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Annual Report 2002-2003 The Florida Museum of Natural History is Florida’s state museum of natural history, dedicated to understanding and preserving biological diversity and cultural heritage.

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Editor: Paul Ramey, APR Editorial Assistant: Kristin Ede Contributing writers: Betty Camp, Ph.D. Darcie MacMahon Susan Pharr David Steadman, Ph.D. About the cover: Design: Cindy McMillen Invertebrate Paleontology Collection Manager Roger Portell collected this Printing: StorterChilds 3-million-year-old carnivorous snail, Ecphora quadricostata, from a Photography: Charlotte County shell quarry. Jeff Gage Photo by Sean Roberts Tammy Johnson Scott Mitchell Matyas Buzgo Carlton Ward from “Gamba: The Edge of Africa” Sean Roberts John Slapcinsky Andrei Sourakov DIRECTOR’S MESSAGE

Already affected by shrinking endowment portfolios, an alarming number of state and university natural history museums came under assault this year as state legislatures across the country scrambled to deal with sizable revenue shortfalls. Many museums faced budget reductions, down-sizing, and in a few cases, outright elimination. The severity of the situation was reported widely in the press as the museum community tried to rally support, led by organizations such as the Natural Science Collections Alliance and the American Association of Museums. Against this bleak backdrop, I am pleased to report the Florida Museum of Natural History experienced one of its finest years ever. A very supportive and creative university administration helped us weather the third straight year of cuts to the university budget while our researchers and educators brought in a record total of external grant funding. As a result, 2002-2003 had a multitude of highlights. On Oct. 5 we opened our second permanent exhibition hall, “South Florida People and Environments,” which is not only breathtakingly beautiful, but also enormously popular. In the fall, construction commenced on McGuire Hall, our exciting new home for Lepidoptera and environmental studies. The McGuire Family Foundation pledged an additional $3 million in late 2002 to create the McGuire Institute for Biodiversity and the Environ- ment at the museum. This wonderful gift galvanizes our research and educational thrusts in this arena, consistent with the biological and environmental science emphasis identified in the University of Florida strategic plan. In February the museum hosted “Passport to the Groovy ’60s,” a very popular and highly successful, ‘far-out’ fundraiser organized by the Museum Associates. The museum then joined in the celebration of the university’s sesquicentennial (1853-2003) by planning a huge 150th birthday party and million-dollar fundraiser, “Party on the Plaza,” with its neighbors at the UF Cultural Plaza – the Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art and the Curtis M. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts. A notable highlight in spring 2003 was the opening of “The Pearsall Collection of American Indian Art: 40th Anniversary Selections” produced by guest curator Sandra Starr. This fabulous exhibition features more than 200 of the finest pieces from the museum’s Leigh Morgan Pearsall Collection, many of which have never been exhibited. The exhibition will remain on display indefinitely. At the museum’s Randell Research Center in Pineland, we broke ground on our new teaching pavilion, interpreted trail and parking lot. These much-anticipated site improvements will enable Drs. Bill Marquardt, John Worth, Karen Walker, and the rest of the museum team in Southwest Florida to share the unfolding mysteries of the Calusa with students, Floridians and tourists from all over the globe. Distinguished Research Curator of Vertebrate Paleontology Dr. S. David Webb retired in June 2003. Friends, colleagues, and former students gathered in May for “WebbFéte” to celebrate Dave’s brilliant 39-year career at the museum. Fortunately for us, Dave plans to spend at least part of each year in Gainesville, dividing his time between Florida and Montana. And despite the university’s budgetary challenges, the museum was able to hire a replacement for Dave as well as fill a long-standing vacancy by hiring a new assistant curator of mammals. Both new faculty members will arrive in 2003-2004. Speaking of new faculty, we welcomed Dr. Scott Robinson from the University of Illinois to the museum this year. Scott holds our Eminent Scholar Chair as Ordway Professor of Ecosystem Conservation, the position formerly held by Dr. John Eisenberg. In these complex economic times, when many of our sister institutions across the nation are struggling for survival, the Florida Museum of Natural History remains healthy and vigorous. By focusing on the core elements of our mission and performing at a consistently high level, I believe we can predict many more highlights in the year ahead.

Douglas S. Jones, Ph.D. Director, Florida Museum of Natural History

Florida Museum of Natural History Annual Report 2002-2003 1 COLLECTIONS AND RESEARCH

Archaeology, Ethnography, guished research curator David Webb and site of Mayapan in Museum Studies his students and colleagues. Ceramicist Ann Yucatan, Mexico. She also visited Cordell completed investigations of pottery Mayapan in July 2002. Along with museum Kitty Emery, assistant curator of and clay samples from archaeological sites in registrar Elise LeCompte, Milbrath oversaw Environmental Archaeology, did field work at Volus ia, Polk and Lee counties. the move of the museum’s ethnographic the Mayan site of Motul de San Jose, collection from the first floor to improved Guatemala, with a focus on how the ancient Curator William Marquardt saw space on the third floor. This will allow for Maya interacted with plants and animals. completion of our permanent exhibit South badly needed expansion of archaeological Along with collection managers Irvy Florida People and Environments, based in collections on the first floor of Dickinson Quitmyer and Sylvia Scudder, large part on research that he, Karen Walker, Hall, a process that we hope to complete archaeobotanist Donna Ruhl and assistant John Worth and colleagues have completed at during 2003-04. Some 211 objects from the scientist Karen Walker, Emery’s Environmen- the museum’s Randell Research Center on Pearsall Collection of North American Indian Pine Island in Lee County. The Randell tal Archaeology team has made great Artifacts were put on display at Powell Hall. A Research Center received major support this progress in analyzing soils, plants and both grant of $14,920 from the John S. and James year from the Maple Hill Foundation marine and terrestrial animals throughout L. Knight Foundation and the Pew Charitable ($60,000) and the National Endowment for the Caribbean region (Florida, West Indian Trusts allowed 300 artifacts in the Pearsall the Humanities ($200,000). islands, Middle America). These studies help Collection to be catalogued and digitally us understand complex prehistoric changes Curator William Keegan completed a photographed. in climate, sea level, soils, forest cover and second year of archaeology on St Lucia in Curator Charlotte Porter spearheaded animal populations. collaboration with Corinne Hofman and our involvement in the UF Museum Studies Menno Hoogland of the University of Leiden, Our program in Historical Archaeology Program by teaching courses on exhibitry The Netherlands. Other research on continues to investigate early Spanish and museum writing, as well as a course on Caribbean archaeology by Keegan, his settlements in Florida (St. Augustine) and natural areas for the UF Honors Program. students and colleagues involved prehistoric the Caribbean. Distinguished research Continuing her research on the history of depletion of animal populations in the Turks curator Kathleen Deagan received a $48,620 science and exploration in Florida, Porter and Caicos Islands and detailed analyses of grant from Discovery Communications Inc. also was involved with a number of exhibits, artifacts and faunal remains from Jamaica. to investigate La Navidad, which was lectures and other forms of outreach on this An ongoing series of popular articles in the Christopher Columbus’s 1492 fortress in topic around the state. Porter was selected as magazine Times of the Islands is making the Haiti. She and collection manager Al Woods a founding member of the UF Libraries prehistory of the rapidly developing Turks surveyed and excavated this site for two Leadership Board. Along with Wayne King, months during the summer of 2003. A grant and Caicos Islands much more accessible to curator of Herpetology, she edited a major of $84,000 from the National Endowment for residents and visitors alike. collection of research papers in the Humanities will allow Woods and Deagan Susan Milbrath, curator of Latin zooarchaeology to honor Elizabeth Wing, to create an on-line digital type-collection for American Art and Archaeology, published a who retired from the museum two years ago historic artifacts. Digital photography of the major review paper on the prehistoric Mayan but remains active in research. ceramics already is completed. After 28 years of outstanding research and writing about Florida archaeology, curator Jerald Milanich began phased retirement this year. His writing projects have not diminished, however, and we can look forward to a continued flow of books and articles by Milanich well into the future, on topics ranging from Florida’s first peoples more than 12,000 years ago (Paleoindians) to historic issues such as the Black Seminole project. Collection manager Scott Mitchell began to curate and install the Aucilla River collection of Paleoindian artifacts made of bone, ivory and stone collected by distin- 2 Collections and Research The 2002-03 fiscal year was one of unprecedented research and curatorial activities at the Florida Museum of Natural History. Dickinson Hall is where nearly all of the museum’s more than 20 million objects are housed along with the associated field notes, photographs, databases and libraries that enhance their irreplaceable scientific value. living and fossil gopher The museum’s world-class curators and collection managers brought in more than $2.2 tortoises in Florida, as well as million in new grants to support research, to care for the collections properly and to educate the extinct giant tortoises in University of Florida’s undergraduate and graduate students and the public. While the museum’s Florida and the West Indian primary geographic strengths are in Florida, the Southeastern U.S. and the Caribbean, the islands. collections and research programs span the globe to include every continent and nearly every island group on earth. Most of the collections of plants, animals, fossils and artifacts rank among Assistant scientist Perran Ross, along the top 10 in the United States if not the world. with curator Wayne King, runs the Crocodile Through studies of DNA, anatomy, ecology, behavior, paleontology and evolution of plants Specialist Group for the IUCN-World and animals, the museum’s curators, collection managers and students are the front line of Conservation Union. While serving as a understanding life on earth. Similarly, the research by museum archaeologists and their students clearinghouse for conservation-related is uncovering new information about how cultures have changed through time. We are proud to information on the world’s 23 species of serve the citizens of Florida and surrounding states as the Southeast’s largest natural history crocodiles, alligators, caimans and gharials, museum. We thank our diverse benefactors for their support, and we look forward to another Ross and his students also engage in original year of exciting research, discovery, curation and teaching at the University of Florida. research, such as their current studies of nutrition, growth, pathology, toxins and David W. Steadman, Ph. D mortality of alligators in Florida, especially Assistant Director, Collections and Research in Lake and Volusia counties. Through a number of public and private sources, Ross Vertebrate Zoology biological information to be used in received $233,588 in new funding for his With funding from the National Science management programs for sharks. In programs. He also spoke at a conference in Foundation, James Albert, assistant curator museum laboratories, our shark researchers Argentina about the conservation and of Ichthyology, continued to study freshwater began a long-term study of age, growth and sustainable use of crocodiles. fish of Amazonian Peru along with assistant life history patterns of several large species Ornithology curator David Steadman scientist William Crampton. Aside from of coastal sharks. The Ichthyology web site, was part of an eight-scientist team that surveying and analyzing this very rich as coordinated by shark research program received a 5-year, $2 million grant from the though poorly known fish fauna, Drs. Albert webmaster Cathy Bester, continues to be the National Science Foundation to study the and Crampton are describing a number of museum’s most popular web site, largely evolutionary relationships of birds new species, especially electric fishes. The because of the International Shark Attack worldwide as part of NSF’s fish collection received another year of File. The site received nearly 2 million visits “Asse mbling the Tree of Life” curatorial support from the National Science during the past year. program. Collection Foundation, through a proposal written by Herpetology curators Wayne King and managers Andrew Albert and Florida Program for Shark Max Nickerson, along with collection Kratter and Tom Research director George Burgess. With a lot manager Kenneth Krysko, surveyed Webb er, al ong w it h of hard, carefully planned work by collection amphibians and reptiles in Florida in 22 Steadman, led a manager Rob Robins and his staff, the NSF- counties from the Panhandle to the Keys. number of funded curatorial goals are being met and Aside from monitoring the status of native birdwatching trips the entire fish collection now is consolidated species, Drs. King, Nickerson and Krysko also to exciting places in a single, expanded space that greatly discovered new populations of exotic (non- within a 100- improves its access to researchers. Adjunct native) toads, frogs, lizards, snakes and mile radius of curator Larry Page submitted a 5-year grant turtles, especially in South Florida. This is a Gainesville. proposal for $4.7 million to the National potentially troubling situation for the native Kratter, Steadman Science Foundation to study the world’s species. Nickerson studied hellbenders (a and graduate catfishes, as many as 1,000 species of which giant aquatic salamander), turtles and student Jeremy Kirchman remain unknown to science. cottonmouths in Missouri, Tennessee and surveyed birds in the Through major funding ($821,155), North Carolina. The Herpetology collection rainforests of Vanuatu, a remote especially from the Commercial Shark received a $232,850 grant from the National and poorly studied island group in Fishery Program of the U.S. Department of Science Foundation to be part of a continent- the South Pacific. Kratter, Steadman and Commerce, the Florida Program for Shark wide network of specimen-based informa- Webber received a $47,477 grant from the Research greatly expanded its staff, facilities, tion on amphibians and reptiles. Associate Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation research and outreach this year. Director scientist Richard Franz excavated a number Commission to expand their statewide George Burgess sent observers aboard of 30-million year old fossil tortoises in network of wildlife rehabilitation clinics from commercial fishing vessels to gather Nebraska and Colorado. He also studied which they salvage bird specimens. Through Florida Museum of Natural History Annual Report 2002-2003 3 COLLECTIONS AND RESEARCH continued

this program they are developing a database on the sources of bird mortality in Florida, as well as documenting seasonal and geographic data on rare or little known birds across the state. Our Mammalogy program received a major boost with the hiring of David Reed, who received his Ph.D. at Louisiana State University and currently is a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Utah. Reed, who studies the co-evolution of mammals and their external parasites, will begin his career at the museum as assistant curator of Mammalogy in March 2004. In the mean- time, collection managers Candace Invertebrate Zoology McCaffrey and Laurie Wilkins kept the Jacqueline and Lee Miller, curators of taxonomic studies of freshwater and land Mammalogy program vigorous through Lepidoptera, had a very busy year snails included field work in Tennessee salvaging and preparing a number of very preparing for the move in early 2004 of and Mexico. Paulay received important specimens ranging from bats and their offices, laboratories and more than $342,099 from the National native mice to whales and endangered one million specimens of butterflies and Science Foundation to study Florida panthers. moths from the Allyn Museum in Sarasota the biodiversity and evolu- to the museum’s new McGuire Center for tionary history of tropical Our collections and research in Lepidoptera and pacific reef invertebrates. Ver tebrate Paleontology had a year of great Environmental Along with graduate and activity and transition. After 39 years of Research. In spite of post-doctoral students, outstanding scholarship and service, this, the Millers found Paulay completed marine distinguished research curator David Webb time to complete butterfly biodiversity surveys in retired in June 2003. While it is hard to surveys in the Bahamas and the Taiwan, Palau and Guam. His mono- imagine how our museum, or the last 20 Netherland Antilles, as well as graph on marine biodiversity of Guam, million years’ worth of Florida mammals, their multi-year studies of butterflies published in 2003, sets a new, high will get along without Webb, we successfully in Manatee and Sarasota counties. The standard for biodiversity inventories sought and hired an able replacement. Millers are world authorities on two worldwide. Jonathan Bloch, a Ph.D. and post-doctoral butterfly families, the Nymphalidae fellow from the University of Michigan, will The museum’s Invertebrate Paleon- (Satyrinae) and Castniidae, new species of join the museum as assistant curator of tology collection grew by leaps and which they continue to discover in the Vertebrate Paleontology in June 2004. Bloch bounds this past year, through National field and in museum collections. Retired studies the early evolution of primates, bats Geographic Society-sponsored field efforts UF Zoology professor Thomas Emmel has and insectivores. The Vertebrate Paleontology by collection manager Roger Portell (in been hired as director of the McGuire collection grew through field work at Tyner Florida, Jamaica, Bonaire and Curacao) as Center. Combining several major butterfly Farm and the LaBelle Highway Pit by well as fossils donated by colleagues and and moth collections, the McGuire Center collection manager Richard Hulbert, volunteers. Portell’s studies of fossil crabs, will house more than three million biological scientist Art Poyer and many sea urchins, brachiopods, sponges and specimens and soon become the second volunteers. Preparator Russell McCarty and other marine invertebrates are showing largest Lepidoptera collection in the world. his volunteers worked mainly on fossil rhinos how much the overall marine fauna of from Tyner Farm and other sites. Curator Invigorated by major new funding Florida and the Caribbean has changed Bruce MacFadden led productive fossil- and additional staffing, the museum’s over the past 20 million years, even though collecting trips to Nebraska and to the Malacology program had an outstanding some types of crabs have in fact changed Thomas Farm site in Gilchrist County. He year. Curators Fred Thompson and Gustav very little during this time. Curator also began a project on Miocene fossil Paulay received $224,383 from the Douglas Jones is building on his stable mammals from the Panama Canal Zone. UF National Science Foundation to computer- isotope studies of growth in fossil clams to undergraduate student Jeremy Green ize new collections of tropical and look at seasonality of archaeological completed a senior thesis on the paleobiology subtropical mollusks. Thompson’s coquina clams in Florida. of the American Mastodon in Florida. 4 RESEARCH LOCATIONS

Botany Herbarium curator Norris Williams and collection manager Mark Whitten surveyed orchids in the rugged southwestern part of the Dominican Republic in July 2002. Williams received a $300,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to FLORIDA COUNTIES study the evolution of neotropical orchids and their pollinators. Alachua Escambia Leon Pinellas Whitten and Williams are world authorities on the relationships of Bay Flagler Levy Polk neotropical orchids and related families of plants, based mainly on Brevard Gilchrist Liberty Putnam Broward Gulf Manatee Santa Rosa analyzing DNA sequences. Collection manager Kent Perkins has Calhoun Hamilton Marion Sarasota developed an online catalogue of the Herbarium’s collections, Charlotte Hendry Martin St. Johns including more than 1,000 beautiful color photos of 677 species of Citrus Hillsborough Monroe St. Lucie plants. Studies of the 420,000 specimens in our Herbarium resulted Columbia Holmes Nassau Suwannee in at least 100 scientific publications by scientists worldwide over Collier Indian River Okeechobee Taylor Dade Lake Orange Volusia the past year. Duval Lee Palm Beach This was the first full year of research in the museum’s Laboratory of Molecular Systematics and Evolutionary Genetics, States headed by curator Pamela Soltis and professor Douglas Soltis of Alabama Georgia Missouri North Dakota UF’s Botany Department. The Soltises, their many graduate Arizona Illinois Montana Oregon students and post-doctoral fellows, and collection manager Arkansas Michigan Nebraska South Dakota Matthew Gitzendanner, had a superb year of scholarly activities. California Minnesota New Mexico Te nne ssee Colorado Mississippi New York Washington With support from four large, multi-year, multi-investigator grants North Carolina Wyoming from the National Science Foundation, they studied genome evolution and diversification in plants. The Soltises also continued Countries an exciting collaboration with our Paleobotany curators David Argentina Federal States of Palau Dilcher and Steve Manchester to combine molecular and fossil Bahamas Micronesia Panama information to produce the most thorough look ever at the origin Brazil Fiji Papua New Guinea and evolution of flowering plants. Soltis, Soltis and Gitzendanner Canada Guam Peru Philippines also are documenting the genetics of endangered species and China Guatemala Costa Rica Haiti Russia populations and using DNA sequences as a tool for understanding Cuba Jamaica St. Lucia hybridization in wild plants. Dominican Republic Mexico Spain Taiwan With major support from ongoing National Science Founda- Ecuador Netherland England Antilles Trinidad & Tobago tion grants, the museum’s Paleobotany program, spearheaded by Vanuatu graduate research professor David Dilcher and curator Steve Manchester, made great strides in understanding the evolution of Teaching flowering plants in North America, Europe and Asia. Dilcher, ANG 5172 Seminar in Historical Archaeology, 3 credits working in the field and laboratory with Chinese colleagues and ANG 4950 Internship in Museum Curation, 3 credits museum biologist Terry Lott, expanded his study of Archaefructus, ANG 6930 Lessons from Ancient Environments, 3 credits the earliest (120 million years old) known flowering plant. ANG 6224 Painted Books of Ancient Mexico, 3 credits Manchester investigated early forms (20 to 60 million years old) of BOT 5115 Paleobotany, 3 credits BOT 6960 Special Topics in Paleobotany, 3 credits familiar trees such as hackberries, willows, birches, sycamores and BOT 5625 Plant Geography, 2 credits walnuts, including field work in North Dakota, Wyoming, Montana IDH 3931 Natural Areas: Heritage and Responsibility, 3 credits and Alberta. We were delighted to hire Hongshan Wang as Paleo- PCB 6605 Principles of Systematic Biology, 4 credits botany WIS 4945C Wildlife Techniques, 2 credits collection ZOO 6927/4926 Herpetology, 4 credits ZOO 6927 Integrated Principles, 4 credits manager. ZOO 4674 Evolution, 4 credits Wang is an ZOO 5115 Vertebrate Paleontology, 4 credits outstanding ZOO 6556 Ichthyology, 4 credits replacement ZOO 6927 Island Biogeography, 3 credits for the sorely GRADUATE COMMITTEES CHAIRED: 52 missed David INDEPENDENT STUDIES: 51 Jarzen.

Florida Museum of Natural History Annual Report 2002-2003 5 Education

Programs for Students Teacher and Adult Education More than 4,500 students participated in Nearly 150 educators attended the docent-led museum tours that featured the Educators Open House, a collaborative “Tusks! Ice Age Florida’s Mammoths and program of the UF Cultural Plaza museums Mastodons” and “The Pearsall Collection of and School Board of Alachua County. A American Indian Art: 40th Anniversary teacher workshop on ecological sampling Selections” exhibitions. Outdoor tours included techniques for forest vegetation and reptiles and amphibians was conducted at the Ordway “Stayin’ Alive” (grades 3 & 4), “Sensing Nature” Preserve. Head Start teachers participated in workshops on the MESS “Tool Kit” (science (K), “Eye on Insects” (grades 1 & 2, fall), and resources placed in every classroom) and the new MESS Kits. “Green Machines” (grades 1 & 2, spring). A new For the first time, we taught a “Florida Master Naturalist Freshwater Wetlands Class” for preschool tour of the “Tusks!” exhibition was 15 adults. The goal of this extension program is to encourage Floridians to learn more about offered. All student materials are integrated Florida’s special ecosystems and to share their knowledge with others. The museum class across the curriculum and correlated with participants worked with the K-fifth-grade students in our spring break class, “Wet, Wild, and Florida’s Sunshine State Standards and Grade Won de rf ul: Wet lan ds of Florida,” coordinating activities on ospreys, carnivorous plants and bogs. Level Expectations for the Sunshine State Standards. Special tours of “South Florida People and Environments,” our newest permanent exhibition, and “The Pearsall Collection of American Indian Art: 40th Anniversary Selections” Home School Activity Mornings were were offered for teachers, UF students, informal educators and docents. offered two days in the fall and included a collaborative program sponsored by the Alachua County Office of Waste Alternatives. New External Funding These Activity Mornings provide self-directed The museum received a general country during the summer and fall. Conference learning experiences that encourage discovery program support grant for $176,160 from the attendees, including about two-dozen museum by both the students and their home school State of Florida, Department of State, scientists, educators, administrators and teachers. Division of Cultural Affairs and the Florida external advisors, will examine the findings of Museum docents made 100 Inquiry Box Arts Council, and the National Endowment the national research study and help develop outreach presentations in four counties. The for the Arts. This grant provided support for recommendations for the most effective means object- and activity-rich programs feature five exhibitions, outreach and general operations to enhance visitors’ understanding of evolution different topics that are correlated with including technology and public relations. through natural history exhibitions and Florida’s Grade Level Expectations for the A grant for $144,847 was received from programs. Sunshine State Standards and integrated across the National Science Foundation for The University of Florida’s departments of the curriculum. Each Inquiry Box contains a “Enhancing Natural History Museum Visitor Zoology and Environmental Engineering collection of objects and a teacher’s guide with Understanding of Evolution: A National Sciences, Florida Museum of Natural History, participatory lessons and activities. Teachers Conference.” There has been considerable Center for Precollegiate Education and Training, may borrow Inquiry Boxes for classroom use. debate over the past several years about College of Education and Center for Women’s Almost 800 seventh-grade students from teaching evolution in schools and several Studies and Gender Research have teamed with 12 schools attended Sensational Science, a large national projects have been undertaken the School Board of Alachua County to promote program that highlights the diverse areas of to enhance and promote teaching evolution science and engineering careers by placing science through the interactive exhibits in K-12 formal education. In contrast, graduate students in classrooms to implement of 30 presenters. Education Coordina- relatively little is known about natural history inquiry-based modules on Ecosystem Health tor Marilyn Roberts and Environ- museum visitors’ perception of evolution. Our and Sustainability. With a three-year grant from mental Education Coordinator Deb project is aimed at this audience. the National Science Foundation for $1.4 million, DiPietro conducted a workshop on A steering committee with members Science Partners in Inquiry-based Collaborative this program at the Florida from the Florida Museum, University of Education targets middle schools in Alachua Association of Museums annual Kansas Museum of Natural History, County with large numbers of students from meeting in Orlando. University of California Museum of Paleon- populations underrepresented in science and tology, Los Angeles County Museum of engineering. Graduate students in Zoology and Natural History, Denver Museum of Nature Environmental Engineering Sciences are paired and Science and the Institute for Learning with teachers. The teams participated in a Innovation met in Gainesville in March 2003 summer institute to discuss pedagogy associ- to review instruments designed to assess ated with inquiry-based learning, review state visitor understanding of evolution and to and national science standards and decide on plan for the national conference to be held in specific topics that meet the needs of individual classrooms and take advantage of team 6 fall 2004. Data are being collected from museum visitors at six sites across the members’ expertise. Externally Funded Projects Alachua County/Howard Bishop Middle Touching, exploring, questioning, reading School and Gainesville Regional Utilities, and more questioning—in practical terms, SEEK is funded by a three-year grant from this describes what Marvelous Explorations the National Science Foundation. SEEK through Science and Stories is all about for the engages students in investigative projects participating children, their teachers and that explore the program theme, “Florida’s families, and MESS coordinators. Funded in Environment: Past, Present and Future,” part by grants from the ChevronTexaco and also promote interest, knowledge and Foundation and the Institute of Museum and understanding in science, engineering, Library Services, this collaborative project of technology and mathematics. SEEK the museum, Alachua County Library District targets students who are traditionally and School Board of Alachua County Head underrepresented in these fields of study or at-risk. Public Events Start/PreK served about 850 students and 92 Three SEEK units were offered during the Many public programs were sched- teachers in 46 Head Start classrooms during 2002-2003 school year: Astronomy and Aero- uled throughout the year including annual the 2002-03 school year. space, Florida Black Bear and Nature of Science/ favorites like Science Spooktacular, Bats, In early fall, each classroom received a Entomology. They featured inquiry-based Bats, and More Bats, Animal Fair, Collec- MESS Tool Kit, a large plastic tote filled with science and engineering activities, presentations/ tors Day and the Dickinson Hall Open numerous tools for young scientists to use: demonstrations by guests from other institutions House. In addition, several popular hand-held magnifiers, big-screen microscopes, and field trips. Students went on field trips to the collaborative programs were offered measuring tapes, bug viewers, globes, magnets, UF Observatory, Challenger Learning Center in including Buchholz BioTrek with Buchholz science photographs, measuring cups and Jacksonville, Kennedy Space Center, Ocala High School, Weavers and Spinners with spoons, terrarium/aquarium, test tubes and National Forest, Greathouse Butterfly Farm and the Gainesville Handweavers Guild, and the more. Head Start teachers were trained in Lowry Park Zoo. SEEK students share their Four Seasons Garden Club Flower Show. using these tools as well as the new MESS Kits. learning with others by participating as an Fishing Heritage Day and the Lunar Eclipse MESS Kits, correlated with the Head Start exhibitor/presenter at the museum’s Sensational Evening with the Alachua Astronomy Club Child Outcomes Framework and integrated Science program. were popular new programs. Science across the curriculum, bring science materials, Sunday lecture/presentations scheduled in books and activities to young children. MESS conjunction with the “South Florida People coordinators visited classrooms regularly to and Environments” exhibition, presenta- deliver MESS Kits on amphibians, dinosaurs, tions by Dr. Gerald McMaster and Guest fossils, garbage/recycling, human body, plant Curator Sandra Starr for “The Pearsall life, reptiles, sea life, simple machines, sound, Collection of American Indian Art: 40th water, weather and young naturalists. With Anniversary Selections,” and a variety of partners from the public library, MESS other programs rounded out the offerings. coordinators made classroom presentations to children using library books and objects from the kits. Classes To involve families, MESS Around programs were held on a Saturday morning in About 800 participant spaces were filled in the six-week summer program, four one-day the fall and spring. Families were invited to classes and week-long spring break classes offered for K-fifth-grade students, two one-week explore museum exhibitions, participate in photography classes, and a new class for middle school students called, “Biodiversity: from special activities like storytelling, games and Collection to Exhibition.” Middle school students in this class learned about careers in crafts and examine live animals. During the exhibits and design while studying our local biodiversity. The year, students took home backpacks containing middle school students in both the photography and biodiversity books, objects, and activity information from classes shared their work from the week in special exhibits for the MESS Kits in their classrooms to share family members and museum visitors. with their families. MESS coordinators also The class themes relate to museum exhibitions or to the attended Head Start parent meetings to museum’s mission of natural history education. For example, describe ways parents can support their the summer exhibit “Everglades: Conservation and Exploita- children’s learning. tion” was a resource for students in “Engineer the Everglades.” Sixty students participated in Science and One group of second- and third-graders took on the challenge of Engineering Experiences for Knowledge, an designing a national park – for the use of park animals, with no humans after-school program at Howard Bishop Middle allowed. The ant merry-go-round and the alligator water slide were big hits. School. A collaborative initiative of UF’s Scholarships for classes were awarded throughout the year. Florida Museum of Natural History and Home School Field School nature classes on six different topics were College of Engineering, School Board of offered for home-schooled students. Florida Museum of Natural History Annual Report 2002-2003 7 Exhibitions

It was a banner year for the museum’s exhibition programs, including the final stretch on fabrication of two new permanent exhibitions and planning for a third, and an exciting array of temporary exhibitions.

Permanent Exhibitions South Florida People and Fossil Hall Environments Construction also continued on In October the museum opened a new another permanent exhibition, “The Hall permanent exhibition, “South Florida People of Florida Fossils: Evolution of Life and and Environments,” which highlights the Land,” slated to open in May 2004. This Calusa Indian people who once dominated exhibition will showcase the museum’s South Florida and the rich coastal environ- outstanding collection of fossils from all ments that supported them. This ambitious time periods in Florida. Visitors will walk $2.2-million exhibition features full- through time, beginning with dioramas of scale immersion environments and the earth’s earliest periods and more than 700 objects from the moving through life-size museum’s permanent collections, sculpted spaces many of which have never been highlighting displayed to the public. Florida from McGuire Center for Galleries in the exhibition offer the Eocene Lepidoptera and a wide range of visitor experiences: through the a full-scale mangrove forest, a Pleistocene. Environmental Research Numerous The year also brought great hands-on natural science study center, an underwater larger- reconstructed progress on fossils and exhibition than-life experience, a gallery highlighting 6,000 years of hands- planning for the on McGuire Center for fishing heritage, an outdoor mound and village, a models Lepidoptera and Environ- will mental Research. Exhibitions Calusa leader’s thatched house, a gallery showcasing make for this world-class facility will include a this live “Butterfly Rainforest” and interpre- rare and artistic artifacts, and a Seminole and exhibi- tation of the McGuire Center’s important tion a collections and research programs. The Miccosukee gallery. This state-of-the-art exhibition visitor exciting exhibit designs, conceived by favorite. Ralph Appelbaum and Associates in was made possible by the partnership with building architect Kha National Endowment for Le-Huu & Partners, are now poised for the Humanities, the State of fabrication. Florida, the Jessie Ball duPont Fund, the New York Times Foundation and numerous private donors.

“The Pearsall Collection of American Indian Art: 40th Anniversary Selections” exhibition opened in March. This two-year exhibit showcases one of the museum’s most significant collections, acquired by the museum in 1963 from Leigh Morgan Pearsall, a well-known collector of American Indian art. Displayed objects reflect the art of native people throughout North America, ranging from the desert Southwest to the Arctic to the eastern woodlands. The exhibition has already received international attention in the fall 2003 issue of American Indian Art Magazine. 8 8 FY 2002-2003 Temporary Exhibitions The changing exhibits gallery hosted Annual Budget “Tusks! Ice Age Florida’s Mammoths and Mastodons, ” a Florida Museum exhibition featuring the museum’s paleontology Expenditures: Revenue : -$2.0 $.20 millionEarned Income million collections and research on extinct elephants (1%) and their relatives. Tusks! closed May 18 and (14%) $2.9 million traveled to the Tallahassee Museum of (24%) Gifts History and $3.6 million Natural Science. In (26%) $6.1 million its place, the $3.0 million (51%) State Allocation Florida Museum (25%) $7.3 million opened the $2.9 million (52%) exhibition “The (21%)

Everglades: Grants & Contracts Exploitation and Collections/Research State Allocations/UF Conservation,” Operations/Administration Grants & Contracts from the Historical Exhibits & Education Museum of Gifts Southern Florida. Earned Income Planning also Investments began with The Total Expenditures $12.0 million Total Revenue $14.0 million Field Museum of - $2.0 million = $12 million Chicago to host its nationally renowned Office of blockbuster exhibition Museum Technology “Chocolate” in the fall of 2004. Other temporary exhibitions included the Museum web visits skyrocket sixth annual “Trashformations,” which FY 2002-2003 Web Statistics highlighted high school and college student Hits Visits Average Length Unique Visitors art made from recycled material. The 131,335,482 4,523,287 12:01:40 1,833,900 Children’s Natural History Gallery hosted several exhibitions of Alachua County Tota l col lection database queries : 48,758 student artwork related to the themes of our The Office of Museum Technology e Dealt with the onslaught of Microsoft permanent and traveling exhibits. hired a new network administrator, Dan vulnerability issues, and managed the In the Galleria, several photographic Stoner, in August 2002. Other new hires patching and updating of anti-virus shows were featured, including Andrei quickly followed, and by early September, software to keep the museum network Sourakov’s “Portraits of Florida Insects, “Jeff OMT had two new computer support and computers safe. Ripple’s” In Lower Florida Wilds” and Carlton technicians. Charles Tompkins moved e Planned the network infrastructure Ward’s “Gamba: The Edge of Africa.” from a part-time volunteer for OMT into a for McGuire Hall. full-time position, primarily at Powell OMT staff members completed nearly Hall. Eric Ramsey, also in a full-time 200 help requests per month from position, took over tech support duties in Dickinson Hall, Powell Hall and the Allyn Dickinson Hall. Museum of Entomology in Sarasota. Some of the issues addressed during Museum Webmaster Sarah Brix the year to bring the museum network worked on several projects, and also into the 21st century include: managed the web server and approxi- e Standardized computer hardware mately 40 individuals who contribute platforms for new laptop and desktop material to the museum’s web site. machines. In addition to managing the Office of e Increased usage of tools to streamline Museum Technology, Bill Paine had deployment of new computers. numerous projects involving databases e Updated and implemented computer for collections, and intranet and Internet network access policies. web sites. Florida Museum of Natural History Annual Report 2002-2003 9 Honor Roll 2002 - 2003

GIFTS OF $1,000,000 OR MORE Virginia Amsler Michael M. Dion William W. & Nadine M. McGuire Marjorie H. Bingham (fs) Lammot duPont Family Foundation Betty Dunckel Camp (*) The Fernandez Family Mr. & Mrs. Henry J. Browne Community Foundation for Foundation, Inc. (b) Robert A. & Kathryn W. Bryan (*) GIFTS OF $100,000 OR MORE Greater Atlanta Manny & Joanne M. Fernandez (b) Harvey M. & Ilene Silverman-Budd (*) The Lastinger Family Foundation(fs) Daytona/Lake City Bar-B-Q, Ltd. (*) Frey Foundation Brenda C. Burch GIFTS OF $50,000 OR MORE Allen C. de Olazarra Lucius R. Gordon C. Hager & Sons Hinge Mfg. Co. Alachua County Board of County Mr. & Mrs. R.B. DeWolfe The Gourmet Rodent, Inc. (*) David M. Cale (*) Commissioners Sarah Taylor Diuguid John W. Hardy Mr. & Mrs. Bill Campbell ChevronTexaco Foundation Eco-Cognizant Lynne W. & Robert D. Holt (cs) Captiva Cruises, Inc. Felburn Foundation Mr. & Mrs. Russell W. Fisher Holt's Steel, Inc. (cs) Mr. & Mrs. Stephen C. 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10 Mr. & Mrs. Johnny W. Gay (*) Darcie A. MacMahon & David P. School Board of Alachua County GIFTS TO PERMANENT COLLECTIONS Gerri E. & Ira H. Gessner (*) Harlos (*) School Board of Marion County Thomas J. Allen William O. Gifford Manley Built Construction (*) School Board of Pasco County Richard A. Anderson Carter R. & Nancy H. Gilbert (*) Martha Manson Academy, Inc. School District of Columbia County Richard A. Bailowitz Mr. & Mrs. Peter L. Girardin Evelyn R. & Colonel Jack W. Martin (*) Mr. & Mrs. Karl F. Schroeder Robert Brigham Glen Springs Elementary School Oliverne M. Mattson (*) Jon F. & Beverly S. Sensbach (*) Steve Collins Samuel H. & Deborah L. S. Goforth (*) Mr. & Mrs. Alan J. McBean Gilbert R. & Mary F. Sessi Lois W. Dunnam Gopher Tortoise Council, Inc. Jane & Donald E. McGlothlin (*) Anne R. & Joseph W. Shands, Jr. (*) David Eiler Michael W. & Elsbeth K. Gordon (*) Christine McLeod Angela E. Shatas (*) Reverend Robert C. Eisele Granada Television, Ltd. 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Walker Roslyn Levy Ter r y Johnson Susan B. Pharr & Ian Duvenhage (*) Ruth C. & Leonard O. Walker Judy Locascio Gerald & Kathryn L. Kidder (*) Brenda K. & N. Earle Pickens (* fs) Lisa Wasshausen & Jamie M. Evelyn Martin Carole A. & Dudley P. Kircher Mr. & Mrs. Thomas M. Pinckard (*) Grooms (cs) Ken McGurn Suzanne & Kenneth B. Kirkpatrick (*) Carol A. Pooser (*) Wilse B. & Mary H. Webb (*) Anne Naulls Mr. & Mrs. Robert N. Kish Michael G. & Tobi D. Potapow (*) Howard V. & Camilla B. Weems (*) Bill Olinger Paul A. & Leslie R. Klein (*) Gregory A. & Marie R. Presser (*) Bruce A. Weiss & Melinda M. Steffey (*) Charles Page Ronald M. & Mary M. Koontz Paul E. & Karen B. Ramey (*) Mr. & Mrs. Joachim A. Weissfeld Ilene Silverman-Budd Tanya M. & Matthew B. Koropeckyj- Colleen S. W. & Kenneth H. Rand (*) Mr. & Mrs. James H. White Beverly Singer Cox (*) Te rr y Rawson Evelyn V. & B. Joe Wilder (*) Aase Thompson Koss-Olinger Consulting, Inc. (* fs) Mr. & Mrs. Richard V. Rickenbach (*) Christine N. & Prof. Kenneth T. Tina Vairo John E. McAllister & Robin C. Riverside Presbyterian Day School Wilkins (*) Victor Yellen Krivanek Marianne S. Robbins (*) Laurie Wilkins key: Kenneth L. Krysko Paul A. & Susan P. Robell (*) Lovett E. Williams, Jr. (d) = Deceased John Ladson Brenda V. & Russell L. Robinson (*) Williston Elementary School (*) = Associate Member Lafayette Elementary School Stephen J. Robitaille Willow Creek Charitable Foundation (cs) = Curators Society Virginia E. & Stephen O. Lawrence (* ) James R. & Audrey E. Rooney (*) Ann L. Winterbotham (fs) = Founders Society Frank J. Lepreau, Jr. Donna L. Ruhl (*) May R. Winters (*) (b) = 150th Cultural Plaza Mr. & Mrs. Roger W. Leslie (*) Kirk Alton & Mary K. Ruth (*) William P. & Ann S. Wollschlager (*) Endowment Janet E. Levy Wunhild & G. E. Ryschkewitsch (*) Richard Workman Roslyn F. & Norman S. Levy (*) Arthur W. & Phyllis P. Saarinen (*) Michael C. & Littlewood Elementary School Saint Patrick's School Susan B. Wright (*) F. B. MacKinnon SBC Communications, Inc. Schlager Information Group, Inc. Florida Museum of Natural History Annual Report 2002-2003 11 Development

Office of Institutional This year was both disquieting and In November the Florida Museum of exciting on the fundraising front. Any Natural History, the Samuel P. Harn Advancement hopes of an upward turn in the invest- Museum of Art and the Curtis M. Phillips The museum reorganized during the past year; ment market and economy didn’t happen, Center for the Performing Arts, along adding a new development officer and establish- resulting in reductions in both the with a committee co-chaired by Judy ing an Office of Institutional Advancement, headed by Susan Pharr. In addition to some direct investment value and the spending rate Yo u n g , w i fe of UF president Charles development work, she will oversee marketing, on museum endowments. On the other Yo u n g , a n d Gainesville residents Danny public relations, development, membership, hand, donors continued to show their and Nancy Ponce began planning and facility rentals, visitor services, Museum support for numerous museum programs promoting ‘‘Party on the Plaza.” The goal Associates Board relations and develop a national and the three Cultural Plaza units teamed of this creative-black-tie gala is to museum advisory board. We welcome Robert up to organize a million-dollar fundraiser. celebrate UF's 150th birthday and to “Hutch” Hutchinson as our new development The McGuire Family Foundation made establish a $1 million Cultural Plaza officer. Hutch will focus on expanding the a second generous gift to the museum in Endowment. Income from the endow- museum’s donor base by identifying new donors the amount of $3 million to establish the ment will be distributed equally among for the museum’s numerous programs. McGuire Institute for Biodiversity and the the three Cultural Plaza units. The Environment. This gift seeks to make the museums will use endowment funds to university and the museum an interna- bring world-class traveling exhibitions to tional leader in the study of biodiversity Florida and to create their own signature and the environment, a field that will play exhibits, highlighting the enormous an increasingly important role in the 21st collections and the dynamic research century as Earth’s human population talent at UF. The performing arts will use expands, its natural resources are these funds to attract, present and depleted and its climate warms. commission the world’s top performers. Other Highlights for FY 2002 - 2003: The museum’s private support came 2 Gifts as of June 30, 2003: $3,022,832 such Marvelous Explorations through 2 Pledges as of June 30, 2003: $1,427,637 Science and Stories. from five sources: 2 Museum Total Endowment Market 2 Membership: Paid museum member- $105,031 Value as of June 30, 2003: $7,409,903 ships increased to 731 members. In (2.5%) 2 Donors contributed more than $2.1 February, the Museum Associates Board $402,767 $65,867 (1.5%) million to Endowed Funds. Contributions held its annual fundraiser, “Passport to the (9%) supported numerous museum programs Groovy ‘60s,” and raised more than $35,000 including Environmental Archaeology, for museum programs. These dollars will Invertebrate Paleontology, Vertebrate be used in our Collections and Research Paleontology, the Lastinger Archaeology department to purchase specimen cabinets, fund the ancient DNA lab and $2,716,121 Endowment and the McGuire Institute for $1,160,682 (61%) Biodiversity and the Environment fund a fossil tortoise project. The funds (26%) also will provide start-up costs for a 2 Gifts totaling more than $913,600 Florida Museum of Natural History were designated for Non-Endowed Funds. Teacher Sabbatical Program allowing a These gifts provided support for museum public school teacher to spend a sabbatical initiatives such as establishing a McGuire year at the museum, and help launch an Center Publications Fund, Party on the exciting new partnership with Natural Plaza sponsorships, construction and Non-alumni History magazine set to roll out in early 2004. fabrication in the Hall of Florida Fossils as 2 Corporations Foundations well as a new migrating monarch butterfly Non-cash gifts of artifacts and mobile in the Galleria, and continuing specimens to our permanent collections Organizations Alumni, students, parents support of museum education programs totaled $264,717. Thank you! On behalf of the faculty, staff and administration at the Florida Museum of Natural History Museum, thank you for your generous support. Your gifts play an important role in our success. The University of Florida Foundation receives, invests and administers private support for the museum. It is eligible to 12 receive charitable contributions under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code, and the foundation is certified as a direct support organization for the university. Peer-reviewed scientific publications July 2002 - June 2003 Publications

Akhmetiev, M.A., T.V. Kezina, T.M. Kodrul and everyday life in St. Augustine. El Escribano, Herbert, J.M., J.K. Feathers, and A.S. Cordell. S.R. Manchester. 2002. Stratigraphy and flora of Journal of the St. Augustine Historical Society 2002. Building ceramic chronologies with the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary layers in the 39:102-112. thermoluminescence dating: a case study from the southeast part of the Zeya-Bureya sedimentary Dilcher, D.L. 2002. Fresh Carolina sandhills. Southeastern Archaeology basin. pp. 275-313 in M.A. Akhmetiev, M.P. approach to the study of fossil 21:92-108. Doludenko, A.B. Herman and I.A. Ignatiev, eds. plants: a review of Evolution Herbert, G.S. and R.W. Portell. 2002. A new Special Volume Dedicated to the Memory of the of Plants. Trends in Plant species of Attiliosa (Muricidae: Neogastropoda) Corresponding Member of the USSR Academy of Science 7:326. from the Upper Eocene/Lower Oligocene Sciences, Professor Vsevolod Andreevich Vakrameev Dilcher, D.L. and C.R. Hill. Suwannee Limestone of Florida. The Veliger (at the 90th Anniversary of His Birth). Geological 45:303-308. Institute Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow. 2003. A heterophyllous fern [In Russian; English translation available from from the Lower Cretaceous of Hershler, R., Hsui-Ping Lee and F.G. Thompson. S.R. Manchester]. northern Spain. Courier Forschungsinstitut Phylogenetic relationships of North American Senckenberg 241:111-117. nympohophiline gastropods based on mitochon- Albert, J.S. 2002. Eternal vigilance on an Amazon drial DNA sequences. Zoologica Scripta 32: 357-366. floodplain. Current Biology 12:442-443. Dilcher, D.L. and Y. Wang. 2003. [Review of] Rise of the Ivany, L.C., B.H. Wilkinson and D.S. Jones. 2003. Anderson, P.J. and F. E. Putz. 2002. Harvesting and Dragon: Readings from Using stable isotopic data to resolve rate and conservation: are both possible for the palm, Nature of the Chinese Fossil duration of growth throughout ontogeny: an Iriartea deltoidea? Forest Ecology and Management Record. Journal of example from the surf clam, Spisula solidissima. 170:271-283. Paleontology 77:200. Palaios 18:126-137. Angiosperm Phylogeny Group II. 2003. A re- Donovan, S.K., R.K. Pickerill Harper, D.A.T. and R.W. Portell. 2002. The classification of the angiosperms. Botanical and R.W. Portell. 2002. A late Cenozoic ‘root bed’, brachiopod fauna of the Montpelier Formation Journal of the Linnean Society 141:399-426. an unconformity and the tectonic history of (Miocene), Duncans Quarry, Jamaica. Caribbean Auffenberg, K. and W. Auffenberg. 2002. Carriacou, The Grenadines, Lesser Antilles. Journal of Science 38:256-259. Introduction: the past to now. pp. 1-19 in J. B. Proceedings of the Geologists’ Association 13:199-205. 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