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the year of DarwinAnnual Report2009Sam Noble Museum University of Oklahoma

ANNUAL REPORTof theSAM NOBLE OKLAHOMA MUSEUMof NATURAL HISTORYfor theannual year 2009A NEW EDITIONwith financials, text and photographsof programs and events describedIllustrations are courtesy of the History of Science Collections,University of Oklahoma Librariesnormanthe University of Oklahoma

Contents05 Exhibits09 Education11 Museum Events15 Collections & Research23 Development25 Financials27 Volunteers28 Members, Donors & Corporate Sponsors30 Publications & Grants02

From the DirectorOne hundred and fifty years ago, Charles Darwinpublished On the Origin of Species. In honor of this anniversary, the Sam NobleMuseum partnered with departments across campus to produce Darwin 2009, acelebration of Darwin’s life and work. Throughout the year, our museum offered a variety ofDarwin-themed programs, including seminars, family programs, and a dozen lectures by visitingscholars.Central to our celebration was Darwin at the Museum, a special exhibition created inpartnership with OU Libraries History of Science collection that featured a complete set offirst editions of all of Darwin’s published books. As an active research museum, The SamNoble was uniquely suited for this. In addition to the books, Darwin at the Museum featuredspecimens of animals featured in Darwin’s works that have been studied by museum curators.More than 33,000 visitors viewed this lovely exhibition.The museum produced two additional special exhibitions: One Hundred Summers, AKiowa Calendar Record, showcasing a unique set of ledger drawings that the museum receiveda Save America’s Treasures grant to restore and display; and Drawing the Motmot: An Artist’sView of Tropical Nature, featuring the beautiful artwork of nature artist Debby Kaspari. Wealso proudly opened the Noble Corporation and Noble Energy Orientation Gallery. Thisinteractive gallery features exhibits that help our visitors understand more about the research,conservation and collection work that takes place behind the scenes at the museum.Our education department expanded its ExplorOlogy programming this year with thedebut of Paleo Expedition, a 2-week program for high school students that allowed them towork in actual field situations with museum scientists at a remote location in Utah. ExplorOlogy will continue to grow and develop in the years ahead, allowing us to reach more studentsand teachers across the state. It is a marvelous science education program.Behind all of these public offerings, of course, is the ongoing research of our curators.Museum scientists and their students conducted research and fieldwork at locations across theUnited States in 2009, adding to collections, describing new species, and adding to our overallbody of knowledge. The university teaching and research of our curators continues to be excellent.We are dedicated to serving the people of Oklahoma and visitors to the state. Our effortsat broadening educational opportunities at all levels are significant. We are pleased to havehosted more than 150,000 visitors last year. We invite all of you to come to the museum toenjoy outstanding exhibits and public programs.Darwin’s ideas on evolution by natural selection continue to fuel the scientific and educational mission of our museum. His ideas changed the world. We thought it fitting to fashion our 2009 Annual Report after Darwin’s remarkable books. The work he began continueswithin these walls today.Dr. Michael A. Mares03

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2009 Exhibits“Doing what little one can to increase thegeneral stock of knowledge is as respectablean object of life, as one can . pursue.”—Charles DarwinOn January 18, 2009, the museum concludedits hosting of the special exhibition “Hatching the Past,”which had been on view beginning Oct. 11, 2008. InMarch 2009, the museum opened its newest permanent exhibit: TheNoble Corporation and Noble Energy Orientation Gallery. The galleryfeatures Sauroposeidon proteles, the world’s tallest dinosaur, whose40-foot-long neck and skull peek into the museum’s Great Hall to greetvisitors. This interactive gallery shows visitors the behind-the-sceneswork of our museum’s collections and research departments and answers the questions “What does the museum do?” “Why do they do it?”and “How does it get done?”The museum featured two special exhibitions in 2009. One Hundred Summers: A Kiowa Calendar Record showcased the art of renownedKiowa artist Silver Horn. This collection of calendar drawings had never before been on display to the public and is one of only two calendarsby Silver Horn known to exist.Touch the Sky: Prairie Photographs by Jim Brandenburg, on viewfrom Feb. 14 through April 12, featured breathtaking photographs ofAmerican prairies by the famed National Geographic photographer.On Oct. 10, the museum opened two special in-house exhibitions.Drawing the Motmot: An Artist’s View of Tropical Nature featured rainforest paintings and drawings by nature artist Debby Kaspari, who has05

Clockwise from top left:At the entrance to the special exhibitionDarwin at the Museum, visitors could view amap of Charles Darwin’s historic voyage anda first edition of The Voyage of the Beagle.Photo: Hadley Jermandone illustrations for several of the museum’s permanent exhibits.A view of the exhibition Drawing theMotmot: An Artist’s View of Tropical Nature.Photo: Hadley Jerman.versity of Oklahoma Libraries History of Science Collection. BothDetail from Debby Kaspari’s paintingTropical Heat: Broadbilled Motmot.Darwin at the Museum, which opened simultaneously, featuredan entire set of first editions of all the books written by CharlesDarwin. The exhibition was created in partnership with the Uniexhibitions remained on view through Jan. 19, 2010.In August 2009, the museum began planning for a newpermanent exhibit in the Hall of Natural Wonders. The 1,800Custom made cases display Darwin’sthree-volume work Zoology, while a largescreen above showcases images fromthe books. Photo: Hadley Jerman.square foot exhibit will feature the plants and animals of BlackVisitors enjoy the centerpiece exhibit in thenew Noble Corporation and Noble EnergyOrientation Gallery. Photo: Konrad Eek.rare species of plants and animals. The exhibit is scheduled forMesa and the surrounding short grass prairie. Black Mesa is thehighest and driest location in Oklahoma, and home to dozens ofcompletion in 2011.At right:Detail of a drawing from the KiowaCalendar by Silver Horn.06

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2009 Education“How paramount the future is to the presentwhen one is surrounded by children.”—Charles DarwinThe museum’s educationMuseum in West Palm Beach, where shedepartment saw many excitingserved as vice president of education andchanges in 2009. The ExplorOlogy programming. At the snomnh, Hughes is inprogram debuted Paleo Expedition, a fieldcharge of all strategic planning for the mu-program for high school students. Ten stu-seum’s educational programs, including pub-dents were selected for this two-week resi-lic programming for children, families anddential program and traveled to a ruggedadults; classes for public and private schoolfield location in Utah where they workedgroups; public lecture series; informal edu-with scientists to discover and identify fos-cation programs; and Discovery Room pro-sils. ExplorOlogy also continued its flag-gramming. She also oversees the volunteership program, Oklahoma Science Adventure.program.Twelve middle-school students were chosento conduct research with scientists at fieldVolunteerssites around Oklahoma. ExplorOlogy alsoThe museum also welcomed Emily Reyn-included the Summer Explorers program thatolds as the museum’s volunteer coordinator.offered 32 classes for children ages 4 to 14.Reynolds is in charge of managing all vol-The Summer Explorers program expanded tounteer functions at the museum, includinginclude six more programs than the previ-the recruitment, training, and scheduling ofous year and hosted more than 400 childrenvolunteers in areas across the museum.throughout the summer. ExplorOlogy isThe museum boasted 195 active volun-generously funded by the Whitten-Newmanteers in 2009, ranging in age from 16 to 90Foundation.years old. Volunteers donated 18,880 hoursIn March 2009, the museum welcomedand 58 new volunteers joined the museum.Holly Hughes as the new head of education.Nancy Coleman was honored as volunteer ofShe came from the South Florida Sciencethe year.09

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2009 Museum Events“A man who dares to waste one hour of lifehas not discovered the value of life.”—Charles DarwinState University; and Anne Magurran, Uni-The Year of DarwinIn celebration of the 150thversity of St. Andrews. The museum also wasanniversary of the publication of Onthe host site for a full day of panel discussionsthe Origin of Species, and the 200th an-on Darwin by university faculty titled “Dar-niversary of the birth of Charles Darwin, thewin Across the Disciplines” in Feb. 2009. Inmuseum took part in a campus-wide celebra-the fall semester, the museum hosted a seriestion of Darwin in 2009. In the spring, theof six evolution seminars lead by OU facultymuseum hosted 13 lectures in two seriescalled “In Discussion with Darwin.”focusing on the life and legacy of CharlesDarwin. One was a series of public lecturesThe International Year of Astronomyby visiting scholars in conjunction with aIn honor of the International Year of As-“Presidential Dream Course” on Darwintronomy, the museum formed a partnershipsponsored by several departments acrosswith OU’s Homer L. Dodge Department ofcampus. Speakers included Ken Taylor, OUPhysics and Astronomy to offer a monthlyHistory of Science department; Paul White,series of free public astronomy lectures byUniversity of Cambridge; John Lynch,scientists from OU, the National Optical As-Arizona State University; Michael Ruse,tronomy Observatory and nasa, followed byFlorida State University; John Beatty, Uni-skywatching on the museum grounds withversity of British Columbia; John van Wyhe,telescopes provided by local astronomy clubUniversity of Cambridge; Garland Allen,members.Washington University in St. Louis; and JoeCain, University College, London. The otherPublic Presentationslecture series was sponsored by the EcologyOther public presentations co-hosted byand Evolutionary Biology program at OU.the museum included lectures by visitingSpeakers included Allen Orr, Rochesterscholars Lynn Fowler, of the Charles Dar-University; Pam Soltis, Florida Museum ofwin Foundation; Krishna Dronamraju, ofNatural History, Bert Hölldobler, Arizonathe Foundation for Genetic Research; Janet11

Browne, History of Science professor, Har-Dec. 3, sponsored by Arvest Bank.vard University; and Robert Trivers, from theTwo new events were introduced indepartment of Anthropology and Biological2009: Dinos and Desserts, an evening pro-Sciences at Rutgers University. Each of thesegram for adults held on July 25 and Nov. 7,presentations was co-hosted by the museumfeatured open galleries, live music, dessertsand one of the academic departments at theand a cash bar. Movie Night at the MuseumUniversity of Oklahoma. The museum alsofeatured family movies shown monthly infeatured a popular presentation by herpetol-the museum’s Great Hall.ogy curator Laurie Vitt, featuring live venomous snakes that Vitt displayed close-upNative American Language Fairwith the aid of a video camera on the KerrSpring of 2009 saw the seventh annual Okla-Auditorium stage.homa Native American Youth Language Fairat the museum. In this year’s two-day event,Complimentary Admission Weeks838 students from 76 schools or organiza-Complimentary museum admission wastions participated. Students came from acrossoffered to key segments of the museum’sOklahoma as well as from Nebraska, Idaho,community with First Responders Week Feb.Arizona, New Mexico and Alabama. Twenty-9 through 15 and First Responders and Mili-two Native American languages were repre-tary Week Sept. 20 through 26, as well as ansented. The 2009 onaylf was sponsored byOU Faculty/Staff Week Feb. 16 through 22.Boeing, the Sam Noble Museum, the Muscogee (Creek) Nation, Cherokee Nation Enter-Annual and Sponsored Eventsprises, Choctaw Nation School of ChoctawSeveral popular annual events and free daysLanguage, OU Department of Anthropol-were offered during 2009, including Egg-ogy, Osage Nation Language Department,stravaganza, a community egg-hunt pro-Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes of Oklahomaduced in partnership with OU’s J.C. Penneyand OU American Indian Student Services.Leadership Program on April 8; a public freeTop row: Children enjoy the craft and coloring activities at Eggstravaganza. Photo: Krysten Marshall. Museum director MichaelMares celebrates the holidays with museum mascot “Spike” atHoliday Happening.day courtesy of Chesapeake Energy on June13; Library Day, a partnership with the Pioneer and Metro Library systems offering freeCenter row: Winners in the 2009 Oklahoma Native American Youth Language Fair show off their trophies. Photo: LindaColdwell.admission to anyone showing a library cardon June 27; Sonic’s Spooky Saturday, a day ofBottom row: OU students play cards on blankets in the GreatHall while waiting for film to start during Movie Night at theMuseum. Photo: Linda Coldwell. A tempting assortment ofsweet treats was offered for guests of Dinos and Desserts. Photo:Linda Coldwell.free admission sponsored by Sonic, America’sDrive-in on Oct. 30; and Holiday Happening, the museum’s annual holiday party on12

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2009 Collections & Research“I am turned into a sort of machine forobserving facts and grinding out conclusions.”—Charles DarwinVertebrate PaleontologyCurators Richard Cifelli and Nichol asCzaplewski have been involved in the painstaking and timeconsuming process of sorting and identifying thousandsof micro-vertebrate fossils – the tiny teeth, scales, and bones of smallmammals, fish, and reptiles – collected over the past several years fromsites in Utah, southern Arizona, Oklahoma and California. Though notdramatic to look at, these tiny fossils are the basis of ongoing curatorial research of which sorting and identifying is the crucial first step.Field expeditions to collect additional micro-fossils were made to sitesin western Oklahoma, the Mohave desert of California and southeastern Arizona.Nick Czaplewski completed the two-year revision of a mammalogytext book: Mammalogy, 5th ed., which will be published by Jones andBartlett early in 2010.Richard Cifelli, along with Cindy Gordon, Assistant Professor inOU’s department of Zoology, and a Research Associate in vertebratepaleontology at the museum; and graduate students Charles Baker andBrian Davis, accompanied the first Paleo Expedition team of ten highschool students into Utah for two weeks of fieldwork as part of theExplorOlogy project. Fossil preparator Kyle Davies worked with thestudents in the museum’s vertebrate paleontology laboratory, teachingthem techniques in fossil preparation.15

Cifelli was interviewed for a new Dis-manager Margaret Landis has been compil-covery Channel program titled “Jurassicing catalog information to upload to thePredators.” The program will feature the mu-system. Information for 7,000 objects fromseum’s Tenontosaurus and Deinonychus speci-2,300 localities has been prepared from thatmens and will air in 2010.collection. In Invertebrate Paleontology, collection manager Roger Burkhalter has beenInvertebrate Paleontologyproducing high-quality digital images of sev-Curator Steve Westrop, along with graduateeral views of specimens with a goal of mak-students and colleagues from the Universitying the collection accessible for “digital loan”of Cincinnati, Ohio State University, andto scientists. These high quality images willsuny Potsdam, began field work in the sum-be available to scientists for research, elimi-mer of 2009 on a large, collaborative nsf-nating the need to ship actual specimens infunded project that will look into extinctionsmany cases.of trilobites in eastern North America fromAs part of the grant, Westrop is work-the Ordovician period, around 450 millioning with paleobotany curator Rick Lupiayears ago. Sediments from erosion of theon creating a public-access Web site callednewly uplifted mountains in that area caused“Common Fossils of Oklahoma,” whichwidespread environmental changes acrosswill feature images from the museum’s col-the eastern part of the continent and maylections, plus information about what pale-have caused the extinctions. The work willontologists do, what Oklahoma was like incontinue over the next two years at sites indifferent time periods in the past, and theVirginia, Tennessee and Ontario, Canada.geologic timescale for use by the public andThe data collected at these sites will be com-by Oklahoma educators. The new Web sitepared with information collected from Okla-will replace the current “Common Fossils ofhoma, where no such environmental changesOklahoma” listing on the museum’s Web siteoccurred.sometime in 2010.Invertebrate PaleontologyPaleobotany and Micropaleontologywith PaleobotanyCatalog information has been prepared forWork continues on a joint databasing proj-inclusion in PaleoPortal, a web-based search-ect funded by the National Science Founda-able database linking institutions aroundtion. The project will use a database programthe world. A student of Museum Studiescalled Specify to allow access to the collec-has cataloged and indexed more than 400tions of both departments and make themtopographical maps from the files of formerWeb searchable. Paleobotany collectionPaleobotany curator Leonard R. Wilson that16

include his hand-written notations. Digitaland dvd project on the mammals of Ar-scans of 270 of these maps also were madegentina, and conducted museum researchfor inclusion in the collection’s catalog.in Great Britain and Argentina. Braun andLupia is working to secure funding forMares, along with colleagues from Okla-a research project on the palynology (fossilhoma State University, also have described aspores and pollen) of the early Permian innew species of grass mouse from Argentina –north central and southwestern Oklahoma.the 12th new species discovered during theirThe research is based in part on collections15-year exploration of Argentina. The de-made by OU paleobotany students for class-scription has been accepted for publicationwork over the past several years.early in 2010.Mares’ book, A Desert Calling: Life in aMammalogyForbidding Landscape, published by HarvardIn 2009, the mammals department, curatedUniversity Press, will appear in a Chineseby Michael Mares and Janet Braun, addedtranslation in 2010. It has also been pub-more than 1,500 specimens to its collection,lished in Korean.making it the 22nd largest mammal collection in the Western Hemisphere. Some addi-Ichthyologytions resulted from ongoing research projectsCurator Edie Marsh-Matthews has beenin Argentina, some were deposited with theworking in collaboration with OU endocri-museum from an ecological project conduct-nologist Rosemary Knapp to examine theed in west Tennessee, and some resulted fromeffects of stress hormones on mosquitofish.recent collections made in Le Flore County,Early results show that, at certain levels, theOK. The last is an ongoing collaborativehormones have the effect of masculinizingproject with museum herpetology curatorsfemale fish without preventing them fromthat has yielded a number of small mammalseither not previously recorded for the county,or not collected for the area in more than 50years. Le Flore is one of many Oklahomacounties that have been poorly sampled fororganisms. The project provides new information on species distributions in southeastern Oklahoma and contributes to the foundation of the state’s conservation strategy.Mares and Braun continue to work to-Longear sunfish (Lepomis megalotis) caught during collectionsmade in streams on the Tinker Airforce Base in

University of Cambridge; John Lynch, Arizona State University; Michael Ruse, florida State University; John Beatty, Uni-versity of British Columbia; John van Wyhe, University of Cambridge; Garland Allen, Washington University in St. Louis; and Joe Cain, University College, London. The other lecture series was sponsored by the Ecology

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