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OUR MISSION & VISION MISSION: Be a catalyst! Ignite our community’s passion for nature and science.

VISION: An empowered community that loves, understands, and protects our natural world. CONTENTS DENVER MUSEUM OF NATURE & SCIENCE 2019 GRATITUDE REPORT

04 LETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT & THE CHAIRMAN

06 YEAR END FINANCIAL REPORT

08 OUR STORIES

18 BOARD OF TRUSTEES

20 DONORS

26 EDWIN CARTER LEGACY SOCIETY

28 ENDOWMENTS

29 COLLECTIONS DONORS

30 SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS

34 SCIENTIFIC + CULTURAL FACILITIES DISTRICT

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We closed out another revolutionary purpose—are leading us. Every smile year in 2019, having worked hard that spreads, every idea that takes to fulfill our mission and to connect root, and every spark of inspiration with more people about nature and that ignites happens because of science in ways that are meaningful people like you and organizations to them. like yours.

We love it when a connection with George Sparks Harold Logan Jr. the Denver Museum of Nature & President & CEO Chairman of the Board, 2019 Science causes sparks of curiosity to ignite into flames of excitement. And it’s supporters like you—providing us with energy, ideas, and resources— who help the Museum continue to fan those flames of wonder inspired LETTER by our natural world.

You are the true heroes of our story. Several years ago, we started on an FROM THE incredible journey, one that involved purposefully developing new relationships within the community, PRESIDENT encouraging people to share their desires with us, actively listening to them, and then using those insights to create Museum experiences & THE for the future. It’s exciting to see where these relationships—which are built on trust, a pure love of fun CHAIRMAN and lifelong learning, and a shared George Sparks & Harold Logan Jr. 4 2019 IN REVIEW

(, ,) + 62,582 265,268 ~85,800 7,312 MEMBER HOUSEHOLDS STUDENTS, CHAPERONES VISITORS ATTENDED VISITORS ATTENDED THE . MILLION AND TEACHERS HOSTED MARS OUTPOST GIRLS & SCIENCE EVENT One of the largest PEOPLE SERVED ONSITE & OFFSITE programs of any 82% served for free Opened June 18 or reduced cost Onsite: 1.4 million (1,486,793) people, a third of whom (444,000) were served for free. paid natural history organizations in the Offsite: 844,805 people through our education programs and offsite experiences. country

DISTANCE NEW VOICE BOX LEARNING FOR SABER TOOTH PROGRAMS CAT DONATION STATION 10 YEARS , DIVERTED VOLUNTEERS GAVE REACHED: CELEBRATED YEARS OF EXPEDITION HEALTH® FROM FIELD EXCURSIONS LANDFILL STATES OVER DAYS , CANADIAN HOURS OF THEIR TIME PROVINCES (IN TONS) THE NETHERLANDS PARTICIPANTS IN GENES 22.45 COMPOST & GRAINS TASTE STUDY 5.75 GLASS

NEW OBJECTS ENTERED 19.47 METAL INTO COLLECTIONS 4.3 million objects in 4.28 ELECTRONICS total to date

George Sparks President and CEO

5 5 SUPPORT & REVENUE 2019 2019 2019 Operations Initiatives All Museum Admissions 12,218 - 12,218 SCFD 9,752 - 9,752 Gifts and grants 8,466 3,520 11,986 Memberships 5,853 - 5,853 Gift shop and food service 1,772 - 1,772 (net) DENVER MUSEUM OF NATURE & SCIENCE 2019 GRATITUDE REPORT DENVER MUSEUM OF NATURE & SCIENCE 2019 GRATITUDE REPORT City & County of Denver 1,511 7,966 9,477 Program 1,433 - 1,433 Other 662 - 662 Total Support & Revenue 41,667 11,486 53,153

EXPENDITURES Program Activities Exhibits/Visitor Experiences 6,532 2,384 8,916 Physical Plant 7,121 9,576 16,697 Admissions 3,102 - 3,102 Collections & Research 5,971 112 6,083 Education 5,984 882 6,866 Total Program Activities 28,710 12,954 41,664 Supporting Activities General & Administration 5,856 - 5,856 YEAR END Marketing 2,549 - 2,549 Fundraising 1,976 160 2,136 FINANCIAL Membership 1,476 - 1,476 Total Supporting 11,857 160 12,017 Activities REPORT Total Expenditures 40,567 13,114 53,681 Year ending December 31, 2019 Changes in net (in thousands) assets from operations 1,100 (1,628) (528) 6 *Excludes DMNS foundation operating results. THE TREASURER’S REPORT

The Denver Museum of a stable and growing economy, our operations, the Museum bond proceeds provided by DENVER MUSEUM OF NATURE & SCIENCE Nature & Science is pleased SCFD revenue for the Denver conducted work in 2019 on the City’s Elevate Denver bond to report another successful metropolitan area increased several initiative projects program. On the following year. In 2019, the Museum 4.86% percent in 2019 from specified in the Museum’s page, we present our financial achieved operating revenues the previous year. The District’s Everyone, Everywhere results with these strategic of $41,667,036 driven in renewal was approved by Strategic Plan, including activities detailed separately. part by temporary exhibition voters in 2016. design completion and With these planned performance, successful construction preparation projects, the year ended fundraising efforts, the The Museum continued in for the Space Odyssey with an operating surplus of support of membership 2019 with important capital Reimagined project, feasibility $1,100,054. households, and increased projects that enabled it to on the new Future First guest funding from the Scientific handle increased attendance experience in the heart of The Museum received a & Cultural Facilities District and to improve the visitor the Museum on the first floor, clean audit opinion from our (SCFD) due to higher sales tax experience. Projects included developing a concept for independent accounting firm. receipts for the district. carpet replacement and Nearby Nature, and fabrication 2019 GRATITUDE REPORT painting throughout the of the new mobile Curiosity We owe special recognition building, technology upgrades, Cruiser. In addition, work to the citizens of the seven- and minor improvements to continued on the $18 million county metro region, the City permanent exhibits. of infrastructure improvements and County of Denver and to HVAC, electrical, and life the SCFD for their ongoing In addition to these capital safety systems that are being operational support. Thanks to maintenance investments in paid for by general obligation

Edward D. Scholz Vice President, Finance and Business Operations

Steven Halstedt Chair, Finance and Audit Committee

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SHAPING TOMORROW STARTS BY INSPIRING TODAY The exposure to field work and scientific inquiry comes at what is a critical point for many participants who are staring adulthood in the face and wondering, “what am I supposed to do next?”

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The late Dr. Paul Rosen had a her peers for plant fossils in a other researchers, labored on. many of whom will likely be DENVER MUSEUM OF NATURE & SCIENCE keen interest in paleontology quarry and politely tapped Dr. They collected thousands of the first in their families to that inspired him and his Miller on the shoulder to show fossils and pieced together the complete a four-year college wife, Harriet, to help fund the him the rock she’d just split most complete understanding degree, with the opportunity creation of the Teen Science open. She wanted to know if it of how life returned after the to work shoulder to shoulder Scholars program in 2007. was “anything good.” asteroid and led to the end with Museum scientists on their But from dozens of generous of the age of dinosaurs. The research projects. The program donors who helped make the When Dr. Miller blew the dust discoveries – which were is approaching its 13th summer program come to fruition to off the rock and held it to catch documented by film crews – season and has more than Museum staff to aspiring teen the sunlight, he knew Aeon revealed Corral Bluffs to be 175 alumni. scientists – no one thought had indeed found “something more than just a beautiful it would ultimately open an good,” as later analysis sight to behold; it held The exposure to field work historic window into how life revealed it to be the oldest secrets to unlocking mysteries and scientific inquiry comes rebounded in the aftermath of bean pod fossil on the planet. surrounding the re-emergence at what is a critical point for

a cataclysmic asteroid striking “So, it’s pretty cool,” Aeon of life after the dinosaurs many participants who are 2019 GRATITUDE REPORT the earth some 66 million years admitted about her discovery. went extinct. staring adulthood in the face ago. And yet, that’s exactly and wondering, “What am I what happened. Meanwhile, Dr. Lyson was In 2019, after years of supposed to do next?” traversing the bluffs, testing a meticulous planning, the In 2017 – more than a decade new fossil hunting strategy and Museum shared the incredible Donors like you make scientific after the Teen Science Scholars focused on concretions. When discoveries with the world research possible – from PhD program was launched – he cracked open one to reveal through news media, virtual curators to curious teens. Museum paleobotanist Dr. a near complete mammal education programs, an on-site Thank you! Ian Miller and paleontologist skull, it presented yet another experience, a documentary Dr. Tyler Lyson took a group stunning discovery. Previously, film, and a website. These of Teen Science Scholars to a paleontologists had only efforts provided avenues for stunning location just east of coaxed tiny teeth and other millions of people to connect Colorado Springs called small fossil fragments from with fresh glimpses of history Corral Bluffs. the bluffs. in meaningful ways.

Aeon Way-Smith, one of the Dr. Miller and Dr. Lyson, The Museum’s unique Teen Teen Science Scholars that working alongside the Teen Science Scholars program season, was searching with Science Scholars and a dozen provides high school students,

9 9 DENVER MUSEUM OF NATURE & SCIENCE 2019 GRATITUDE REPORT DENVER MUSEUM OF NATURE & SCIENCE 2019 GRATITUDE REPORT PUTTING FUN FIRST TO INSPIRE LIFELONG EXPLORERS, QUESTIONERS, & WONDERERS

Hi, my name is Layla, and I am five, and I am in kindergarten, and I like trees and animals, and I brought cookies and apples in my lunchbox so we can eat lunch at the museum, and also, I like learning about trees, and I am five.”

— Layla (age 5), Museum guest

10 EMBRACE THEIR DENVER MUSEUM OF NATURE & SCIENCE 2019 GRATITUDE REPORT INNER SCIENTISTS Because of strong community support, the Museum is celebrated as a leader in informal education, and community members have taken this concept and made it their own through their Museum experiences—whether that involves clambering around a model of a Mars rover at a shopping center, trying out STEAM careers and making personal connections with female scientists at Girls & Science, or putting on a bear costume at school to crawl through a habitat during a Wonder Workshop. From teachers to students to families to retirees and beyond, the Museum’s “fun first” approach inspires a love for science in countless ways for people of all ages.

“I get to go somewhere and be flexible. Not, like, in a classroom, just sitting there.”

—Jinchai, John E. Flynn A Marzano Academy student

A little over ten years ago, Andrew Benham was one of our dedicated buddies who helped guests learn about their health at the opening of Expedition Health®. Fast forward to today, and Andrew is still a proud Colorado resident who loves science and is pursuing a degree in aerospace engineering at the University of Colorado Boulder.

From the time he was in first grade, Cooper Wooten regularly attended the 60 Minutes in Space shows—a free, monthly program hosted by our space scientists in the planetarium. “Thank you for answering every question I ever tossed your way since I was in first grade,” Cooper said. “You were all very instrumental in getting me to where I am today.” Having recently graduated from the University of Colorado with a degree in astrophysical and planetary sciences, Cooper is now looking to get his PhD in astrophysics.

11 11 “Zoe recently turned five and is a HUGE fan of the Museum and its IMAX® films—she’s even said that she would sleep in the IMAX® theater if she could! She has seen Turtle Odyssey four times and particularly enjoys anything to do with sea life. Between Hidden Pacific, the Oceans IMAX®, and Turtle Odyssey, . . . Zoe is now an ‘expert’ on all the plastic in the ocean and the need to reduce plastic consumption. She’s turning our family into better protectors of the earth. . . . Love it, and love DMNS.” — Tami Vinson, Zoe’s mom

“My class loved Frankie. He ran our session in Spanish, which made it more meaningful for students. He was great with cues to listen and cues to begin interactions. Kids were so happy to get to engage with each Wild Senses station—they couldn’t get enough! We all learned a lot about how animals use their five senses. The materials were so creative in how they exemplified the teaching point. I can’t wait to work with the museum again.” — Garden Place Elementary School teacher

“The Museum does a nice job having tailored experiences for kindergarteners, first graders, second graders … It’s a wonderful opportunity for our kids. I think they look at it as kind of a hidden day off from school.” — Dr. Brian Kosena, John E. Flynn A Marzano Academy principal

“We need more women in science. So I think that, since I get to have that role, it’s important that I take it on full force.”

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INDULGE THEIR CURIOSITY 13 DENVER MUSEUM OF NATURE & SCIENCE 2019 GRATITUDE REPORT A TIMELESS GIFT Imagine that a colorfully of Nature & Science and critical thinking her honor. The endowment, wrapped box bursting collections arrives at Fraser skills they’ll need as the which was created in 2019, with imaginative, hands-on Valley Elementary School in innovators, explorers, and supports hands-on science activities and specimens Fraser, Colorado. Everyone community builders education experiences from the Denver Museum who lays eyes on the box of tomorrow. for K-12 students, both realizes that an extraordinary in their own schools and experience awaits. Guided Outreach experiences like communities and on by their teachers—who the one described above are Museum field trips. are now experts in earth possible thanks to heroes science thanks to lessons like you and longtime and activities curated by Museum volunteer and the Museum—students dig supporter Ann O’Donnell. deep into Colorado’s past Words can’t express the to discover what our state depth of our gratitude to looked like when dinosaurs Ann for her 40+ years of roamed the earth. As volunteer service and to students create simulations the many supporters who of Colorado’s lost worlds, contributed to the Ann they practice using the O’Donnell Endowment for teamwork, communication, Outreach and Education in Ann O’Donnell & George Sparks

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I like the connectedness and making Space Odyssey more of an earth experience rather than a ’space from America’ experience.”

—Space Odyssey Community Focus Group Member 2019 GRATITUDE REPORT

INSPIRING GENERATIONS OF SPACE ENTHUSIASTS 15 DENVER MUSEUM OF NATURE & SCIENCE 2019 GRATITUDE REPORT GET OUT THERE Together with the community, space industry experts, staff, we infuse wonder and and volunteers, the all-new excitement into the exhibition will offer guests Museum experience. opportunities to create their own personal and emotional When Space Odyssey connections with space and reopens after a major with each other. transformation, the brand- new experience will be Space Odyssey’s all about answering the transformation will be a question of “how we know” catalyst for space fans by immersing you in an across the state, igniting experience where you can a new generation of touch, see, hear, and yes, inventive geniuses and even smell what it’s like to STEAM enthusiasts. be “out there.” Created in collaboration with community members, amazing Museum supporters such as yourself,

16 It’s just a sense of wonder and curiosity that Space Odyssey will reopen in November 2020. Throughout Space Odyssey, new activities and exhibits inspires more questions and answers, and DENVER MUSEUM OF NATURE & SCIENCE 2019 GRATITUDE REPORT that’s the thing you want to cultivate. I think for all ages will revolve around five themes, each focused that’s cool.” on “a way of knowing” about space, Earth, ourselves, and our shared humanity. —Space Odyssey Community Focus Group Member

01Human Wonder. We learn 02Space from Earth. We learn by imagining what is by gazing at the stars. out there.

03Machines in Space. We learn 04Earth from Space. We learn by sending machines beyond by examining our own world our reach. from space.

OPENING IN Beyond Human Wonder. We learn by imagining what NOVEMBER 05People in Space. We remains to be learn by traveling to space ourselves. discovered. 2020 17 DENVER MUSEUM OF NATURE & SCIENCE 2019 GRATITUDE REPORT

The Board of Trustees in front of the Curiosity Cruiser. Back row from left: Montgomery C. Cleworth, Rick Ambrose, J. Wayne Hutchens, John Couzens, Mark Sexton, Dr. Naresh Mandava,

Denver Museum of Nature & Science 2019 Annual Report Denver Museum of Nature Ed Warner, M. Ray Thomasson, Mark Spiecker, Kristin Richardson, Chris Chavez, Susan McIntire, Leo Tilman, Hal Logan, Peter Dea, Matthew Burkett, Walter “Buz” Koelbel, Jr., Henry Gordon, Tim Ryan, Lisa Levin Appel, Anne McCarthy, Jena Hausmann, Allegra “Happy” Haynes, BOARD OF Jenny Hopkins, Steve Halstedt The Museum extends its deepest gratitude for your support, which makes science accessible, understandable, fun, and meaningful — TRUSTEES creating a vibrant Colorado community today and far into the future. 18 2019 BOARD OF TRUSTEES TRUSTEES EMERITI

CHAIR Allegra “Happy” Haynes Sue E. Anschutz-Rodgers William Sinclaire II Harold Logan Jr. Jenny Hopkins Patricia Barela Rivera Eric Sipf Christine Marquez-Hudson Pamela D. Beardsley Thomas Swanson

VICE CHAIR Wayne Hutchens Brown W. Cannon Sondra Talley DENVER MUSEUM OF NATURE & SCIENCE 2019 GRATITUDE REPORT Kristin Richardson Walter “Buz” Koelbel Jr. Anthony M. Combs Mike Wilfley Jeffrey H. Coors John Levisay Richard Ambrose Joan C. Donner David Liniger Lisa Levin Appel Philippe Dunoyer Naresh Mandava Matthew Burkett Hubert A. Farbes Jr. Anne McCarthy Christopher Chavez John A. Ferguson III Stephen McConahey Montgomery Cleworth William W. Grant Susan McIntire John Couzens Nancy Leprino Henry James Crocker Timothy Ryan Oliver W. Hickel III Peter Dea Mark Sexton Gail Heitler Klapper John Freyer Mark Spiecker Harry T. Lewis Jr. Henry Gordon M. Ray Thomasson Mary Pat Link Steven Halstedt Leo Tilman Donna Lynne Jena Hausmann Edward Warner Carrie Morgridge

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DONORS 20 INDIVIDUALS Catherine Hoerter Nona Yakes $1,500–$4,999 Richard & Barb Holme Anonymous $1,000,000+ Wayne & Joyce Hutchens $5,000–$9,999 David & Chris Abell Blair & Kristin Richardson Kevin & Dorota Kilstrom Holly Arnold Kinney Deborah & Isaac Annis & Jeremy Kinney Ed & Jackie Warner Mary Lynne & Stephen Kneller Robert & Michelle Applegate Ms. Joan Burleson &

Michael & Elizabeth Lacey Hartman Axley DENVER MUSEUM OF NATURE & SCIENCE 2019 GRATITUDE REPORT Mr. James M. Mulligan $100,000–$999,999 Don & Susie Law Amanda Baker-Lane William & Kris Carpenter Sue Anschutz-Rodgers Hal & Ann Logan Mr. & Mrs. William J. Barrett The Estate of Martha S. & Montgomery C. Cleworth Mr. Ed & Mrs. Patricia A. Martin Cortlandt S. Dietler Kenneth Behrens & Cynthia Wozniak-Behrens Estate of Muriel Kogan Anne McCarthy Mr. James A. & Marcy & Bruce Benson Estate of Deanna E. LaCamera Karen Maccracken Mrs. June E. Englehorn Robert & Sarah Benson Theodore F. Richardson Steve & Kathy McConahey John Estes & Norma Horner Seth & Megan Bent Mark Sexton Gene & Rosann McCullough Lindsey Fenner & Brian Phillips Linda & Jerry Berry Lee & Susan McIntire Mark & Robin Fingerson Alison & Thomas Betts $10,000–$99,999 John & Mary Jo O’Donnell Pat Giarritano & Dr. Robert Breeze & Anonymous Joseph & Alice Proietti Janina Kozacka Dr. Carol Foster-Breeze Richard & Kathryn Ambrose Judith Purvis Peter & Rhondda Grant Linda & Wesley Brown Lisa Levin Appel Martha Records & Philip & Susan Greenberg Roger Brown Mark & Jan Bundy Richard Rainaldi Johni Hays Serena & Darek Bruzgo Mr. Brown W. & Dr. Paul & Mrs. Harriet Rosen Gregory & Lisen Kintzele James & Sharon Butler Mrs. Mardi Cannon Tim & Kathryn Ryan John & Katie Levisay Bruce & Kathleen Butterfield John & Melinda Couzens Phyllis Sharp John & Mary Nice Desiree Campbell & Mr. James H. & Erik, Katy & Ives Simpson Michael & Barbara Mrs. Barbara J. Crocker Patrick Ciganer Dick & Sonnie Talley O’Shaughnessy Lawrence & Carol Davila Anne Canter Dr. M. Ray Thomasson Debra J. Perry & Lelia Carroll Dorothy Dines & Merrill Shields Jeffrey V. Baldwin Barbara & Roger Chamberlain Kris Fraser & Jeff Goldstein Janice Tucker The Ponzio Family Ann & Thomas Cope Gerald Forney & Irene Ludwig Duane & Mary Venner Charles & Dianne Putman Joan Corder John & Ginny Freyer Robert K. Walker Dennis & Kathie Simpson Mr. Cannon Y. & & Cristy Godwin George Sparks & James & Alexandra Corlett Mrs. Lyndia K. Harvey Mr. David J. & Dr. Shandra Wilson Mrs. Beth J. Coyle Mrs. Charles Hazelrigg Mrs. Sally J. Warren Bob & Linda Zaparanick Cynthia Cox & Ann Elleolge 21 Mr. & Mrs. Robert M. Danos Jon & Roxanne Isenhart Anna Mortensen George & Julia Secor Julie & Thomas Denison Larry & Diane Jensen Cindy & Stephen Nealley Carole & George Shaw Ian & Elizabeth Douglas Claudia Jensen & Will Nicholson Mark Sippel & Diane Freeman Michael P. Dowling George Flavin Collie Norman & Geoff & Lauren Smart Mr. & Mrs. Grady Durham Susan Jerman Donna Webster Harvey & Maureen Solomon Kimbra Jerman Canton & Ann O’Donnell DENVER MUSEUM OF NATURE & SCIENCE 2019 GRATITUDE REPORT Phyllis & Larry Eifler Van & Susan Spence Liz O’Rourke & Kerry Conley Patrick & Rita Ervin Lance & Katherine Johnson Ann Stailey Mr. & Mrs. Thomas P. Owen Randolph Evans Mr. & Mrs. Barton M. Johnson Susan Stark Mary Jo Johnson Gregory Parmley Hubert Farbes Jeffrey Stephenson Barbara J. Kelley Gordon Peden Lawrence & Wendy Fiske Mr. & Mrs. Paul R. Stewart David & Ira Kessel Lisa Peloso & Vikas Patel Mark & Nancy Foster Carolan Stiles David Killen Toby Pippin & Marty Judy Fredricks John Stockwell & Karen Kolb John & Joanne Kirby Tingelhoff L. Calvin Fulenwider III Stephen Strachan Sharon & John Kirts Bill & Marilyn Plummer & Linda Denmark Maria Garcia Berry & Charles Berry Tim Kram & Melinda Quiat & Ludvik & Katherine Svoboda Christel Bemelmans Kevin Christensen Valerie Gates Stewart Swan & Bryan & Kathryn Lees Taryn & Jason Quick Dr. Nicole Garneau Leslie Gehring & Chris Bair Robin Lehman Rudy & Alice Ramsey Kenneth Swartz Bonnie & Catherine Gibbs Sarah Lipscy & Seth Hornstein Arthur & Lindsay Reimers John & Janice Thomas D. Patrick & Hayley Gibbs Lucy & Scott Littlefield Mary Reisher & Barry Berlin David Van Pelt Thomas & Shirley Gibson Susan B. Mammel Steve & Paula Reynolds Paul Voilleque & Patricia Gillette Norma Morin-Voilleque Dr. Naresh & Robert & Myra Rich Geffrey & Lyndean Gilligan Mrs. Donna Mandava Daniel Ritchie Theodore & Catherine Vrehas Savita Ginde & Reid Collier Angela & William Matthias Ed & Deborah Rojas John & Jane Walp Barbara Grogan Mr. & Mrs. Frederick R. Mayer Donald Ruthenberg Nancy Walsh & Ted Vial James & Diana Hanna Douglas McCallum James Sadler & Ellen & David Weaver Happy Haynes & Diana Neff Courtney Appel-Sadler David & Stacey Weiland Stephen Hindes Susan McLoon Hodson Jolanthe Saks Linda Weiss Richard & Janet Holman Gerald & Peggy Melfi Rick & Judy Schiff Mr. Richard Whipkey Bruce & Heidi Hoyt Lael Moe & Cathy Fennelly Edward Scholz & Craig Brown Jon & Moira Williams Patti Hueni Jon & Amy Montague Tisha & Brian Schuller

22 Rachel Williams & Lincoln Hills Cares Enerplus Resources (USA) National Endowment for Dr. Mike Weissmann Lockheed Martin Corporation the Humanities Mr. James S. & Luff Family Fund Evergreen Natural National NAGPRA Program, Mrs. Marilyn M. Wilson Resources, LLC National Park Service National Institute of General Sallie Wolf & Wes Johnson Newmont Medical Sciences, National Firman Fund Kathleen Wolf Institutes of Health Sidney E. Frank Foundation - Noble Energy, Inc. DENVER MUSEUM OF NATURE & SCIENCE 2019 GRATITUDE REPORT Janet Woods National Science Foundation Colorado Fund Northern Trust Bank of Colorado Diane D. Writer Occidental Petroleum The Gateway Fund II of Guy & Susan Wroble Corporation The Denver Foundation Peine Family Fund Mr. Shan-Tai Yeh & Schlessman Family Foundation Genesee Mountain Foundation Donald C. Peterson Charitable Gift Fund Mrs. Lih Ling Yeh The Sexton Family Foundation Glendorn Foundation Ping Identity Richard Zelenka Singer Family Foundation Great Western Petroleum Quinette Family Fund Robert Zupkus & Janet Burda Wenner-Gren Foundation Tim & Mary Haddon Family Foundation Raytheon Company The Harmes C. Fishback Red Rocks Community College CORPORATE, $10,000–$99,999 Foundation Sound Relief Hearing Centers FOUNDATION, The Anschutz Foundation Virginia W. Hill Strata Resources, Inc. & GOVERNMENT Arrow Electronics, Inc. Charitable Foundation Strohm Link Family Foundation Ball Corporation Leo Hill Charitable Trust $1,000,000+ Sturm Family Foundation Bank of America History Colorado - The Citizens of the City & Suncor BCER Engineering State Historical Fund County of Denver through Swire Coca-Cola USA the Elevate Denver Bond Bow River Capital Partners IBM Corporation Transamerica The Citizens of the Scientific Burkett Family Foundation David B. Jones Foundation & Cultural Facilities District U.S. Bureau of The Butler Family Fund of The JPMorgan Chase Bank Land Management DMNS Foundation Denver Foundation Kenneth King Foundation U.S. Bank Foundation CBS4 Koelbel & Company The Melvin & Elaine Wolf $100,000–$999,999 Children’s Hospital Colorado Land Title Guarantee Company Foundation Carnegie Corporation The Collaborative of the SCFD Michael S. and Katherine V. Xcel Energy Foundation of New York Daniels Fund Johnson Fund YETI Institute of Museum and Library Services The DaVita Village Mile High United Way The Rollie R. Kelley Family EcoMedia Morgridge Family Foundation $5,000–$9,999 Foundation Emerson Process Management NASA Alpine Bank

23 Bluprint Shaw Charitable Trust Martin/Martin Consulting African Eyes Travel Engineers Burns & McDonnell Sysco Denver Ball Corporation Davis Graham & Stubbs LLP The Thomas & Beatrice Medicine Man Ceavco Audio Visual DCP Midstream Taplin Fund Morse Family Foundation Dorsey & Whitney LLP Thomas Family Foundation Movement Group RiNo The Collector’s Edge Minerals, Inc. Timber Creek Capital Laura Jane Musser Fund DENVER MUSEUM OF NATURE & SCIENCE 2019 GRATITUDE REPORT El Pomar Foundation Management Charitable National Renewable EOG Resources, Inc. The Duck Company Fund Energy Laboratory EON Office Eco Products The Titus Foundation Phelps-Tointon, Inc. The Shauna M. & Kevin B. UMB Bank Priester Foundation Event Rents Flanigan Family Foundation Vertix Builders William D. Radichel Gaston Design Fransen Pittman Foundation Wolf Family Charitable Fund Fugere Family Foundation Reuler-Lewin Foundation IHS Markit GoFish Fund Rocky Mountain Association $1,500–$4,999 Amy Lay Haselden Construction, LLC of Geologists Foundation William S. & Cheryl S. Robin Lehman Haynes Mechanical Systems Bennett Fund The Schramm Foundation Stellar Solutions, Inc. Lockheed Martin F & C Hubbell Family Caulkins Family Foundation Charitable Fund Stevenson Family Fund Cherry Creek Shopping Center QCCiders Ibotta, Inc. Tilman & Company Colorado State University Tim & Kathryn Ryan The IMA Financial Group, Inc. Tough Mudder Bootcamp Community First Foundation Kaiser Permanente Denver City Park Kendra Scott, LLC Dea Family Foundation UCHealth The Lloyd J. & Stone Law Eleanor R. King Foundation Fairfield and Woods, P.C. Van Vleet Foundation Stewart Swan & Mortenson Construction GH Phipps Construction VISIT DENVER Companies Nicole Garneau Old Republic Title Insurance Wells Fargo Company Gilman Family Foundation Sysco Denver, Inc. Zirbel Family Fund\ Plante Moran Group14 Engineering Dr. M. Ray Thomasson PNC Bank Hawk’s Nest Fund & Merrill Shields Prologis The Hudson Family Fund GIFTS IN-KIND Joshua Tobey Studios John & Vivian Sabel The Humphreys Foundation Family Foundation The David and Katherine Anonymous Shamrock Foods Co. Lawrence Foundation 5280 Magazine

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25 Thank you to these individuals for remembering the Museum in their estate plans.

Anonymous Montgomery C. Cleworth

Marcelle Arak & Hal Landen Mrs. Geraldine L. Cohen

Hartman Axley Dale Colclasure

Mr. Paul Barrett George W. Cole

Mrs. Barbara B. Becker Natalie Conrad & Mr. Benjamin Cordova Dr. Bridget C. Coughlin Robert Blauvelt Peter Dea & & Michael Corrigan Cathy Carpenter Dea Mr. & Mrs. Wilbur Blundell Bonnie & Bob Downing Mr. Roger P. Botterbusch Marilyn Ellis Donald G. & Mr. James A. & Nikkie L. Brandborg Mrs. June E. Englehorn Marcus Brooks Cathy Fields-Sauceda & Donna L. Stuedeman Megan Fisher Serena & Darek Bruzgo Gerald Forney & Irene Ludwig Ms. Monica K. Burkhardt Robert & Valerie Forsberg Anne Canter Denver Museum of Nature & Science 2019 Annual Report Denver Museum of Nature Mike F. Foster William & Kris Carpenter Barbara Garlinghouse Ms. Kit Cassingham & Mr. Randy Cassingham Val Gheller

Melissa Chaffin Mr. James Goddard

EDWIN CARTER Barbara & Roger Chamberlain Peter & Rhondda Grant LEGACY SOCIETY Elizabeth H. Clancy Kristine Haglund 26 Jared & Veronika Hall Mr. James C. McLin & Mr. Richard Ramsey Kimberly Wiescamp Mrs. Kathleen Carter-McLin Oriole N. Hart Ms. Carol A. Robbins Dr. Vickie M. Wilson

Paula Meadows DENVER MUSEUM OF NATURE & SCIENCE 2019 GRATITUDE REPORT Larry D. & Vivian Harvey Mary Pat Rooney Joan E. Wood Marilynn P. Miciek Pat & Betty Russell Johni Hays Ms. Pat Yingst Lael Moe & Cathy Fennelly Dorothy E. Safford Mrs. Charles Hazelrigg Robert Zupkus & Janet Burda Mary E. Moser & Edward Scholz & Craig Brown Bob & Joanie Herndon Peter & Lucille Zwanzig William A. Richey Aimee Shapiro W. Jean Horkans Susie & Perry Moss Phyllis Sharp Wayne & Joyce Hutchens Sharron Myers L. G. Shideler

Pat Jerrell Dr. Stephen E. Nash Mr. & Mrs. Donald H. Smith Jr. Richard H. Johnson & Carmen Carrasco Charles R. Spratt Jeff & Michelle Neely Dan & Dianne Kile Gayle L. Stallings Carmen & Carl Neu Bob Kinter Dr. Michael Stone John Neuschaefer Dr. Richard & Barbara Stucky Dr. Tony Kisley Denny & René O’Connell Ted & Dianne Stump Mrs. Shirley Lampshire Angeles Ortega Dick & Sonnie Talley Harry T. Lewis Jr. Marlene J. Pakish Jeff Terrill Suzann & John Love Linda Patille Glenn Tucker John Maginness & Mr. Carl G. Patterson III Mark & DonnaDale Turner Connie Lintz Mr. & Mrs. Perry Peine Donald F. & Linda S. Wagner Ed & Patricia Martin Richard & Cheryl Pilatzke Robert K. Walker Gene & Rosann McCullough Sally Plummer & Cristy Godwin Margaret McKechnie Geraldine Puchalski Susan K. Wallner

John & Suzy McKeever Jane M. Quinette* Mr. Richard Whipkey * Passed away in 2019

27 Thank you for supporting these endowment funds that will sustain the Museum for years to come.

Avenir Conservation Fund Phipps Anthropology Collections Fund Bouslog Fund Phipps Collections Fund Collections Fund Phipps Family Fund Coors Exhibit Fund Calvin A. & Virginia J. Powers Dodge Wallace Family Fund Endowment Fund Prehistoric Journey Fund Dodge Wallace Fellowship Fund A. E. Reynolds Endowment Fund Educational Endowment Fund Frank H. Ricketson Jr. Vida F. Ellison Fund Capital Fund The Charles C. and June S. Frank H. Ricketson Jr. Fund Gates Creativity Endowment Paul & Harriet Rosen Gates Family Foundation Teen Science Scholars Capital Fund Endowment Fund Gates Family Foundation Tim & Kathryn Ryan Earth Hall of Life Fund Sciences Fund Robert P. & Mary S. Hackstaff Schlessman Fund for Fund Asian Ethnology William Randolph Hearst Irving & Carol Shwayder

Denver Museum of Nature & Science 2019 Annual Report Denver Museum of Nature Endowed Fund for Education Endowment for Science and and Outreach Programs Technology C. Neil & Carolyn S. Norgren Volunteer Endowment Fund Endowment Fund Wilfley Fund Ann O’Donnell Endowment for Outreach Education The Melvin & Elaine Wolf Foundation Scholarship Fund O’Shaughnessy Family ENDOWMENTS Endowment Fund 28 Thank you for enhancing the Museum’s research collections with your donations.

ANTHROPOLOGY ZOOLOGY Brian Quinette Barbara Bartell Barbara Cavender ARCHIVES Dr. Tim Graham Brian Quinette

Mr. Chuck Harp DENVER MUSEUM OF NATURE & SCIENCE 2019 GRATITUDE REPORT Mica Trieu S. Mark Nelson Annie Ranjan EARTH SCIENCES AntiQued Phyllis Sharp Cherokee Ranch and Mr. William H. Sontag Castle Foundation Mr. Kelly Speelman Jason Cooper St. Augustine Alligator Farm Marcus Eriksen Zoological Park Jessica Eyring Gail Stratton & Pat Miller Robert Gaston Jim Hawkins Jackie Hilaire David Lumb Fred & Ann Hoff Jared Hudson Mark & Debra Larson Janis Lyle Weisbrot Dr. Tyler Lyson Anthony Maltese Nor’Wood Development Group Savory Institute Wayne L. Smiglewski Cynthia Smith

Mr. Kelly Speelman & Science 2019 Annual Report Denver Museum of Nature Mr. Gary T. Staab Michio Taniwaki Waste Management Wind Crest Retirement Community Education Collections Dean & Susan Block COLLECTIONS Stephen J. Mojzsis Karen J. Sutton DONORS 29 Denver Museum of Nature & Science staff had 34 peer reviewed articles, three books, and six scientific publications in the DMNS Reports series in 2019.

Agyemang, Prince C. Owunsu, Eric M. Roberts, Bob Downie, and Joseph J. W. Sertich. 2019. “Sedimentary Provenance and Maximum Depositional Age Analysis of the Cretaceous? Lapur and Muruanachok Sandstones (Turkana Grits), Turkana Basin, Kenya.” Geological Magazine 156, no. 8 (August): 1334–56. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0016756818000663.

Alger-Meyer, Evan, Jared Maxwell Beeton, Richard K. Stucky, and Steven R. Holen. 2019. “The Pleistocene Mammalian Fauna and Paleoenvironment of the Villa Grove Paleontological Site, Colorado.” Denver Museum of Nature & Science Annals, no. 8 (December). https://www.dmns.org/media/7106/annals-8.pdf.

Allison, David B. 2019. Engaging Communities in Museums: Sharing Vision, Creation, and Development. New York: Routledge / Taylor and Francis.

Allison, David B. 2019. “Museums and School Group Chaperones: A New Future for an Old Role.” Journal of Museum Education 44 (4): 409–17. https://doi.org/10.1080/10598650.2019.1635838.

Barrón-Díaz, Arturo J., Francisco A. Paz-Moreno, and James W. Hagadorn. 2019. “The Cerro Rajón Formation—A New Lithostratigraphic Unit Proposed for a Cambrian (Terreneuvian) Volcano-Sedimentary Succession from the Caborca Region, Northwest Mexico.” Journal of South American Earth Sciences 89 (January): 197–210. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsames.2018.11.003. Denver Museum of Nature and Science 2019 Annual Report Denver Museum of Nature

Bettman, David J., ed. 2019. “Program and Abstracts, Fourth North American Microlepidopterist’s Meeting.” Denver Museum of Nature & Science Reports, no. 15. https://www.dmns.org/media/4724/reports-15.pdf. ◊

SCIENTIFIC Colwell, Chip. 2019. “Can Repatriation Heal the Wounds of History?” The Public Historian 41, no. 1 (February): 90–110. PUBLICATIONS https://doi.org/10.1525/tph.2019.41.1.90. 30 ◊ indicates articles that have not been peer reviewed. Crystal, Victoria F., Erica S.J. Evans, Henry Fricke, Ian M. Graham, Matthew R., Michelina B. Pinto, and Paula E. Cushing. Miller, and Joseph J.W. Sertich. 2019. “Late Cretaceous 2019. “A Test of the Light Attraction Hypothesis in Camel Fluvial Hydrology and Dinosaur Behavior in Southern Utah, Spiders of the Mojave Desert (Arachnida: Solifugae).” Journal of USA: Insights from Stable Isotopes of Biogenic Carbonate.” Arachnology 47 (2): 293–96. Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 516 https://doi.org/10.1636/JoA-S-18-077. (February): 152–65. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2018.11.022. Grond, Kirsten, Kayce C. Bell, John R. Demboski, Maila Santos, Jack M. Sullivan, and Sarah M. Hird. 2019. “No Evidence DENVER MUSEUM OF NATURE & SCIENCE 2019 GRATITUDE REPORT Currano, Ellen D., Esther R.S. Pinheiro, Robert Buchwaldt, for Phylosymbiosis in Western Chipmunk Species.” FEMS William C. Clyde, and Ian M. Miller. 2019. “Endemism in Microbiology Ecology 96, no. 1 (February): fiz182. Wyoming Plant and Insect Herbivore Communities During https://doi.org/10.1093/femsec/fiz182. the Early Eocene Hothouse.” Paleobiology 45, no. 3 (August): 421–39. https://doi.org/10.1017/pab.2019.18. Grond, Kirsten, Jorge W. Santo Domingo, Richard B. Lanctot, Ari Jumpponen, Rebecca L. Bentzen, Megan L. Boldenow, Cushing, Paula E. and Jack O. Brookhart. 2019. “Solifugae of Stephen C. Brown, Bruce Casler, Jenny A. Cunningham, Canada.” In: Langor, David W. and Cory Sheffield, eds. “The Andrew C. Doll, Scott Freeman, Brooke L. Hill, Steven J. Biota of Canada—A Biodiversity Assessment. Part 1: The Kendall, Eunbi Kwon, Joseph R. Liebezeit, Lisa Pirie-Dominix, Terrestrial Arthropods.” ZooKeys 819: 73–75. Jennie Rausch, and Brett K. Sandercock. 2019. “Composition https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.819.25166. and Drivers of Gut Microbial Communities in Arctic-Breeding Shorebirds.” Frontiers in Microbiology 10, no. 2258. Elkin, Lisa and Christopher A. Norris, eds. Coughlin, Mary, https://doi.org/10.3389/fmicb.2019.02258. Catharine A. Hawks, John E. Simmons, Jude Southward, Sarah Stauderman, Shelley Sturman, and Robert Waller, Hagadorn, James W. and Warren D. Allmon. 2019. “Paleobiology section eds. 2019. Preventive Conservation: Collection of a Three-Dimensionally Preserved paropsonemid from the Storage. New York: Society for the Preservation of Natural Devonian of New York.” Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, History Collections. Palaeoecology 513 (January): 208–14. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2018.08.007. Erdei, Boglárka, Mario Coiro, Ian M. Miller, Kirk R. Johnson, M. Patrick Griffith, and Vickie Murphy. 2019. “First Cycad Hagadorn, James W., Emerald J. Spindler, Ada K. Bowles, and Seedling Foliage from the Fossil Record and Inferences for the Nicole M. Neu-Yagle. 2019. “The Meteorite Collection of the Cenozoic Evolution of Cycads.” Biology Letters 15, no. 7 (July): Denver Museum of Nature & Science.” Denver Museum of 20190114. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2019.0114. Nature & Science Reports, no. 17 (December). https://www. dmns.org/media/7086/dmnsreports17meteoritesweb.pdf. Fuentes, Anthony J., William C. Clyde, Ken Weissenburger, Antoine Bercovici, Tyler R. Lyson, Ian M. Miller, Jahandar Haglund, Kristine A., Elizabeth H. Clancy, and Katherine B. Gully, Ramezani, Mark D. Schmitz, and Kirk R. Johnson. 2019. eds. 2019. “The Fortunate Life of a Museum Naturalist: Alfred M. “Constructing a Timescale of Biotic Recovery Across the Bailey, Volume 1—Boyhood to 1919.” Denver Museum of Nature Cretaceous–Paleogene Boundary, Corral Bluffs, Denver Basin, & Science Reports, no. 12 (March). Colorado.” Rocky Mountain Geology 54 (2): 133–53. https://www.dmns.org/media/4736/reports-12.pdf. ◊ https://doi.org/10.1101/636951.

◊ indicates articles that have not been peer reviewed. 31 Haglund, Kristine A., Elizabeth H. Clancy, and Katherine B. Gully, Krell, Frank-Thorsten and Allison R. Moon. 2019. “Quick Guide: eds. 2019. “The Fortunate Life of a Museum Naturalist: Alfred Dung Beetles.” Current Biology 29 (12): R554–R555. M. Bailey, Volume 3—1922–1927.” Denver Museum of Nature & http://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2019.05.027. Science Reports, no. 14 (March). https://www.dmns.org/media/4738/reports-14.pdf. ◊ Joyce, Walter G., Donald B. Brinkman, and Tyler R. Lyson. 2019. “A New Species of Trionychid Turtle, Axestemys infernalis Hoffmann, Simone and David W. Krause. 2019. “Tongues Untied.” Sp. Nov., from the Late Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) Hell Creek DENVER MUSEUM OF NATURE & SCIENCE 2019 GRATITUDE REPORT Science 365 (6450): 222–23. and Lance Formations of the Northern Great Plains, USA.” https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aay2061. Palaeontologia Electronica, no. 22.3.72. https://doi.org/10.26879/949. Hope, Andrew G., Ryan B. Stephens, S.D. Mueller, Vasyl Tkach, and John R. Demboski. 2019. “Speciation of North American Linck, Ethan, Kevin Epperly, Paul van Els, Garth M. Spellman, Pygmy Shrews (Eulipotyphla: Soricidae) Supports Spatial but Not Robert W. Bryson Jr., John E. McCormack, Ricardo Canales- Temporal Congruence of Diversification among Boreal Species.” del-Castillo, and John Klicka. 2019. “Dense Geographic and Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 129, no. 1 (January): Genomic Sampling Reveals Paraphyly and a Cryptic Lineage in a 41–60. https://doi.org/10.1093/biolinnean/blz139. Classic Sibling Species Complex.” Systematic Biology 68, no. 6 (November): 956–66. https://doi.org/10.1093/sysbio/syz027. Kirejtshuk, Alexander G., Alexander G. Ponomarenko, Andrey S. Kurochkin, Anatoly V. Alexeev, Vadim G. Gratshev, Alexey Lyson, Tyler R., Ian M. Miller, Antoine Bercovici, Ken Yu. Solodovnikov, Frank-Thorsten Krell, and Carmen Soriano. Weissenburger, Anthony J. Fuentes, William Clyde, James 2019. “The Beetle (Coleoptera) Fauna of the Insect Limestone W. Hagadorn, M. J. Butrim, Kirk R. Johnson, R. F. Fleming, (Late Eocene), Isle of Wight, Southern England.” Earth and Richard S. Barclay, Gussie S.A. MacCracken, Ben Lloyd, G.P. Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Wilson, David W. Krause, and Stephen G. B. Chester. 2019. Edinburgh 110, no. 3-4 (September): 405–92. “Exceptional Continental Record of Biotic Recovery after the https://doi.org/10.1017/S1755691018000865. Cretaceous–Paleogene Mass Extinction.” Science 366 (6468): 977–83. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aay2268. Krause, David W., Joseph J.W. Sertich, Patrick M. O’Connor, Kristina Curry Rogers, and Raymond R. Rogers. 2019. “The Lyson, Tyler R., Jacob L. Sayler, and Walter G. Joyce. 2019. “A Mesozoic Biogeographic History of Gondwanan Terrestrial New Baenid Turtle, Saxochelys gilberti, Gen. Et Sp. Nov, from Vertebrates: Insights from Madagascar’s Fossil Record.” Annual the Uppermost Cretaceous (Maastrichtian) Hell Creek Formation: Review of Earth and Planetary Sciences 47: 519–53. Sexual Dimorphism and Spatial Niche Partitioning within the https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-earth-053018-060051. Most Speciose Group of Late Cretaceous Turtles.” Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 39 (4): e1662428. Krell, Frank-Thorsten, ed. 2019. “Program and Abstracts, 30th https://doi.org/10.1080/02724634.2019.1662428. Annual Meeting of the High Country Lepidopterists.” Denver Museum of Nature & Science Reports, no. 16 (October). Maccracken, S. Augusta, Ian M. Miller, and Conrad C. Labandeira. https://www.dmns.org/media/6709/reports-16.pdf. ◊ 2019. “Late Cretaceous Domatia Reveal the Antiquity of Plant- Mite Mutualisms in Flowering Plants.” Biology Letters 15, no. 11 (November): 20190657. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2019.0657.

32 ◊ indicates articles that have not been peer reviewed. MacGabhann, Breandán Anraoi, James D. Schiffbauer, James O’Connor, Patrick M., David W. Krause, Nancy J. Stevens, Joseph W. Hagadorn, J.W., Peter Van Roy, Edward P. Lynch, R. Groenke, Ross D. E. MacPhee, Daniela C. Kalthoff, and Liam Morrison, and John Murray. 2019. “Resolution of the Eric M. Roberts. 2019. “A New Mammal from the Turonian– Earliest Metazoan Record: Differential Taphonomy of Ediacaran Campanian (Upper Cretaceous) Galula Formation, Southwestern and Paleozoic Fossil Molds and Casts.” Palaeogeography, Tanzania.” Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 64 (1): 65–84. Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 513: 146–65. https://doi.org/10.4202/app.00568.2018. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2018.11.009. Palmer, David A., Martin M. H. Tse, and Chip Colwell. 2019. DENVER MUSEUM OF NATURE & SCIENCE 2019 GRATITUDE REPORT MacNaughton, Robert B., James W. Hagadorn, and Robert H. “Guanyin’s Limbo: Icons as Demi-Persons and Dividuating Dott Jr. 2019. “Cambrian Wave-Dominated Tidal-Flat Deposits, Objects.” American Anthropologist 121 (4): 897–910. Central Wisconsin, USA.” Sedimentology 66, no. 5 (August): https://doi.org/10.1111/aman.13317. 1643–72. https://doi.org/10.1111/sed.12546. Ramírez, Martín J., Cristian J. Grismado, Darrell Ubick, Vladimir Marenco, Katherine N. and James W. Hagadorn. 2019. “Big Ovtsharenko, Paula E. Cushing, Norman I. Platnick, Ward Bedding Planes: Outcrop Size and Spatial Heterogeneity C. Wheeler, Lorenzo Prendini, Louise M. Crowley, and Influence Trace Fossil Analyses.” Palaeogeography, Norman Horner. 2019. “Myrmecicultoridae, a New Family of Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 513 (January): 14–24. Myrmecophilic Spiders from the Chihuahuan Desert (Araneae: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palaeo.2018.08.008. Entelegynae).” American Museum Novitates 2019, no. 3930 (June): 1–24. https://doi.org/10.1206/3930.1. Montgomery, Lindsay M. and Chip Colwell. 2019. Objects of Survivance: A Material History of the American Indian School Saalfeld Sarah T., Daniel C. McEwen, Dylan C. Kesler, Malcolm Experience. Louisville, CO: University Press of Colorado and G. Butler, Jenny A. Cunningham, Andrew C. Doll, Willow B. Denver Museum of Nature & Science. English, et al. 2019. “Phenological Mismatch in Arctic-Breeding Shorebirds: Impact of Snowmelt and Unpredictable Weather Moretto, Philippe, Bertrand Cosson, Frank-Thorsten Krell, and Conditions on Food Availability and Chick Growth.” Ecology and Marios Aristophanous. 2019. “Pollination of Amorphophallus Evolution 9, no. 11 (June): 6693–707. barthlottii and A. abyssinicus Subsp. akeassii (Araceae) by Dung https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.5248. Beetles (Insecta: Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea).” Catharsius 18 (April): 19-36. Vella, Marc-Antoine, Eileen G. Ernenwein, John Wayne Janusek, Michele Koons, Thiesson Julien, Christelle Sanchez, Roger Noffke, Nora, James Hagadorn, and Sam Bartlett. 2019. Guérin, and Christian Camerlynck. 2019. “New Insights into “Microbial Structures and Dinosaur Trackways from a Cretaceous Prehispanic Urban Organization at Tiwanaku (NE Bolivia): Cross Coastal Environment (Dakota Group, Colorado, U.S.A.).” Journal Combined Approach of Photogrammetry, Magnetic Surveys and of Sedimentary Research 89 (11): 1096–108. Previous Archaeological Excavations.” Journal of Archaeological https://doi.org/10.2110/jsr.2019.57. Science: Reports 23 (February): 464–77. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2018.09.023.

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