. Her project offered a of each species and sequenced this first gene. “This gives students rare opportunity to identify, catalogue and This is research that will be published.” hands-on experience that curate fossil specimens from renowned Brittany, a senior biology major at Heidelberg they need. The program anthropologist Mary Leakey’s expeditions University, worked with Gavin Svenson, Ph.D., to Laetoli. curator of invertebrate zoology. She also allows curators to Maggie, a junior biology major at The Ohio measured grass and bark mantises to create get work done that they State University, worked with Jim Bissell, measurements for predicting how the animals couldn’t accomplish on L.H.D., curator of botany and director of behave in their environments to survive. She conservation. She partnered with a sophomore worked in the DNA lab generating sequence their own.” at the University of Rochester majoring in data from recently collected Rwandan genetics and chemistry. Both worked on the specimens. Fieldwork rounded out her —Andy Jones, Ph.D. genetic and morphological identification of experience. Using nets and vials, she collected native, invasive and hybrid cattail in an effort aquatic insects to establish a baseline of data to remove invasive and hybrid species from for Museum properties. Museum preserves. They put in extensive Ben, a senior anthropology major at hours in the Museum’s DNA lab as well as Beloit College, worked under Yohannes outside collecting plant samples on Museum Haile-Selassie, Ph.D., curator of physical nature preserves and on sites in Pennsylvania. anthropology. He utilized the Hamann-Todd Alex and Daniel, both John Carroll University bone collection to study variation in the toe senior biology majors, did projects under bones of gorillas, chimpanzees and humans, the direction of Andy Jones, Ph.D., curator to better understand the evolution and of ornithology and director of science. Alex locomotion of early human ancestors. measured genetic variation in mitochondrial For the past 34 years, the Kirtlandia Society DNA of Black-throated Green Warblers from has supported this program to provide college several states to determine the expansion students access to science skills beyond what pattern of the species. Daniel extracted they learn in lecture halls and lab courses. mitochondrial DNA from the Veery to measure the distribution of genetic diversity “We have an obligation to train the next and investigate the geographic history of generation of biologists,” said Jones. “This this species. gives students hands-on experience that they need. The program also allows curators to get “With classroom labs, you already know the work done that they couldn’t accomplish on answer you’re looking for,” explained Jones. their own.” “These are unique projects. Alex and Dan’s

9 Philanthropy Donors treasure family memories

Sally and Larry Sears

“We want to contribute to effective institutions that we are confident will continue to be here for a long time serving the community.” - Larry Sears

10 The Cleveland Museum of Natural History has served a valuable role in the community for nearly a century, enriching the lives of many. Individuals and families with personal connections to the institution have sought to invest in its future by helping launch the Centennial Campaign.

an Holmes fondly recalls his visits to These trips afforded the couples unique the Museum as a child and again with travel experiences while giving them new his own children. “It was always fun appreciation for the Museum’s work. As Joan andD we always had a chance to learn a lot.” explained, “To be way over in Africa and Sally Sears has a similar history with the realize the work that our Clevelanders were Museum. “Our kids were always curious about doing there . . . We were already familiar with the natural world,” she said. “We always loved the Museum, but this trip took that out into the the programs. We took advantage of everything world and put it on a larger scale.” we could. Of all the institutions in Cleveland, Larry recalled, “We’ve always loved taking trips this was our favorite. We have so many fond focused on natural phenomena, but the guides memories here.” aren’t always good. You want to travel with an Joan and Dan Holmes and Sally and Larry expert who can answer all your questions. This Sears view the significant contributions was the first trip when we were really able to that each couple has made to the Museum’s do that.” Centennial Campaign as a natural extension Back in Cleveland, the couples felt a renewed of each family’s long-standing connection with interest in giving back to the Museum that has the Museum. given their families so much. They invested in These two families share similarities: Both men the Museum’s future, so the next generation— are successful retired executives, exceptionally including their own grandchildren—can enjoy passionate about their interests. Both Joan and its treasures for many years to come. Sally are librarians by training. “Our philanthropic philosophy is to make sure Each couple enjoyed frequent family the institution is well run and the money is well Museum visits over many years, and each spent,” Larry explained. “We want to contribute has experienced a pivotal trip abroad with to effective institutions that we are confident a Museum scientist. The Searses journeyed will continue to be here for a long time serving to Iceland in early 2013 with the Museum’s the community. Curator of Ornithology and Director of “It’s also obvious that the current building Science Andy Jones, Ph.D. The Holmeses doesn’t portray the image this great Museum voyaged to Kenya and Tanzania in 2005 with deserves,” he added. “The Museum has an anthropologist Bruce Latimer, Ph.D., who was obligation to be one of the prominent icons the Museum’s executive director at the time. of University Circle. It’s already so impressive in terms of its standing among natural history museums. But we need a building to reflect that in a bigger way, so that its architecture is Joan and Dan Holmes commensurate with its stature.”

11 Visitor experience

Discovery starts with curiosity. The Museum makes science accessible and brings people closer to nature. Visitors delve into the past, explore the outer reaches of the Universe and experience natural wonders—all while creating meaningful memories.

his fiscal year, more than 268,000 people Exhibits Division staff designed, fabricated and Tvisited the Museum. The Museum presented installed Explore | Live | Transform. This temporary Whales | Tohorā, a major international traveling exhibition highlights the GreenCityBlueLake exhibition from Te Papa, the national museum of Institute and opened in February. New Zealand. This awe-inspiring exhibition brought Exhibits staff designed and produced a new the world of whales to life and exposed the cultural Earthquake Simulator exhibit. The interactive and spiritual connections to these magnificent provides a more frequent “shake” interval so that mammals. Visitors were amazed by the massive, more visitors can enjoy the exhibit with less waiting. 58-foot-long fully articulated bull sperm whale The display also includes a live readout of seismic skeleton that filled Kahn Hall. activity around the world as well as recent graphs Visitors sunk their teeth into Megalodon: Largest of notable events picked up by the Museum’s own Shark That Ever Lived, a traveling exhibition from the seismic observatory. In addition, the team designed Florida Museum of Natural History. The exhibit was and produced a new volcano interactive. The exhibit mounted alongside Sharkabet: A Sea of Sharks from allows visitors to create their own volcanic eruption A to Z, an exhibition of paintings by world-renowned by controlling various factors that influence the type artist Ray Troll. and destructiveness of an eruption. Other smaller exhibitions were featured in Fawick Exhibits staff completed the design development Gallery. Nature’s Numbers and A Forest Journey from stage of the new Human Origins Gallery, including the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia, challenged the redesign, casting and articulation of “Lucy’s” young visitors to discover the nature of math through skeletal reconstruction. The new reconstruction of interactive activity stations. National Geographic’s the early human ancestor of the Australopithecus 50 Greatest Photographs from National Geographic afarensis species was unveiled along with a showcased the magazine’s most-remembered and companion lifelike sculpture when the gallery opened celebrated images and shared the stories behind to visitors in September 2013. these unforgettable images. Mysteries of the Mayan Medallion from the Museum of Discovery in Little Rock, Arkansas, took visitors on an archaeological adventure in ancient Mexico.

12 Looking toward the future, Exhibits staff completed Live animal programs continued to be among the the Museum’s interpretive master plan for the most popular visitor attractions. During the year, Museum’s Centennial Campaign building renovation more than 18,000 people enjoyed these programs. and expansion in conjunction with the architectural Special live animal programming at Holiday pre-design work. Circlefest and Discovery Day reached an additional A total of 41,600 people participated in 6,000 visitors. programming in the Nathan and Fannye Shafran Wildlife Resources staff and volunteers presented Planetarium and Ralph Mueller Observatory. The Owls and Howls, a unique event blending animal planetarium again provided a unique venue for enrichment with a children’s Halloween party, which a Winter Solstice Concert by the Almeda Trio attracted 1,250 people. In addition, the annual performed under the dome showcasing state-of-the- Groundhog Fun Day celebration entertained and art visual effects. educated 1,100 visitors and an Animal Olympics The Perkins Wildlife Center and Woods Garden event attracted 1,000. In August, the Birds, Beasts, remained a popular part of the overall visitor Brats and Beer event, offered 250 participants an experience. Many families returned time and opportunity to meet the Wildlife Resources staff and again to see the otters, bobcats, raccoons and other enjoy the live animal collection. Wildlife Resources charismatic critters in this live collection. Wildlife staff also presented two programs in the Smead Resources Division staff cared for more than 100 Discovery Center. Twice a year, visitors native Ohio animals representing 40 species in the The Museum continued to connect with visitors receive free admission Perkins Wildlife Center, Wildlife Resources Center, virtually through its website while expanding its during Holiday Circlefest Armington Raptor Center and Smith Environmental social media reach. More than 365,000 unique users and Discovery Day. This Courtyard. New animal acquisitions included a visited cmnh.org. Its Facebook fan base grew to Peregrine Falcon, two opossums, a Barred Owl, 18,700. In addition, the Museum now boasts more year more than 12,400 coyote, red fox, porcupine and bearded dragon. than 5,500 followers on Twitter and frequently visitors experienced publishes video content on YouTube. Marketing our rich exhibits and and Communications Department staff utilizes special programming on these new media to engage this active audience and foster ongoing communication to cultivate these these days. worldwide virtual visitors.

13 Education

The Museum’s educators are skilled at bringing science to all ages, from preschoolers to adults. Whether it is a summer camp for a child or a nature hike for a seasoned birder, there are endless ways to discover something new.

uring the year, Museum educators instructed The Smead Discovery Center celebrated its D75,611 schoolchildren. Based on Ohio 10-year anniversary in August. Special activities Academic Content Standards and National Health commemorated the occasion, which included a visit Education Standards, the curriculum included by benefactor and life trustee Miriam Smead. science, health and social studies. Children learned The award-winning distance learning programming in hands-on gallery, classroom, planetarium, reached a milestone this year. Staff instructed more outreach and distance learning programs as well as classes than ever before, connecting with 15,483 live animal assemblies. An additional 1,401 students students. Instructors linked to schools in 41 states participated in home school programs. and four countries: Australia, Canada, Costa Rica In the fall, the Education Division successfully and Mexico. A new program titled “Ancient Teeth launched the ambitious “Inspire: Reach Every Tell Tales: A Paleobiology Lab Experience,” was Child” program developed in collaboration with developed based on research by paleontologist the Cleveland Metropolitan School District. This Darin Croft, Ph.D., a Museum research associate. groundbreaking program provides experiential This program utilizes field tools and tooth casts that learning to the district’s second grade students who allow students to experience how Croft studies the receive instruction in the Museum’s galleries and evolution of mammals over geologic time using data outdoor Perkins Wildlife Center and Woods Garden, from fossils found in South America. and are invited to bring their families back to the The Museum received the Pinnacle Award for Museum for a special family day of exploration. 2012-2013 from the Center for Interactive Learning More than 2,600 second graders came through and Collaboration. This national award recognizes the Museum doors where they learned about outstanding performance by K-12 videoconference habitats, touched real fossils and met live native content providers based on feedback from teachers. Ohio animals. The distance learning programs have earned this

14 top award or honorable mention for the past five Student Naturalists. Additionally, field trips and years. In addition, these programs received a classes offered lifelong learning opportunities “Recommended” award from the Berrien Regional for 871 adults. Educational Service Agency, which services students Almost one-third of Education Division programs in Berrien County, Michigan. featured live animals, which were integrated into Education staff presented a videoconference session some distance learning programs as well. A total of for the Ohio Educational Technology conference 18 live animal outreach programs were presented to held in Columbus in February as well as for the 3,660 students in 15 regional schools. International Society for Technology in Learning More than 600 teachers utilized the Science conference held in San Antonio in June. The session Resource Center to supplement their curriculum. was titled, “Is that real? Onscreen Action vs. Physical The center loaned 2,659 teaching tools to enhance Classroom Connections.” the learning experience. Materials included During the year, Museum A total of 1,286 youths and families participated in thematic teaching kits, dioramas and DVDs, as educators instructed a wide variety of public programs. These offerings well as microscopes, activity guides and reference 75,611 schoolchildren. included popular Circle Sampler Camp and Junior books. In addition, 56 area teachers participated in Based on Ohio Academic Medical Camp, Tiny Trekkers parent-preschool professional development workshops. programs, and outdoor Future Scientists and Content Standards and National Health Education Standards, the curriculum included science, health and social studies.

15 Conservation

The Museum’s Natural Areas program is designed to preserve unique natural communities before they are lost to development or invasive species.

he Museum’s remarkable nature preserves serve Seven county records of butterflies Tas scientific field laboratories where curators, Seventeen county records of moths scientists, students and Museum members can discover First state record in Virginia for the Carolina nature firsthand. Saddlebags dragonfly Under the direction of Curator of Botany and Director Latest record in Virginia for the federally endangered of Conservation Jim Bissell, L.H.D., the Natural Eastern Beach Tiger Beetle Areas Division acquired 371 acres of land during the Rare Plant Finds of Interest: year, increasing the total acreage under protection by the Museum to more than 5,800 acres within 44 Stewardship efforts to remove non-native plants and nature preserves. shrubs within sand barren openings at North Kingsville Sand Barrens triggered the release of more than 100 state- In September, the division hosted its ninth annual endangered Bicknell’s geranium plants. Several other rare Conservation Symposium, “Forest Management: Seeing plants, including the rare lupine, state-threatened tufted the Forest and the Trees.” More than 250 attended the fescue sedge and state-threatened racemed milkwort, also event, which featured presentations addressing the increased in abundance in response to this work. biological consequences of manipulating forest resources. During the symposium, the Museum recognized its Five additional state-endangered spreading globeflowers Conservation Educator of the Year. germinated at McCoy Fen State Nature Preserve during spring 2013 in response to three years of stewardship efforts Conservation outreach specialists conducted 169 field trips to remove native and invasive shrubs. and visited 32 counties in Ohio for fieldwork. Fifteen trips were student field trips, attended by 240 students of all ages. A robust population of state-threatened wild rice was discovered within Long Lake Bog in Summit County. Staff fieldwork and monitoring resulted in these significant finds: New populations of the state-threatened short-fringe sedge were discovered at East Geneva Swamp. Twenty-two rare bird species, most notably the globally declining Rusty Blackbird The first occurrence of the state-endangered swamp red New populations of Marbled Salamander in and currant within Hartsgrove Township, Ashtabula County Tiger Salamander was discovered. The state-threatened Blandings Turtle The first occurrence of the state-threatened marsh bedstraw The state-threated Spotted Turtle was discovered within McCoy Fen. Five species of rare dragonflies and damselflies

16 Sustainability

Discovery starts in our neighborhoods. The Museum’s GreenCityBlueLake Institute is dedicated to creating Northeast Ohio communities that demonstrate how urban revitalization can work with nature.

n June, PNC SmartHome Cleveland became the first Throughout the year, GreenCityBlueLake Institute staff Ibuilding in Ohio to achieve Passive House certification, shaped community discussions about regional land use the world’s most rigorous building energy standard. The trends, transportation choices, stormwater and climate Passive House Institute US approved the certification after change. Beach was a member of teams that developed the SmartHome met three performance tests: Energy use a Climate Action Plan for the City of Cleveland and a for heating and cooling, total energy use for all needs regional vision for sustainable land use in Northeast Ohio. and building air tightness. The SmartHome achieved the In October, staff completed a redesign and relaunch of the certification standard in Northeast Ohio’s cold and cloudy popular GreenCityBlueLake website, a primary resource climate—one of the most challenging climate zones in the for sustainability in Northeast Ohio. The goal of the new country for a passive house. PNC SmartHome Cleveland design was to lead visitors through a three-step process of was built as an exhibit next to the Museum in early 2011. sustainability: Explore, Live, Transform. The new gcbl.org It was moved to its permanent site near University Circle is a workspace for thinking about the region’s sustainability in October 2011. The Museum sold the home in 2012, agenda. It is also a service for people seeking better ways but David Beach, director of the GreenCityBlueLake to live and opportunities to get involved to improve Institute, continued working with the owners to improve their community. the energy efficiency of the house and complete the passive house certification. GreenCityBlueLake received the 2013 Partnership Recognition Award from the University Clean Energy The Museum hosted a building with nature symposium Alliance of Ohio. in October. “Building with Nature: A Symposium to Explore the Frontiers of Green Building, Biomimicry and In October, Beach presented a lecture, “The PNC Architecture” examined the latest concepts in architecture SmartHome: Smart design for extreme energy savings” for the integration of buildings and nature. The symposium at the Association of Science-Technology Centers was intended to stimulate ideas about the potential for annual conference. new and better types of buildings in Northeast Ohio In April, Beach presented a workshop titled “Planning for that respond to human needs while restoring the Earth’s climate change in Northeast Ohio” at Climate Friendly natural systems. More than 400 people attended the event, Parks, the National Park Service workshop. including architects, landscape architects, green builders, biomimicry leaders, sustainability advocates, and college and high school students. The featured experts contributed ideas that the Museum could explore as it plans its new building in the future.

17 Science

Discovery is the driving force behind the Museum’s scientific work. From fossils of early human ancestors uncovered in Ethiopia to the flora and fauna of modern-day Ohio, the Museum’s scientific research affects our region and has far-reaching impact across the globe.

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© Julius Csotonyi

18 ARCHAEOLOGY

n June 2013, the Archaeology Department completed the final season of excavation at the IHeckelman site in Erie County, Ohio. Curator of Archaeology Brian Redmond, Ph.D., directed five seasons of field research that revealed the two-acre site to be a ceremonial center dating to nearly 3,000 years ago. Among the earthen walls and ditches, the team uncovered ceramic cooking and storage pots, animal bones, plant remains, and stone tools used for hunting and woodworking. One surprising discovery was evidence for the erection of large poles that may have been used in elaborate ceremonies, dances, and other ritual and social activities. Later occupants of the site constructed houses, some nearly 30 feet in diameter, which represent one of the earliest village settlements in the region. Beyond its research significance offering insight into Ohio’s past, the project involved education and community engagement. More than 120 volunteers participated in the project, including Museum members, college students and archaeologists from the Firelands Archaeological Research Center. Redmond published research in the Midcontinental Journal of Archaeology on a 1,000-year- old cemetery and village at the Danbury site on Sandusky Bay. Study of the spatial patterns of graves revealed aspects of kinship organization, as well as evidence for the beginnings of social inequalities among the living. Burial goods of marine shells and evidence for the use of cotton fiber indicated that these northern Ohio peoples were part of an extensive trade network that extended as far as the Gulf of Mexico and possibly the southwestern United States. The Department of Archaeology completed the transfer of archaeological collections donated from the University of Toledo more than 10 years ago. These collections signify more than 40 years of fieldwork by professional archaeologists in northwest Ohio and southeast Michigan. The collections originate from more than 480 localities and represent 13,000 years of Ohio prehistory. Among the signature objects are diagnostic materials, including finely flaked spear points, ground and polished slate ornaments and reconstructed, decorated ceramic vessels. The collections comprise several hundred thousand specimens. This accession nearly doubled the size of the Museum’s archaeology collection. Curator N’omi Greber, Ph.D., co-authored research on radiocarbon dating and an engineering study of the Ringler Dugout in the Journal of Ohio Archaeology. The 22-foot-long, white oak log dugout was recovered from a bog in Ashland County in 1976. After years of conservation to halt wood decay by research associate and co-author Katharine Ruhl and Museum staff, the dugout is now preserved and ready for future display. Radiocarbon dating revealed that the craft was made approximately 500 years ago, prior to the arrival of Europeans.

19 BOTANY

ed by Curator of Botany and Director A volunteer who curates the Museum’s moss Lof Conservation Jim Bissell, L.H.D., collection identified an endangered moss, the Botany Department and Natural Areas slender dichelyma, from the Museum’s Grand Division, in partnership with Presque Isle State River Terraces. The moss collection had been Park, Western Pennsylvania Conservancy, collected from buttonbush within Shellbark Penn State University, Ducks Unlimited and Hickory Swamp on the Bronson Creek the Pennsylvania Game Commission, removed floodplain terrace in May 2012. There are more than 170 acres of invasive plants from historical records of the moss one century ago wetlands and sand barrens at Presque Isle State north of Geneva, Ohio, and Museum staff and Park. Twenty five years ago, the department volunteers have been trying to rediscover the mapped several dozen rare plants within the Geneva Swamp population for seven years. wetlands now severely invaded with non- All other extant populations of the state- native reed grass and non-native narrow-leaf endangered moss are in southern Ohio. cattail. In September, 70 acres were sprayed Staff discovered more than 40 new rare plant, with herbicide by helicopter, which removed animal and insect occurrences on several more than half the invasive species. The dozen properties surveyed in response to remainder was removed manually. Many state- requests to the Botany Department and endangered and state-threatened plants have Natural Areas Division Conservation recovered from the seed bank where the dead Outreach Program. reed grass and cattail plants were removed. Museum inventories at Presque Isle since 1985 were the primary impetus behind this major restoration effort.

INVERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY

ith the accession of five specimens this year, the Invertebrate Paleontology Department’s Wcollection of chert pieces from grist-mill sites has reached 30 specimens. Most of these were originally embedded in plaster tops, now degraded, of millstones in Ohio. These pieces contain fossil snails and charophytes (a type of algae), as well as various sedimentary features. The charophytes are a species found in the Paris Basin, a geological region around Paris, France, and prove historic importation of this chert from France. This collection, the only such museum reference collection of well-documented fossil-bearing chert from France used in Ohio, also includes thin sections cut from some samples showing details of the fossils. Many of the specimens in this collection will be cited and illustrated in research accepted for publication by a paleontological journal. Several Kirtlandia Research Interns co-authored this study. Curator of Invertebrate Paleontology Joe Hannibal, Ph.D., co-led four field trips for geological conferences held in Cleveland and Pittsburgh. These included two two-day field trips examining the stratigraphy and depositional setting of the Ohio Shale (including the Cleveland Member of the Ohio Shale) and the rocks that overlie it, a trip examining the depositional characteristics and hydrogeology of the Sharon Formation in Akron, and a field trip exploring the geology and wines of the Grand River Valley and Lake Erie Coastal Plain. He also chaired or co-chaired sessions at scientific conferences in Mendoza, Argentina, and Kalamazoo, Michigan. Hannibal completed an eight-year term as executive secretary of the North-Central Section of the Geological Society of America. He provided oversight of the activities of this section, which includes members of the society in Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, Wisconsin, Manitoba, and part of Ontario.

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urator of Invertebrate Zoology Gavin Svenson conducted a scientific expedition CSvenson, Ph.D., conducted a scientific to Peru (Loreto Province) in February. He and educational training expedition to collected numerous insect specimens for the Rwanda (Nyungwe, Volcanoes and Akagera Museum’s general collection. In addition, national parks) in May. The trip yielded he discovered a number of new praying new collaborations and the discovery of mantis species. numerous new praying mantis records to East Svenson delivered seven lectures to the Africa. In addition, a new species of mantis general public and seven scientific lectures, collected from this fieldwork is currently being four of which were invited university described for publication. department seminars.

MINERALOGY

urator of Mineralogy David Saja, Saja organized the annual Micromineral CPh.D., collaborated with the education Symposium. This three-day event of workshops division at the Cleveland Museum of Art to and lectures attracted both amateur and create an exhibition on the use of minerals professional mineralogists from across the as paint pigments for its new Gallery One Great Lakes region and lower Canada. permanent gallery. A total of 27 unaccessioned, Saja advised two senior college students unprovenienced specimens were donated. majoring in geology at Kent State University These included a variety of 2- to 4-inch on an independent study in which they specimens of orpiment, realgar, malachite, reorganized the Museum’s igneous rock azurite, limonite, ochre, charcoal, sodalite and collection and updated its entire catalog. muscovite mica. Two other specimens were loaned for the installation, a polished specimen of lazurite from Siberia, Russia, and a chunk of massive chalk from Isle of Wight, England.

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nder the direction of Curator of collaborates with Jones on research, including UOrnithology and Director of Science DNA sequencing. Andy Jones, Ph.D., the department accepted Jones led outreach activities that included local a transfer of historical study skins and field trips and presentations. mounts from the Toledo Zoo’s collections. These include specimens collected from In spring, he co-instructed a tropical field northwestern Ohio dating from nearly a biology course at John Carroll University. century ago. This involved presenting a lecture on tropical birds before traveling to La Selva biological A full-time ornithology preparator joined station in Costa Rica for a field trip where he the department. This staff member manages introduced students to the diversity of birds weekly volunteer specimen preparation and worked with them on field projects. sessions, maintains the collection and

PALEOBOTANY & PALEOECOLOGY n June, the Paleobotany and Paleoecology Department acquired the Livingstone Pollen ICollection. This is one of the largest and most comprehensive collections of modern African pollen in the world, comprised of 35,000 microslides, approximately 3,500 photographs and index cards with specimen descriptions and classification information. The collection was compiled and donated by Dr. Dan Livingstone of Duke University. It serves as a historical record of some of the habitats in Africa that may no longer exist today due to development. Curator of Paleobotany and Paleoecology Denise Su, Ph.D., will use this fossil pollen to study and reconstruct past habitats of fossil hominins to better understand the context of human evolution. As part of her research program, Su traveled to Tanzania to curate the repatriated Mary Leakey paleontological collection to make it accessible for research by her and her colleagues. She published two papers in Nature Education Knowledge and was invited to give talks on her research in Tanzania at various institutions in Cleveland and around the country. She was also awarded a three-year $118,947 grant from the National Science Foundation to continue her field and laboratory research in China.

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he Physical Anthropology Department Haile-Selassie conducted field research in Thosted 267 academic researchers from Ethiopia. He published an article in the Journal the United States and eight countries who of Mammalian Evolution and presented conducted research on the Hamann-Todd research at a number of international Osteological Collection. Most of these professional meetings and invited venues in the researchers were graduate students, residents United States and abroad. and senior professionals in the fields of A post-doctoral fellow was hired using funds orthopedics, paleoanthropology, forensics, secured from the National Science Foundation. dentistry, plastic surgery and otolaryngology. The department continued to store copies of Haile-Selassie handled the majority of digital data (photographs and laser and CT groundwork to organize two major events, a scans) collected by researchers during their public symposium and a scientific workshop visits. Commercial use of the osteological on human evolution that took place in collection generated revenue for the Museum. September 2013. The symposium was titled “On the Trail of Lucy: A Collaborative Casting staff, in collaboration with Exhibits Exploration of Australopithecus.” It was staff, worked to reconstruct a new ribcage co-hosted by the Museum, Case Western and vertebral column for “Lucy,” the partial Reserve University, Institute for the Science skeleton of Australopithecus afarensis. The of Origins and The Leakey Foundation. reconstruction reflects the latest scientific More than 350 people attended the knowledge of hominin anatomy based on new symposium. The workshop was a closed discoveries of fossil remains of her species by session titled “The Paleobiology, Taxonomy Curator of Physical Anthropology Yohannes and Paleoecology of Early Australopithecus: Haile-Selassie, Ph.D. This new reconstruction A Collaborative Approach to Synthesizing of “Lucy” is the most accurate and complete the Evidence.” A total of 28 renowned skeletal reconstruction in the world and paleoanthropologists participated in the events. is currently on display in the new Human The workshop created a new venue in which Origins Gallery. paleoanthropology can move forward in a spirit of collaboration and data sharing.

23 VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY n October, the Canadian Journal of Earth of this time period is dominated by large ISciences published research co-authored by bodied, plant-eating dinosaurs, this important Curator of Vertebrate Paleontology Michael specimen sheds light on the diversity of small Ryan, Ph.D., describing a new species of dinosaurs and extends scientists’ knowledge of horned dinosaur from Alberta, Canada. their ecosystems. xenoceratops foremostensis was identified Also in May, Nature Communications from fossils originally collected in 1958. published research co-authored by Ryan Approximately 20 feet long and weighing describing a new species of dome-headed more than 2 tons, the newly identified plant- dinosaur (pachycephalosaur) from Alberta, eating dinosaur lived 78 million years ago Canada. Acrotholus audeti was identified and represents the oldest known large-bodied from both recently discovered and historically horned dinosaur from Canada. Xenoceratops collected fossils. Approximately 6 feet long and (Xeno + ceratops) means “alien horned-face,” weighing nearly 90 pounds, the plant-eating referring to the strange pattern of horns on dinosaur represents the oldest bone-headed its head and the scarcity of horned dinosaur dinosaur in North America, and possibly fossils from this part of the fossil record. the world. Acrotholus lived about 85 million The discovery provides new information years ago. The discovery provides a wealth of on the early evolution of ceratopsids, the new information on the evolution of bone- group of large-bodied horned dinosaurs that headed dinosaurs and suggests that there is includes Triceratops. an undiscovered, hidden diversity of small- Ryan co-authored research published in bodied, plant-eating dinosaurs. May in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology These fossil discoveries are the latest in a series describing a new small-bodied ornithopod of new finds being made by Ryan as part of dinosaur. Albertadromeus syntarsus, the the Southern Alberta Dinosaur Project that he smallest plant-eating dinosaur species © Julius Csotonyi co-leads. The project aims to fill in gaps in the known from Canada, lived in what is now record of Late Cretaceous dinosaurs and study xenoceratops foremostensis southern Alberta in the Late Cretaceous, their evolution. It focuses on the paleontology about 77 million years ago. It was identified of some of the oldest dinosaur-bearing rocks from a partial hind leg and other skeletal in Alberta, which have been studied less than elements that indicate it was a speedy runner. the famous badlands of Dinosaur Provincial Approximately 5 feet long, it weighed about 30 Park and Drumheller. pounds. Since the known dinosaur diversity

Acrotholus audeti

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nder the direction of Curator of Vertebrate Zoology Tim Matson, Ph.D., department staff Ucontinued fieldwork on several projects despite the unusually wet weather conditions of summer 2012. They took chytrid, bacterial and ranavirus swabs on adult and larval amphibians to determine presence/absence of the disease organisms and to determine infection rates. Staff and interns continued to assess movement patterns and to calculate population size of mudpuppies in the Grand River and Ashtabula River. These projects continued into spring 2013 but were curtailed dramatically by heavy precipitation that made the year one of the wettest on record. Progress was made in identifying crayfish and in cataloging this collection. Roger Thoma, the authority on crayfish in Ohio, is systematically progressing through the collection and identifying specimens while department staff is bcataloging the material into the database. Digitization of the mammal collection began over a year ago and has progressed with assistance of volunteers. This is the last of the vertebrate zoology collections to be digitized, and will require several years to complete. Department interns proofed data entered during June and added additional data from the original catalog books dating back to the 1920s. Matson reviewed and edited numerous chapters for the Amphibians of Ohio book that will be published by the Ohio Biological Survey. Matson also co-authored the chapter on amphibian conservation. The book, released in November 2013, includes more than 900 pages featuring images of species in various life stages and photographs of habitats. Identification keys for Reptiles of Ohio were prepared for the second book on the Ohio herpetofauna. In April, Matson presented amphibian research and an overview of northern amphibian distribution and natural history at the Ohio Environmental Council vernal pool conference at Plum Brook, the NASA facility near Toledo. Matson and staff from the Museum’s Natural Areas Division worked to construct new wetlands and enlarge and restore six wetlands at the Museum’s Boehm tract in Ashtabula County. The wetlands were restored or created to encourage wildlife success and diversity, especially for obligate wetland species including many amphibians. Assistant Curator Roberta Muehlheim began preparation of a paper concerning ranavirus field studies conducted in 2011 at wetlands in northeastern Ohio, including several Museum natural areas.

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28 Foundations and John L. & Nellie A. Tormey Revocable Trust $1,000-$1,499 Corporations Organizations The Trout Club of The Cleveland Museum The American Association of Museums of Natural History David S. and Robyn V. Barrie Family Fund $25,000-$150,000 $100,000+ The S. K. Wellman Foundation The Civic Development Corporation Eaton Guerdon Stearns Holden Fund Western Pennsylvania Conservancy The Garden Club of Cleveland flourish, Inc. The Murch Foundation The Gries Family Foundation The Lubrizol Corporation The Kelvin & Eleanor Smith Foundation $2,500-$4,999 Mark H. Hardenbergh Charitable Gift Fund PNC Foundation Whitney Donor Advised Fund EarthShare Ohio The Fred A. Lennon Charitable Trust Faubel Family Fund The Women’s Committee of The David and Inez Myers Foundation, $15,000-$24,999 The Harry K. Fox and Emma R. 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Saunders Charitable Lead Trust Dominion Resources $25,000-$49,999 The Sally and Larry Sears Fund Panzica/Gilbane Companies The James and Angela Hambrick $500-$999 The Veale Foundation Audubon Society of Greater Cleveland Foundation Carfagna Family Foundation The Edward A. & Catherine L. Lozick $5,000-$9,999 Cleveland Zoological Society Advanced Health Media Foundation The Katy Danco Family C Fund Anonymous (1) The South Waite Foundation The Richard Horvitz and Erica Hartman Horvitz Donley’s, Inc. The George Garretson Wade Charitable The Viking Biology Foundation Forest City Enterprises Charitable Trust Instrument in The Jack Family Charitable Fund Foundation, Inc. $15,000-$24,999 Reinberger Hall of Joseph P. & Nancy F. Keithley Foundation The Giant Eagle Foundation Grimm Family Foundation Klotzman Philanthropic Fund The Lube Stop, Inc. The Higley Fund Earth and Planetary Latham Family Fund - CHL Meaden & Moore, LTD The Kirtlandia Society of The Cleveland Stanley & Barbara Meisel II Philanthropic The Nordson Corporation Foundation Museum of Natural History Exploration is one Fund Transmedics, Inc. The Lenox Foundation, Inc. Ohio Biological Survey The Milton & Tamar Maltz Family of three identical Ohio Native Plant Society Inc. $2,500-$4,999 Foundation Peter and Sue Osenar Charitable Gift Fund Enterprise Holdings Foundation The S. Livingston Mather Charitable Trust experiments made for Jock and Janet Thompson Charitable Fund FirstMerit Bank The Sylvia and Heath Oliver Foundation the two Viking landers Town and Country Garden Club Gallagher Benefit Services, Inc. Orvis-Perkins Foundation Hyster-Yale Materials Handling, Inc. Charles L. Pack Foundation on Mars in 1976. It is $250-$499 Inside Edge Consulting Group The Perkins Charitable Foundation Lois C. Armington Donor Advised Fund McGean Thomas H. White Foundation, a KeyBank the only instrument to Drs. Glenn R. and Jeanette Grasselli Brown Ohio CAT Trust Gift Fund Osborn Engineering have ever tested for The Carlson Family Fund Yellow Dog Flyfishing Adventures $10,000-$14,999 life outside of Earth. Cleveland Astronomical Society Community Foundation of Lorain County Conservancy for Cuyahoga Valley National $100-$2,499 The Generation Foundation Anyone who would like Park Anonymous (1) The Arthur & Arlene Holden Fund of The The Andrew and Leigh Fabens Charitable Applied Industrial Technologies, Inc. Cleveland Foundation to see one of these Fund Assurant, Inc. M & J Shafran Foundation The Ginn Family Fund A Taste of Excellence United Black Fund of Greater Cleveland, Inc. instruments has two Peter Hellman Family Fund The Backpackers Shop choices—either visit Hill’n Dale Club Baker & Hostetler LLP $5,000-$9,999 William M. & Elizabeth W. Jones Fund Banchee + Raskor Jewelry Design Anonymous (1) Mars or the Museum. 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Family Fund Gift Fund Fork and Hoe Garden Club East 185th Street Plaza LLC Walter and Jean Kalberer Foundation Insul/Soss Family Philanthropic Fund Jon and Roberta Hardacre Charitable Trust Ferro Foundation Kulas Foundation Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Toby D. Lewis Philanthropic Fund Fiddlehead Gallery The Laub Foundation Foundation Master Gardeners of Summit County GE Foundation The G.R. Lincoln Family Foundation The Nature Conservancy S. and H.J. McGinness Charitable Fund Google Robert E. Mathews Family Foundation The Clara T. Rankin Charitable Endowment Mohican Wildlife Weekend Gould Electronics, Inc. William Curtis Morton, Maud Morton and Fund John B. Nolan Charitable Fund Heather B. Moore Inc. Kathleen Morton Fund Audrey and Albert Ratner Philanthropic Ohio Wetlands Association KeyBank Foundation Ohio Historical Society Fund Parkside Elementary School Microsoft The Albert G. and Olive H. Schlink The Triple T Foundation Strongsville Garden Club Neundorfer, Inc. Foundation Western Reserve Land Conservancy Trinity Cathedral Ohio Prairie Nursery Joseph M. Shafran Family Trust Wild4Ever Unitarian Universalist Society of Cleveland The Progressive Insurance Foundation Timberidge Trail Fund The Wilderness Center Proximity, LLC

29 Quinonez & Associates Lawrence Ripich Barbara H. Handke Thomas and Kathleen Leiden Rhett House Inn Clyde and Elaine Simpson The Mr. & Mrs. David P. Handke, Jr. D.E. Lima Robert Half International Inc. Estate of Ellen V. Walters Fund Melissa C. Lindsley RPM International, Inc. F. James Lloyd Superior Beverage Group of Northeast Ruth M. Chase John B. Hollister, Jr. Edward P. Markey Ohio Helen T. Anderson Nancy B. McCormack Mr. and Mrs. Richard B. Nash Takeda Pharmaceuticals The Kirtlandia Society M & J Shafran Foundation Evelyn Newell Sue and Bill MacDermott Lorna Nowve Government Barbara A. Sciulli Vernon Kalan Vivian O’Brien Shirley Badger Mr. and Mrs. Bruce W. Parker $500,000+ Shyamala Chitaley Tanya Pfahl Cuyahoga Arts & Culture Helen T. Anderson Michael J. Kangas Linda Radloff Mary Lou Ferbert Anonymous Susan Reid $100,000-$499,999 The Kirtlandia Society Assurant, Inc. Richard and Lynne Rice National Science Foundation Sue and Bill MacDermott Shirley Kangas Mr. and Mrs. Richard Rice Christine Weiss Pfeil Patrick C. Kangas Jennifer E. Saliers $50,000-$99,999 David Plottner and Nicolette Plottner Ronny Lancaster Ruth E. Schaeffer U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service Richard and Judith Schmidt Chuck and Linda Poole Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J. Schinabeck M & J Shafran Foundation Wendy Willey Shoger $15,000-$49,999 Arthur B. King Mr. and Mrs. Tim Sullivan Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District David Sanders Clark Arthur and Margot Baldwin Edward Ropes and Rosemary Szubski- William and Polly Clark Elizabeth Biggar Ropes $5,000-$14,999 Mary Agnes Fayak Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. Torok Ohio Lottery Commission Harold Terry Clark and Marie Odenkirk Clark Barbara Klein Frederick B. Unger William and Polly Clark Roger and Karen Law Mr. and Mrs. John N. Voyzey $2,500-$4,999 Robert E. Mathews Family Foundation Mr. R. M. Whiteside Geauga Park District John Terry Clark Edwin R. Motch III June E. Winold William and Polly Clark M & J Shafran Foundation Lisa and Alan Yarcusko $100-$2,499 Wallace Smith City of Mentor Parks and Recreation Mary Sanders Clark Jerry and Elizabeth Tone Ralph Perkins II Department William and Polly Clark Dr. Glenn Looman The Perkins Charitable Foundation Cuyahoga County Solid Waste Brenda K. Peters Molly Perkins Management District Edward M. Cordasco, M.D. Lake Metroparks The Kirtlandia Society Barbara K. Neagoy Marjorie W. Russell Metro Parks, Serving Summit County Anonymous Anne M. Jones Ohio Department of Natural Resources Joan J. Crossman Mr. and Mrs. Bruce M. Auer Bruce and Janeen Frank Harriet Bauer Elizabeth Wade Sedgwick Mr. and Mrs. Eric Benjamin C. W. Eliot and Linda Paine MEMORIAL AND HONOR GIFTS Edwin R. Delfs Daniel and Mary Berick M & J Shafran Foundation Memorial and honor gifts provide an Annelle Delfs James and Deborah Bissell opportunity to recognize someone who Mr. and Mrs. David J. Blocksom Dr. Howard H. Smead has made a difference in one’s life. These Bruce and Cheryl Bohner Miriam Greek Smead gifts are added to the general endowment The Science Resource Elaine M. Brandt unless otherwise designated according to Ronald and Donna Brant Mark Smrekar, Jr. the wishes of the family and/or donor. Center has provided J. W. and Emily Hodge Brasfield Mark and Melanie Smrekar Brittany Village Homeowners IN MEMORY OF Northeast Ohio Association Frances Stevenson teachers with resources Harry and Marjorie Carlson Nancy Stevenson Audrey Altschuld Janice Carlson Matthew and Tammie Alan for their classrooms CiDRA Corporate Services Doris N. Stifel Dorothy T. Clough Miriam Greek Smead John and Beryl Ann Anthony since 1986. Mr. and Mrs. Gary L. Cole Owen Lockhart College Club West Miniature Group James Szubski Jay Dee Coluccio Edward Ropes and Rosemary Nelson Bleisch Bruce W. Elliott Mr. and Mrs. David J Cook Szubski-Ropes Helen T. Anderson F. Reed and Barbara Andrews Suzanne D. D’Ettorre Esther I. Bockhoff John W. Dow Robert J. Terry Patricia Q. Breitenbach Edgar and Beth Boles Mr. and Mrs. Robert C. Ehlers Janice Terry and Donald Burke Jack and Betty Hollister William and Nancy Carpenter Harlow Eichler H. William and Diane Christ Mr. and Mrs. James D. Evans Anna Mary Winton Nancy L. Calfee Andrew and Cynthia Elliott Margaret L. Fecker Mr. and Mrs. James A. Winton, Jr. Peter W. Adams Edward and Barbara Elliott John and Kathleen Fraylick James and Deborah Bissell Barbara Martien Carol Gibb George Yanda Robert M. Calfee III Nancy Massingham Judith Gomersall Helen T. Anderson Calfee, Halter & Griswold, LLP Mr. and Mrs. Larry Pollock Catherine T. Hale Sally Conley Peter Scott and Holly Boyer Scott Bunny F. Hamister John Heerwald David and Gail Stein Vicki N. Heigel Betty Hollister Barbara Hrdlicka Anne M. Jones Robert Friedman Mr. and Mrs. Gerald L. Jenkins Ronald and Carol Mettam Elizabeth MacGowan Mr. and Mrs. Glen A. Jenkins Mr. and Mrs. Ray Murphy Joan and Melvin Kehl Robert and Janet Neary Barbara A. Haffner Stanley and Mary Ellen Klima William M. Osborne Donna Drummer Mark A. Kroenke Phyllis Patton Ekelman KeyBank William and Doris Kurz Andrew K. Rayburn Sarah C. Leimbach Shirley Lavalli

30 IN HONOR OF Marie Odenkirk Clark Mrs. Sean McAvoy Katharine Ruhl Society Wilmar D. McLaughlin* Research Associate A. Chace Anderson Mr.* and Mrs. James R. Mecredy Michael and Ruth Eppig The Marie Odenkirk Clark Society Mr. and Mrs. Joseph A. Moroski Karl O. Smith recognizes those who have participated Mr. Edwin R. Motch III Museum Associate Bruce and Ann Applegate in Museum gift-planning programs or Janet and Bob Neary Dustin Applegate those who have named the Museum as Edward Nedved* Dr. David M. Stothers* beneficiary in their estate plans. James A. Nelson* Research Associate James K. Bissell Mr.* and Mrs. Patrick O’Brien, Jr. Kate and Steve Zannoni The Society honors Marie Odenkirk Clark, William M. and Amelia S. Osborne Jean Taber a former Board of Trustees President. She Mr. C. W. Eliot Paine Museum Associate Steven Brofman was very supportive of the Museum’s Hugh* and Gretta Pallister Pamela Levine mission and dedicated to insuring its Mr. and Mrs.* Kenneth Parker Dr. Kenneth Tankersley strength in perpetuity. To that end, she Mrs. Henry Parkman Research Associate Marty Calabrese created a planned gift that continues Mr. Robert L. Ragley* Jamie and Wendy Cohen to support Museum operations and Dr. Catherine A. Rose BOTANY is a constant reminder of her love for Sanford Saul* Darin Croft and Lisa Yerian the Museum. Charles W. Saunders* Beverly Danielson Christina Yerian Mrs. Elizabeth Sedgwick* Adjunct Curator Gay Cull Addicott Mr. and Mrs. Jack H. Selby Pitt Curtiss Mrs. John O. Aicher* Dr. Beth B. Sersig Betty Koelliker Anonymous (1) Anonymous (5) Dr. and Mrs. Daniel J. Shapiro Museum Associate Brian and Susan Curtiss Katherine Gerwig Bailey Mr. Walter Sheppe Vicki Switzer and John McFarlane John H. Baird* Harold George Shrive* Diane Lucas David and Suzanne Wiggins Norma Elizabeth Battes* Dr.* and Mrs. Howard H. Smead Museum Associate Mrs. William W. Baum Mr. and Mrs. Howard F. Stirn Lauren Eickhoff Ms. Elizabeth Billings Mr. James P. Storer* Barbara Neagoy* G. Allen and Betty Kopfinger William and Samra Blanchard Ms. Lanie Strassburger Museum Associate Jane B. N. Brooke* Mr.* and Mrs.* Herbert Swanson Betty Hollister Mr. Robert Brooks Cynthia Szunyog Jack Selby* Nancy B. McCormack Dr. John F. Burke, Jr. and Jean Hower Taber Museum Associate The Hon. Nancy A. Fuerst J. Mary Taylor, Ph.D. Ruth Kotila Lainard E. Bush Mr. David R. Trowbridge EDUCATION Rich Kotila Roberta R. Calderwood* Marshall A. Veigel* Mrs. Nancy L. Calfee* Mrs. Clare Walker Mary Lou Ferbert Lucy I. Weller Museum Associate The Museum has Mr. Peter H. Calfee Dr. and Mrs. Theodore J. Castele the jaw of a juvenile Ms. Ann M. Chambers * deceased Joseph M. Shafran Dr. Shyamala Chitaley* Museum Associate mastodon that was Eunice Cohen* Helen C. Cole* ENDOWED CHAIRS PROGRAM Miriam G. Smead found when the first Kathleen S. Crawford* Museum Associate Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Danielson The Museum is one of the finest natural train system was being Mr. Ford M. Davey history museums in the country thanks, INVERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY built in the city of Mr. and Mrs.* William K. Dice in large part, to its outstanding staff. The Richard* and Irene Dodson Endowed Chairs Program is intended to Dr. Rodney Feldman Cleveland. Patricia Brown Douthitt* build on this reputation and help sustain all Research Associate Mr.* and Mrs. Frederick Ferbert department programs by underwriting the Nancy Crossman McGuinnis Mrs. Louise M. Foster salaries and expenses of department heads. Dr. Sergei I. Golovatch Bruce and Janeen Frank Mr. Kenneth C. Frase The following chairs are fully endowed. Research Associate Mariellen and Douglas Frank Mr. Lou Gaeta Theodore R. Ganger* Gertrude Haskell Britton Dr. Michael J. S. Tevesz Thomas and Katharine Morley Mr. and Mrs. William H. Gardiner Endowed Chair of Education Research Associate Spence Morley Brant C. Gebhart INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY Jon and Aimee Grimm William R. and Anne J. Cook Janet Neary William and Phyllis Gunton Endowed Chair of Mineralogy James Ciha The Higley Fund Elizabeth S. Hallaran* Research Associate Dr.* and Mrs. Shattuck W. Hartwell, Jr. John Otis Hower Endowed Chair of Archaeology Hugh and Gretta Pallister Richard A. and Jean M. Hoffman Hans Clebsch Dr. and Mrs. David Mclaughlin Sheryl L. Hoffman Honorary Associate Guerdon Stearns Holden* William A. and Nancy R. Klamm Endowed Chair of Ornithology Peter and Donna Pesch Mrs. Patience Hoskins Barbara Coleman Seda and Marina Ergun Alyce M. Jarr* Museum Associate Anne M. Jones Clyde Simpson Ms. Carol Jordan HONORARY APPOINTMENTS Dr. David J. Horn Lynne Ramsey and Jeffrey Irvine Drs. Julian* and Aileen Kassen Research Associate Mr. Donald J. Kelly ARCHAEOLOGY Harvey Webster Mr.* and Mrs.* Arthur F. Kohn William Ward Peter Hellman Family Fund Dr. Joan P. Lambros* Dr. Metin Eren Museum Associate Mr. Thomas M. Leiden Research Associate Ruthie Wolfe Margaret Clark Lester* Dr. Jerome L. Wiedmann Linda and Johnny Klein Mr. and Mrs. G. Russell Lincoln Dr. Robert Horn Research Associate Mr. Bruce A. Loomis Research Associate Kate Zannoni Mr.* and Mrs. H. Stephen Madsen Steve Zannoni Susanne S. Martens

31 MINERALOGY Dr. Johannes Thewissen Barbara K. Coleman Harry Lee Ryan Oergel Research Associate Education & Invertebrate Zoology Natural Areas Archaeology Nathalie S. Boswell Museum Associate Dr. Carol V. Ward Janet Furcello Stuart MacDonnell Alyssa Oglesbee Research Associate Wildlife Resource Center Archaeology Ornithology NATURAL AREAS Dr. Steve Ward Joe Klunder Terri Martincic Angela Peischl William Owen Research Associate Vertebrate Paleontology Natural Areas Invertebrate Zoology Research Associate Dr. Tim White Betty Koelliker Linda Sekura Pejavar Sridhar Rao Judy Semroc Research Associate Botany Botany Invertebrate Paleontology & Research Associate Invertebrate Zoology VERTEBRATE PALEONTOLOGY Dorothy Lungmus Peter J. Voudouris ORNITHOLOGY Business Office & Library Wildlife Resource Center Andrew Rockey Dr. Darin Croft Exhibits H. Thomas Bartlett Research Associate Mary Mahan 150 HOURS OF SERVICE Research Associate Museum Store Carolyn Sechnick Dr. David Evans Natalie Andras Wildlife Resource Center PALEOBOTANY/PALEOECOLOGY Research Associate Lillian Rubin Archaeology & Education Education & Paleobotany/ Rachel Shands Dr. David M. Jarzen Dr. David West Reynolds Paleoecology Nick Andras Education Research Associate Museum Associate Education Dale J. Zelinski Patricia A. Sullivan Dr. Steven R. Manchester VERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY Vertebrate Paleontology Rugaiyah Bashir Business Office & Wildlife Research Associate Education & Smead Discovery Resource Center Ralph A. Pfingsten 2,500 HOURS OF SERVICE Center PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY Research Associate Ronald Vranich Neil Heller Courtney Brennan Archaeology Dr. Berhane Asfaw WILDLIFE Education Ornithology Research Associate Haley Wightman William P. Freund Arthur S. Karn Patricia Callahan Invertebrate Zoology Dr. Cynthia M. Beall Research Associate Physical Anthropology Library Research Associate Douglas R. Young Janet Furcello Cathi A. Lehn Megan Craig Education Dr. Charles Greenwald Museum Associate Natural Areas Education Museum Associate Lou Gaeta Pauline Munk Linda Fousek The Ringler dugout canoe Dr. Terry Harrison Museum Associate Botany Development Research Associate is the Museum’s largest Dr. Albert Lewandowski 1,000 HOURS OF SERVICE Sally Gates Dr. Christopher J. Hernandez Research Associate Education artifact at 22 feet long and Research Associate Neil Burditt Dr. Jamie Lindstrom Natural Areas Katheryne M. Igo 900 pounds. Dr. Israel Hershkovitz Research Associate Education Research Associate Harry Lee C. Bushnell Olmsted Natural Areas Jodith Janes Dr. Leslea J. Hlusko Museum Associate Archives & Museum Store WOMEN’S COMMITTEE Research Associate Linda Sekura Executive Board *deceased Botany Mary Ellen Jenkins Dr. Kevin Kern Botany CJ Abood and Molly Dixon Research Associate Joseph Stanek Co-Presidents VOLUNTEERS Education Stephen Kay Dr. William H. Kimbel Education Research Associate THE KENT HALE SMITH AWARD Gilbert Jay Winer Jill Weatherhead FOR OUTSTANDING VOLUNTARY Archaeology Samantha Keum Vice President Dr. Melissa Knothe-Tate SERVICE Wildlife Resource Center Research Associate Holly Wingert Chris Sherwin William R. Frederick Education, Mineralogy & Helen Lardner Membership Chair Dr. C. Owen Lovejoy Education Invertebrate Zoology Education Research Associate Joanna Carfagna SERVICE IN EXCESS OF 5,000 500 HOURS OF SERVICE Ellen Latsko Treasurer Dr. Melanie McCollum HOURS Education Research Associate Ronald Brant Diane Johnson Jack F. Abbott Special Events Keith J. Linn Recording Secretary Dr. Robert Mensforth Archaeology & Education Vertebrate Paleontology Research Associate Steven Brofman Mary Izant Tom Bartlett Wildlife Resource Center Sarah Elizabeth Modlin Corresponding Secretary Dr. Scott W. Simpson Natural Areas & Ornithology Education Research Associate Neil Burditt Sue Divito and Barbara Webster Natalie S. Boswell Natural Areas James Moore Co-Historians Dr. Gen Suwa Mineralogy Vertebrate Zoology & Registrar Research Associate Evelyn Gelbke Betsy Stueber Archaeology Past President

Stephanie G. Graves Shauna Peffer Marketing & Communications Staff Liaison

32 The Centennial Campaign for The Cleveland Museum of Natural History (Pledges and gifts received through November 27, 2013)

We wish to acknowledge the following individuals, foundations and corporations who share our bold vision for the future of our Museum. The seminal support and early endorsement provided by these donors has played a vital role in launching The Centennial Campaign for The Cleveland Museum of Natural History.

INDIVIDUALS FOUNDATIONS

Chace and Josephine Anderson David J. Golden Frank and Frances Porter Bicknell Fund Anonymous (1) Jon and Aimee Grimm Clara T. Rankin Carfagna Family Foundation Matthew Baker James and Angela Hambrick Clay and Beth Rankin The Columbus Foundation Robert and Dalia Baker Albert Hanes and Robert Hanes Craig and Deidre Reed The Arthur & Arlene Holden Fund of The Kathleen L. Barber Arlene Holden-Loftin and Pete Loftin James and Donna Reid Cleveland Foundation David and Robyn Barrie Daniel and Joan Holmes Alayne Reitman and Jack Gasowsky The Fred A. Lennon Charitable Trust James and Victoria Bell Jack and Betty Hollister Tim and Heather Ryan The Lenox Foundation, Inc Mr. and Mrs. Michael B. Bidwell G. Richard and Ann Hunter Sally and Larry Sears The S. Livingston Mather Charitable Trust Glenn and Anne Billington Scott and Josephine Inkley Tim and Missy Sherwin Mitchell Family Fund of The Cleveland William and Katherine Bolton Anne M. Jones Miriam Greek Smead Foundation Cynthia Brabander Gordon Kinder and Ann Rowland Nathaniel and Mary Smith The Payne Fund James and Mary Bright George and Susan Klein Taylor J. Smith Pysht Fund Jane B. N. Brooke Trust Jack and Kristie Kohl Greg and Joyce Studen The Kent H. Smith Charitable Trust Frances S. Buchholzer Peter J. Krembs Betsy and Fred Stueber The South Waite Foundation Theodore and Jean Castele Craig and Kristi Latham Nelson S. Talbott Tides Foundation H. William and Diane Christ G. Russell and Constance Lincoln J. Mary Taylor, Ph.D. The George Garretson Wade Charitable William and Polly Clark Isabelle Lobe Thomas and Anne Tormey Trust Mrs. George W. Collins II William and Christian Manuel Genevieve Vranich Christopher and Rochelle Corso William and Eleanor McCoy Ronald and Kathleen Vranich Amos and Samantha Crowley R. Douglas and Laurie McCreery Leslie and Alice Webster CORPORATIONS Annelle Delfs S. Sterling and Judith McMillan Samuel and Margaret A. Weingart Matt Dolan and Jessica Hart Katherine Mitchell Michael and Carol Weiss The Lubrizol Foundation Estate of Marion J. Donohue Dan and Marjorie Moore Charles and Lucy Weller Medical Mutual of Ohio Arthur and Jane Ellison Thomas and Katharine Morley James and Deb Wert Parker Hannifin Foundation Joel and Karie Feldman Patrick and Ann Morrison Ann and Dickson Whitney, Jr. Mary Lou Ferbert Edwin R. Motch III Dickson Whitney Frederick and Marcia Floyd Robert and Janet Neary Carla and Tom Wible Richard and Mary Fratianne William M. Osborne Elizabeth Winter Michael and Catherine Gallagher C. W. Eliot and Linda Paine

Fentress Architects

33 BOARD OF TRUSTEES

2012-2013 OFFICERS STANDING TRUSTEES LIFE TRUSTEES

A. Chace Anderson David S. Barrie Betty Hollister President James R. Bell III Scott R. Inkley, M.D. William B. Bolton Anne M. Jones Claiborne R. Rankin Cynthia K. Brabander William C. McCoy Vice President James R. Bright Janet E. Neary Barbara Brown, Ph.D. Dean G. Ostrum Nathaniel T. Smith Frances S. Buchholzer Elizabeth Wade Sedgwick* Vice President Diane D. Christ Miriam G. Smead Ronald Copeland, M.D., FACS Jean Hower Taber Thomas A. Tormey Amos H. Crowley III Nelson S. “Bud” Talbott Vice President Matthew J. Dolan Barbara B. Webster Mary Lou Ferbert Jonathon L. Grimm Frederick P. Floyd HONORARY TRUSTEES Treasurer Michael E. Gallagher, D.D.S. James L. Hambrick Theodore J. Castele, M.D. Gordon D. Kinder Williard F. Harper, Ph.D. Richard B. Fratianne, M.D. Secretary John B. Hollister III, Ph.D. Priscilla P. Garretson Donald Insul George R. Klein Kristie T. Kohl Thomas M. Leiden Peter J. Krembs Robert E. Mathews II G. Russell Lincoln Julien L. McCall R. Douglas McCreery Dan T. Moore III Judith K. McMillan Edwin R. Motch III Marjorie L. Moore William J. O’Neill, Jr. Thomas M. Morley William M. Osborne, Jr. Maynard H. Murch V J. Mary Taylor, Ph.D. C. W. Eliot Paine Mary A. Weber Betty K. Pinkney, Ph.D., J.D. Dickson L. Whitney, Sr. Craig Reed Alayne Reitman EX-OFFICIO TRUSTEES Timothy P. Ryan Evalyn Gates, Ph.D. Joseph M. Shafran Executive Director & CEO Francis M. “Tim” Sherwin Greg E. Studen Christa Jo Abood Frederick G. Stueber Women’s Committee Co-President Ronald M. Vranich Molly Dixon Michael A. Weiss, M.D., Ph.D. Women’s Committee Co-President Lucy Ireland Weller

Dickson L. Whitney, Jr. * deceased

34 36th consecutive fiscal year maintaining a balanced OPERATING

budget Endowment Income Other Contributions Revenue, Support and Expenses for General Operations Operating Income

Financial Summary Other

Revenue and Support 2013 2012 Endowment Income 5,071,842 43.2% 5,273,961 43.8% Operating Income 3,010,168 25.6% 3,120,093 25.9% Contributions Endowment Contributions 2,606,488 22.2% 2,597,318 21.6% Other Support 1,058,022 9.0% 1,058,879 8.8% Total Revenue and Support $ 11,746,520 $ 12,050,251 Operating Communications/Public Services Expenses Collections & Research Income Collections and Research 4,285,425 39.2% 4,253,160 36.4% Education General Administrative Education 2,141,587 19.6% 2,327,418 19.9% Exhibits 1,776,092 16.2% 2,034,468 17.4% Exhibits Fundraising/Membership 1,645,651 15.0% 1,510,165 12.9% Restricted Purchases Communications/Public Services 241,810 2.2% 241,580 2.1% Communications/ General Administrative 701,282 6.4% 1,063,487 9.1% Public Services General Admin. Restricted Purchases 148,300 1.4% 265,491 2.3% Total Expenses $ 10,940,147 $ 11,695,769

Fundraising/ Membership Excess of Operating Revenue Collections & Research & Support Over Expenses $ 806,373 $ 354,482

Exhibits Contributions Summary Education Unrestricted for General Operations 3,664,510 3,656,197 Unrestricted Other 244,172 198,633 Restricted 5,644,683 809,175

Total Contributions $ 9,553,365 $ 4,664,005

Fundraising/Membership Restricted Purchases

35 STAFF ACHIEVEMENTS

PUBLICATIONS

Brown, C.M., Evans, D.C., Ryan, M.J., Russell, A.P. and Brinkman, D.B. 2013. New data on the diversity and abundance of small-bodied ornithopods (Dinosauria: Ornithischia) from the Belly River Group (Campanian) of Alberta. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 33(3): 495–520.

Cameron, S.L., Lo, N., Bourguignon, T., Svenson, G.J. and Evans, T.A. 2012. A mitochondrial genome phylogeny of termites (Blattodea: Termitoidae): robust support for interfamilial relationships and molecular synapomorphies define major clades. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 65(1): 163–173. doi: 10.1016/j.ympev.2012.05.034

Cullen, T.M., Ryan, M.J., Schröder-Adams, C., Currie, P.J. and Kobayashi, Y. 2013. An ornithomimid (Dinosauria) bonebed from the Late Cretaceous of Alberta with implications for the behavior, classification, and stratigraphy of North American ornithomimids. PLoS ONE 8(3): e58853. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0058853

Evans, D.E., Schott, R.K., Larson, D., Brown, C.M. and Ryan, M.J. 2013. The oldest North American pachycephalosaurid and the hidden diversity of small-bodied ornithischian dinosaurs. Nature Communications 4: 1828. doi: 10.1038/ncomms2749

Greber, N., Ruhl, K. and Greber, I. 2012. The Ringler dugout revisited. Journal of Ohio Archaeology 2(1): 16–29.

Haile-Selassie, Y. and Simpson, S.W. 2013. A new species of Kolpochoerus (Mammalia: Suidae) from the Pliocene of Central Afar, Ethiopia: its taxonomy and phylogenetic relationships. Journal of Mammalian Evolution 20(2): 115–127. doi: 10.1007/s10914-012-9207-0

Holmes, R. and Ryan, M.J. 2013. The postcranial skeleton of Styracosaurus albertensis. Kirtlandia 58: 5– 37.

Larson, D.W., Longrich, N.R., Evans, D.C. and Ryan, M.J. 2013. A new species of Neurankylus from the Milk River Formation (Cretaceous: Santonian) of Alberta, Canada, and a revision of the type species N. eximius, p. 389–405. In Brinkman, D.B., Holroyd, P.A., and Gardner, J.D. (eds.), Morphology and Evolution of Turtles. Springer, Heidelberg, Germany.

Mallon, J.C., Evans, D.C., Ryan, M.J. and Anderson, J.A. 2012. Megaherbivorous dinosaur turnover in the Dinosaur Park Formation (upper Campanian) of Alberta, Canada. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 350–352: 124–138. doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2012.06.024

Mallon, J.C, Evans, D.C., Ryan, M.J. and Anderson, J.S. 2013. Feeding height stratification among the herbivorous dinosaurs from the Dinosaur Park Formation (upper Campanian) of Alberta, Canada. BMC Ecology 13(1): 14. doi: 10.1186/1472-6785-13-14

McFeeters, B., Ryan, M.J., Hinic-Frlog, S. and Schröder-Adams, C. 2013. A reevaluation of Sigilmassasaurus brevicollis (Dinosauria) from the Cretaceous of Morocco. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 50(6): 636–649. doi: 10.1139/cjes-2012-0129

Persad, A.B., Siefer, J., Montan, R., Kirby, S., Rocha, O.J., Redding, M.E., Ranger, C.M. and Jones, A.W. 2013. Effects of Emerald Ash Borer infestation on the structure and material properties of ash trees. Arboriculture and Urban Forestry 39(1): 11–16.

Redmond, B.G. 2012. Terminal Late Woodland mortuary ceremonialism, social differentiation, and long distance interaction in northern Ohio: new evidence from the Danbury site. Midcontinental Journal of Archaeology 37(1): 99–140.

Ryan, M.J., Evans, D.C. and Shepherd, K.M. 2012. A new ceratopsid from the Foremost Formation (middle Campanian) of Alberta. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 49(11): 1251–1262. doi: 10.1139/e2012-056

Su, D.F. 2012. What is it like to be a biological anthropologist? A field paleontologist's point of view. Nature Education Knowledge 3(6): 22.

Su, D.F. 2013. The earliest hominins: Sahelanthropus, Orrorin, and Ardipithecus. Nature Education Knowledge 4(4): 11.

Wyatt, A.R., Jarzen, D.M., Hare, L. and Emery, K.F. 2012. Preliminary investigations in macro- and microbotany at Motul de San José, p.275–290. In Foias, A.E. and Emery, K.F. (eds.), Motul de San José: Politics, History, and Economy in a Classic Maya Polity. University Press of Florida, Gainesville, Florida.

TECHNICAL REPORTS

Baird, G.C., Hannibal, J.T., Wicks, J.L. Laughrey, C.D., and Mack, E.A. 2013. Stratigraphy and depositional setting of Upper Devonian Ohio black shale divisions and the overlying Bedford/Berea sequence in Northeastern Ohio: dynamic end-Devonian paleoclimatic events, sea-level changes, and tectonism interpreted from outcrop, core, and wireline logs. Field Trip 7 Guidebook for AAPG 2013 Annual Convention & Exposition.

Edger, S., Hannibal, J., and Winchell, D. 2012. Geology and wines of the Grand River Valley and Lake Erie coastal region. Field Trip Guidebook for AAPG Eastern Section 41st Annual Meeting.

Hannibal, J.T., Baird, G.C., Wicks, J.L., and Mack, E.A. 2012. Deposition and geochemistry of the Upper Devonian Cleveland (black) Shale. Field Trip Guidebook for AAPG Eastern Section 41st Annual Meeting.

Redmond, B.G. and Scanlan, B.L. 2013. A report of archaeological investigations at the Heckelman site (33Er14): 2012 Season. The Cleveland Museum of Natural History, Archaeological Research Reports No. 162.

RESEARCH PRESENTED

Alene, M., Deino, A., Saylor, B.Z., Mertzman, S., Hart, W.K., Haile-Selassie, Y., Levin, N.E. and Gibert, L.B. Geochemical and Sr-Nd-Pb isotope characteristics of Woranso-Mille Pliocene basalts, west-central Afar, Ethiopia. 24th Colloquium of African Geology; 2013 Jan 8–14; Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

Alene, M., Saylor, B., Mertzman, S., Deino, A. and Haile-Selassie, Y. 40Ar/39Ar dating and geochemistry of the Woranso-Mille Pliocene basalts, central Afar, Ethiopia. 34th International Geological Congress; 2012 Aug 5–10; Brisbane, Australia.

Baird, G.C., Over, D.J., and Hannibal, J.T. Updates concerning end-Devonian bio-sequence-and event- stratigraphy, northwest Pennsylvania and northeastern Ohio regions. Geological Society of America Northeastern Section Meeting; 2013 March 18–20; Bretton Woods (NH).

Bell, A.J., Svenson, G.J. and Cryan, J.R. The phylogeny and revised classification of Machaerotidae, the tube-making spittlebugs (Hemiptera: Auchenorrhyncha: Cercopoidea). Entomological Society of America Annual Meeting; 2012 Nov 11–14; Knoxville (TN).

Boyle, J.T., Ryan, M.J., Snively, E., Hlavin, W.J. and Scott, E.E. 2012. The jaw ontogeny of Dunkleosteus terrelli (Placodermi: Arthrodira) suggests an active predatory habit throughout growth. Society of Vertebrate Paleontology 72nd Annual Meeting; 2012 Oct 17–20; Raleigh (NC).

Campbell, J.A., Haggart, J.W., Druckenmiller, P.S., Schröder-Adams, C.J., Zazula, G. and Ryan, M.J. First record of a Cretaceous plesiosaur from the Yukon Territory. Canadian Paleontology Conference; 2012 Sept 21–23; Toronto, Canada.

Campbell, J.A., Ryan, M.J., Currie, P.J. and Langston, W. Jr. New reconstruction of the parietal morphology of Pachyrhinosaurus canadensis, a centrosaurine ceratopsid from the Campanian of Alberta. Society of Vertebrate Paleontology 72nd Annual Meeting; 2012 Oct 17; Raleigh (NC).

Cullen, T.M., Ryan, M.J., Evans, D.C., Currie, P.J. and Kobayashi, Y. Multi-element histological analysis of an ornithomimid (Dinosauria) bone bed from the Horseshoe Canyon Formation of Dry-Island-Buffalo- Jump Provincial Park, Alberta. Society of Vertebrate Paleontology 72nd Annual Meeting; 2012 Oct 17; Raleigh (NC).

Cullen, T.M., Ryan, M.J., Evans, D.C., Schröder-Adams, C.J., Capobianco, C. and Newbrey, M. Taxonomy and paleoecology of a microvertebrate site from the Foremost Formation of Southern Alberta, Canada. Canadian Paleontology Conference; 2012 Sept 21–23; Toronto, Canada.

Freeman, V.R., Hannibal, J.T., and Bartlett, W. The Mather Survey collection at Marietta College: a rare assemblage of early nineteenth-century geologic samples and its importance in interpreting nineteenth- century geologic terminology. Geological Society of America North-Central Section Meeting; 2013 May 2–3; Kalamazoo (MI).

Greber, N. The several uses of wooden posts during the Hopewell era. Annual meeting of the Eastern States Archaeological Federation; 2012 Oct 27; Perrysburg (OH).

Haile-Selassie, Y. Woranso-Mille (Central Afar, Ethiopia): a new Pliocene window into the human past. 24th Colloquium of African Geology; 2013 Jan 8–14; Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

Haile-Selassie, Y. Evolutionary trends and correlation of morphology and function in mandibular fourth premolars of early hominins. 22nd Annual Paleoanthropology Society meeting; 2013 April 2–3; Honolulu (HI).

Haile-Selassie, Y. Woranso-Mille: a new Pliocene window into the human past. Buffalo Geological Society; 2013 April; Buffalo (NY).

Haile-Selassie, Y. Ethiopia, the cradle of humanity. Menelik Foundation; 2012 Dec; Cleveland (OH).

Haile-Selassie, Y. Geology and paleontology of the Woranso-Mille, Central Afar, Ethiopia: a new Pliocene window into our past. The Ethiopian Geoscience and Mineral Engineering Association (EGMEA); 2012 July; Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

Hannibal, J.T. The connections between nineteenth-century canals, stonework, and the development of hydraulic cement in the United States as exemplified by the career of Alexander B. McFarlan (1796– 1866). Geological Society of America Annual Meeting; 2012 Nov 4–7; Charlotte (NC).

Hannibal, J.T. Guidelines for successful informal geologic walking tours and field trips. Geological Society of America North-Central Section Meeting; 2013 May 2–3; Kalamazoo (MI).

Hannibal, J.T. Quantifying trends in stone used for buildings, statuary, and other uses over time with archaeological seriation curves. Geological Society of America North-Central Section Meeting; 2013 May 2–3; Kalamazoo (MI).

Hannibal, J.T. World-wide potential for using charophytes for identification of millstones (“French buhr”) exported from France. 6th International Symposium on Extant and Fossil Charophytes; 2012 Nov 25–27; Mendoza, Argentina.

Maiorino, L., Farke, A.A., Piras, P., Ryan, M.J. and Terris, K. Evolutionary trends in the shape of the squamosal in ceratopsid dinosaurs. Society of Vertebrate Paleontology 72nd Annual Meeting; 2012 Oct 20; Raleigh (NC).

Redmond, B.G. Changes in wooden architecture through time in northern Ohio: new evidence from the Heckelman site. Annual meeting of the Eastern States Archaeological Federation; 2012 Oct 27; Perrysburg (OH).

Redmond, B.G. Structural archaeology at the Heckelman site in 2012. Semi-annual meeting of the Ohio Archaeological Council; 2013 May 3; Westerville (OH).

Redmond, B.G. Western basin tradition mortuary ceremonialism, social differentiation, and long distance interaction in northern Ohio, evidence from the Danbury site. Annual meeting of the Ontario Archaeological Society; 2012 Nov 10; Windsor, Ontario, Canada.

Redmond, B.G. and Scanlan, B.L. Intrusive mound, western basin, and the Jack’s Reef horizon: reconsidering the Late Woodland archaeology of Ohio. Annual meeting of the Eastern States Archaeological Federation; 2012 Oct 27; Perrysburg (OH).

Rivera, J. and Svenson, G.J. The mantodean egg case: evolutionary hypotheses on their functional diversity and its significance for praying mantid and systematics and phylogenetics (Insecta: Mantodea). Entomological Society of America Annual Meeting; 2012 Nov 11–14; Knoxville (TN).

Ryan, M.J. The diversity and evolution of horned dinosaurs from the northern western interior basin of North America. Paleofest 2013 Symposium—The End of the Dinosaurs: Changes in the late Cretaceous Biosphere; 2013 March 2–3; Burpee Museum of Natural History, Rockford (IL).

Ryan, M.J. and Cumbaa, S.L. The vertebral column of the pachyosteomorph arthrodire Dunkleosteus terrelli. Society of Vertebrate Paleontology 72nd Annual Meeting; 2012 Oct 18; Raleigh (NC).

Saja, D.B., Wellington Dimension Stone Collection at The Cleveland Museum of Natural History: a rare example of a well-documented collection of 20th century dimension stones. Geological Society of America North-Central Section Meeting; 2013 May 3; Kalamazoo (MI).

Saja, D.B., Gold panning: a museum field trip, educational experience, and research opportunity. Geological Society of America North-Central Section Meeting; 2013 May 3; Kalamazoo (MI).

Scott, E.E. and Ryan, M.J. A placoderm with arthrodire-inflicted bite marks from the Cleveland Shale, Ohio, USA. Alberta Palaeontological Society Seventeenth Annual Symposium; 2013 March 16–17; Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

Su, D.F. The paleoenvironment of Pliocene Laetoli (Tanzania): a synthesis of diverse indicators of habitat. Annual Colloquium of African Geologists; 2013 Jan; Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

Svenson, G.J. Phylogeny, revision, and morphological evolution within the flower mantises (Mantodea, Hymenopodidae). Entomological Society of America Annual Meeting; 2012 Nov 11–14; Knoxville (TN).

Svenson, G.J. and Wieland, F. Praying mantis revisionary systematics and the evolution of plant mimicry in the Hymenopodidae (Mantodea). The 6th Meeting on Phylogenetic Relationships within the Insect Orders; 2013 Sept; Dresden, Germany.

Tokaryk, T., Ryan, M.J. and Evans, D.E. No environmental partitioning of Ceratopsidae within the lower Dinosaur Park Formation (Campanian) faunal zone of western Canada. Society of Vertebrate Paleontology 72nd Annual Meeting; 2012 Oct 17; Raleigh (NC).

Wieland, F., Milledge, G. and Svenson, G.J. Digging for the offspring: multiple convergent evolution of digging structures in female praying mantises (Insecta: Mantodea). Society for the Study of Evolution Annual Meeting: Evolution 2012; 2012 July; Ottawa, Canada.

Wightman, H., Wieland, F., Hardy, N.B. and Svenson, G.J. Evolution of plant mimic Hymenopodidae. Society for the Study of Evolution Annual Meeting: Evolution 2013; 2013 June; Snowbird (UT).

PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS

David Beach, Board Member, Baldwin Wallace University Sustainability Advisory Council; Board Member, Cleveland Water Alliance; Board Member, Cuyahoga County Natural Resources Assistance Council (Clean Ohio); Board Member, Doan Brook Watershed Partnership; Board Member, Greater Ohio Policy Center; Board Member, Northeast Ohio Sustainable Communities Consortium; Board Member, Sustainable Cleveland 2019 Stewardship Council.

Jim Bissell, Board Member and Honorary Life Trustee, Ohio Chapter The Nature Conservancy; Board Member, Coalition of Ohio Land Trusts; Board Member, Ohio Natural Areas and Preserves Association; Chairman, Grand River Advisory Council, Ohio Scenic Rivers, Division of Watercraft, Ohio Department of Natural Resources; Member, Plant Technical Committee of the Pennsylvania Biological Survey; Member, Ohio Rare Plant Committee; Member, Pennsylvania Rare Plant Committee.

N’omi Greber, Adjunct Associate Professor, Case Western Reserve University; Board Member, Cleveland Archaeological Society.

Yohannes Haile-Selassie, Adjunct Professor, Departments of Anthropology, Anatomy, and Cognitive Sciences, Case Western Reserve University; Founding Member, Center for Human Origins, Case Western Reserve University; Associate Editor, Journal of Human Evolution; Graduate Advisor, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia.

Joe Hannibal, Executive Secretary, North-Central Section of the Geological Society of America; Secretary, Northern Ohio Geological Society; Adjunct Associate Professor, Case Western Reserve University, Department of Geological Sciences; SAGES Fellow, Case Western Reserve University; Adjunct Faculty Member, Cleveland State University Department of Biological, Geological, and Environmental Sciences; Associate Editor, Journal of Paleontology; Vice-president for North America and a member of the inaugural Board of Management, Heritage Stone Task Group of the International Union of Geological Sciences.

Andy Jones, Recording Secretary, American Ornithologists’ Union; Adjunct Member, Department of Biological, Geological, and Environmental Sciences, and Graduate Faculty, Cleveland State University; Associate Member, Department of Biology and Graduate Faculty of Kent State University; Fellow, Institute for the Science of Origins, Case Western Reserve University; Trustee, and Chair of Research Committee, Black Swamp Bird Observatory; Trustee, Winous Point Marsh Conservancy; Evolutionary Biology Advisory Committee, Case Western Reserve University; Ohio Avian Projects Initiative committee, Kirtland Bird Club.

Marc Lefkowitz, Board Member, Home Repair Resource Center.

Tim Matson, Member, Advisory Council, Ohio Biological Survey; Member, Mentor Marsh Board of Management.

Roberta Muehlheim, Adjunct Instructor, John Carroll University; Adjunct Instructor, Ursuline College.

Brian Redmond, Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, Case Western Reserve University; Adjunct Faculty, Department of Anthropology, Cleveland State University; Research Associate, Glenn A. Black Laboratory of Archaeology, Indiana University, Bloomington; Trustee, Firelands Archaeological Research Center; Chair, Publications Committee and Web-Editor, the Ohio Archaeological Council.

Michael Ryan, Research Associate, Canadian Museum of Nature, Department of Palaeobiology; Research Associate, Royal Ontario Museum, Natural History Department; Adjunct Faculty, Carleton University, Ottawa; Adjunct Faculty, Cleveland State University, Department of Geology.

David Saja, Treasurer, Northern Ohio Geological Society; Team Coordinator, Science Café Cleveland.

Denise Su, Visiting Scholar, New York University.

Gavin Svenson, Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, Case Western Reserve University; Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Biological, Geological, and Environmental Sciences, Cleveland State University; Research Associate, Department of Entomology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution; Editor, Zookeys; Special Issue Editor, Zootaxa; Member, Thomas Say Awards Committee, Entomological Society of America; Grant Proposal Referee and Panelist, U.S. National Science Foundation; Scientific Consultant, Natural History Unit, National Geographic Television and Film; Organizer, Lepidoptera Monitoring Workshop, Ohio Lepidopterist’s Society and the Cleveland Museum of Natural History.

Harvey Webster, Honorary Co-Chair, Cleveland Museum of Natural History Centennial Capital Campaign; Animal Management Committee, Cleveland Metroparks Zoo; Animal Welfare Committee, Akron Zoo; Member, Holden Council, Holden Arboretum; Board of Trustees, Audubon Society of Greater Cleveland; Member, Mentor Marsh Board of Management; Member, Dike 14 Environmental Education Collaborative; Member, Cleveland Falconcam Working Group; Member, Smart Light/Safe Flight Partnership.

PROFESSIONAL HONORS AND AWARDS

GreenCityBlueLake Institute received the 2013 Partnership Recognition Award from the University Clean Energy Alliance of Ohio.

Clyde Simpson, observatory manager, received a Solar Observer Award from the American Association of Variable Star Observers for the cumulative contribution of 1,500 sunspot observations since 1999.

Wendy Wasman, librarian and archivist, was one of 13 students from around the country selected to attend a one-week course titled “Introduction to Archives for Special Collections Librarians,” as part of Rare Book School. The course was held at Yale University June 17–21. O UR MISSION:

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