2006-2007 - The Field Museum

Education Programs: Field Museum Members’ Nights; Fossil Prep lab workshops for Field Ambassador
program; Field Museum Educator Open House; CPS High School Transformation Project; Teachers
Programs; Molding and casting advisor of invertebrate and vertebrate fossils for Harris Educational Loan
Center; Dozin’ with The Dinos-Family Overnights; Gifted senior level science student program.
Media Development: Cited in an article about fieldwork tools in Chicago Sun-Times.
Other: Behind-the-scenes tours of Evolving Planet, Vertebrate Fossil Prep lab and collectionsarea for
donors, consultants, Annual Fund, Board of Trustees, Institutional Advancement, Human Resources
Intern Explore the Field event, Know your Chicago, Chicago Children’s Museum, Columbia College,
University of Chicago, University of Illinois Chicago, Illinois Institute of Technology, etc; various fossil
identifications for museum visitors, over the phones and e-mails.
Constance VanBeek
Education Programs: Field Museum Members’ Nights
Other: Behind-the-scenes tours.
Meenakshi Wadhwa
Exhibit Development: Content Advisor, Evolving Planet.
Other: Behind-the-scenes tours of meteorite collection and Isotope Geochemistry Laboratory.
Media Development: Cited in articles in Chicago SunTimes and Baltimore Sun.
Deborah Wagner
Exhibit Development: Evolving Planet fossil conservation, molding and casting advisor.
Other: Behind-the-scenes tours.
DEPARTMENT OF ZOOLOGY
John M. Bates
Exhibit Development: Content Specialist, Impressions of Tsavo; Content Advisor, Gregor Mendel, Pritzker
Lab Exhibit, Crown Family PlayLab; Photograph Contributor, Evolving Planet.
Education Programs: Field Museum Members' Nights.
Public Presentations: “Know Your Chicago” event.
Media Development: Newspaper Interviews, Chicago Sun Times (2); Magazine Interview, New Scientist;
Radio Interviews, Chicago Public Radio (2).
Web projects: Content Specialist, Collaborations in Congo web site; Content Specialist, African
Biodiversity Training Program web site.
Other: Various behind-the-scenes collection tours; Various presentations about the Department of
Zoology and the Bird Division.
Rüdiger Bieler
Exhibit Development: Content Specialist, Pearls (now traveling); German Language Translator and
Consultant, Gregor Mendel.
Public Presentations: Various lectures on molluscan diversity.
Media Development: Use of field and laboratory photographs in various exhibition and textbook projects.
Web Projects: Developer, PEET web site; Developer, Malacological Journals & Newsletters web site.
Other: Behind-the-scenes tours for visiting VIPs, etc.
James H. Boone
Exhibit Development: Content Advisor, Evolving Planet, Impressions of Tsavo.
Education Programs: Field Museum Members’ Nights.
Other: Behind-the-scenes tours and presentations for Institutional Advancement, Fall Annual Fund event,
donors, new employees, students, etc.
Carl W. Dick
Public Presentations: Field Museum, Regular Seminar Series.
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