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36 Western Australian Museum– Science and Culture focus on the composition of our waste, the history, archaeology and environmental impacts of Perth’s landfills, and ideas for reducing consumption and minimising waste. Museums have an important role in promoting a more sustainable future. Sue Graham-Taylor prepared a draft Policy on Sustainability for Museums Australia and presented a paper at the Museums Australia conference in March on the role of museums in achieving sustainability. The Fremantle History Museum’s permanent exhibitions continue to be enjoyed by visitors. A program of free, twice-daily tours of the Museum, introduced last year, has continued to prove popular. The tours generally focus on the building and its history as a lunatic asylum, women’s home, midwifery training school and American supply base during World War II, thus complementing the exhibition Within these Walls. A new project, Saving Fremantle, was initiated, which aims to involve the local Fremantle community in an extended research and exhibitions program focusing on heritage and heritage issues in the port city. An important facility at the Fremantle History Museum is the Community Access Gallery. This gallery is available free of charge to community groups, who work with the Museum to develop exhibitions. Curator Phyl Brown assisted representatives from the Italian organisation ANFE Fremantle (Associazone Nazionale Famiglie degli Emigrati) to develop a photographic exhibition entitled Glimpses of Past Memories: Fremantle Italo-Australians in the 20th Century. This exhibition, comprising black and white photographs dating back to the turn of the century, explored the experiences of people who came from various parts of Italy to settle in and around Fremantle. This was followed by an exhibition of artwork by the Calligraphers Guild of Western Australia, which received a very positive response from the public. The guild also ran school holiday calligraphy lessons for children in the Old School Room at the Museum. Currently on display is a photographic exhibition entitled Changing Lives: Australian Volunteers on Assignment 1951–2001, developed by Australian Volunteers International. Through photographs of volunteers around the world, and display cases filled with textiles, beads and other objects given to volunteers by members of the communities they worked with, the exhibition explores the way the lives of volunteers and communities are changed by the volunteering experience. Aquatic Zoology Life on the Edge—Down Under, a 48-minute television documentary that follows the work of scientists in the department as they document the marine life of the Dampier Archipelago, was launched in August. The first MuseumLink exhibition, featuring the marine life of the Raja Ampat Islands, opened in December and is presently travelling the state. It contains beautiful images and specimens of the marine life of the islands and documents the Museum’s work on marine biodiversity in the region. Scientific input was provided by Fred Wells. Shirley Slack-Smith and Mark Salotti represented the department during Sea Week on Rottnest Island. They used a Museum resource kit on the island’s marine intertidal life to demonstrate to teachers projects that could be undertaken on the shoreline and back in the classroom. In total, departmental staff presented 50 talks, lectures, excursions and behind-the-scenes tours and were involved in 30 media communications in print, television or radio. Earth and Planetary Sciences During the year the department produced 28 publications including five books. Dr Robert Hough joined the Mineralogy and Meteoritics Department for three months as the inaugural Simpson WESTERN AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM ANNUAL REPORT 2001–2002
37 Western Australian Museum– Science and Culture Research Fellow, working on impact-related rocks. Several papers have been prepared for submission to international journals. Alex Bevan attended the 64th Annual Meeting of the Meteoritical Society and (with Robert Hough) presented papers on cosmic spherules from Australia and shocked quartz from the Woodleigh impact structure in Western Australia. Alex also visited the University of Naples and the Mineralogical Museum of Naples to discuss possible exchanges. During the Dinosaurs of Darkness exhibition from November to January, John Long gave a public lecture on dinosaur extinctions and climate change and also appeared in various media interviews (television and radio) about the exhibition. Ken McNamara reinstated the Earth and Planetary Sciences Visiting Scientist Seminar Series, which proved extremely popular. Ten seminars were given: • September: Professor Stan Awramik, University of California, Santa Barbara, ‘Life during Snowball Earth Times: The Neoproterozoic Kingston Peak Formation, Death Valley Region, USA’ • November: Professor Jim Mead, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, ‘Pleistocene Faunas and Deposits of Arid North America: Colorado Plateau and Sonora, Mexico’ • December: Dr Phillip Playford, Honorary Associate, Western Australian Museum, ‘The Permo- Carboniferous Glaciation of Gondwana: Its Legacy in Western Australia’ • December: Dr Rob Hough, Simpson Research Fellow, Western Australian Museum, ‘Meteorite Impact Craters and the Hunt for “Truly” Shocked Minerals even Diamonds! A Journey from the Ries Crater in Germany to Chicxulub in Mexico and to Woodleigh, WA’ • January: Professor Ken Campbell, Australian National University, Canberra, ‘First, Second and Third Order Evolution—Was G. G. Simpson So Wrong After All?’ • February: Professor Moya Smith, King’s College, London, ‘Vertebrate Dentitions at the Origin of Jaws: When and How Pattern Evolved’ • March: Dr Phil Bland, Open University, Milton Keynes, ‘A Fireball Camera Network in the Nullarbor Desert: Recovering Meteorites with Orbits’ • April: Dr Monica Grady, Natural History Museum, London, ‘Mars and Martian Meteorites’ • April: Dr Robert Hutchison, Natural History Museum, London, ‘The Origin of Planets—We May Not Be Alone, but There Aren’t Many of Us’ • May: Dr Martin Van Kranendonk, Geological Survey of Western Australia, ‘Re-evaluating the Geological Setting of the Earliest Life on Earth: Evidence for a Hydrothermal Origin of c. 3.49–3.43 billion year old Fossiliferous Sedimentary Horizons in the North Pole Area, Pilbara Craton, WA’. The Dinosaur Club continues to grow, with an Australia-wide membership of 900. It is hoped that online access through a new web site under development will result in a significant increase in membership. Terrestrial Invertebrates Terry Houston continued to foster the Western Australian Insect Study Society and membership rose to 140. Departmental staff attended several conferences during the year. In July Bill Humphreys attended the XV International Symposium of Biospeleology, Intervales, Brazil, and presented a poster on stygal (confined to groundwater) diving beetles and a paper on the subterranean ecosystem of Barrow Island. WESTERN AUSTRALIAN MUSEUM ANNUAL REPORT 2001–2002
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