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AFFILIATED WITH PRI: WHAT AND WHERE WE ARE CONTENTS Our Mission: The Paleontological Research Institution pursues and integrates education and research, and interprets the history and systems of the Earth and its life, to increase knowledge, educate society, and encourage wise stewardship of the Earth. ​ LETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT 2 Our Locations: 30-acre Smith Woods is the largest piece of old- The Cayuga Nature Center provides PRI with LETTER FROM THE DIRECTOR growth forest in central New York. Some of the an array of indoor and outdoor opportunities to 3 trees are more than 200 years old, with a recently expand its educational mission to teach about fallen hemlock dating back to 1663. the Earth and its life — focusing especially on the natural history of the Cayuga Lake Basin. RESEARCH 4-5

COLLECTIONS 6-7

EDUCATION AND OUTREACH 8-15

7 FISCAL YEAR 2013-2014 AT A GLANCE 16-17 Cayuga Lake

PUBLICATIONS Trumansburg 18-19

MUSEUM OF THE EARTH 20-21

CAYUGA NATURE CENTER N 22-23 W E S RELATIONS Ithaca 24-25

26-29 DONOR SUPPORT 26-29

VOLUNTEERS AND INTERNS 30-31

STATEMENT OF FINANCE 32 Named in honor of Katherine Palmer (Director, 1952-1978), Palmer Hall has been home to PRI 33 BOARD OF TRUSTEES, TRUSTEES EMERITUS, AND STAFF since 1968, and today houses offices, labs, library The iconic Museum of the Earth opened to the 33 and collections. public in 2003 and has since become a major tourist attraction, regional educational resource, and a popular spot for community events. 1 FROM THE PRESIDENT FROM THE DIRECTOR When you walk into the Museum of the Earth, past the 2013-14 was a year of accomplishment, change, and challenge. stunning Rock of Ages, Sands of Time mural, you will be PRI continues along the path it set for itself in 1992: to fulfill its thinking of evolution in geologic time. But the evolution that potential as a nationally-significant, full-service, university- has gone on at PRI during the past several years has been affiliated natural history museum dedicated to creating and far more rapid and, in its own way, almost as astonishing. spreading knowledge and understanding of the Earth, its life and The merger with the Cayuga Nature Center, linked programs history, and how that understanding can contribute to a more with the Shoals Marine Laboratory and our relationship with sustainable human presence on the planet. Cornell University as well as through the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, have all contributed greatly to our The successful Rock the Future campaign, in celebration of the 10th capacity to carry out our mission. We now have outstanding anniversary of the Museum of the Earth, raised more than $1.1 million. capabilities in Earth science and environmental education and Phase one renovations of the Cayuga Nature Center lodge were research, from the Precambrian Era to the challenges of the completed to wide acclaim. Research by staff and students flourished. present time. This mission is so vital now when the public is Teaching by PRI staff at Cornell and expanded. Ranking confronted with issues like climate change, species extinction, among the largest in the country, PRI’s collections of more than three energy needs and fresh water scarcity, at a time when valid million specimens, continued to improve in curatorial condition, scientific information is desperately needed. and the continuing transition to a better collections database system brings us into line with peer institutions. The past year’s Rock the Future campaign has enhanced the Museum of the Earth and transformed the Cayuga Nature Center into a more exciting venue for science education. Now we are embarked A number of NSF grants supporting activities over the past five or more years concluded, and we worked on a second phase of that campaign, to create and sustain programs that will take full advantage of to develop the next big grant-funded projects in education, collections, and research. Despite turnover, these new resources. This is truly an inflection point in the life of this remarkable institution, and we aim to keep our small but well-qualified and hard-working staff as effective and productive as they the future is rich in potential. can be. PRI’s long, rich history has given us many gifts – of objects, reputation, and tradition – as well as responsibility. Never before has understanding the Earth been more crucial to our continued prosperity. Never has it mattered more that all people be able and willing to confront the challenges we face with reason, knowledge, and wisdom. PRI makes a difference, as society seeks to confront these challenges. We make a difference to elementary students in central New York and students at Cornell, to teachers in California and educational reformers in Washington DC, to museum educators in Florida and scientists in France. Dr. James Fogel President, PRI Board of Trustees We hope that these pages stimulate your reflection on and celebration of our accomplishments of the past year, and your resolution to help PRI to meet the changes and challenges to come. Thank you.

“So long as the beauty and philosophy of the development of life on earth intrigues the human mind, facilities for their study will be demanded.” – PRI Founder Gilbert Harris, 1950

Warren D. Allmon Director

2 3 RESEARCH While PRI continues to evolve and grow, excellence in scientific research remains at the heart of our mission. Between July 1, 2013 and June 30, 2014, PRI scientists, affiliated students, and research associates (names in bold face) published 12 titles in peer-reviewed journals (plus numerous other publications and presentation abstracts not listed here). (R = Research Associate, S = student) Allmon, W. D., and R. E. Martin. 2014. Seafood through time revisited: The Phanerozoic increase in Hendricks, J. R.R, E. E. Saupe, C. E. Myers, E. J. Hermsen, and W. D. Allmon. 2014. The generification marine trophic resources and its macroevolutionary consequences. Paleobiology, 40(2):256-287. of the fossil record. Paleobiology, 40(4): 511-528.

Bieler, R., P. M. Mikkelsen, T. M. Collins, E. A. Glover, V. L. González, D. L. Graf, E. M. Harper, J. Healy, Kissel, R. A., D. Duggan-Haas, and R. M. Ross. 2013. The ReaL Earth Inquiry Project: Introducing G. Y. Kawauchi, P. P. Sharma, S. Staubach, E. E. Strong, J. D. Taylor, I. Tëmkin, J. D. Zardus, S. Clark, inquiry-driven field exploration to students across the nation.In the Trenches, 3(1): 6-8. A. Guzmán, E. McIntyre, P. Sharp & G. Giribet. 2014. Investigating the Bivalve Tree of Life -- an exemplar-based approach combining molecular and novel morphological characters. Invertebrate Rothschild, B. M., L. D. Martin, B. AndersonS, A. O. Marshall, and C. P. Marshall. 2013. Raman Systematics, 28: 32-115. spectrographic documentation of Oligocene bladder stone. Naturwissenschaften, 100: 789-794.

Casey, M. M., G. P. Dietl, D. M. Post, & D. E. G. Briggs. 2014. The impact of eutrophication Saupe, E. E., J. R. HendricksR, A. T. Peterson, & B. S. Lieberman. 2014. Climate change and marine and commercial fishing on molluscan communities in Long Island Sound, USA.Biological molluscs of the West Atlantic: future prospects and perils. Journal of Biogeography, doi: 10.1111/jbi.12289. Conservation, 170: 137-144. Visaggi, C. C., G. P. Dietl, & P. H. Kelley. 2013. Testing the influence of sediment depth on drilling Duggan-Haas, D. 2013. The nail in the coffin: how returning to the classroom killed my belief in behaviour of Neverita duplicata (Gastropoda: Naticidae), with a review of alternative modes of schooling (but not in public education). Pp 51–68, in: Science Teacher Educators as K-12 Teachers, predtion by naticids. Journal of Molluscan Studies, 79(4): 310-322. M. Dias, C. J. Eick, & L. Brantley-Dias (eds). Springer, The Netherlands. Waite, R.R, and W. D. Allmon. 2013. Observations on the biology of Turritella leucostoma Valenciennes 1832 Hendricks, J. R.R 2013. Global distributional dynamics of Cambrian clades as revealed by Burgess (Cerithioida, Turritellidae) from the Gulf of California. American Malacological Bulletin, 31(2): 297-310. Shale-type deposits. In: Early Palaeozoic Palaeobiogeography and Palaeogeography, D. A. T. Harper & T. Servais (eds). Geological Society, London, Memoirs, 38: 33–41. (doi: 10.1144/M38.4) Wilson, D. D.V, & C. E. Brett. 2013. Concretions as sources of exceptional preservation, and decay as a source of concretions: examples from the Middle Devonian of New York. Palaios, 28: 305-316.

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4 5 COLLECTIONS PRI’s research collection added significant new acquisitions throughout the fiscal year. Donated specimens came from local Paleozoic sites in central New York as well as more distant locations around the world, including fossil corals from Papua New Guinea and sea stars from Antarctica and Chile.

Specimen Donors (July 1, 2013 - June 30, 2014) Gordon Baird Linda Ivany Dan Blake Richard King Arthur Bloom Kevin McMahon Carl Brett Robin Hadlock Seeley Nancy Cool John Wehmiller William Furman Karl Wilson

A special thanks to all of our Specimen Donors. Their contributions make our work possible.

Visitors to and Loans from the PRI Collections

Collections volunteer Larry Jensen georeferences a collecting locality for a specimen in PRI’s collection. PRI has over 3 million specimens in its collection containing everything from modern and Cenozoic mollusks to one of the most comprehensive Paleozoic invertebrate collections in the United States. COLLECTIONS HIGHLIGHTS The completion of a one-year National Science Foundation-funded project to digitize and curate the historic Hatcher collection of fossil mollusks NUMBER from Patagonia collected by Princeton University in the 1890s.

Twenty-nine professional and student researchers visited PRI’s research collections in the fiscal year.

Thirty-three professional and student researchers borrowed research materials from PRI’s collections FISCAL YEAR in the fiscal year. LOANS VISITORS

6 7 EDUCATION & OUTREACH PRI’s educational programs aim to increase science literacy at all levels of society, from early to adult learners. We are national leaders in providing innovative ideas and materials for Earth systems science education, Earth System Education including oceans, atmospheres, rocks, glaciers, and life itself. PRI programs reach teachers, students, and Bringing the field into the classroom members of the general public -- at our two public educational venues in Ithaca (the Museum of the Earth 2014 saw PRI approaching the end of our $1.8 and the Cayuga Nature Center) throughout central New York, and across the United States. In addition to million NSF-funded project, ReaL Earth Inquiry, Earth science, topics of special focus include evolution, ecology and the environment, climate and energy, to develop a national series of Teacher-Friendly and the public understanding of science. Altogether, PRI education reached more than 50,000 people in Guides™ to regional Earth system science, and an 2013-14. associated set of teacher professional development programming and online tools. The series focuses National leadership and service on seven regions within the United States: Midwest; PRI’s education staff includes three PhDs, all of Don and Associate Director for Outreach, South Central; Southwest; West; Rocky Mountains; whom are well-known and involved in the Earth Rob Ross, participated in the Summit on Northeast and Southeast. Managing Editor, Mark science education community throughout the U.S. Undergraduate Geoscience Education, funded by Lucas, oversaw writing and editing, contributed the National Science Foundation (NSF) and hosted by a range of experts, both in-house and from Director of Teacher Programs Don Duggan-Haas at the University of Texas at Austin, to advise NSF around the country. The Guides are available as free Taking the public into the field served as a member of the New York’s Statewide with ideas and priorities for improving the field in downloads at www.teacherfriendlyguide.org, or For many years PRI has been taking families into Leadership Team for development of the Next the coming decades. for purchase in hardcopy. the field. From June through September, PRI leads Generation Science Standards (NGSS). monthly public fossil collecting field trips to regional Don and Climate Change Education Manager, PRI’s innovative Virtual Field Experiences (VFEs) locales. Fossil collecting guides and identification Don also served as Chairman of the Geoscience Ingrid Zabel, are active members of the Climate project brought the field into the classroom for sheets are produced with contributions from Dr. Education Division of the Geological Society of Literacy Network, the group responsible for teachers in workshops across the United States. Karl Wilson, who authored PRI’s new Field Guide America (GSA) until October 2013 and as Past Chair the Climate Literacy Principles, which are now VFEs offer a digitally navigable exploration of a real to the Devonian Fossils of New York State. The 2013 for another year. GSA invited PRI to organize a short cited in several federal educational initiatives landscape, or even videoconferencing from the season comprised visits to sites near the towns of course on “teaching controversial issues” for the and requests for proposals in an array of grant field (for example, Niagara Falls) to the classroom. In Hamilton, Morrisville, and Jamesville, NY. The 125th Annual Meeting in October 2013, which proved programs. the end, each educator produced their own VFE of a James Potorti Gorge Walks, which occur every so popular, it was requested for the next year. site local to their school. The VFEs—and supporting Friday morning each August, are free geological materials—are housed at www.virtualfieldwork.org. interpretive walks through parks near Ithaca. The In Fall, 2013, in conjunction with the annual meeting fifth Friday included our first public Gorge Walk of the Geological Society of America in Denver, through the Cayuga Nature Center’s gorge. PRI staff ran a real-time virtual field experience for teachers in Ithaca who “participated” in a field trip to Dinosaur Ridge that was led by University of Colorado’s Lon Abbot.

Find out more about PRI’s National Outreach in this new video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkGbDiQznPU 8 9 EDUCATION & OUTREACH Glacier lecture series Resources for Teachers During the winter of 2013-14, Ingrid Zabel organized a public lecture series at the Nature Center and the Museum on glaciers and their relationship with a changing climate, in celebration of the new Much of PRI’s educational effort is focused on glacier exhibit in the Museum of the Earth. The lectures, listed below, were sponsored by Ithaca- K-12 teachers. In addition to our Teacher-Friendly based building energy consulting firm, Snug Planet, and can be found onPRI’s Youtube Channel. Guide and Virtual Field Experience projects, during the 2013-14 year we reached more than • Dr. Matthew Pritchard, Cornell University, Watching glaciers change from space - links 400 teachers in central New York with a variety of to pioneering Cornell glaciologist Ralph Stockman Tarr (1864-1912) programs.

For more than a decade, the first Saturday of • Dr. Daniel Karig, Cornell University, The deglaciation of the Ithaca area: An outrageous October has been PRI’s Annual Teacher Resource new model based on recent field data day. In 2013, 71 Upstate NY teachers were treated to eclectic collections of thousands of surplus • Dr. Mike Willis, University of North Carolina--Chapel Hill, Scientific progress goes specimens, from basalts to butterfly mounts, as ‘boink’: Earth’s spring-like motions caused by glacier mass changes well as publications, all free to take for classroom use. PRI Director of Exhibitions Beth Stricker, • John Fegyveresi, Penn State University, Two Miles of Climate History: How we Drilled closed the event with a talk about museum exhibit the Deepest Ice Core in Antarctica, and Why design and an advanced look at the temporary exhibition Moving Carbon, Changing Earth. • Laura Faye Tenenbaum, NASA JPL, Celebrating Earth Day: Reconnecting with Planet Earth. Thirteen teachers also spent the afternoon in Virtual Fieldwork workshop. This event has been sponsored for many years by Chemung Canal Interns in action Trust Company. and energy education. Information, including As we have for many years, PRI had a strong the table of contents and a sample chapter, are Glacier exhibition programs presence at the Annual Meeting of the Science available at www.priweb.org/marcellusbook. During the summer of 2013, PRI intern Gaylen Sinclair created educational materials to accompany Teachers Association of New York State (STANYS) As an extension of the project, a three-part series the Museum glacier exhibit, including a brochure, a Discovery Box (activities for Museum visitors), in Rochester in November 2013 in Rochester, addressing the Draft 2014 New York State Energy classroom activities for grades K-3, and an annotated map to a walking trail with glacial features NY. Don Duggan-Haas presented four talks at Plan and the public response to it, was posted on at the Cayuga Nature Center. Gaylen is now a PhD. candidate at Oregon State University and was the meeting, on the Marcellus Shale, the JOIDES PRI’s Climate Change 101 blog, GSA’s Speaking awarded an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. Resolution, and Virtual Fieldwork Experiences. of Geosciences blog, and the Western New York Environmental Alliance’s www.GrowWNY.org blog. Coral exhibition programs From summer 2013 to summer 2014, PRI intern and work-study student Lily Eisermann (Cornell Climate and Energy Climate change education at the Cayuga Nature University class of ‘14) created a variety of programming for the new Museum coral tanks, including Center. content for the PRI website and brochures with photographs and descriptions of all tank species. Marcellus Shale and Energy Education In FY14, with support from the Park Foundation The Marcellus Shale is a black Devonian-aged and donors to the Rock the Future campaign, PRI rock layer that contains abundant natural gas. The weaved climate change education into a variety possibility of extracting gas from the Marcellus, of programs at the Nature Center. We opened which underlies much of Pennsylvania and New the new Leopold Climate Room, which features York, has polarized many communities, especially exhibits on how changing climate is affecting because of the method of extraction by “horizontal, both nature and agriculture in the Cayuga Lake high volume, slickwater hydraulic fracturing”, or Basin. During the Nature Center’s summer camp, “hydrofracking”. As a culmination of several years children learned how to measure temperature, of NSF-funded research and outreach, in fall 2013 wind speed, clouds, sunlight, and water, and PRI published The Science Beneath the Surface: learned how tree rings can serve as indicators A Very Short Guide to the Marcellus Shale, by Don of past climates. Climate change concepts have Duggan-Haas, Rob Ross, and Warren Allmon. also been incorporated into non-camp programs Many copies of the book have been provided such as guided hikes through Smith Woods and free to educators in workshops on the Marcellus animal programs.

10 11 EDUCATION & OUTREACH Darwin Days Education about evolution and why it is at the center of all of biology and paleontology is a core mission of PRI’s educational programming. Our “Evolution Project” programs include a diversity of approaches, from Ithaca’s annual Darwin Days celebration to publications to exhibits to workshops for teachers.

Since 2006, PRI has hosted Ithaca’s Darwin Days, an annual celebration of the birthday (February 12) and ideas of Charles Darwin (1809-1882), in collaboration with Cornell University. Our theme in 2014 was “Evolution and the Fossil Record,” and events included a Family Day at the Museum; screenings of Creation: The True Story of Charles Darwin; and Jurassic Park, at Cinemapolis and Cornell Cinema; participation in Ithaca’s Science Cabaret,; a science trivia night at Cornell;, as well as a panel discussion at Cornell University on Illustrations of Evolution in the Fossil Record. The screening of Jurassic Park included an introduction from the film’s dinosaur consultant, PRI Artist-in-Residence John Gurche. Warren Allmon capped the week’s activities with the presentation Darwin and Paleontology at the Museum.

Traveling Exhibitions

Maize: Mysteries of an Ancient Grain is a small traveling exhibit created in collaboration with the Institute for Genomic Diversity at Cornell, through a grant from the National Science Foundation. The traveling exhibition focuses on the evolution and genetics of corn, as well as its role throughout human history. In FY14 the Maize exhibition was hosted Evolution Education by the Smith College Botanic Garden in Massachusetts, the Bell Museum of Natural History in Minnesota, and the Great Teacher Friendly Guides to Evolution Swamp Conservancy in Upstate New York. The exhibition is PRI has two online books for teachers on how to teach evolution using organisms that are familiar to currently booked through November 2016. students. The Teacher-Friendly Guide™ to Evolution Using Bivalves as a Model Organism provides the background to teach evolution using these familiar, attractive, and easily available organisms, many of ™ My Climate, My Community: Weird Weather is an exhibit which offer fascinating biological and cultural stories.The Teacher-Friendly Guide to the Evolution of on regional climate change designed to be appropriate for Maize uses one of the best examples of crop domestication and genetic inheritance. The Guide teaches small venues in rural communities around the state of New with maize from many perspectives—from biology and anthropology to the importance of scientific York. It was developed through grants from the National methods and the impact of women in science. Science Foundation and Park Foundation. In FY14 the exhibit was on display at Jefferson Community College (Watertown, Fossil Finders NY), Delaware-Chenango-Madison-Otsego Board of Fossil Finders is a $1.5 million NSF-funded project involving a collaboration between science education Cooperative Educational Services (BOCES) in Norwich, NY; researcher Barbara Crawford at the University of Georgia (formerly Cornell) and PRI. The project helps and the Tompkins County Sustainability Center. teachers and students understand principles of evolution, geologic time, and the nature of science, by bringing real science to the classroom and asking students to measure and classify Devonian fossils from Central NY. More than 12,000 specimens from 10 layers were measured by students. 12 13 EDUCATION & OUTREACH Federal and local grant support for education and exhibits Community Accessibility Program: allowed us to reach audiences in Tompkins County and across PRI’s Community Accessibility Program (CAP) was developed in 2004 to ensure that our Earth science and environmental education is available to everyone regardless of resources or special needs. During the country. The following grants were active during FY2014: fiscal year 2014, CAP allowed 1,677 visitors to come to the Museum free of charge. To learn more see: www.priweb.org/donate National Science Foundation • Enhanced Earth system teaching through ReaL Earth Inquiry: NSF DRL 0733303, Aug 15, 2007 – CAP has four components: July 31, 2015, $1,763,588 • Fossil Finders: Using Fossils to Teach about Evolution, Inquiry and Nature of Science: NSF DRL • Winter Free Days: One Sunday per month from January to March, PRI opens the doors of both the 0733223, Jan 1, 2008 – Dec 31, 2014, $1,491,746, $266,951 to PRI (partnership with Cornell and U Museum and the Nature Center to anyone who would like to come Georgia departments of education) • Phylogeny on the Half-shell – Assembling the Bivalve Tree of Life, NSF DEB 0732860, Sep 15, 2007 • Community Day: Each May, PRI celebrates community with extra activities and programs, and no – Aug 31, 2013, $499,990 admission charge. • Educator Professional Development on Energy and Environment: A Case Examples Focusing on Marcellus Shale Natural Gas Drilling: NSF GEO 1035078, September 16, 2010 – August 31, 2013, • Agency Memberships: Provide free passes and group tours, as well as summer camp opportunities and $149,297 discounts on programs and field trips to the users of select social service organizations and agencies. • Temporary exhibition and teacher professional development resources on the carbon cycle and climate change. NSF 1049033, April 1, 2011 – March 31, 2015, $60,736 to PRI (outreach on behalf of • Blue Star Museums: from Memorial Day to Labor Day, PRI joins more than 2000 museums by research at Cornell University) offering free admission to the nation’s active-duty military personnel and their families, including • Traveling exhibit and teacher professional development on evolution of maize, associated with National Guard and Reserve. maize genetics research. (IOS 1238014, May 15, 2013 – April 30, 2018, $217,124 to PRI (outreach on behalf of research at Cornell University) In addition to CAP, PRI has two other programs that help support access to our resources in the community:

Institute for Museum and Library Services • Donations to Community Organizations: In FY2014, PRI donated more than $4,000 worth of • National Leadership Grant: Developing resources for K12 and Museum personnel to improve public memberships to community groups and organizations to use in fundraising efforts. understanding of evolutionary trees. December 1, 2012 – November 30, 2015, $401,833, $38,693 to PRI (lead organization UC Berkeley; partnering organizations Yale Univ., Univ. Kansas, PRI) • Cayuga Nature Center Summer Camp Scholarships: In 2014, PRI twenty individual need-based summer camp scholarships were awarded to children in the Ithaca area, thanks to community support Park Foundation from people like you. • Developing a long-term climate change exhibition and citizen science at the Cayuga Nature Center. April 1, 2013 – March 31, 2014, $40,000 My boys have a curiosity for • Park Foundation: Developing K12 and public programming on climate change at the Cayuga Nature nature and adventure because Center. April 1, 2014 – March 31, 2015, $25,000 they were able to attend Cayuga Nature Camp. The Cayuga Nature Camp scholarship fund will open the outdoors to more kids. What a great gift to give! –Heather G. Lane, Camp Scholarship Sponsor, Purity Ice Cream

14 15 FY 2013-14 AT A GLANCE

3 - Gala, Age of Aquaria 17-18 - Dr. Scott Sampson Weekend 28 - Under the : 1 - Philip Glass and special guest, Tim Archaeology on Smuttynose Island Fain at the State Theatre exhibit opens, Museum 16 - Glacier Lecture Series continues 5 - Artist-in-residence John Gurche 30 - 8th grade PRI volunteer, book signing at Museum of the Earth- Martin Welych-Flanagan’s project, Shaping Humanity: How Science, The Effects of Short-Term Sea Art, and Imagination Help Us to Level Fluctuations on Devonian 3-4 - 7th Annual Summer Understand Our Origins 15 - Nature Center lodge renovations break ground Brachiopods, wins highest honors Symposium 6 - Our Changing Climate exhibit and more at 2014 Central New York 14 - Tompkins County Chamber of opens, Nature Center 26 - Glacier Lecture Series continues Commerce Business After Hours at Science & Engineering Fair Museum of the Earth

5 - Teacher Resource day 16 - National Fossil Day 24 - Science Beneath the Surface released 26 - PRI staff attended the 125th annual meeting of the Geological Society of America (GSA), Denver, CO

3-5 - PRI staff attended the Science 6 - Water main break in the Biggs 21 - Laurie Anderson at State Theater Teachers Association of New Building of , 27 - 10th Anniversary of Museum of York State (STANYS) conference, means 2500 sf of collections storage the Earth opening Rochester, NY lost 29 - Fox Trot Fall Festival and 5k run 10 - Dino Jam at museum, supported 8-13 - Darwin Days- Evolution in by WSKG the Fossil Record- see lectures on 17 - Glacier Lecture Seriescontinues youtube 23 - Glacier Lecture Series continues

4 - Night at the Museum, featuring CSI, Dino yoga and more! PRI Director Warren Allmon 18 - Earth Day and Glacier Lecture participates in the teaching of the Series evolution class at Shoals Marine Laboratory in the Gulf of 22 - Summer Solstice Festival and unveiling of renovations, Nature Center

16 17 PUBLICATIONS BULLETINS OF AMERICAN PALEONTOLOGY: Another long-anticipated volume, published in Summer We published one issue of Bulletins of American 2014, is Field Guide to the Devonian Fossils of New York Paleontology since the last report . In December 2013, by Karl A. Wilson. Karl is a retired biochemistry professor Kate Bromfield (Environmental Protection Authority, New from University of Rochester, but is a life-long avocation- Zealand) published her monograph on the Neogene corals al paleontologist, well-versed in Devonian fossils. This of the Indo-Pacific (Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, and volume, combining the best of modern paleontology Fiji). Twenty-two new extinct species were described in this with the classic illustrations of James Hall, John Clarke, volume, extending in geological age back to the Miocene Amadeus Grabau, and Winifred Goldring, replaces the Epoch (16.9 million years ago). long out-of-print Devonian Paleontology by New York by David Linsley (PRI, 1994). In all, 408 taxa are covered in Despite only one issue being published in the past year, BAP the new volume, spanning the rich taxonomic breadth of is in a very healthy stage heading into fiscal year 2015. Now New York’s Devonian strata. in various stages of pre-production are six monographs on: Silurian echinoderms of west-central Tennessee (Craig Clement and Carl Brett), the Cretaceous fauna of south- central Colorado (Erle Kauffman), the history of paleontology in Virginia (Lauck Ward), Paleocene gastropods from Maryland (David Govoni, Thor Hansen, and Warren Allmon), Eocene decapod crustaceans from North America and Europe (Adina Frantescu), and the enigmatic Paleozoic taxon Eldionata (Breandán MacGabhann and John Murray). We know of at least another seven manuscripts in preparation for submission.

EVOLUTION: This View of Life: PRI continues to produce the Paleontology page for Also released in 2014 is the much anticipated A Paleon- Evolution: This View of Life, (www.thisviewoflife.com) an tological Life: The Personal Memoirs of Curt Teichert, online magazine published by the Evolution Institute at edited by Paula M. Mikkelsen, J. Thomas Dutro Jr., and Binghamton University. Two part-time staff members, Nancy Dutro. These previously unpublished memoirs Laura Komor and Sasha Paris, generate content by document Teichert’s exciting life and his influence on soliciting original articles and book reviews, and facilitating 20th century Earth science, and includes dramatic ac- “Paleonews” contributions by volunteer science writers. counts of his long and fascinating career, spanning 60 The latter postings detail new findings in paleontology, and years of adventure including Arctic fieldwork, an escape serve as an online continuation of the popular PaleoNews from Nazi Germany, working in the Australian outback, column in the discontinued American Paleontologist and cooperating with Iranian, Pakistani, and Afghan col- magazine. Our Paleontology section of ETVoL is the leagues in the days before terrorism. Teichert was a world website’s second most successful section in terms of authority on fossil cephalopods, published on topics from postings and views and continues to generate interest Gondwanan geology to fossil reefs, described more than by outside scientists as a venue for promoting their new 280 new species, founded international paleontological research. PRI’s Life and Ecphora Members receive a special societies, and contributed to the Treatise on Invertebrate biweekly e-newsletter that includes this content. Paleontology.

SPECIAL PUBLICATIONS Science Beneath the Surface: A Very Short Guide to the Marcellus Shale by Don Duggan-Haas, Rob Ross, and Warren Allmon, was published in hard-copy and e-book formats in October 2013. It continues to sell well and has been used in at least four college courses that we know of this past year. 18 19 MUSEUM OF THE EARTH extraordinary impact since the 1960s.

Rock of Ages, Sands of Time: A Look Back with Barbara Page The Museum of the Earth Fall, 2013 The notes, sketches, celebrated its 10th anniversary and drafts by nationally- in FY14, which set the tone Dr. Scott Visits PRI! In May, renowned Trumansburg-based for the entire year, with extra PRI hosted a fun-filled weekend artist Barbara Page were featured special events, temporary with Dr. Scott Sampson from the in this exhibit, teaching visitors exhibits and special guests, Denver Museum of Science and about the iconic mural, Rock of as well as a successful capital Nature, and host of the PBS KIDS Ages, Sands of Time. The series of campaign. hit series, Dinosaur Train. 544-three dimensional paintings, each representing one million Museum events featured Dr. years of history, function as a Scott Talks Dinosaurs, an visible metaphor for an eon, or interactive presentation tailored 550 million years, of Earth’s past. for dinosaur enthusiast of every age, and Dinosaurs of the Lost Continent, an academic lecture tailored for scientists The successful Rock the and science enthusiasts. At the Future campaign raised more Cayuga Nature Center, Dr. Scott than $1.1 million and has, and presented “Getting to Know the continues to, breathe new life Neighbors”, for nature lovers of Moving Carbon, Changing Earth into both the museum and the all ages. Fall, 2013 Cayuga Nature Center with Created in collaboration with new exhibits and upgrades, Cornell Professor, Dr.Natalie facility enhancements, and Mahawold,based on her NSF vastly improved visitor funded research, this exhibit on chemistry Nobel laureate, and experiences. Thank you to all climate and the global carbon 10th Aniversary the Museum of the Earth’s who contributed! cycle allowed visitors to Learn Artist-in-Residence John Events what carbon is and how its Gurche, movement affects the planet. Laurie Anderson Weekend Philip Glass with Special Guest Tim In September, PRI held a special eARTh Fain at the State Theatre of Ithaca Weekend with Laurie Anderson Dino Jam Temporary Spring, 2014 A collaboration in In March, PRI sponsored event, which featured Dirtday!, This family-friendly day of celebration of the museum’s 10th a performance by world a performance by Anderson at live music raised funds for the Exhibits anniversary and the State of the renowned composer and Raising the Dead: the Art and the State Theater as well as an Rock the Future Campaign Art Gallery’s 25th anniversary, this pianist, Philip Glass, and Science of John Gurche artist panel held at the museum and featured local bands Pete two part exhibit took place in both special guest, Tim Fain, at the Summer, 2013 This fascinating and facilitated by led by Barbara Panek & The Blues Cats, Not the museum’s Borg Warner gallery State Theatre. Through operas, exhibit explored the intersection Nearly 500 Tompkins County Mink. The panel featured Ms. From Wisconsin, Cats Elbow, and the State of the Art Gallery symphonies and collaborative of art and science through elementary students visited Anderson, Dr. Roald Hoffmann, Technicolor Trailer Park, and in downtown Ithaca, and reflect work, from concert halls to the works of world-renowned the museum through the KDT the Frank H.T. Rhodes Professor the Harry Nichols Band as well concerns about climate change as cinema and even popular Paleo-artist and PRI’s artist-in- program! Learn more at: of Humane Letters Emeritus as dinosaur crafts, refreshments, interpreted by a range of artists. music, Glass has had an residence, John Gurche. www.kidsdiscoverthetrail.org at Cornell University and 1981 and dancing under the whale. 20 21 CAYUGA NATURE CENTER Renovations will continue to be renovated in the coming year. As part of the Museum of the Earth’s 10th anniversary Rock the Future campaign, the Cayuga Nature Center saw a burst of much needed updates to the building and exhibits, making the space more physically accessible and appealing to visitors, and improving the educational capabilities of the venue.

Our Changing Climate: focusing on the Cayuga Lake Bioregion, this exhibit, in the Leopold Climate Room, addresses issues such as invasive species and the effect of climate change on agriculture and established habitats, and augments educational programming of the Cayuga Nature Center.

The most important of the improvements has been the new façade and entrance for the lodge. Designed by Claudia Brenner and built by McPherson Builders, the changes compliment the historic features of the 1939 building. The new Program Highlights: entrance features a lobby with new exhibit area, Team Challenge: 1,074 visitors took advantage as well as a small gift shop. of the Nature Center’s team building ropes course program. Exhibit Changes… Cayuga Lake: Then and Now: This prototype Additions to the Animal Collection Camp: More than 800 youth participated in exhibit showcases the changes in the types of fish During FY14, a variety of new animals joined summer and school’s out camp programs, with dominating Cayuga Lake 500 years ago and today. Cayuga Nature Center’s growing family of non- close to 20 taking advantage of the PRI’s camp The eventual permanent exhibit will feature large releasable animals. scholarship program. fish tanks. Western hognose snake (Wilbur) Kids Discover the Trail: Nearly 600 Tompkins Welcome Exhibit: Featuring the original Black rat snake (Kali) County elementary students were able to visit watercolor Cayuga Basin Bioregion map, by Milksnake (Milkbone) the Cayuga Nature Center through KDT, a Sandy Wold and Camille Doucet, this exhibit Fancy domestic rats (Iris and Honeysuckle) community accessibility project of the Discovery greets visitors as they climb the stairs to the great Leopard geckos (Gaia and Gita) Trail and The Ithaca Public Education Initiative. room of the lodge. Mudpuppy (Falkor) Wood Turtle (Glen) Animal Room: The live animal room received a Eastern box turtle (Shelby) face lift, and, along with the exterior enclosures,

22 23 CORNELL UNIVERSITY RELATIONS PRI remains separate from Cornell University, but after sixty years of separation and over the course of the past two decades, PRI and Cornell have reestablished multiple formal and informal connections, Outreach PRI continues to contribute to Cornell’s and collaborate in a multitude of ways. Most notably, in 2008, the Hunter R. Rawlings, III Professorship land-grant mission by facilitating public in Paleontology was established in Cornell’s Department of Earth & Atmospheric Sciences, which can outreach in collaboration with various only be held by an individual who is also Director of PRI. In 2010 the two institutions renewed their faculty and units of the University. formal agreement of affiliation for a second five years. The 2013-14 year saw the conclusion Teaching & Research of a major four-year collaboration with The Museum of the Earth serves as a Cornell Cooperative Extension focused teaching resource for Cornell, both on educational outreach around natu- formally and informally. Several classes ral gas drilling in the Marcellus Shale. In require their students to complete the fall of 2013, the Museum of the Earth exercises in the Museum exhibits. PRI was the site of a special temporary ex- collections are regularly used by Cornell hibit on climate and the global carbon faculty, staff, and students for research cycle, put together in collaboration with and teaching. PRI staff and facilities EAS Professor Natalie Mahawold based constitute the great majority of the on her NSF-funded research. This year nonbotanical paleontology program for we also began a major new collaboration Cornell. Four PRI staff members hold with EAS Professor Lou Derry and col- full or adjunct faculty positions in the leagues, to provide outreach activities Department of Earth and Atmospheric connected with the newly NSF-funded Sciences (EAS). national office of the Critical Zone -Ob servatory system. Director Warren Allmon teaches the equivalent of about 1.5 undergraduate PRI continues to serve as the informal courses per year, including Evolution at “outreach arm” of the EAS department. Shoals Marine Laboratory off the coast In this role we develop temporary ex- of Maine, as well as advising graduate hibits on research by EAS faculty, staff, students in EAS. He currently has two and students for display in the Museum, PhD students. Altogether, seven students manage fossil exhibits in Snee Hall on have received Ph.D.s from Cornell under campus, staff the department’s tables Dr. Allmon’s supervision. Director of at annual campus events for alumni Collections Greg Dietl supervises two and incoming freshmen, and serve as Ph.D. students in EAS. Both Greg and “Cornell experts” to the media on rel- Warren also supervise undergraduate evant topics, from the Marcellus Shale research students. to dinosaurs and evolution. Each year since 2006, PRI has taken the lead in or- Associate Director for Outreach Rob Ross ganizing Ithaca’s annual Darwin Days teaches a summer course for EAS called celebration, most of which happens on “Earth in the News.” the Cornell campus and features Cornell faculty and students. In February 2014, Associate Director for Science Paula the theme was “Evolution and the Fossil Mikkelsen was appointed as an Adjunct Record”, and a total of around 400 peo- Professor in EAS in early 2014. She also ple – mostly from Cornell – participated assumed responsibility for teaching in the week’s events. Invertebrate Zoology at Shoals Marine Lab.

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Barbara Dimock Brian Mayer Rose Zabel Yuki Sagar Douglas Donnelly Ryan McKenna Service Groups: Gaylen Sindair Ithaca College College of William and Mary Michael Durfee Victoria McLean Alpha Phi Omega|Gamma Mark Singer Lenore Durkee Phyllis McNeill Becker House William Tifft Cornell University St. Lawrence University Elizabeth Elton Allan Meritt Beta Theta Pi Annalee Tweitmann Syracuse University Cambridge University Samantha Fancher Shawn Mills CFCU Raul Valdes Tara Lynn Ferriter Michelle Moglia GiveGab Brett Walker Hartwick College Newman College Adric Garlick Deb Nero Into the Streets Shay Wescott Walter Gates Amanda Nichols Nielson Savannah Wilson Skidmore University Mansfield University Ron George Adil Omar POST Taliet Gerrentsen Hannah Owh STLF SUNY Oswego Rochester Institute of Technology Mathew Griffin Sasha Paris Match Charter HS SUNY Geneseo George Mason University Carrie Gulvin Elena Pfisterer Nestwatch Volunteers Loren Gurche Eric Poysa United Way SUNY ESF 30 31 STATEMENT OF FINANCE STAFF & TRUSTEES Revenue 1 Grants $737,000 Board of Trustees Staff 2 Restricted Gifts $646,077 *Thank you to our colleagues who moved on during this year. Trustees Emeritus Warren Allmon, Director 3 Gifts and Memberships $888,786 Leon Apgar III, Museum Operations Specialist Dr. Peter Bardaglio Mr. John Allen Maureen Bickley, Volunteer & Operations Coordinator 4 Funds Functioning as Endowment $172,015 Mrs. Jennifer Biloski Dr. Loren Babcock Elizabeth Brando, Director of Institutional Advancement* 5 Earned Revenue (programs + admissions + publications + store) $424,313 Ms. Elisabeth Boas Mr. Philip Bartels Carlyn Buckler, Education Associate* Mrs. Lori Brewer Mr. Larry Baum 6 Other $67,211 Maija Cantori, Museum Associate / Director of Visitor Services Dr. H. Allen Curran Ms. Percy Browning Alex Cavallo, Development Associate* $2,935,402 Mr. William Engles Dr. James Cordes Kelly Cronin, Education Associate* Dr. J. Mark Erickson Dr. Harold Craft Gregory P. Dietl, Director of Collections Dr. Karl Flessa Ms. Shirley Egan Don Duggan-Haas, Director of Teacher Programming Ms. Joanne Florino Dr. Rodney Feldmann Brian Gollands, Information Technology Manager Dr. Jim Fogel Dr. Bob Horn, Jr. Wade Greenberg-Brand, Exhibitions Assistant Dr. John Handley Dr. Teresa Jordan Michael Griswold, Facilities Manager Dr. John Hermanson Dr. Patricia Kelley Sarah Grove, Visitor Services Associate Dr. Bryan Isacks Dr. Harry Lee Ellen Hellman, Finance and Administration* Dr. Linda Ivany Mr. Harry Leffingwell Dayna Jorgenson, Environmental Education Manager Mrs. Jean McPheeters Dr. Rob Mackenzie Adam Kneis, Environmental Education Manager* Dr. David Meyer Dr. Amy McCune Laura Komor, Publications Assistant Dr. James Morin Dr. D. Jeffrey Over Kevin Lanigan, Facilities, Nature Center Mrs. Katy Pearce Mr. Edward Picou Georgia Lesh, Development Associate Dr. Marvin Pritts Dr. John Pojeta Samantha Lesser, Museum Operations & Programs Coordinator Dr. Phil Reilly Mr. Philip Proujansky Michael Lucas, Associate Director for Finance and Administration Dr. Melzar Richards Ms. Mary Shuford Mark Lucas, Managing Editor, Teacher Friendly Guides* Dr. Dale Springer Dr. Constance Soja Andrew Matthiessen, Assistant to the Director* Mr. David Taube Dr. James Sorauf Emily McKittrick, Manager of Animal Collections Dr. Don Wilson Dr. John Steinmetz Stephanie Meyer, Director of Marketing and Development Mr. William Young Dr. Peter Stifel Alicia Michael, Director of Museum Operations* Mr. William Ventress Paula Mikkelsen, Associate Director for Science Mr. Arthur Waterman & Director of Publications Expenditures Dr. Thomas Whiteley 1 Payroll $1,502,370 Judith Nagel-Myers, Collections Manager* Emily Newton, Marketing Manager* 2 Depreciation $335,434 Sasha Paris, Publications Assistant 3 Interest $162,404 Robert Ross, Associate Director for Outreach 4 Professional Fees $44,037 Matt Sacco, Director of Nature Center Programs Amanda Schmitt, Museum Associate 5 Other $271,513 Leslie Skibinski, Collections Manager 6 Building and Maintenance $189,009 Beth Stricker, Director of Exhibitions 7 Grant Subcontracts $184,641 Andrielle Swaby, Education Associate / Assistnt to the Director Zoe Van Buren, Publications Assistant* 8 Exhibits $36,767 Sally Vann, Assistant to the Director* $2,726,175 Alexander Wall, Education Associate* Christine Whitaker, Director of Nature Center Programs* Ingrid Zabel, Climate Change Education Manager

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