2006-2007 - The Field Museum

Media Presentations: Photographer with Australian Geographic magazine accompanied us on research
visit to Tasmania, Australia.
Other: Field mushroom events in Tasmania and New Zealand.
Christine Niezgoda
Exhibit Development: Content Advisor/specimen selection, Gregor Mendel.
Other: Botany Department tours for Olivet Nazarene University, DePaul University, and DeKalb County
Master Gardeners.
Richard Ree
Web Projects: Developer, Biodiversity of the Hengduan Mountains web site/database.
Other: Behind-the-scenes tours.
Gayle Tonkovich
Education Programs: Field Museum Members’ Nights.
Web Projects: Coordinator (vascular plants), vPlants: A Virtual Herbarium of the Chicago Region web
site; worked with John Pickering of DiscoverLife.org to add a checklist of species for the Chicago Region,
and create an upload mechanism for posting photographs in continuing efforts to link vPlants to
DiscoverLife.
Matt von Konrat
Education Programs: Presentations, Lincoln Park Conservatory, Chicago Park District, Chicago; various
Field Museum Behind-the-Scenes Events; Scientist at the Field Program.
Web Projects: Editor, Liverworts (http://www.nzpcn.org.nz), The New Zealand Plant Conservation
Network; Editor, Bryophytes, DiscoverLife (www.discoverlife.org/bryophyta); Developer, LIIF: Liverwort
Internet Information Facility (www.liverworts.org); Contributor, New Zealand Plants:
http://www.sbs.auckland.ac.nz/info/schools/nzplants/home.htm; Contributor,
http://www.biology.duke.edu/bryology/LiToL/
Other: The Annual Fund Behind-the-Scenes Event, Institutional Advancement, The Field Museum.
DEPARTMENT OF GEOLOGY
John R. Bolt
Education Programs: Docent training, Evolving Planet.
Exhibit Development: Content advisor for Evolving Planet; content advisor for Tiktaalik.
Marlene Hill Donnelly
Education Programs: Field Museum Members' Nights.
Public Presentations: Field Museum Friends of Botany event.
Exhibited at Guild of Natural Science Illustrators Annual Show, awarded 1st place for a color piece.
Ian Glasspool
Education Programs: Docent training, Evolving Planet.
Exhibit Development: Content Advisor, Evolving Planet; Content Advisor/specimen selection, Crown
Family PlayLab.
Public Presentations: Presentations for Individual Giving; Behind-the-scenes tours.
Media Development: Interviewed by National Geographic, BBC News in relation to the earliest wildfires.
Lance Grande
Exhibit Development: Content Specialist, Evolving Planet, Grainger Hall of Gems; Content Advisor,
Impressions of Tsavo, Mythic Beasts, Darwin.
Education Programs: Field Museum Members’ Nights; Docent training, Evolving Planet; “Evolution 101”
training sessions for Evolving Planet.
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