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OMCA Advisors Meeting 2009 HOTSPOT CALIFORNIA National Science Foundation Advisors Meeting Oakland Museum of California November 6 & 7, 2009 Oakland Museum of California 1000 Oak Street Oakland, California 94607-4892 510.238.2200 telephone www.museumca.org This unpublished document is intended to be a faithful synthesis of the presentations and discussions at the Hotspot California, National Science Foundation Advisors Meeting that took place at the Oakland Museum of California on November 6 and 7, 2009. It is meant to serve as a resource for those who attended and for the Oakland Museum staff. It does not necessarily reflect the views of the Oakland Museum of California or individual meeting participants. Participant comments have been paraphrased and the sequence of participant remarks have This meeting was made possible with a grant from been reorganized. These are not exact quotes, the National Science Foundation rather they are an attempt to capture the Any opinions, findings, conclusions or recommendations expressed in this content and meaning of the ideas presented. material are those of session participants and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation. Cover: Participants hold al fresco discussion in the museum gardens Page number graphic: The state rock of California in the museum gardens (jade, part of the serpentinite rock and mineral family) Participants i National Science Foundation Advisors Lisa D. White, Ph.D. Mary Jo Sutton Professor of Geology & Associate Dean, College Lead Developer/Designer Doris Ash, Ph.D. of Science & Engineering, San Francisco State Associate Professor, Department of Education, University Karina White University of California at Santa Cruz Exhibition Developer Richard Bugbee Education Department Associate Professor of Ethnobotany, Cuyamaca Invited Guests College, El Cajon, California Rebekah Berkov Dan Rademacher Natural Sciences School Programs Coordinator Editorial Director, Bay Nature Magazine Christopher Cogan, Ph.D. Susanne Pegas Assistant Professor, Environmental Science and Jennifer Stock Water Strider Coordinator Resource Management, California State University Education and Outreach Coordinator, Cordell Bank Channel Islands, Camarillo, California National Marine Sanctuary History Department Carolyn Finney, Ph.D. Louise Pubols College of Natural Resources, Department of Chief Curator of History Environmental Science, Policy and Management, Oakland Museum of California University of California at Berkeley Art Department Administration Julie I. Johnson René de Guzman Lori Fogarty John Roe Distinguished Chair of Museum Leadership, Senior Curator Executive Director Science Museum of Minnesota Docent Peter Kahn, Ph.D. Natural Science Department Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, Cedith Copenhaver Carson Bell Special Projects Associate University of Washington, Seattle, Washington Curatorial Specialist Matt Matcuk, Ph.D. Amy Billstrom Exhibition Development Director, The Field Museum, Interim Interpretive Specialist (Education) Project Consultants Chicago, Illinois Gail Binder Preparator Cecilia Garibay Norman L. Miller, Ph.D. Principal, Garibay Group Staff Scientist and Adjunct Professor, Climate Lindsay Dixon Catherine McEver Science Department Berkeley National Laboratory, Chief Preparator The Bureau of Common Sense, Documentation Geography Department, University of California at Douglas Long Berkeley Chief Curator of Natural Sciences Kathleen McLean Independent Exhibitions Stephen Quinn John Perry Senior Project Manager, Exhibition Department, Exhibit Project Manager American Museum of Natural History Christopher Richard Scott Sampson, Ph.D. Curator of Aquatic Biology Research Curator, Utah Museum of Natural History, Carolyn Rissanen and Adjunct Associate Professor, Department of Registrar Geology and Geophysics, University of Utah ii Contents Introduction ............................................1 • Loaded Words and the Power of Language .......... 39 Climate Change ......................................... 65 Context and Overarching Principles ...................1 The Importance of the Wild .......................... 39 Interim Discussion: Project Overview .........................................2 Dreams, Ideas, Issues .............................. 69 The Inside-Outside Museum-Nature Connection ... 40 The Power of Stories .................................. 69 Passion Statements ...................................5 • Starting Outside; Putting Dioramas Where People Are ............... 40 • Visitors’ Stories of Place ............................. 69 Doris Ash ...................................................5 • Dioramas as Stepping Stones to What Story Do You Tell? ............................... 69 Direct Experience with Nature ...................... 41 Stephen Quinn ............................................7 • Stories/Messages Based on Hard Science ........... 69 • Including a Focus on Urban Environment ........... 41 Matt Matcuk ................................................9 • Dealing with Creation Stories ....................... 70 Into the Wild ............................................. 42 Julie I. Johnson ......................................... 11 • Sticking to the Science Story ........................ 71 • Facilitating Deep Experience with Nature ......... 42 • Making a Decision and Taking a Stance .............. 72 Scott Sampson ........................................... 13 • Fear and Unfamiliarity with Nature ................. 42 • Myths and Stories of Anthropogenic Interference ... 73 Dan Rademacher ........................................ 15 • Back to the Wild: Moving People into that Deeper Experience ........ 43 The Power of Place .................................... 73 Peter Kahn ............................................... 18 Using Technology ........................................ 43 • Native American Place Names and Name Stories ... 73 Richard Bugbee ......................................... 21 • Refocusing on Visitor Stories of Place ............... 74 • Technology as a Creative Force and Tool .......... 43 • Connecting Personal, Carolyn Finney .......................................... 24 • Live Feeds to Source Sites ........................... 44 Place-based Stories with the Science ............... 74 Lisa D. White ............................................ 27 OMCA Natural Sciences Gallery: • Kids Relating to a Place Over 200 Years ............. 74 Issues to Consider ...................................... 44 Norman L. Miller ........................................ 29 Links Between Nature and Culture .................. 74 Christopher Cogan ...................................... 30 Project Evaluation • Portraying People’s Relation to Nature .............. 74 Cecilia Garibay ......................................... 45 Getting People into Nature ........................... 75 Issues, Thoughts, Paradoxes ..................... 36 • Museum as Trail Head or Train Station .............. 75 Motivating Visitors to Action ......................... 50 Paradox: Scientists Where Are the Humans? ............................... 75 and the Unscientifically Inclined .................... 36 Diorama Meta-dilemmas .......................... 52 • Humans Missing from the Dioramas ................. 75 Connecting with the Natural World .................. 37 Introduction to Meta-dilemmas ...................... 52 • Human Footprints .................................... 75 • Portals, Time Machines to the Natural World ....... 37 • Overview ............................................. 52 Unanticipated Audiences and Outcomes ........... 75 • A Spiritual Connection to Nature .................... 37 • Questions ............................................ 52 • Making Green Part of Your Life Story ................ 37 What an Exhibit Can Do ............................... 76 Visually Representing Meta-issues ............................................... 38 What Meta-stories Will the Museum Tell? ........... 76 Science, Biodiversity and Dynamic Processes ...... 54 • A Precious, Locked-in Word View of Dioramas ...... 38 Visitor Voices ........................................... 77 California and Place ................................... 60 • Engaging Youth and Their Stories • A Caution about Cacophonous Overload ............. 77 Without Reinventing the Wheel ..................... 39 Community .............................................. 63 Contents iii Key Mission and Messages ............................. 78 • Encouraging/Enabling • Do We Want to Recreate Nature? .................... 94 Interactions with Other People ...................... 89 • Positive and Hopeful ................................ 78 • Use of Sound: Noise Pollution ....................... 94 The Gallery In General ................................ 89 • Keeping on Track with Major Themes ............... 78 Sidewalk Group Summary Report .................... 95 • The Overall Floor Plan/Storyline .................... 89 • Naming, Labels, Information ........................ 95 Twelve Preliminary Interventions ............. 79 Questions Staff (& Advisors) Want • Contracting Experience Intervention 1: Laysan Albatross & Plastics ........ 79 Answered about the Interventions .................. 90 & the Focus on Vertebrates ......................... 95 • Which Were an Asset to Dioramas? ..................... 90 • Using Labels as Graphic Intervention 2: Octopus & Word Clouds ............ 80 Pathways Through the Exhibition ................... 95 • How Many Interventions? ..............................
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