Museum videographers have brought back hours and hours of evidence of this world hidden away in the mud and rock of our backyard. His curiosity and ingenuity have helped the museum’s team go to great lengths to retrieve a variety of specimens for the collection. Kevin May, paleontologist and museum operations manager, is another familiar face in the field.
Collection manager Julie Rousseau has helped with logistics for many of them, as well as leading the effort to clean and catalog hundreds of specimens for the museum’s database.
Led by earth sciences curator Pat Druckenmiller, the museum has launched more than a dozen expeditions over the last decade. One of the driving inspirations behind Expedition Alaska: Dinosaurs is the story of museum fieldwork in remote Alaska. Sarah Day, our student assistant, can sculpt patches of flood plain or a cliff face out of rocks, sand, glue, and paint.Įarth sciences curator Pat Druckenmiller talks to a reporter about the museum’s new exhibit. Jonah Wright, the team’s assistant preparator, has a critical eye for detail in finish carpentry and lighting. Tamara Martz is the exhibit & graphic designer who crafts creative interpretations of scientific concepts and gives them a clean look. He’s an accomplished craftsman with 35 years of experience and is now working on his final exhibit at the museum. Steve Bouta, coordinator of exhibitions & design, is master of the installation. Roger Topp, head of the department, led the conceptual design and project development, but in the last few weeks he’s largely moved on to planning the next exhibit. Steve Bouta has been designing, planning, and building exhibits at the museum for 35 years.īut when it comes to building the exhibit, literally hammering, sawing, spreading sand on a dinosaur dig site, and putting the panels on the wall, it’s the exhibits, design, and digital media crew that runs the show.
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