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Neaqar05.Pdf ((New England Aquarium)) Annual Report 2005 ((Letter to our Supporters )) Dear Friends of the New England Aquarium: In 2005, change was all around us at the New England Aquarium. One of us, Bud, took the helm as the Aquarium’s new President and CEO in September, ready and eager to lead the Aquarium forward. We welcomed three new trustees and eleven new overseers to our two boards, adding a great deal of experience and passion for the Aquarium’s mission to present, promote and protect the world of water. Down on Central Wharf, we introduced a terrific series of theme programs (Sharks: Tales and Truths and Turtle Trek) to give visitors a whole new way to experience our exhibits. We made significant progress in modernizing key structural components of the Aquarium, saw attendance increase three percent over 2004, and continued to strengthen our finances by finishing the year with an operating surplus. We also watched the Boston waterfront take on new life as the Rose Kennedy Greenway finally began to rise from the dust and clutter of the Big Dig. Equally important, we extended the reach of our pioneering marine conservation programs, continued our longstanding efforts to protect the North Atlantic right whale, Kemp’s ridley seaturtle and other endangered species, and forged exciting part- nerships with businesses to provide consumers with seafood harvested from well-managed stocks throughout the world. All of these developments give us great confi- dence in the Aquarium’s future, and have helped lay the groundwork for a new five-year Action Plan that will be completed by the end of 2006. None of this could have been accomplished without the help of the Aquarium’s incredibly dedicated staff, ever- growing membership, generous support of many foundations, and loyalty of our wonderful contribu- tors. For that we are most grateful! Sincerely, Bud Ris President and CEO R. William Burgess Jr. Chair, Board of Trustees Contents (2) Programs and Exhibits (4) Marine Animal Health and Rescue (6) Global Marine Programs (8) Research (10) Education (12) Thank You to our Volunteers (13) Year-End Financial Summary (16) Philanthropic Support (25) New England Aquarium Corporation (26) Publications and Papers (28) Aquarium Staff Listing Photo credits: (front cover, coral, sea star) Emre Turak. (front cover, seahorse) Kindra Clineff. (inside cover) Kindra Clineff. (2, sharks) sharkwater.com, (2, turtle) Kindra Clineff, (2, building) Eun Jung Ree. (4, leatherback turtles) Cristina Santiestevan, (4, Kemp’s ridleys) Sarah Bean. (5, card illustrations) Third graders at Montclair School, Quincy, MA. (6, divers among coral) David Doubilet, (6, corals) Emre Turak. (7) Emre Turak. (8, researcher) John Swift. (9, butterflyfish) Roger Steene. (10, top two photos) Tony Rinaldo. (11) Seapics.com. (12) Joanna Rothman and Rhiannon Lewis. (16) Lindsay Schiavoni. (17, corals) David Doubilet. (17, clownfish) Tim Werner. (18) Cristina Santiestevan. (19) Kindra Clineff. (20, Rockefeller) Dianne E. Delucia. (20, Benchley) Lindsay Schiavoni. (22) Courtesy of IMAX Corporation. (24) Jonathan Kannair. (back cover) David Doubilet. Programs and Exhibits ()2 470NEA_T1_3 5/2/06 10:28 PM Page 3 ((Programs and Exhibits)) and strengths to designed new science and math create a successful activities for young visitors, and program. The team this space will be a focal point for took advantage of our family programs in the Aquarium existing collections and main building. the expertise of Aquarium The Aquarium is working During the summer of 2005, staff—and successfully attracted toward many goals for 2006 and the New England Aquarium new visitors, increased our overall beyond. Raising approximately $5 launched a new and innovative attendance and achieved our edu- million for a new sea lion exhibit programming approach, cation goals, while saving the is a high priority. The Aquarium’s beginning with Sharks: Tales expense of bringing in a temporary four sea lions are being temporarily and Truths. By combining inter- exhibit or acquiring new animals. relocated while the design, fund- active activities, specially trained In November 2005, we raising and construction of the educators (the Shark Team), unveiled the second theme pro- new exhibit takes place. The new take-home materials (a Shark gram: Turtle Trek. This program design features more natural light, Passport), and an IMAX film (the coincided with seaturtle stranding increased space, less noise, more wildly popular Sharks 3D), we season, when endangered seaturtles opportunity for social interaction drew attention to our collection recuperate in our medical center, among the animals, and increased of sharks and shark relatives that which is visible to visitors. Turtle visitor interaction with the live throughout the Aquarium Trek combined strong conserva- animals and trainers. and presented it in a new way to tion themes (all seaturtles are engage people of all ages. endangered), real-life activity in Sharks conveyed several our medical center (including the themes: sharks are interesting; viewing of baby turtles hatched there are many different kinds here), several interactive compo- of sharks; sharks are threatened nents, a web-based activity that by man and are not nearly as encouraged visitors to continue dangerous to man as people learning at home, and evening think; and there are things people lectures by professionals working can do to help protect sharks. to protect turtles. Exit interviews show that the In April 2005, we held an majority of visitors left with a official opening for the Curious basic understanding of these George Discovery Corner on the concepts. first floor of the Aquarium, thanks 3 Many staff members repre- to support from the Curious () Annual Report senting several departments George Foundation. This bright planned and executed this pro- space includes a carpeted stage and gram. From education to animal fun corner, crawl-through entry for husbandry, conservation, market- kids, a 37-inch plasma screen for ing, communications and design, presentations, DVD/VCR player 2005 our Theme Team combined goals and a flex cam. Education staff Marine Animal Health and Rescue ()4 470NEA_T1_5 5/2/06 10:28 PM Page 5 ((Marine Animal Health and Rescue)) its open-ocean animals coming ashore within a habitat, Aquarium short period of time, sometimes staff designed an over a large geographic area. The in-water restraining stranding event triggers a cascade vest to keep it from of physiological changes in the colliding with the tank animals, often culminating in a Several unique and important walls and injuring itself. The state of shock, which can become events led to a busy year for the invention of the harness will debilitating and life threatening. animal health department (AHD) likely affect the future of Thanks to funding from the and the rescue and rehabilitation leatherback rehabilitation. Prescott Stranding Grant, we were department at the Aquarium. Although the leatherback able to perform the first satellite On October 31, the did not ultimately survive due to tagging of a beach-released, mass Aquarium rescued a 380-pound a severe fungal lung infection, stranded dolphin that we are sub-adult leatherback seaturtle the collaboration between the aware of. We have also successfully from a beach in Dennis, MA, veterinarians and the rescue team tracked two beach-released dol- after the turtle stranded there two contributed a great deal of new phins from separate mass stranding days in a row. This was an historic information to what we know events and have funding to tag event. Leatherbacks are the about these rare creatures. We are more animals. world’s largest turtle, with some extremely proud of our response Other notable events includ- adults weighing as much as a ton. and our contribution to the knowl- ed the hatching of six yellow- They are critically endangered, edge base about this rare animal. spotted Amazon River turtles in and their primary habitat is the One large step forward in the Aquarium’s Animal Medical open ocean, so strandings of even our seaturtle program was our Center and the successful rescue dead leatherbacks are rare. Little post-release monitoring of an and rehabilitation of a severely ill is known or published about their endangered Kemp’s ridley and a and wounded female grey seal. health status. Almost all of the threatened green seaturtle. We leatherbacks that have stranded began satellite-tagging turtles on Cape Cod in the past 25 years upon their release into the ocean were near death, usually from to provide insight on how the ani- injuries due to boat strikes or mals fare once they return to their entanglement in fishing gear. natural environment. The project The turtle was thin, lethar- is currently providing information gic and showed signs of distress. on survivorship, habitat use, migra- It was clear that the animal was tion routes and dive behavior. critically ill, but not clear why. We responded to a number of 5 () Once back at the Aquarium, staff mass stranding events throughout Annual Report worked around the clock to per- 2005. Mass strandings of whales form full diagnostics and treat or dolphins are extraordinary, cata- the animal with antibiotics and strophic events that present many fluids. Since the turtle was not challenges. In Cape Cod Bay, they 2005 accustomed to boundaries in often involve large numbers of Global Marine Programs ()6 ((Global Marine Programs)) around the world the Aquarium’s project in Kiribati covered this story. to conserve coral reefs. WOW We
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