FY09 Annual Report

university of alaska museum of the north FY09 annual report • 7.2008–6.2009 The University of Alaska Museum of the North, located on the Fairbanks campus, is the only museum in the state with a tripartite mission of research, teaching, and collecting. The museum’s botanical, geological, zoological, and cultural collections, primarily from Alaska and the Circumpolar North, form the basis for understanding the local as well as the global past, present, and future. Through collection-based research, teaching, and public programs, the Museum shares its knowledge and collections with local, national, and international audiences of all ages and backgrounds.

Museum Professional Staff

Carol Diebel, Museum Director Earth Sciences Exhibition & Design Mammalogy Patrick Druckenmiller, Curator* Steve Bouta, Chief Preparator Link Olson, Curator* Administration Amanda Hanson, Curatorial Assistant Tamara Martz, Production Assistant Brandy Jacobsen, Collection Manager Barbara Ellanna, Fiscal Professional Dusty McDonald, Programmer Andrew Quainton, Education Genomic Resources Assistant to the Director Laura Conner, Director Aren Gunderson, Coordinator Operations Linda Sheldon, Fiscal Technician Jennifer Arseneau, Kevin May, Manager Fine Arts Education Program Leader Advancement & Marketing Mareca Guthrie, Collection Manager Ornithology Peggy Hetman, Lloyd Huskey, Director Kevin Winker, Curator* Public Liaison Herbarium Alaska Center for Documentary Film Roger Topp, New Media Producer Steffi Ickert-Bond, Curator* Jack Withrow, Collection Manager Leonard Kamerling, Curator* Entomology Jordan Metzgar, Collection Manager Visitor Services Archaeology Derek Sikes, Curator* Dave F. Murray, Curator Emeritus Daniel David, Manager & Retail Buyer Jeff Rasic, Acting Curator Jozef Slowik, Curatorial Assistant Carolyn Parker, Research Professional Morgan Simpson, Store Supervisor Janet Thompson, Assistant Manager James Whitney, Collection Manager Ichthyology Ethnology and History & Tour Coordinator Communications Molly Lee, Curator Emerita Andres Lopez, Curator* Kerynn Fisher, Manager Angela Linn, Collection Manager * UAF faculty holding joint appointment

Museum Advisory Committee Friends of the UA Museum

Mike Cook, Chair Kirk Lanterman Therese Sharp Board Members Donna Dinsmore David Norton Linda Anderson Jim Lund Bill Stroecker Helen Atkinson Ted Fathauer Lee O’Hare Jane Behlke Bob Magee Joseph E. Usibelli Mary Binkley Jackie Goering Bill Stroecker Michael Burns Sherry Modrow Richard Wien DeLois Burggraf Don Gray Ellen Whitcher Mary Jane Fate Grace Berg Schaible Nadine Winters Phyllis Church Ron Inouye

The Year in Numbers

Total attendance: 92,900

Number of free events: 14 Attendance at free events: 3,230

Volunteer hours: 5,244 Full-time staff equivalent: 2.5

Accessions: 296 New specimens: 29,215 Outgoing loans: 113 Chilkat wallhanging by Anna Brown Ehlers, purchased with funding from the Rasmuson Foundation Art Acquisition Initiative. Angela Linn Angela

Museum Director: Carol Diebel University of Alaska Museum of the North Editor: Kerynn Fisher PO Box 756960 Designer: Dixon Jones Fairbanks, Alaska 99775 Tel 907.474.7505 Copyright © 2010 The University of Alaska Fairbanks is Fax 907.474.5469 Cover: A four-person team from accredited by the Northwest Commission on [email protected] China created the museum’s 2008- Colleges and Universities. 09 butterfly-themed ice sculpture, museum.uaf.edu Awakening Transformation. Photo by The University of Alaska Museum UAF is an affirmative action/equal opportunity www.facebook.com/alaskamuseum Tamara Martz of the North is accredited by the American Association of Museums. employer and educational institution. www.twitter.com/alaskamuseum From the Director

Dear Friends, In addition to our existing museum-based education programs, we launched a new initiative to take a planetarium outreach pro- I’m honored to share with you some of the gram to rural Alaska school districts. We hope to inspire future highlights of the University of Alaska Museum generations of scientists through this program, a NASA-funded of the North’s FY09 fiscal year. partnership with UAF’s Geophysical Institute. Though I didn’t begin my tenure as the mu- We did all of these in very challenging economic times. Though seum director until after the close of the FY09 we are a state-supported museum, state funding typically accounts Courtesy of Carol Diebel Carol of Courtesy fiscal year, when you read about our activities, for only a third of our budget. A downturn in tourism in Alaska took I think you’ll see why I was drawn to this museum. its toll on our visitation and with it visitor-based revenue, which also With world-class research collections combined with engaging accounts for almost a third of our income. exhibits and outreach programs, the University of Alaska Museum While major economic challenges remain, my first few months of the North serves very diverse audiences, including visitors from at the museum have assured me that the museum is in an excel- around the world, an international research community and the lent position to weather these storms. The strength of our collec- communities across the state. In FY09, the museum’s research, ex- tions and research partnerships, the dedication and expertise of the hibits and research programs served all those audiences admirably. staff and support from the community will ensure that the museum Field research took our faculty curators and students to all corners continues to thrive. of the state as well as several international sites. Often in partnership with federal agencies and community organizations, this work added new specimens and artifacts to our collections, helping us document Alaska’s natural history and cultural traditions. We were also honored to co-host the American Society of Mammologists’ Carol Diebel 2009 annual meeting, an event that brought hundreds of research- Museum Director ers to Fairbanks and gave us a chance to highlight our research programs and our Fairbanks home. Carol Diebel joined the museum staff in October 2009. She previ- Our exhibits continued to reach diverse audiences. The fiscal year ously served as the director of natural environment at the Museum of began with a hunting and trapping exhibit. Many of our lectures and New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, where she led the museum’s natu- family programs were developed to complement that exhibit. We ral history research, curatorial and collections team. She succeeded closed the year with a timely photography exhibit that highlighted Aldona Jonaitis, who retired in September 2009 after 16 years as mu- the impact of climate change on polar bears. seum director.

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Public Research & Publications Staff Development Gifts to the Visitor Financial Grants & Programs Collections Professional & Membership Collections Services Summary Contracts Service 2 4 8 8 9 11 12 13 13 Tamara Martz Tamara The Last Polar Bear special exhibit. Tamara Martz Tamara

Public Programs

2 Students learn about insects during a docent-led school tour program. Tamara Martz Tamara Exhibits The museum also featured a short-term display of contemporary During FY09, the museum presented four special exhibits: furnishings by Tanya Aquiñaga, the result of her week-long artist residency UAF. Hunting & Trapping in Alaska’s Interior: Our Stories, Our Lives Additions to the Rose Berry Alaska Art Gallery included a sculp- highlighted traditions and values passed down through genera- ture pair (“Iron Eskimo” and “Iron Matriarch”) by Fairbanks artist Mike tions of Alaskan hunters and trappers. The exhibit’s six-month run Croskrey and a 1902 oil painting by James Stuart. Staff also installed was designed to capture both the summer visitor season and the a new selection of Michio Hoshino’s landscape and wildlife photo- local audience in fall. Several programs were offered in conjunc- graphs in the Natural Wonders Gallery adjacent to the entrance to tion with the exhibit, including a day-long expo with demonstra- the Gallery of Alaska. This exhibit space is dedicated to Hoshino’s tions by local experts, a family program on mammal tracking and work, with images selected from the 130 large-scale prints donated the premier of the film “Eating Alaska.” After the exhibit closed, to the museum by Naoko Hoshino. several components were installed in the Gallery of Alaska, including a display of historic Winchester cartridges and 27 rifles from the history collection along with stone and bone tools from the Education & Outreach archaeology collection. The museum launched a major new outreach initiative: taking a Yuungnaqpiallerput/The Way We Genuinely Live: Masterworks digital, portable planetarium to rural villages to inspire students of Yup’ik Science & Survival highlighted the innovations and in- in earth and space sciences. The three-year program is a partner- genuity that have allowed the Yup’ik people to thrive in the sub- ship with UAF’s Geophysical Institute and is funded by a $488,000 arctic tundra of the Bering Sea coast. The exhibit featured more NASA grant. In FY09, the program reached 2,700 Alaskans through than 100 artifacts from national and international collections, in- classroom activities and community science nights. cluding 19th and early 20th century tools, containers, weapons, Almost 3,700 Fairbanks-area school children explored the muse- watercraft and clothing. The Anchorage Museum and the Calista um over the course of the school year, a 16% increase from the pre- Elders Council developed the exhibit with guid- vious school year. Students on docent-led tours ance from Yup’ik elders and educators. accounted for most of the increase (2,306 students; up from 1,836 in FY08). Visitation from in- RENEW: Fairbanks Cityscapes examined dependent teacher-led tours remained relatively changes in Fairbanks through the eyes of art- stable at 1,388. ists, architects and community planners. The ex- Thanks to the museum’s continued partner- hibit featured objects from the museum’s fine ship with Flint Hills Resources, classes on docent- arts and archaeology collections, photographs led tours enjoyed free admission for their visit. submitted by community members, video foot- The museum also offered its first “Home School age from the archives at UAF’s Rasmuson Library, Day” in FY09. This event, with docents in the gal- a virtual tour of historic Fairbanks and planning leries and hands-on materials available, served maps from the Fairbanks North Star Borough almost 200 home-schooled children and their and Fairbanks Downtown Association. parents. The Last Polar Bear, Facing the Truth of a More than 750 people attended the museum’s Warming World used large-format color photo- FY09 lectures and film screenings. More than graphs by Steven Kazlowski to take visitors on a 130 attended the museum’s Saturday Family journey across the Arctic. Intimate photographic Programs, which offer hands-on activities for portraits portrayed the bears’ annual cycle of KerynnFisher child-adult pairs in a small group setting. The life from mothers with cubs to adolescents at museum’s public programs are offered through- play to adults on the hunt. The Burke Museum at the University out the academic year on subjects related to the museum’s mission of Washington organized the exhibit. The Fairbanks showing was and exhibits. The fall 2008 programs were specifically selected to its only Alaska venue. complement the hunting and trapping special exhibit. continued on page 15

clockwise from Above Fairbanks painter Karen Austen demonstrates for visitors at the 2009 open house. RENEW: Fairbanks Cityscapes special exhibit. Volunteer Barb Gorman, at far right, demonstrates the Eskimo yo-yo for visitors. 3 KerynnFisher Martz Tamara Herbarium researcher Carolyn Parker on Afognak Island.

Research & Collections StacyStudebaker/USFWS

Earth sciences curator Pat Druckenmiller (far right) with Swedish colleagues and a plesiosaur specimen excavated in Svalbard.

4 Courtesy of Patrick Druckenmiller Patrick of Courtesy Archaeology The department hosted the annual Alaska Geological Society The department collaborated with the National Park Service on Technical Conference on the UAF campus in April 2009. The confer- two projects in Gates of the Arctic National Park during the summer ence drew approximately 100 members of the Alaska professional 2008 field season: an archaeological excavation at Matcharak Lake geoscience community, including industry and private sector repre- and surveys along the upper Noatak River. Permafrost at Matcharak sentatives, state and federal agency staff and university researchers. Lake helped preserve organic artifacts at the 3,000-year-old site, The complete inventory of the collection’s specimens continued, including the largest assemblage of animal remains in Alaska for with data on 3,000 of 60,000 specimens incorporated into the mu- this time period. During the Noatak surveys, researchers docu- seum’s multi-institution Arctos database. mented ten previously unrecorded archaeological sites. Staff also participated in excavations of historical mining sites on the Middle Fork Koyukuk conducted by the Bureau of Land Management. Entomology Early in the summer 2009 field season, the department worked Curator Derek Sikes began a new partnership with the US Fish & with the NPS to re-assess 29 sites on the North Fork of the Koyukuk Wildlife Service and the US Geologic Service to document the eco- River that were first recorded in the mid-1980s. Two previously un- system assembly and post-eruption recovery of Kasatochi Island recorded sites were documented during this effort. in the Aleutians. The project builds on Sikes’ 2008 pre-eruption Staff and students conducted continued work to rehouse and arthropod survey on the island. catalog collections from several federal agencies, including Bureau Research efforts on federal lands and partnerships with agencies of Land Management, US Fish and Wildlife Service, National Park continued to add to the museum’s collections, with 13,734 speci- Service, US Forest Service and the US Army Alaska. Funding from mens cataloged and 274 new state species records documented in each agency supported the work on collections specific to that FY09. Specimens include 2,436 specimens from agency. Kanuti NWR, 2,457 specimens from the Alaska Staff and students also worked on several collections-based re- Maritime NWR and 1,900 specimens from a tran- search projects using collections from St. Lawrence Island, the Kobuk sect survey between Fairbanks and UAF’s Toolik and Noatak River Valleys and the upper Koyukuk River. Several of Lake Field station. these projects resulted in presentations, papers and manuscripts. Sikes’ catalog of Alaskan arthropod literature

records continued, bringing the total number Sikes Derek of arthropod species documented in Alaska to Earth Sciences 6,850 (up from 6,644 the previous year). Of those, 532 species are Along with colleagues at the University of Oslo Natural History known only in Alaska (up from 509 the previous year). UAF graduate Museum, curator Patrick Druckenmiller conducted field work in student Brandi Fleshman continued her work to update the Spider Svalbard, Norway, excavating Jurassic marine reptiles including Fauna of Alaska checklist. The 1947 checklist included 247 species; ichthyosaurs and plesiosaurs. Their work is documented in the the updated draft checklist now includes 558 species. History Channel special “Predator X.” Sikes also continued his “backyard diversity” project, document- Field work in the Talkeetna Mountains included the documenta- ing species from his own property in Fairbanks. That study yielded tion of a new Jurassic fossil plant site and reconnaissance work to five new state species records in FY09 (11 total since 2006), with a locate new research sites for vertebrate and invertebrate fossils in total of 13,238 specimens added to the museum collection to date. the area’s Jurassic and Cretaceous rock formations. The project demonstrates how little is known about the Alaska in- Staff and students continued work on the 12-foot-long ich- sect fauna. thyosaur recovered from the Brooks Range in 2002, cleaning the specimen to reveal the skeletal structure of the icthyosaur. Druckenmiller’s research included work to describe a Triassic ich- Ethnology & History thyosaur from Alaska’s Brooks Range and a new Cretaceous ichthyo- The department continued its long-term collaborative relation- saur, based on a specimen at Royal Tyrrell Museum of Paleontology ship with the cultural programs division of the Morris Thompson in Alberta, Canada. Efforts to document Cretaceous dinosaur tracks Cultural and Visitors Center, as the new center prepared for the from Alaska’s North Slope continued. opening of its exhibit space.

Clockwise from Above Female deer fly on the UAF campus. Staff archaeologist Chris Houlette in the field on the North Fork Koyukuk River. Ethnology curatorial assistant Micole Ogletree with new acquisitions at the 2009 open house. 5 KerynnFisher Shirar Scott Collection manager Angela Linn and education new media pro- the Rasmuson Foundation. During this time, she worked to conserve ducer Roger Topp edited the companion folio for the hunting and works from the museum’s collection, including several Henry Wood trapping special exhibit. Linn also collaborated with the museum’s Elliot watercolors. education staff in the planning of several fall events offered to complement the exhibit. Curatorial assistant Micole Ogletree completed a comprehensive evaluation of the exhibit. Herbarium Linn completed the WESTPAS (Western States and Territories Efforts to digitally image specimens from the herbarium continued, Preservation Assistance Service) Emergency Preparedness Workshop with high-resolution images of approximately 69,000 specimens with museum operations manager Kevin May. and related data incorporated into the museum’s Arctos database over the course of the year. Funded by the National Science Foundation, the imaging project began in May 2007 and by the Film Center end of FY09, 160,000 vascular plant specimens had been incor- Film curator Leonard Kamerling began a new collaboration with porated. As a result of this project, researchers, educators, agency the San Francisco State University Program in Visual Anthropology: staff and the general public can access a comprehensive represen- a multi-year visual study on the Maasai people in Tanazania and tation of the museum’s botanical holdings. their migration from traditional homelands to urban centers. In a related project, the department worked with a UAF computer In partnership with UAF’s Student Support Services, Takashi sciences student to begin development of an open-source optical Sakurai produced “It’s Not Going to Change Unless I Change It.” With character recognition (OCR) service using the Google Books ap- footage from in Anchorage, Bethel, Fairbanks, Bethel and Juneau, plication Tesseract. The service will extract text from labels on the the film tells the stories of students from low-income families who specimen sheets to parse into data elements in the online database. fulfill their dreams for a university education. When complete, the service will be available to other herbaria at no Work continued on two productions: “Strange and Sacred Noise,” charge as an alternate to fee-based OCR services. a collaboration with Alaska composer John Luther Adams, and “The Curator Steffi Ickert-Bond continued her work on the “A Tree of Fire, The Sun, The Stars,” a film biography of Alaska poet John Haines. Life” project, a National Science Foundation-supported collaboration with 14 other researchers to resolve the phylogenetic relationships in gymnosperms (naked seed-bearing plants). Her work focuses spe- Fine Arts cifically on species in the order Gnetales, which includes Mormon Mareca Guthrie joined the staff as the coordinator for the fine art tea and related plants. collection. She succeeded Scott Nacke, who returned New Mexico Department staff began a collaborative effort with colleagues to finish his Ph.D. in art history. from the Alaska Plant Materials Center, the US Fish & Wildlife Service Guthrie assisted with the RENEW: Fairbanks Cityscapes exhibit as and the University of Wyoming to develop a field guide to Alaska well as the planning for the Ascension exhibit. She also began plan- grasses to complement more exhaustive taxonomic works. ning for the reconfiguration of the Research associate Carolyn Parker initiated a botanical inventory museum’s imaging lab, which is of the Upper Black River, a project sponsored by the Bureau of Land used by several departments to Management. Staff also began work on a checklist of Alaska lichens document museum collections. with support from the National Park Service. The museum’s fine arts collec- Working with the University of Oslo’s Reidar Elven, curator tion and the exhibition depart- emeritus David Murray began a final review of the Panarctic Flora ment hosted paper conservator Checklist. The checklist is a detailed account of all arctic vascular Grace White. She spent six weeks plants including accepted name, synonyms, type specimens, chro- in Fairbanks as part of the Paper mosome numbers and general distribution. Conservation Research Project, Following Alan Batten’s retirement, Jordan Metzgar joined the an effort sponsored by the Alaska department as the collection manager. State Museum with support from Tamara Martz Tamara

above Visiting conservator Grace White spent six weeks working to stabilize works from the fine arts collection and the UAF archives. Right Little Village by Micah Malcolm, purchased with funding from the Rasmuson Foundation Art Acquisition Initiative.

6 Micole Ogletree Micole Ichthyology Ornithology Andres Lopez joined the museum staff as the curator of ichthyol- Department staff and students conducted seven field efforts, five ogy (fishes). He holds a Ph.D. in ecology and evolutionary biology in Alaska (Kodiak, Cordova and the Aleutian Islands) and one each from Iowa State University. He previously worked at the Florida in the Philippines and Russia. The collection grew by 1,000 speci- Museum of Natural History, where he was a researcher in their mens and now ranks among the top ten bird collections in the ichthyology collection and directed the consolidation of the mu- world with respect to vouchered genetic samples. Staff and stu- seum’s genetic resources into a centralized repository. His research dents were involved with eight scientific presentations at three focuses on fish phylogenetics and systematics, comparing differ- different meetings, including the American Ornithologists’ Union ent fish species and populations to determine the nature of their meeting in Portland, Oregon. genealogical relationships. Jack Withrow joined the department as the collection manager in In his first year at the museum, Lopez worked with the Alaska January 2009, following Dan Gibson’s retirement in 2008. Department of Fish and Game, the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration and Point Stephens Research to have the museum serve as repository for specimens collected during FY09 Field Research Sites ongoing surveys in Alaska and in the Arctic. Lopez also began new studies on the genetic diversity of Alaskan freshwater species, with an initial focus on the Alaska blackfish and several species of whitefish. He also continued studies on the evolutionary relationships of all major fish groups and on the genome evolution of esociform fishes.

Mammalogy Together with UAF’s Institute of Arctic Biology, the museum hosted the 89th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Mammalogists in June 2009. ASM is the largest professional organization of mammalogists in the world, and the meeting brought more than 500 scientists to Fairbanks. Planning for the meeting was a major effort for the department during FY09. Curator Link Olson co-chaired the conference, and several staff and students served on the organiz-

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Research continued on hoary marmots, work supported by the Locations in Alaska Prince William Sound Alaska Department of Fish and Game. The study builds on recent Aleutian Islands Talkeetna Mountains research on alpine mammals, including collared pikas, singing voles Arctic National Wildlife Refuge Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Alaska marmots, also supported by the ADF&G. Barrow and Preserve The department received a collection of walrus teeth from the Black River Yukon Flats National Wildlife US Fish & Wildlife Service. The collection represents approximately Castner Glacier Valley Refuge 20 years of harvests by subsistence hunters. The department also Cordova Fairbanks Outside Alaska received a collection from the US Army Alaska of small mammals col- Gates of the Arctic National Park Spitsbergen, Svalbard lected on Army lands in Alaska. Funding from both federal agencies and Preserve Archipelago, Norway supports the archiving of their material at the museum. Kobuk Valley National Park Yukon, British Columbia, Alberta Department staff offered a training workshop on small mammal Kodiak Tanzania identification for National Park Service interns working in Denali Middle Fork Koyukuk River Philippines National Park. Nome Creek Russia Palmer

left Graduate student Zachary Meyers doing herbarium field research in Kobuk Valley. RIGHT Visiting researcher Michael Hardman looks for parasites in Pacific cod specimens from the museum’s collection.

7 Lance Westing Lance López Andrés Selected Publications Metzgar, J.S. 2008. First Alaskan Collections of Natalia S. Slobodina, Joshua D. Reuther, J.T. Rasic, Compton Tortoiseshell (Roddia vaualbum) Made in John P. Cook, and Robert J. Speakman. 2008. Ob- AOU Committee on Classification and Nomencla- November 2007. News of the Lepidopterists’ Society sidian Procurement and Use at the Dry Creek Site ture. 2008. Forty-ninth supplement to the American 50: 51, 56-57. (HEA-005), Interior Alaska. Current Research in the Ornithologists’ Union Check-List of North American Pleistocene 26:115-117. Birds. Auk 125:758-768. Nash, S., I. King, A.R. Kristal, J.S. Metzgar, and D.M. O’Brien. 2009. Stable isotopes in hair reflect Spellman, G. M., A. Cibois, R. G. Moyle, K. Winker, Braile, T. B., K. Campbell, and K. Winker. 2008. red blood cell isotope ratios and PUFA in Yup’ik Es- and F. K. Barker. 2008. Clarifying the systematics of an Body masses of some Philippine birds. Occasional kimos. Journal of Nutrition 90:1642-1647. enigmatic avian lineage: What is a Bombycillid? Mo- Papers of the Eurasian Pacific Wildlife Conservation lecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 49:1036-1040. Foundation No. 4:1-7. Ohse, B., Huettmann, F., Ickert-Bond, S.M., and G. Juday. 2009. Modelling the distribution of White Thomson AW, Lopez JA, Hadiaty RK, Page LM. A Cheng J, Lopez JA, Zheng E. Pseudobagrus fui spruce (Picea glauca) for Alaska with high accuracy: new species of nanobagrus (teleostei: Bagridae) miao, a valid bagrid species from the yangtze river An Open Access role-model for predicting tree spe- from southern sumatra. Proc Acad Nat Sci Phila. drainage, south china (teleostei:Bagridae). Zootaxa. cies in last remaining wilderness areas. Polar Biology 2008; 157:67-72. 2009; 2072:56-68. 32: 1717-1729. Wen, J. and S.M. Ickert-Bond. 2009. Evolution of Demain, J.G., Gessner, B.D., McLaughlin, J.B., Sikes, Parker, C.L. 2009. Botanical Survey of the Afognak the Madrean-Tethyan disjunctions and the North D.S., Foote, J.T. 2009. Increasing insect reactions in Island Unit, Kodiak National Wildlife Refuge, Afognak and South American amphitropical disjunctions Alaska: Is this related to changing climate? Allergy Island, Alaska. July 2008. Report submitted to U.S. in plants. Journal of Systematics and Evolution 47: & Asthma Proceedings 30: 238-243. Fish and Wildlife-Kodiak Refuge. 331–348. Druckenmiller, P. S. and A. P. Russell. 2009. The Pruett, C. L., P. Arcese, Y. L. Chan, A. G. Wilson, M. A. Wen, J., Xiang, Q.-Y., Qian, H., Li, J., Wang, X.-Q., Ick- new plesiosaurian genus Nichollssaura from Alber- Patten, L. F. Keller, and K. Winker. 2008. Concordant ert-Bond, S.M. 2009. Intercontinental and intrac- ta, Canada: replacement name for the preoccupied and discordant signals between genetic data and ontinental biogeography—patterns and methods. genus Nichollsia. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontol- described subspecies of Pacific Coast Song Sparrows. Journal of Systematics and Evolution 47: 327-330. ogy 29(1):276. Condor 110:359-364. Wilson, A. and J.T. Rasic. 2008. Northern Archa- Druckenmiller, P. S., and A. P. Russell. 2008. A Rasic, J. T. and N.S. Slobodina. 2008. Weapon ic Settlement and Subsistence Patterns at Agiak phylogeny of Plesiosauria (Sauropterygia) and its Systems and Assemblage Variability During the Lake, Brooks Range, Alaska. Arctic Anthropology bearing on the systematic status of Leptocleidus An- Northern Archaic Period in Northern Alaska. Arctic 45(2):128-145. drews, 1922. Zootaxa 1863:1-120. Anthropology 45(2): 70-87. Wilson, A., P. Arcese, C. L. Pruett, K. Winker, M. A. Gibson, D. D., S. C. Heinl, and T. G. Tobish, Jr. 2009. Sheldon, F. H., D. J. Lohman, H. C. Lim, F. Zou, S. Patten, and Y. Chan. 2009. The contribution of island Checklist of Alaska birds, 15th edition. M. Goodman, D. M. Prawiradilaga, K. Winker, T. M. populations to in situ genetic conservation. Conser- Ickert-Bond, S.M., Rydin, C., and S.S. Renner. 2009. Braile, and R. G. Moyle. 2009. Phylogeography of vation Genetics 10:419-430. A fossil-calibrated relaxed clock for Ephedra indicates the magpie-robin species complex (Aves: Turdidae: Winker, K. 2008. [Review of] Handbook of the an Oligocene age for the divergence of Asian and Copsychus) reveals a Philippine species, an interest- birds of the world, Vol. 12: Picathartes to Tits and New World clades and Miocene entry into South ing isolating barrier and unusual dispersal patterns Chickadees. Loon 80:103-104. America. Journal of Systematics and Evolution 47: in the Indian Ocean and Southeast Asia. Journal of 444-456. Biogeography 36:1070-1083. Winker, K. 2008. What I do: Notes from the fron- tiers of academic curating in biology. Curator Lopez, J. Andres, Zhang E, Cheng J. Case 3455. Sikes, D. S. 2009. Book review of: Hanley, G. A., and 51:393-406. pseudobagrus bleeker, 1858 (osteichthyes, siluri- D. L. Cuthrell. 2008. The carrion beetles of North Da- formes, bagridae): Proposed conservation. Bull Zool kota, including species descriptions and identifica- Winker, K., and G. R. Graves. 2008. Moderate gene Nomencl. 2008; 65:202-204. tion keys for the entire North American silphid fauna. flow and weak genetic structure characterize breed- The Coleopterists Bulletin. 64: 516-518. ing and wintering populations of Swainson’s Warbler. Majka, C. and D. S. Sikes. 2009. Thomas L. Casey Wilson Journal of Ornithology 120:433-445. and Rhode Island’s precinctive beetles: Taxonomic Sikes, D. S. 2009. The birth of the University of lessons and the utility of distributional checklists. Alaska Museum Insect Collection. Newsletter of the Winker, K., E. Spackman, and D. E. Swayne. 2008. Zookeys. 22: 267-283. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.22.93 Biological Survey of Canada (Terrestrial Arthropods) Rarity of influenza A virus in spring shorebirds, 28(2):57-62 southern Alaska. Emerging Infectious Diseases 14:1314-1316. Museum staff and students are indicated inbold .

Staff Professional Service Alaska Bird Observatory, Conservation of Arctic Flora and Fauna, Scientific Advisory Committee Expert Group Member Alaska Entomological Society, Secretary Fairbanks Convention and Visitors Bureau, American Ornithologists’ Union, PR Committee Associate Editor of The Auk Flora of North America, Board Member & American Ornithologists’ Union, Regional Coordinator (Alaska & Yukon) Checklist Committee Grasses of Alaska, Steering Committee American Ornithologists’ Union, National CINE Film Festival, Jury Chair Committee on Bird Collections, Chair Panarctic Flora Checklist, American Ornithologists’ Union, Editorial Committee Publications Committee Registrars Committee-Western Region, American Society of Mammalogists, Secretary 89th Annual Meeting, Co-Chair UAF Kuskokwin Campus, Ethnobotany American Society of Plant Taxonomists, Program, Advisory Board Member Chair, Publicity Committee UAF Troth Yeddha’ Planning Committee Biological Survey of Canada, Western Museums Association, Scientific Committee Board Member Program Committee Member

8 Attendees at the American Society of Mammalogists Annual Meeting in June 2009. James Barker James Development & Membership

The museum receives less than 40% of its funding from the state, The museum’s annual spring fundraiser, the Chocolate Bash, was making support from members, donors and business partners one victim of the economic downturn. Faced with declining tour- critical to daily operations. ism revenue, many of the restaurants that traditionally supported Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, Flint Hills Resources, Holland America the event could not commit in-kind donations of staff time, culinary Line, Totem Ocean Trailer Express and Wells Fargo continued to serve expertise and chocolate delicacies. The event was put on-hold for as museum corporate partners in FY09, joined by BP and Northrim 2009, with staff organizers using the hiatus to evaluate the event Bank. These partnerships support the museum’s education pro- and make adjustments for the event’s 2010 return. grams, special exhibits and outreach events like the annual open The TOTE Family Fun Fest, the museum’s summer fundraiser, raised house and Family Fun Fest. more than $31,160 through contributing sponsorships and admis- In its sixth year, the museum’s membership program raised sion revenue. The event brought more than 600 children and families $51,115 from 741 members. Members enjoy free admission to the to the museum for a day of hands-on activities under the big top museum, a discount at the Museum Store and other benefits as our tent on the museum’s lawn. thanks for supporting the museum’s mission. Donors of Record

Corporate Partners Hajo Eicken and Helen L. Atkinson Trust Vincent J. Cee $20,000 and above Angela Dirks-Eicken Paul K. Atkinson Chandalar River Outfitters BP Exploration, Inc. Fidelity Charitable Gift Fund Julie C. Baecker Brian Chen and Timothy Pearson Totem Ocean Trailer Express, Inc. James and Susie Hackett Mary Ellen Baker Debra Chesnut and Wells Fargo Bank Alaska Mark and Patricia Hamilton Andrea and Vincent Barnhart Dennis Dussman Happy Hill Mining Co. Benjamin Bartos Katherine Childress $10,000-$19,999 Christopher H. Henry, Alan R. Batten Wanda Chin and Terry Dickey John E. du Pont D.M.D., M.S., P.C. Barbara and Joseph Beedle Karen Christiansen and Bruce J. Hayward Duane and Carol Heyman Carl S. Benson and Ruth G. Benson Thomas Phillips Northrim Bank Bowman and Kay Hinckley Diana R. Benson Kenneth and Lynn Coe Ronald K. Inouye Stephen Beverburg and Jean L. Coe $5,000-$9,999 Harold F. John Carol Shepard Laura D. Conner Alyeska Pipeline Service Company Aldona Jonaitis and Anne Biberman Shawn and Leslie Crawford F. Lawrence and Margaret Bennett Kenneth Severin Brett Biebuyck and Leah Swasey Jeanne C. Creamer-Dalton Wendell and Doris Wolfe A. Kirk and Janet Lanterman Nancy H. Bigelow Gregory and Tracy Culbert Robert L. Lathrop Seth and Jennifer Danielson $1,000-$4,999 Bill & Ree Nancarrow JT. Trust James and Margaret Lund Alaska Outdoor Council Margaret M. Billington Hazel and Edward Daro William and Eileen Montano Marita and Walter Babula Mary and Richard Bishop Lisa and David Daum Lee and Linda Payne Jane H. Behlke Suzanne and Horace Black T. Neil and Rosemarie Davis Greg and Laura Petrowich Marcel and Douglas Colp Dennis Bogren and Lynn Dawes Princess Cruise Lines, Ltd. Betsy Turner-Bogren Fairbanks Cancer Care David B. De Bruyn Andrew C. L. Quainton Physicians P.C. Marianne B. Boko Charles and Tone Deehr Edward and Cathryn Rasmuson Fairbanks Urgent Care Center Mary Ann Borchert Anne DeMuth and Mark Hodge Robert and Virginia Rausch John and Jacqueline Goering Judith and Sherwood Bothwell Donna L. Dinsmore Juan and Beatriz Roederer James and Sandra Haselberger Regina and Matthew Bowen Carl and Judy Divinyi Brian Rogers and Sherry Modrow Barry and Dorli McWayne Joan and Douglas Braddock Ann Dolney Debra and Richard Rogers James and Phyllis Movius Emily E. Bratcher David and Nancy Dreydoppel Jeannine D. Senechal Frank and Nancy Murkowski Jerry and Celia Brown Gianna A. Drogheo Span-Alaska Consolidators, Inc. Mary Ann Nickles John Brown and Anne Duffy Sportsmedicine Fairbanks Linda Aronow-Brown Charles W. Lemke and Joseph and Rheba Dupras Phyllis Pendergrast Turtles Inc. Neal Brown and Frances Tannian James and Shirley Durkee Grace Berg Schaible United Way of the Tanana Valley Cara Brunk and Forrest Karr Dale A. Durrwachter Todd Z. Wentz Orthodontics Candace G. Waugaman Michael Buck Patricia Dyer-Smith and Joseph E. Usibelli and Ellen L. Whitcher Trust Maida and Timothy Buckley Wallace Smith Peggy Shumaker Marianna and Kesler Woodward John M. Buddenhagen Margaret W. Eagleton Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. Susan and George Burgess Janet M. Elliot Under $250 Sylvia and Roger Burns Elizabeth and Robert Elsner $250-$999 Anonymous (4) Laurie K. Calderhead Nathan and Sara Engebretson Syun-Ichi and Emiko Akasofu Kenneth and Ellen Adler Ray and Jill Cameron Equinox Physical Therapy Alaska Club of the Rogue Valley T. Kristina Ahlnas Susan Campbell and Nil Eren Linda Anderson and Stephen Frank Jaye R. Akey Keith Echelmeyer Rana Evans Alison E. Browne Alaska Great Lakes Project Maurine and Paul Canarsky Paul Ewers and Nicole Eiseman Karen Cedzo and Harvey Wieler Alene R. Christiansen Trust Charlotte A. Cannon Marvin Falk and Sylvie Savage Charles and Geraldine Collins Dr. Vera Alexander Patrick C. Cariati Hugh and Mary Jane Fate Sharon and Michael Cook Thomas and Katherine Alton Kurt Carlson and Karen Lougheed Charles and Charlotte Faulkner James and Nancy DeWitt Barbara and David Andersen Louis J. Catinella Barbara A. Fay Doyon, Ltd. Janet Asaro Richard and Anne Caulfield 9 Dr. Frank Fenby Margie A. Johnson Leigh Anne O’Bluda Mary Beth E. Smetzer Mark Fink Timothy and Theresa Jones Russell and Lee O’Hare Jerry and J Smith Kerynn Fisher Rachel and Chris Kanz Trina R. O’Leary D Rebecca Snow Lottie C. Fleeks Patty Kastelic and Sam Stoker Link Olson Edeltraut Sokol James and Karen Foote Charles Kennel and Ellen Lehman Ruth E. O’Rourke Thomas Stark and William L. Foster Margaret and Quentin Kessel Alice E. Palen Mary Kehrhahn Stark Janie Foster Don P. Kiely Alice Pennington Jonathan Starr and Susan Schneider The Four Corporation James and Mary Lou King Marjorie and Robert Poggas Michael and Pamelia Steiger Karl E. Franke Zin Kittredge Peggy and Mike Pollen Dorothy Stella Maggie and Gary Freitag Margo Klass and Frank Soos Andree and Denis Porchet Peter Stern Brian Gannon and David R. Klein Wynola J. Possenti Lori and Wayne Stiles Pauline Bennett-Gannon Ruth and Larry Knapman Roland and Kathy Quimby Cynthia A. Stragier Mitchell Gentleman Albert and Toshiko Knapp Julie Rafferty and Robert Hannon Amythe K. Strobell Sharon and Thomas George Michael Krauss and Margaret Lee Domingo Ramos Thomas W. Swartz Lori Girouard Donna and Jerome Krier Alice and Steven Rast Susan K. Swenson Teresa Glendinning and Candice R. Krupa Martha K. Raynolds Ann and Daniel Swift Larry Fogleson Brendan and Nettie Labelle-Hamer Jennifer Reed and Ian Wright Keith and C. Jean Sworts Gary R. Goodnow Sandy Lachman Sheryl Reily and Geoffrey Orth Robert and Ingrid Taylor Jason R. Gootee Gerald and Elaine Laker Hildegard Reimer Kathleen Taylor Yokel and Shirley L. Gordon Marijo and Wayne Larson Edith and Jack Reisland David Yokel Barbara L. Gorman Ricky and Leigh Latham Cathy and Larry Roberts Suzanne S. Thielke The Gray 1997 Trust Nathan and Marcia Lawrence Sylvan Robb Teresa and Todd Thompson Jane S. Gregory Darren and Bridgit Lawson Ludwig and Christine Rowinski Curtis L. Thorgaard Patricia and Willis Greimann Rosalie E. L’Ecuyer Barbara G. Rudio Patricia and Mike Thurman Loda and Jeff Griffeth Patrick and Milagro Lee Kenneth Russell and Laurel Devaney Theresa H. Tomczak Keith Grimes and Claire and Chris Lehto Anonymous Barbara and Charles Travis Katherine Trahanovsky Don Leistikow Jon and Mari Sallstrom Eric Troyer and Corrine Leistikow Hannibal and Joy Grubis Richard and Rachel Levine Craig Salsbury and Barbara Pomar Siri G. Tuttle Guttenberg for State House Jon Lindstrom and Janet Kidd Kenneth Sassen David and Tracy Vanairsdale Glenn and Esther Hackney Angela Linn and Joshua Reuther Matthew and Lisa Scerbak Ronald Veliz and Yolande Fejes Rosemary Haffner Jerry Lipka and Janet Schichnes Janet and Philip Schempf Constance J. Vorenkamp Linda J. Hall Dirk Lummerzheim Fred and Colleen Schramm Renate A. Wackerbauer Janet and Harry Halvarson Mary and Lindsey Lynch Josephine and Richard Scott Jeffery D. Walters Carolyn and Keith Hanneman Amy and Todd Mackinaw Dolores J. Sczudlo Marie Ward Reid and Reford Reid George and Christine Happ Curt and Rebecca Madison Steven Seefeldt and Mary Lou and Walter Weese Linda S. Harding Dennis J. Mailhot Susan McMinn Seefeldt Sandra E. Westcott Richard F. Harnois Bernard and Jamie Marschner Georjean and David Seeliger Barry Whitehill and Patricia Picha William and Anne Harrison Jessica A. Matthews Barbara and Keith Severin Kenneth Whitten and William R. Harwell Patricia McAdoo Susan M. Sharbaugh Mary Ruth Zalar Gail and Richard Hattan Ann and Michael McCann Timothy and Therese Sharp Denis and Jean Wiesenburg David R. Hayden William McDonald Eleanore B. Shaver Susan M. Will Joanne Healy and Michael Marshall Eileen McGlynn Joan K. Short Paulette M. Wille John and Michele Hébert Michelle McGowan and Anna Marie and Fred Shulski Nadine E. Winters Merritt Helfferich and April Crosby Paul Friedman Thomas Siebels and Anne Johnson Sherry and Terry Wolf Shelley Helzer Helen K. McKee June Siegrist James Wolfe and Martin and Ellen Henert George and Laurel McLaughlin Derek and Melissa Sikes Carol Hogins-Wolfe Eric Heyne and Alexandra Fitts Loyola McManus and Philip Antle Jeffrey H. Simonson James G. Wright Evelyn Hiatt Herbert and Hilda Melchior Edward and Cathy Smart Deb Hickok Harry and Ruth Merriman Betty and Lee Higbie Dora and David Meyer Sherry Hilton-Scheffler Zoya Michel Max Hoberg and Molly Manaugh Cathy Middlecamp Kenneth H. Hobson Pamela A. Miller Doug and Rose Marie Hoiten Miller’s Stoves Jeff and Veronika Holloway Mary M. Mitchell Elizabeth and Philip Hooge Roberta L. Mohatt Carol and Murray Howk Jamie and Nathaniel Mohatt John W. Huffer David Mollett and Jessie Hedden Kris J. and Gretchen L. Hundertmark James E. Moody, P.E. Scott and Maria Ide Nancy and John Morgan Brandon M. Ilgen Joy Morrison and Susan McInnis Image Optical, Inc. Gael and Firmin Murakami Tom and Diane Irwin Gretchen and Edward Murphy Steven and Anna Jacobson Jean and Robert Murray Jean and William James Carolyn and David Nethken Karyn L. Janssen David Newman and Uma Bhatt Chisato Jimura Brian L. Newton Patricia D. Johnson Jeremy and Catrina Nicoll Mary and James Johnson Laura and Paul Nunemann Honoring Mique’l formline print by Mike Dangeli, donated to Nancy and Glenn Johnson 10 Christopher Nye and Anna Plager the fine arts collection by Aldona Jonaitis. Gifts to the Collections

The museum’s collections have grown through decades of fieldwork and research, careful cultivation and the generosity of people whose passion for science, culture and education leads them to support the museum’s mission. We are grateful to our donors for their contributions during FY09.

Gifts to Earth Sciences Margie Payne �� Robert Mayokok painting on black velvet Bureau of Land Management �� North Slope Pleistocene vertebrate Candace Waugaman �� Two ribbons from the Independent Order of collection, approximately 3,000 specimens Odd Fellows; “North to Alaska” board game collected on BLM lands representing the largest regional collection of Ice Age Gifts to the Film Center mammals from the North Slope Eskimo Museum, Churchill, Manitoba �� Archival recordings of music and elders’ voices from St. Lawrence Island. Gifts to Education Emile Chin-Dickey �� Seashell collection; rock and mineral Gifts to Fine Arts collection Don Cross �� J.W.L Forster painting Glen Simpson �� Caribou toe clicker Mrs. Al George �� Bernard Katexac print Joanne Yorke Bunnell �� Sealskin parka Ronald Inouye �� “Fence and Fold” by Wanda Chin Aldona Jonaitis �� John Webber print, Mike Dangeli print Gifts to Entomology Casimera Konopka �� Joseph Konopka painting Alaska Summer Research Academy Werner Kramarsky �� 16 Minimalist and Post-Minimalist works on students...... 330 specimens collected in the Fairbanks paper area National Gallery of Art �� 50 works from the Vogel Collection Matthew Bowser, Kenai NWR �� 35 specimens of species not previously Grace Schaible �� 58 Nancy Taylor Stonington watercolors represented in the museum’s collection Candy Waugaman �� George Frost watercolor c.1885 Dominique Collet �� 67 spiders from donor’s private collection Robert Ellis �� 95 Lasius sp. ants from Sitka Gifts to the Herbarium Ann Ferguson �� Seven misc insects from woodpile in North University of British Columbia Pole Herbarium. 873 bryophyte specimens from Alaska and Brandi Fleshman �� 100 aquatic insects from student collection British Columbia, William B. Schofield in aquatic entomology course; 19 misc Smithsonian Institution �� 733 historical specimens from Western and insects from USDA-ARS research sites in Central Alaska, Shetler, S.G. et al.1957 Delta Junction area University of Michigan Herbarium �� 57 historical collections from 1950-1951, Joseph Fortier, Gonzaga University �� Two paratype specimens of Aleiodes tullyi, William S. Benninghoff, Alaska 217 braconid wasps from around Alaska John Hudson, Gifts to Ichthyology National Marine Fisheries Service. . . 206 dragonflies from Kanuti NWR and other Catherine and Anthony Mecklenburg, Alaska sites Point Stephens Research. Specimens from fish surveys throughout the Peter Keller, Tetlin NWR �� Four ectoparasites from banded birds state Leda Lotspeich-Cole, UAF �� 49 mosquitoes from undergraduate research project in K. Hueffer’s lab Gifts to Mammalogy Kelly May �� 176 specimens from pitfall trap samples Mammal specimens donors: from Talkeetna Mountains Kimberlee Beckmen, ADF&G; Karen Bollinger; Kent Bovee, Sitka School District; Brian & Diane Okonek, ADF&G �� Misc insects from Round Island Kyle Cambell; Suzanne Carriere, Government of Northwest Territories, Canada; Allie Alberto Pantoja USDA – ARS �� 8,410 specimens from USDA research Dewey; Nikolai Dokuchaev; Robert Dowler, Angelo State University; Robert Drozda; projects in interior Alaska Melanie Flamme, National Park Service; Craig Gardner, ADF&G; John Haddix, U.S. Michael Rasy, Army; John Hechtel; Tina Holland; Aldona Jonaitis; Katie Kokx; Kris Larson, UAF; UA Cooperative Extension . . . . . 10 weevils (Gymnetron antirrhini) from Trixie Lee; Thomas McDonough, ADF&G; Mary Meucci; Tom Paragai, ADF&G; David Anchorage Roseneau, USFWS; Ken Severin; Joe Shults; Jason Turo; Kevin Winker; Jack Withrow Deborah Rudis, USFWS �� 136 insects collected near Juneau Mark Schultz, US Forest Service �� Two hahniid spiders from Anchorage Marine mammal specimen donors: Todd Sformo, UAF �� 15 Camponotus ants (voucher specimens for Reid Brewer, UAF Marine Advisory Program; Kathy Burek; John Burns; Anne Hoover, freeze tolerance study) Alaska Sea Life Center; Dana Jenski, USFWS; Shannon Kovac, National Park Service; Derek Sikes �� 589 misc arthropods collected around Lynda Leppert, Alaska Sea Life Center; Angela Linn; Bill Lucey; Barbara Mahoney, Alaska NMFS; Todd O’Hara, UAF; Lori Quakenbush; Katherine Savage; Jonathan Snyder, Joey Slowik �� 415 misc arthropods, mostly spiders USGS; John Vogt collected around Alaska; 785 arachnids from Prince of Wales Island Gifts to Ornithology Susan Woods, UAF �� 14 grasshopper voucher specimens Janet Capito �� Bird specimens UAF Summer Sessions Johannes Erritzoe �� Mute swan and other bird specimens field entomology students. . . . . 78 specimens from around Fairbanks Henry Springer �� New World dove specimens

Gifts to Ethnology & History Jennifer Arseneau �� Matanuska Maid Dairy baseball cap Gerald Barbar �� Greenlandic Inuit kayak model Tommie Calkins �� Pair of polar bear mukluks from Shishmaref Wanda Chin and Terry Dickey �� Alaska Flag song on a 45 RPM record Rex Fisher �� “Vote for Statehood” handmade sign Mark Glunz �� Two pair of mukluks from Anaktuvuk Pass; one caribou jawbone dogsled Annie Hooper �� Seven ethnological objects collected by her parents, Fred & Elizabeth Buechler In December 2008, the University of Molly Lee �� Two Yup’ik grass baskets; Tsimshian frog Alaska Board of Regents dedicated the carving Angela Montana �� “Alaska Moving Pictures Corporation” capital museum’s ornithology lab in honor of stock certificate, on behalf of the Stephl Henry Springer, a longtime supporter of Family the department. Office Affairs Public Musick/UA Monique 11 Visitor Services

The museum continued to weather the storms of an economic store became more established and the offerings expanded. New downturn and declining tourism market. product development was put on hold due to budget shortfalls; For FY09, visitation decreased by 4% overall, finishing the year however, significant progress was made on a DVD production of at 92,960 visitors.* The museum captured $649,600 in admission Dynamic Aurora. revenue, a 3% decrease over the previous fiscal year. The museum The museum’s visitor services staff and exhibition staff collabo- did see an increase in tour group visitation in FY09, thanks in part rated to improve signage on the parking kiosks to make the instruc- to the museum’s inclusion in Holland America’s tour packages and tions more intuitive and to improve wayfinding with both interior as an optional tour for several cruise operators. and exterior signage. The museum’s summer movies – Dynamic Aurora and Winter – Coupled with an expansion of the museum’s summer hours for brought in $79,000, a 43% increase over the previous year. Changes the 2008 summer season (remaining open until 9 p.m.), the museum to the daily show schedule and starting the presentations earlier in changed its winter opening earlier (at 9 a.m.) on Saturdays and re- the season are credited with the increase in show revenue. Audio maining closed on Sundays, beginning in fall 2008. guide sales fell 17% during the fiscal year, primarily because many The museum hosted 50 events during the FY09 fiscal year, includ- visitors opted for the show pass over the audio guide. ing 11 UAF receptions, six other UAF events, six book readings, two The Museum Store finished the year with $766,000 in sales, a 12% conference receptions and one wedding in addition to the museum’s decline from the previous year. Like decreases in museum admis- own events and programs.

sion, declines in store sales were largely a result of the national eco- * Because the museum’s peak visitor season (June-August) spans fiscal years, the full effect of the decline in tourism will be spread out over our FY09 and FY10 fiscal years. Summer visitation in 2009 nomic trends. The museum launched its online store in March 2009 decreased 25% from 2008. Overall, the museum fared better than many other tourism businesses, with a combination of one-of-a-kind Alaska Native artworks and some suffering 40% loss in visitor-related revenue during the summer 2009 season. low-cost museum-branded objects. Online sales grew as the online

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More than 450 visitors participated in the volunteer-led tours of ART 262 World Art History the art gallery during July and August 2008. The department also ART 419/619 Life Drawing coordinated artist demonstrations during the summer and during ART 497 Museum Practicum major annual events such as the military appreciation family day BIOL 192P Introduction to Alaska’s Flora and the open house. BIOL 195 Field Entomology In the summer of 2009, the museum youth volunteers used the BIOL 195 Introduction to Alaska’s Flora museum’s hands-on collections and exhibits to present programs BIOL 331 Systematic Botany for summer visitors. The museum’s first-ever Student Conservation BIOL 406 Entomology Association intern, Christina Miller, led the youth volunteers. BIOL 425 Mammalogy BIOL 441 Animal Behavior Several curators and research staff members shared their exper- BIOL 497 Individual Study: Development of an Online Key of tise through other UAF programs, including the Alaska Summer Cyperaceae of Alaska Research Academy, Rural Alaska Honors Institute, Osher Lifelong BIOL 697 Independent Research Learning Institute and Summer Sessions. They also served as sci- BIOL/NRM 393 Natural Resource Interpretation ence fair judges, visited schools in the Fairbanks area and assisted ENG/FILM 217 Intro to Film with outreach events organized by state and federal agencies and ENGL 688 Writing for Film and Television local non-profit education groups. ENGL488 Dramatic Writing FISH 427 Ichthyology UAF Courses FISH 497 Independent study The museum’s curators serve joint appointments as faculty mem- GEOS 492 Vertebrate Paleontology bers at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. During FY09, museum curators and other staff taught the following UAF courses: Many of these courses draw on the museum’s exhibits and research collections. In addition, the museum serves as a valuable resource for other faculty members and for informal learning. During FY09, more than 2,600 UAF students visited the museum as part of their coursework and on their own time.

12 Financial Summary Grants & Contracts*

Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation, Village Safe Water Program INCOME FY09 Deering Archaeological Collections (Rasic) $50,000

State of Alaska $1,625,080 Bureau of Land Management Museum Store 788,253 BLM Archaeology Collections Management (Whitney) $20,180 Admissions 706,471 Federal Grants and Contracts 621,385 National Science Foundation Private Gifts & Grants* 460,747 Artistic Production and Oral Tradition in a Yup’ik Community (Lee) $12,000 Other Revenue 114,689 Capacity Extension and Imaging: Tessaract; REU supplement (Ickert-Bond) $18,599 State/City Grants & Contracts 45,264 Critical Upgrade to the Insect Collection (Sikes) $272,631 Other Grants & Contracts 1,502 Gymnosperm AToL: Plastid Phylogenomics; RAHHS supplement (Ickert-Bond) $2,751 Total income $4,363,391 Gynosperm AToL: Pollen Morphology and Ultrastructure of Ephedra; REU supplement (Ickert-Bond) $7,500

State/City Grants & Contracts National Park Service 1% Other Grants & Contracts Cultural Exchange: Training & Logistical Support for Other Revenue < 1% Russian Delegations and Alaska Science Symposium (Rasic) $58,136 3% Murie Science and Learning Center Research Fellowship (Meyers) $4,950 Private Gifts and Grants* Rasmuson Foundation 11% State of Alaska 37% Art Acquisition Initiative (Guthrie, Linn) $27,140 Federal Grants • James Adcox – Travis: portrait of a young man from and Contracts Brevig Mission reclining against two Conex trailers 14% • Anna Brown Ehlers – Chilkat wallhanging • Nancy Burnham – Daily Ritual • Sandy Gillespie – The Word • Micah Malcolm – Little Village • Ron Senungetuk – Umealiq Front-End Evaluation for Exhibits (Conner) $5,000 Admissions 16% UAF Provost Instructional Equipment Funds Museum Store 18% Videocamera system to aid in teaching (Ickert-Bond) $16,160 US Fish & Wildlife Service Arctic NWR Vegetation Sampling & ID (Batten) $2,813 Beetles & Spiders in the Aleutian Islands (Sikes) $24,044 Catalog & Re-house four Accessions from the Aleutians (Whitney) $5,000 Curate a Preliminary Aquatic Invertebrates Inventory Collection from Alaska Peninsula/Becharof NWR (Sikes) $677 EXPENSE FY09 Identify Alaska Peninsula/Becharof Specimens - Herbarium (Batten) $1,038 Collections $967,244 Identify/Report Vascular Plants Kodiak NWR - 2008 (Parker) $12,000 Exhibits & Public Programs 775,256 Insect & Plant Study – Kanuti NWR (Sikes, Parker) $6,452 Museum Store 641,899 Pleistocene Fossils – Selawik & Kobuk River (Druckenmiller) $20,400 Research 596,063 Rehabilitation of Archaeological Collections from Amchitka Island (Whitney) $7,000 Visitor Services/Admissions 313,128 Survey of Aleutian Island Arthropods (Sikes) $8,500 Membership & Development 161,256 US Forest Service Total expenses $4,363,391 Curation of Archaeological Collections from On Your Knees Cave (Whitney) $11,400

Membership & * This list reflects new grants and contracts awarded during the FY09 fiscal year only. Development It does not include multi-year grants or contracts awarded in previous years. Visitor Services/Admissions 4% Collections 7% 21%

Research 14%

Museum Store 15%

Administration & Operations Exhibits & Public Programs 21% 18% Mareca Guthrie Mareca

* Note: Revenue from museum memberships, bequests and other private donations are held and managed by the University of Alaska Foundation and only appear in the museum’s financial Umealiq by Ron Senungetuk, purchased with funding from the summary as those funds are transferred to the museum’s spending accounts. For a detailed listing of Rasmuson Foundation Art Acquisition Intiative. the museum’s private support, please refer to the Donors of Record listing on page 9. 13 Research Associates and Affiliates Volunteers

Alaska Center for Entomology Barbara Murray Acquisition Committee Meryem Kugzruk Documentary Film James Kruse Carl Roland Molly Lee Mia McClain John Luther Adams Alberto Pantoja Leslie A. Viereck Phyllis Movius Christina Miller Aquatics Steve Peek Donald Walker Glen Simpson Luke Port Kenelm W. Philip Kesler Woodward Marceline Post (2) Nora Foster Mammalogy Joyce Potter (8) Ethnology & History Joseph A. Cook Archaeology Archaeology Lorraine Province Ann Fienup-Riordan Kimberlee Beckmen Lori Hanson Claire Alix Kathryn Richardson Hiroko Ikuta John Burns Steve Lanford (12) Julie Esdale Moki Rigby-Ronningen Steve Jacobson Nikolai Dokuchaev Jessica Zaydak Caroline Funk Ellie Shaver Lawrence Kaplan Jacob Esselstyn Erica Hill Earth Sciences Adrienne Smith Michael Krauss Heikki Henttonen Howard Smith Victoria Florey Adele Solski Patricia Partnow Stephen O. MacDonald Ernie Luikart Mikael Stovarsky Earth Science Katrin Simon Thomas McDonough Kelly May Leslie Swenson (3) William A. Clemens Glen Simpson Lori Quakenbush Tim Williams Terry Tomczak Joseph Paine Dudley Candy Waugaman Trina Roberts Tumi Traustason Anthony R. Fiorillo Amy Runck Education Sarah Fowell Fine Arts Kristin Adam Callie Underwood Mary Goodwin Eric Sargis R. Dale Guthrie Maïte Agopian Vincent R. Varieur Charles Mason Gay Sheffield Paul J. McCarthy Liz Allen Avalon Wappett (4) Ken Tape Marcelo Weksler Dave Norton Anguyaluk Jill Anderson Sandra Wittenbrink Kesler Woodward Jack Whitman Thomas Hewitt Rich Neal Woodman Amy Ash Entomology John E. Storer Herbarium Tom Baring (2) Tim Bouta Ornithology Richard Bond Bill Barnes Nora Foster Education Johannes Erritzoe W. Scott Armbruster Maggie Billington (4) Kelly May (2) Michelle Bartlett Kevin McCracken Reidar Elven Bryan Birkholz Steve Peek Neal Brown Rose Meier Sarah Fowell Caitlin Birkholz Sayde Ridling Herminia Wei-Hsin Din Heinrich Springer Timothy P. Doran Gary Laursen John Boyle Kaley Sikes Robert Lipkin Pat Cariati (4) Jill Stockbridge Cynthia R. Meyers Anne Castle (4) Al Cox Fine Arts Leigh Anne Cox (4) Savanna Bradley Denaeuh Davis Nona Debenham Jim Deininger Somer Hahm Mikey Dewey Kathy Hamby Students Kathy Dubbs John Smelter Mary Gathoni Egger (2) Miki Smelter Archaeology Entomology Mammals Quinn Evenson Mammalogy Fawn Carter Carolene Coon Heather Bryant Anna Fath (3) Danielle Gunderman Roberta Eastwood Brandi Fleshman Ryan Cooper Virginia Gallagher Maia Pierce (4) Aimee Ely, B.S. Sayde Ridling Iris Hartshorn Barbara Gorman (11) Ornithology Jessica Peterson Joey Slowik Kyndall Hildebrandt Jack Grandfield (8) Elizabeth Humphries (4) Kelsey Vallejos Jill Stockbridge Hayley Lanier Gretchen Hundertmark (2) Sonia Peterson Michael Schwitters (3) Earth Sciences Exhibition & Design Janet Johnson Sumiyo Sekine, B.S. David Sonneborn (4) Jennifer Parsons Eric Henderson Logan Johnson Kirsten Woodard Kevin Stack Yasunari Izaki Patricia Johnson (3) (#) For volunteers with more than one year of volunteer service to the Jacob van Veldhuizen Ornithology Alexis Keller Herbarium museum, the number in parentheses Carrie Yardley Kyle Campbell Al Knapp (12) Eggemeyer Blake indicates total years of service. Elizabeth Humphries, M.S. Education Monte Garroutte, B.S. Ariel Blankenship Sayuri Ito, B.S. FY09 graduates are indicated Zachary Meyers by the degree received after Celia Miller their names. Matthew Campbell

The museum’s docents received the Flint Hills 2009 Golden Heart Award for volunteer groups.

The University of Alaska Museum of the North’s FY09 annual report is published with support from: