DISCOVERING NEW WAYS TO LEARN ANNUAL REPORT 2020 NOVEMBER 23, 2020 A LETTER FROM OUR DIRECTOR
In this strange and stressful mostly at home and those working mostly on-site – have dealt with the pandemic with creativity and year, PRI has worked hard resilience, and we have avoided significant layoffs. to fulfill its mission while Our Collections staff completed a major 4-year project funded by the National Science Foundation also staying operationally to digitize all of our fossils from the Cenozoic & financially sustainable. Era (the last 65 million years) from the west coast of the Americas, and we received several major specimen donations, including historic collections AS THE PANDEMIC BEGAN, our staff pivoted toward from Smith College and Dartmouth College. online content, which has long been a programmatic Our research activity remained strong despite the many strength, and focused on improving, revising, other demands on the staff, as did our teaching at reorganizing, and creating new educational content on undergraduate and graduate levels at Cornell University. our brand new website. We have been able to expand our offerings to all of our varied audiences, from While we are preparing to remain in “pandemic mode” for K-12 students and teachers to informal educators to some time to come, we are also focused on a number of undergraduates and professors. We launched two major important positive developments we expect in the coming online projects – a new exhibit on Climate Change, year, including expansion of our collections and library and our new resource for Earth science education, space, opening a new exhibit on women in paleontology, Earth@Home. These have been well-received and and major steps to improve our financial stability. our overall online usage has more than doubled. Now more than ever, PRI’s mission of carrying out The Museum of the Earth reopened to the public and communicating Earth science is vital to a healthy in early August, and visitor numbers have been good. society and planet. We are reminded that the year PRI Although the Nature Center lodge remains closed was founded – 1932 – was also a year of stress and to the public, we have made small but important challenge, and that the Institution has transcended improvements to the grounds, which have continued many obstacles since then, made possible by the Now more than ever, to attract visitors. Our staff – both those working support of those who believe in what we do. PRI’s mission of carrying out and communicating Earth science is – Warren Allmon, Director vital to a healthy society and planet. IMPACT BY THE NUMBERS
18 4,248 PEER-REVIEWED PAPERS 257,353 TOTAL VOLUNTEER PUBLISHED WEBSITE VISITORS HOURS
17,618 10,338 MUSEUM PUBLIC 2,459 NATURE CENTER VISITORS TOTAL INTERN HOURS PUBLIC VISITORS
12,161 12,161 18 SPECIMEN TOTAL VOLUNTEER EDUCATION LOANS HOURS PROGRAM PARTICIPANTS
13 SCIENTIFIC VISITORS 1,497 108,527 TO COLLECTIONS TEACHERS TRAINED SPECIMENS ACCESSIONED ABOUT US
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Since signing our formal affiliation agreement with Cornell in 2004, PRI has continuously strengthened its working relationship with the University.
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Cornell students get a tour of the Prep Lab in the Museum of the Earth from Museum Education Manager Maureen Bickley. CORNELL AFFILIATIONS TEACHING & RESEARCH
PRI is a significant teaching resource for several Cornell programs and departments at both the undergraduate and graduate levels.
In addition, a number of Cornell courses require students to participate in exercises and training at the Museum of the Earth. Our collections and facilities are regularly used by Cornell faculty, staff, and, especially, undergraduate and graduate students for both research & teaching. PRI’s Director, Warren Allmon, is the Hunter R. Rawlings III Professor of Paleontology in the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences (EAS), a position he has held since 2008. Three other staff Three other staff hold adjunct faculty hold adjunct faculty appointments in the department. appointments in the department. CORNELL AFFILIATIONS OUTREACH
Outreach PRI continues to contribute to Cornell’s historic land-grant mission by facilitating public outreach in collaboration with various faculty and departments of the University, especially with EAS, and including several projects funded by the National Science Foundation.
Partners include Cornell Earth & Atmospheric Sciences, the Institute of Museum and Library Services, & The National Science Foundation. COLLECTIONS
PRI’s collections rank among The 4-year Eastern Pacific Invertebrate the 10 largest invertebrate Communities of the Cenozoic (EPICC) project came to an end in July 2020. paleontological collections In this project, funded by the National in the United States and Science Foundation, PRI was part of are the intellectual core of a partnership of eight natural history the Institution. museums across the country which sought to digitize all of their fossil Over 7 million specimens provide a specimens from the Cenozoic Era (the unique resource for scientific research, past 65 million years) from the west coast teaching, and exhibitions across the of the Americas, from Alaska to Tierra country and around the world. del Fuego. PRI cumulatively digitized PRI’s collection continued to grow 332,007 specimens, photographed 12,713, throughout fiscal year 2020. and captured data on 1,453 localities. Twenty-six donations, containing Although the pandemic affected more than 108,000 specimens, were physical work within the collections accessioned into the research collection. themselves, we have been able to keep The two largest additions came our staff and some of our volunteers from Smith College and Dartmouth engaged in digitization projects. College, which donated most of their historic fossil collections. These PARTNERS specimens ranged in geologic age from the Cambrian Period (about 542 Twenty-six donations, to 485 million years ago) to today, and containing more than locations from Central New York to 108,000 specimens, northern Canada to Southeast Asia. were accessioned into the research collection. RESEARCH
Since its founding in Today, PRI’s scientific staff & 1932, research has been affiliated students from Cornell pursue primary research in a a fundamental part of variety of areas related to the PRI’s institutional activity history, diversity, and evolution and identity. of life, including how to use paleontological information to address contemporary environmental challenges.
Click here to view staff & student research papers online. SCIENCE COMMUNICATION GOING VIRTUAL
2020 began with the completion of a completely new website. Actually we launched three separate but tightly-linked websites to serve our diverse audiences: one for the Museum of the Earth, one for Cayuga Nature Center, and one for PRI as a whole. These modern, mobile-friendly websites have greatly expanded our ability to communicate key information with our visitors and the scientific community, as well as provide us with the opportunity to efficiently distribute learning resources for teachers, share staff essays via our blog, and present museum exhibits in an online format.
An example of the latter is the online version of the “Bees! Diversity, Evolution, Conservation” physical exhibit, which will now be preserved online and remain accessible long after the actual exhibit comes down. Updates to the main PRI website have also allowed us to revitalize Click here to visit the our online store, providing a simpler online version of our shopping experience for our customers. latest exhibit. Photo: Courtesy of Jon Reis SCIENCE COMMUNICATION ONLINE RESOURCES
For most of PRI’s history, “science communication” occurred almost exclusively through our publications, most of which are technical, scholarly works aimed at a narrow community of professional paleontologists. We greatly Over the past 25 years, however, we have expanded our aimed to reach broader communities virtual resources through the development of resources for students designed to help students, their teachers, & teachers. and the wider public learn about the Earth and its history. Increasingly, we have been sharing these resources online instead of in print, a trend that was greatly accelerated in 2020 by the Covid-19 pandemic and the needs of educators whose classes are now online. SCIENCE COMMUNICATION TEACHER RESOURCES
In addition to our new organizational websites, we also launched Earth@Home in August 2020. Earth@Home is a new website designed to help anyone learn about the Earth where they live. The website also features a free Earth science textbook and a virtual toolkit of online resources for teachers, ranging from Virtual Fieldwork Experiences to interactive 3D models of fossil specimens from PRI’s collections.
Much of the content for EarthHome is being redeveloped from PRI’s successful Teacher-Friendly Guide to Earth Science and Climate Change series. Earth@Home will take several years to complete, but new content will be added and shared on a regular basis.
Click here to visit Earth@Home, a virtual teaching resource. SCIENCE COMMUNICATION TEACHER RESOURCES
PRI’s Digital Atlas of Ancient Life website Its Digital Encyclopedia of Ancient Life and had its most successful year yet, reaching virtual collection of over 500 3D models tens of thousands of visitors from nearly of fossils became especially popular when every country on Earth. The Digital Atlas many college-level paleontology courses provides resources to help people identify went fully online in spring 2020. fossils and learn about ancient life.
Click here to visit our website to explore our latest virtual resources. EDUCATION
To adapt to the unprecedented challenges of the pandemic and to accomodate many classrooms moving online, PRI found various ways to adapt engaging educational materials for the virtual world in 2020. EDUCATION CLIMATE CHANGE
For more than a decade, climate change has been the focus of a considerable portion of PRI’s educational outreach.
This continued and accelerated in FY20, as we developed the content and design of a major new climate change exhibit for the Museum of the Earth (opening in FY21) and PRI website. PRI already had extensive online resources on climate change, including the New York Climate Change Science Clearinghouse and Teach Climate Science, all of which are summarized and linked to in the Climate and Energy section of our new website. Among online programming developed in response to pandemic, we developed a video series In the Greenhouse: Exploring Climate Change and another We developed the series on phenology Trees Awake!. content and design of a major new climate change exhibit. EDUCATION CLIMATE CHANGE
Climate change was also the focus of PRI’s teacher professional development program over the past year.
PRI staff have long worked with educators throughout the region and nationally, this year through partnerships with organizations such as the Master Teacher Program of New York State, Penn State Center for Science and the Schools, and Prince George’s County Public Schools (MD). We also offered free stand-alone webinars for educators. PRI continued to promote national dissemination of its Teacher-Friendly Guide to Climate Change, for which we received the National Center for Science Education’s Friend of the Planet award and the Museum Association of New York’s Award of Merit.
We continue to promote our Teacher- Friendly Guide to Climate Change. EDUCATION KIDS DISCOVER THE TRAIL!
As a member of the Discovery Trail, Museum of the Earth provides every first grade class in all Tompkins County school districts, a total of over 800 students, with a look into local paleontology and geology with fun, hands-on activities at the Museum through the Kids Discover the Trail (KDT!) program.
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Click here to learn more about our Kids Discover the Trail! Program. EDUCATION KIDS DISCOVER THE TRAIL!
This past year the Cayuga In April 2020, in response to children Nature Center’s KDT being at home during the pandemic, PRI staff mailed a packet of educational program made its shift away activities for elementary-school from our ropes course, aged children to each of our Young which was officially retired. Naturalist Access Program members. The packet included activities that All but one of our 5th grade school children could do outside and indoors, programs were transitioned to a and spanned themes of fossils and digital platform due to the Covid-19 paleontology, nature and outdoors, pandemic. With the transition to a and climate science and energy. One digital platform & hands-on nature parent of a recipient told us “Thanks of our program we narrowed our for the snail mail mailing!! The kids theme and were able to pre-record love it!!!!! We don’t have a printer so our lessons. Students learned about this has been very helpful.” We also wilderness skills that could be useful created Adventure Packs for young for them in their outdoor adventures adventurers looking to explore nature while also touching on several and climate science. These consisted NYS learning standards. They were of five unique kits which included encouraged to replicate the presented materials and information to complete We converted our activities at home, and teachers were fun, self-guided learning activities. hands-on progamming given several post-trip options. We offered each YNAP member a to be available via online video lessons. pack of their choice at no cost. MUSEUM BEES! DIVERSITY, EVOLUTION, CONSERVATION
September 27, 2019 – December 2020
This temporary exhibit, designed in collaboration with Cornell entomology professor Bryan Danforth, has been extremely popular, both in- person and online. The physical exhibit in the Museum was extended to the end of 2020.
Because of the pandemic, the Museum closed to visitors from March 13 to August 1, 2020. The Museum reopened three days/week, with enhanced cleaning and spacing protocols. Visitor numbers have been good and steady.
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The physical exhibit is extended through
the end of 2020. Photo: Courtesy of Jon Reis NATURE CENTER
PRI’s Cayuga Nature Center cultivates awareness, appreciation, and responsibility for the natural world through outdoor and environmental education.
The live animal ambassadors, school programs, and camps. interpretive exhibits, and miles of trails The Nature Center hosts 800 Tompkins through 120 acres of woods, open County 5th graders each year who fields and gorges build knowledge, participate in the Center’s outdoor and spark curiosity, and stimulate animal educational program as part of awareness of the importance of the Kids Discover the Trail! Program. conservation. The Nature Center is critical to PRI’s goal to create premier The Nature Center lodge remains educational resources for teaching closed due to the pandemic, but and learning about evolution and the grounds have been open, and a the impact of climate change on the steady flow of visitors have enjoyed fauna and flora of Central New York. the trails and outdoor exhibits, and out connection to the Black Each year thousands of people are Diamond Trail which connects Ithaca reached through public programs, to Taughannock Falls State Park. NATURE CENTER SUMMER CAMP
For more than 30 years, Cayuga Nature Center summer camp has provided environmental and outdoor education experiences for hundreds of campers each season ranging in age from 3 to 16 years old, many of whom have returned to the camp year after year, in part because of the high quality of the experience and our veteran staff.
Nature Center camp staff and educators Click here to view excel at bringing to life the camp camp blog posts curriculum, which offers a wide variety from past years. of enriching educational experiences, including utilizing the outdoors as a platform to engage campers in meaningful experiences suited to a multitude of different learning styles. For many of the campers, finding success in learning not only builds their knowledge of the natural world, but also helps them build confidence during their time at camp. Summer camp 2020 was cancelled because of the pandemic. NATURE CENTER YOUNG NATURALIST ACCESS PROGRAM
The Young Naturalist Access Program (YNAP) provides youth in need (aged 5 - 17) free access to either a week of summer camp at the Nature Center and a one-year YNAP Youth Membership to the PRI and both of our public educational venues. YNAP provides young people and their families/caregivers all of the benefits of a regular PRI membership plus free access to all of our ticketed events, such as Maple Fest and local Fossil Field Trips.
In 2019, YNAP scholarships covered the cost of an Explorer week for 99 campers. With no summer camp in 2020, we have tried to serve our YNAP families by offering some free in- person programs at the Nature Center and mailing packages of educational materials.
Click here to learn about The Young Naturalist Access Program. NATURE CENTER HENRY A. SMITH WOODS
Henry A. Smith embodying local history. Woods is a 32-acre Sadly, these forests have declined every year since European old-growth forest settlement of the continent. located just outside of According to the Old Growth Trumansburg, New York. Forest Network, only 1% of original forests in the Northeast US remain. It is one of the largest remaining Named for the its last owner, flat tracts of old-growth forest Henry Atterbury Smith (1822- in Central New York. This small 1891), this undeveloped forest but spectacular place, with its fragment was left to the Village enormous trees, dense forest of Trumansburg in 1909 to be canopy, and never-plowed preserved “in its natural state and ground, is a glimpse into the past. for educational and recreational purposes”. In 2007, ownership A walk through this small forested of this forest was transferred to area may be the closest one can Cayuga Nature Center, and PRI get in the region to experiencing remains committed to preserving a landscape that European the integrity of the forest in settlers first witnessed. Old- keeping with the or siginal intent growth forests are important of the trust. Smith Woods is both ecologically and culturally, open to the public year round. Smith Woods is one of providing a unique habitat and the largest remaining flat tracts of old-growth forest in Central New York. FINANCIALS 2020
Due to the pandemic, the annual audit has been postponed; these are unaudited financials.
REVENUE $2,988,166
Other Revenue $45,696
Earned Revenue $480,451
Funds Functioning as Endowment $217,246
PIE CHART Grant Revenue $603,100
HERE Gifts Released From Restriction $376,890
Unrestricted Giving & Membership $1,264,783
EXPENSES $2,756,183
Building and Maintenance $203,399
Other Expenses $306,539
Professional Fees $64,033 PIE CHART Interest Expense $131,407 HERE Grant Subcontract Expenses $48,568
Exhibit Expenses $10,582
Payroll & Related Benefits $1,991,655 DONORS 2020 Annual Giving
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