Queensland Museum Additional published information 2011–12 Board of the Queensland Museum Corner Grey and Melbourne Streets, South Brisbane Queensland Australia PO Box 3300, South Brisbane Queensland Australia 4101 Telephone: 07 3840 7555 Facsimile: 07 3846 1918 Email: [email protected] Website: www.qm.qld.gov.au © Board of the Queensland Museum 2012 Contents 2 Information systems and recordkeeping 2 Consultancies 3 Overseas travel 6 Research grants 10 Research consultancies 11 Scientific and academic publications 11 Peer reviewed publications 18 Popular publications 19 Technical reports 19 Conference abstracts and posters 21 Book reviews 22 Exhibitions, public programs and events 22 Queensland Museum 24 Sciencentre 25 Cobb+Co Museum 26 Museum of Tropical Queensland 28 The Workshops Rail Museum Information systems Consultancies and recordkeeping The Queensland Museum continues to progress towards Category Cost compliance with the provisions of the Public Records Cultural change and leadership $182,500 Act 2002, Information Standard 40: Recordkeeping and Brand strategy $161,917 Information Standard 31: Retention and Disposal of Public Records. Business process mapping $76,200 Disaster planning $73,306 The Museum has progressed or implemented the following Return of Indigenous cultural property $20,200 programs and activities: Exhibition concept development $20,100 ◘ Staff education program for recordkeeping Business case to redevelop the $16,740 ◘ Campaign to promote an “Emails as Public Records” Powerhouse at The Workshops Rail Museum procedure and better workflow practices Total $550,963 ◘ Queensland Museum File Naming Convention for improved accessibility and capture of Museum records and information ◘ Information Standard 18: Information Security including registering Museum documents in a recordkeeping system ◘ Queensland Museum Retention and Disposal Schedule for Queensland State Archives review ◘ Overseen an archiving program with Curtin University students appraising QM legacy records ◘ Disposed of 1,200kg of museum records in accordance with Queensland State Archives – General Disposal and Retention Schedule (Administration) ◘ Digistised vital records including Queensland Museum agreements, contracts, leases, memorandum of understanding and Museum’s policies and procedures ◘ A business case to implement an electronic document recordkeeping system (eDRMS) for the Museum network. 2 | Queensland Museum Additional Published Information 2011–12 Overseas travel Name of officer/member Destination Reason for travel Queensland Contribution and position Museum cost from other agencies or sources Dr Christopher Burwell, Borneo, Malaysia To teach a tropical field biology $450 $2,555 (E) Senior Curator, course in Sabah, Borneo as part of Griffith Queensland Museum Dr Burwell’s obligations as a 20% University co-appointed Lecturer in the Griffith School of Environment, Griffith University. Dr Robert Raven, Head, USA To examine displays, database NIL $9,575 Terrestrial Biodiversity, and collections at the California National Queensland Museum Academy of Science, San Science and Dr Barbara Baehr, Francisco and the American Foundation Research Fellow, Museum of Natural History, New Grant Queensland Museum York for the Spider Catalogue of the World database, and the U.S. National Science Foundation Goblin Spider research grant to the AMNH; to attend the American Arachnological Society Annual Meeting in Portland, Oregon Mr Andrew Moritz, Croatia & UK Invitation to make a presentation $5,526 $500 Director, The Workshops to an international audience at European Rail Museum the Best in Heritage Conference Heritage in Dubrovnik, Croatia; Visits Association and meetings with international museums in particular the National Rail Museum in York to gather ideas, view exhibitions and interpretation techniques in relation to further development of the Queensland Museum – The Workshops Rail Museum. Dr Carden Wallace, Belgium, Spain, To attend the 11th Symposium $5,100 $1,490 Principal Scientist, Italy on Fossil Cnidaria and Poriferain, Professional Self-Funded Museum of Tropical to be held in Liege, Brussels, to Development Queensland, Townsville present a paper, participate in conference sessions, review work with colleagues, to plan a new collaboration on the origins and future prospects of Great Barrier Reef corals. This was followed by invited field and laboratory research on fossil corals with palaeontologists in universities in Spain and Italy. Dr Christopher Burwell, Yunnan, China To conduct fieldwork (survey NIL $2,150 (E) Senior Curator, insects) at Ailao Shan, Yunnan Griffith Queensland Museum Province, China as part of the University “Biodiversity distribution and processes across adjacent climates: the key to prediction and monitoring of responses to climate change” Project, a collaborate project between the Queensland Museum, Queensland Herbarium, the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Griffith University. Queensland Museum Additional Published Information 2011–12 | 3 Overseas travel, cont. Name of officer/member Destination Reason for travel Queensland Contribution and position Museum cost from other agencies or sources Dr Robert Adlard, Head Chile To present a keynote address at $61 $3,610 of Marine Zoology, the 8th International Symposium International Queensland Museum on Fish Parasites and to discuss Symposium on new and ongoing collaborative Fish Parasites partnerships. Conference Organisers Ms Vicki Warden, New Zealand To further develop the provision of NIL $5,211 Museum Development outreach services to the regional Award of Officer, Cobb+Co Queensland museum industry Museum & Museum by exploring alternative service Art Gallery delivery models and management International systems. The information Fellowship influenced the Queensland Funded by Arts Museum’s Resource Centre Qld through the Network strategic planning. Regional Arts Development Fund Ms Martie McConnell, USA To undertake a study project in $5,498 NIL Visitor Services Manager, quality Customer Service Practices, Queensland Queensland Museum as the recipient of the 2011 Museum Queensland Museum Scholarship. Scholarship The cornerstone of the project was a three day intensive training seminar at the prestigious Disney Institute in Anaheim, California. The outcome will be to provide a comprehensive in house training mechanism for front of house staff to enhance the frontline visitor experience. Dr Niel Bruce, Senior South Africa To undertake an ongoing research $109 $6,700 (E) Curator, Museum of program on South African and University of Tropical Queensland Australian marine Isopoda Johannesburg (Crustacea); to strengthen existing ties and develop collaborative research with regard to studies of Queensland fish parasites, a currently neglected group in both Australia and South Africa; collections made are directly relevant to the current Queensland Museum’s partnership in the current ABRS-CReefs project on marine isopods. Dr Julien Louys, Curator, USA To deliver an oral scientific NIL $3,700 (E) Queensland Museum presentation at the Society Self funded of Vertebrate Palaeontology by Dr Julien Conference, Las Vegas; to Louys whilst examine material, exhibits and on-service with talk to exhibit staff at the American salary funded Museum of Natural History, New by the QM, York. approved by CEO 4 | Queensland Museum Additional Published Information 2011–12 Overseas travel, cont. Name of officer/member Destination Reason for travel Queensland Contribution and position Museum cost from other agencies or sources Mr Andrew Moritz, USA To attend the 2011 Railway $4,328 NIL Director, The Workshops Heritage Preservation Rail Museum, Ipswich Conference in Chattanooga; to further establish, build and maintain professional links with related organisations; to gain understanding of critical issues in US rail museums and apply this thinking to the further development of The Workshops Rail Museum within the Queensland Museum context; to further establish the Queensland Museum’s Workshops Rail Museum as a Museum of international standing. Dr Graeme Potter, UK, USA To accompany the return of the $11,822 NIL Director, Queensland loan of 19th century Torres Strait Museum and Sciencentre Islander artefacts to the University of Cambridge from the QM’s successful “Awakening: Stories from the Torres Strait exhibition; to view the items for loan from the British Museum for the Australian exclusive presentation of Mummy: Secrets of the Tomb; to discuss and view possible future international exhibitions in the USA for loan to the Queensland Museum. Ms Theresa Chelepy- Rome, Italy To escort and install the loan of $1,905 $3,853 (E) Roberts, Senior Curator, ethnographic material from Kenniff Palazzo delle Cultures, Customs and Cave Display to the Palazzo delle Exposizioni, Country, Queensland Exposizioni (Palace of Exposition, Rome Museum Rome) for display in their “Journey of Man – History of Diversity” Exhibition, this being a condition of the loan of this material; to speak at the exhibition opening on the theme “Early Human Colonisation in Australia”. Ms Karen Kindt, Assistant Rome, Italy To oversee the de-installation, $169 $5,494 (E) Collection Manager, condition reporting and packing of Palazzo delle Queensland Museum Queensland Museum archaeology Exposizioni, objects on loan and on exhibition at Rome Palazzo delle Esposizioni in Rome, prior to return to the Queensland Museum. Dr Robert Adlard, Head Kenya To deliver a workshop in fish NIL $3,300 of Marine Zoology, parasitology at