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INTHEFIELD—^- -\^ the Field Museum's Membership Publication January February 1999 INTHEFIELD—^- -\^ The Field Museum's Membership Publication Margaret Mee: Return to the Amazon January 22 to April 30 A Philippine Journey / >• / - ' :./'-. From the President beneath our feet and is scheduled Governance: How can our winter trustees most The to open in the spring. In the effectively guide of 1997, we purchased Sue, which Field Museum? will become the centerpiece of The Funding: How ambitious should Field Museum in 2000 and will, as our fund-raising efforts be? the most complete T. rex fossil ever How can we better found, resolve many of the scien- Footprint: serve our audience? tific mysteries that still surround expanding this remarkable creature. In addi- Research: How do we prioritize tion, our academic department has our research activities? broadened its research programs Collections: How can we make by developing new alliances with better use of our collection of other institutions. For example, we more than 21 million specimens signed an agreement on April 7, and artifacts? 1998, with the Kenya Wildlife Service to collaborate on several Education: Is there a specific edu- The Field Museum scientific and educational ventures cational niche the Museum should in to Tsavo Kenya relating be filling? Beyond 2000 National Park — the former Exhibits: What types of traveling hunting ground of the Museum's and permanent exhibits should we What makes The Field Museum two famous lions. man-eating be For than 100 offering? unique? more years Finally, our trustees, campaign Environment: involved we have been telling the story of committee and staff have raised How its com- should we be in on the the Earth and people by nearly $70 million, which has working environmental bining the scientific research of our allowed us to continue down this ever-increasing and our curators with public education extraordinary path. problems plaguing planet? exhibits. Within the past few years, There is no doubt these recent Technology: What types of tech- we have broadened this story by achievements have solidified our nology should we incorporate into to our educational and as one of the nation's adding position pre- our research, collections, exhibits research arsenal the Center for eminent educational and cultural and educational programs? And, Cultural Understanding and institutions. But before we go any how should we use technology to which seeks to bring an further, it is time for us to answer Change, communicate to the public? to the anthropological perspective the question: Where do we go Outreach: What is the best important issues of cultural inter- from here? way for us to reach out to traditional action. We also have created the Judy Block, chairman of the and new audiences? Office of Environmental and board of trustees, and I recently Conservation which asked the Museum's board to Programs, I also pose a question to you, with like works organizations direct a yearlong strategic planning our members: In what direction Conservation International to find initiative to and answer evaluate would you like to see The Field solutions to the world's this What evolves from practical question. Museum head as we approach the most pressing ecological problems. this initiative will serve as the new millennium? Please write me Since have 1996, we made sig- underpinning of The Field at the Museum or send an nificant in color 21st As progress adding Museum of the century. e-mail to <[email protected]>. I and to this For exam- board members this depth story. contemplate look forward to hearing from you. are a new ple, we designing family important question, they also exhibits that of permanent will examine the following topics includes Underground Adventure, and challenges: which explores the biodiversity John W. McCarter Jr. President & CEO We would like to know what you think about "In the Field" .... Please send comments or questions to Robert Vosper, publications department. The Field Museum, Roosevelt Road at Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, IL 60605-9410, or via e-mail at <[email protected]>. Inside INTHEFIELD This 1979 botanical watercolor of a Jan/Feb 1999, Vol. 70, No. 1 Neoregelia margaretae will be on in the new Mee: display "Margaret Editor and Designer: Return to the Amazon" traveling Robert Vosper exhibit. See the Calendar Section Lawrence Zoologist Heaney Consultants: for details. Design the treasures explores vanishing Hayward Blake & Company of the PhiHppine rain forest. In the Field {\SSN #1051-4546) is published 7 bimonthly by The Field Museum. Copyright © 1999 The Field Museum, Annual subscriptions are $20; $10 for schools. Museum membership The of Guinea people Papua New includes In the F/e/d subscription. Opinions expressed authors are their own and do not begin rebuilding after a series of by necessarily reflect policy of The Field Museum. their tidal waves decimated coastal Notification of address change should include address label and should be sent to Membership villages last July. Department. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to In the Field, The Field Museum, Roosevelt Rd. at Lake Shore Dr., Chicago, IL When most kids are asked city 60605-2496. Periodicals postage paid at 8 Illinois. about insect biodiversity, they Chicago, The receives million in often start about this little Museum $2 talking Cover illustration is a 1978 watercolor Mee of a honor of retired Congressman fellow. One Museum entomologist painting by Margaret Nymphaea rudgeana. Copynght: RBG, Kew, England. Sidney Yates. is working to change this. 11 Museum researchers uncover thou- sands of "lost" artifacts from the Paul S. Martin Collection. The Field Museum salutes the people of Chicago for their long-standing, generous support of the Museum Your Guide to the Field through the Chicago Park District. A schedule of events for complete The Women's Board raises The Field Museum January/ February, including pro- Roosevelt Road at Lake Shore Drive $400,000 during an evening of grams for the African Heritage Chicago, IL 60605-2496 elegance and motorcycle mania. Festival '99. ph 312.922.9410 www.fmnh.org Around Campus Shedd Aquarium Martin Luther King Jr. Day and world's first StarRlder^" Theater and Presidents' Day. The Aquarium's discount Galileo's, a new restaurant that offers Beginning Jan. 4, 1999, ShecJd day, supported by the state of Illinois, superb views of Chicago's skyline and Aquarium's discount day moves to provides all local residents with an Lake Michigan. Monday, when Aquarium-only admission opportunity to enjoy and learn more is free and admission to both the Visitors also can discover the Earth's about the world's aquatic environments. Aquarium and Oceanarium is only $6. Solar System, the Milky Way Galaxy and Call 312.939.2438 for information about This change is designed to give Chicago- realms beyond in dozens of remarkable upcoming aquarium events. area residents a roomier, more enjoyable new exhibits that present the excite- visit on a day of the week that tradition- ment of astronomy as never before. Adler Planetarium ally draws fewer out-of-town guests. The virtual reality StarRider'^" Theater Families will benefit from the change The Adler has unveiled the new Sky offers visitors the thrill of traveling because the new discount day coincides Pavilion, a dramatic, glass-enclosed wing through space to other planets, stars with many school holidays, including with four major exhibition galleries, the and distant galaxies. JANUARY . FEBRUARY 1999 1 A Philippine Journey The Evolution of an Environmental Crisis animals inhabit the the Above: Nobody really knows how many unique old-growth rainforests of Philippines. In the past 10 years alone, scientists and conservationists working in this island nation have than as well as several birds and discovered 16 new species of mammals and more 20 species offrogs, is that this islands at least 512 numerous reptiles. What they do know, however, country's 7,200 support endemic — the endemic species of mammals, birds, amphibians and reptiles greatest concentration of animals in any country on the planet. 2 IN THE FIELD By Lawrence Heaney Associate Curator and Head, Mammals Department of Zoology On Nov. 7, 1991, one of rhe many typhoons that strike the Philippines each year happened to take a course over the northwestern corner of Leyte Island in the central part of the country. When the rains fell near also the the small city of Ormoc, they pounded recently logged mountainsides and steep, fallow fields of sugar cane that only a few years before were covered by rain forest. As often occurs during a typhoon, more than 18 inches of rain fell in less than a day. Without the forest to break the rainfall and without the thick layer of rainforest plants and decomposing vegetation on the ground to absorb the rain, the water rushed down the steep terrain in a rising torrent. When the flood reached Ormoc, it destroyed roads and bridges and annihilated homes and businesses. More than 7,000 people died in a few hours, changing the politi- cal landscape of the Philippines forever. Ten years earlier, I had begun taking almost yearly often for trips to the rain forest of the Philippines, three at a time. What and trees once covered these months my Filipino Above: A thick blanket of towering rainforest mountain American and I have found there Within the commercial colleagues ranges slopes on Negros Island. past 20 years, however, loggers from to have bare rain Without the dazzling deeply disturbing. and subsistence farmers stripped them of forest. For the Islands are home to erodes the con- example, Philippine brush and trees to protect it, the soil on these slopes quickly under the concentration of of stant which 15 to 25 each in the greatest unique species any barrage of rainfall, ranges from feet feet year in the at least 512 endemic country world, including Philippine mountains.
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