CA-189, the female transient

orca that stranded and died near Dungeness Spit in January 2002, has been on quite a journey. The Port Townsend Marine Science Center (PTSMC) has shared that journey with her. We helped dig up her buried bones in 2008, watched them leave for the Seattle NOAA facility for soaking, and then retrieved them again for further cleaning in 2009. The goal—to reassemble the bones into a complete skeleton, eventually to become the centerpiece and feature attraction of the new Ocean Hall.

Lee Post, aka “the bone man,” a skeleton specialist from Homer, Alaska, had been contacted long before and was offering detailed guidance since the start of the Orca Project. When he arrived to begin the articulation in January 2011, a group of more than 25 dedicated PTMSC volunteers, staff members and a large supporting cast of community members, was ready and eager to work with him. Thanks to their combined efforts, Hope’s skeleton was completed in less than four weeks.

The preparation of Hope’s bones and their articulation represents a significant achievement for PTMSC and its

community. In most museums, an articulation work space would have been closed to the public, with professionals assembling the skeleton. In contrast, PTMSC opened its doors and invited volunteers to join the project, regardless of their background. They brought their respective life skills as well as enthusiasm: artists, citizen scientists, writers, photographers, welders, boat riggers and more. Lee’s informal teaching and problem-solving style encouraged volunteers to join him in tackling the many challenges that arose during the work. As Chrissy McLean, Marine Program Coordinator, said, “He is absolutely passionate about his work, but is still able to make it relaxed, fun and engaging for everyone involved, allowing everyone in our community to have ownership of the project.”

A spirit of scientific investigation permeated

the workspace. We examined photographs and videos of orcas to learn about the body mechanics and functioning of a living orca. We examined x-rays and CT scans to determine the exact placement and curvature of the bones in the flippers. Careful examination of the skull bone

degradation led us to consider various bone diseases as possible causes. Teen volunteers made accurate scale drawings and used boat lofting techniques to define the curve of the steel bar on which the vertebrae would be hung. Lengthy discussion about orcas’ use of their flippers in swimming helped us determine their placement in relation to the ribs. We even considered forensic science techniques in an effort to determine the cause of Hope’s death.

The articulation attracted attention from the larger community. Two local dentists working on weekends tackled the challenge of placing the teeth in the jaw, carefully aligning them so that the jaw can be hinged to open and close. KING5-TV sent a camera crew to record and report on the skeleton’s progress. The Burke Museum lent an undamaged orca skull to be used for comparison purposes as small repairs were being made on Hope’s skull. Throughout

Hope’s Journey by Libby Palmer, Orca Project Manager

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the process, NOAA scientists were on call, available for advice.

Volunteers, staff and visitors benefited from these exchanges. Questions were raised,

opinions expressed, and new research planned. In this way, a lively scientific community was formed. During two weekends of public Orca Open Houses, volunteers joined

Lee and staff members to informally share their work. More than 800 visitors—families, school groups, tourists and local residents—enjoyed and benefited from their enthusiasm and detailed knowledge.

Hope’s complete skeleton was extensively photographed and then separated into four units, three of which now reside in the Natural History Exhibit (NHE). In the summer of 2013, the parts will be reunited once again. Hope’s skeleton and story will be the centerpiece of a new Ocean Hall built as an addition to the current Natural History Exhibit.

Exhibits to Accompany Hope’s skeleton

Planning the new exhibits for the Ocean Hall has been ongoing since August 2010. Staff members, AmeriCorps, volunteers and community members met in small focus

groups for almost four months, sharing their visions and creative ideas. Then in February 2011, an Exhibit Design Team was formed consisting of Libby Palmer, Judy D’Amore,

Jessica Swihart and local artist Deanna Pindell. The team met for four months, sharing readings, websites and experiences at other museums, resulting in a unified vision for the new exhibit.

Consider a large open space dominated by Hope’s skeleton. Nearby a small group of visitors are gathered around a web-based, interactive kiosk, learning about her stranding and conducting an Orca Forensics investigation using actual evidence. A Bone Box at child-level has drawn a group of youngsters working on assembling a collection of small bones into a skeleton. Other visitors are exploring the issue of toxins in the ocean by learning about world currents through interactive maps. A nearby shopping cart is filled with examples of household toxics in common use.

The exhibit will feature an engaging combination of hands-on 3-dimensional projects, a variety of media, ocean art, and computer kiosks in a dramatic environment guaranteed to attract attention. Throughout, connections between people and ocean habitats will be stressed. Visitors will experience—and reflect on—the fascination of the ocean and its inhabitants, and learn more about current changes to the world’s oceans and the impact of human actions.

Orca Project Participants Say... I learned that we share this world with magnificent and intelligent animals, some of whom dominate the ocean as we dominate the land. We have an obligation to protect and preserve the physical environment in which all species, including ourselves can survive and prosper. -- Articulation project volunteer

I have been involved in many technically advanced aircraft and automotive projects, but never anything so profoundly organic or meaningful to a community. -- Articulation project volunteer

This is a museum’s curator’s wildest dream, to have bones as nice, and clean, and white, and unbroken as these…this will be a world-class exhibit. --Lee Post

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Port Townsend Marine Science Center is known as a leader in regional Citizen Science, but what does this mean and how do we build on this for the future?

Over the last 25 years we have built a quality data collection network with the help of our extensive volunteer pool. Our long term relationships with governmental organizations, universities and scientists have helped us develop experimental protocols, trainings, and data collection techniques. Few regional organizations have the depth of knowledge and volunteer experience that we offer to the scientific research community.

From this level of expertise we continue to expand our networks, ask new questions and develop new studies. In August 2011, we began a new Department of Ecology Public Participation Grant wherein we measure a broad range of toxins in the US Salish Sea, continuing to draw on the region-wide volunteer network established through our Plastics in the Marine Environment project. We will also learn what toxins are in the food web by performing five seal necropsies with funds from our 2012 Prescott Grant. As for the recently completed Plastics Project, we are preparing findings for publication including a peer-reviewed paper on our gull bolus study.

Looking forward, our Citizen Science/Volunteer Coordinator, Jean Walat, plans to increase our presence around the Salish Sea. She would like to see the Foss Discovery Lab become a more vital part of our exhibit by giving visitors a window into our work.

Another goal is for research partners to plan us into their grants from the beginning to help fund our work of recruiting, training and coordinating Citizen Science volunteers. In the future, we will provide a variety of ways for scientists to share the results of their current research with the public. Whether providing opportunities for hands-on involvement, or through our exhibits, website and our social media outlets, we act as a bridge between scientists and the general public.

Of course none of this would be possible without all our volunteers whose enthusiasm and dedication support PTMSC in looking to the future, reaching out to new partners and continuing to ask those hard questions.

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Thank You, Judy!For seven years, Judy D’Amore worked as Natural History Educator and then Education Specialist at the Port Townsend Marine Science Center. During that time she coordinated environmental monitoring projects with local students, developed comprehensive school programming and led summer workshops for teachers in marine ecology and inquiry teaching. She also mentored numerous AmeriCorps members and did extensive work on our new website. During the past few years, our funding for educational programs has diminished significantly. So it was with great sadness,

but also with an eye to the future financial viability for the PTMSC, that we had to dissolve the position of Education Specialist in July.

Tough economic times often mean making very tough decisions and this was certainly one of them. Based upon that, we had to say good bye to Judy as a staff member. Judy’s contribution has been stellar and deeply appreciated. As grant funding becomes available, we look forward to working with her on a contract basis, using her expertise on specific projects.

Thank you, Judy, for everything you’ve given the PTMSC in this position and over the years. Although you are not around on a daily basis, we consider you as a member of our team. Your contributions, as employee, collaborator and founder, have made us a strong and visionary organization.

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Our 30th anniversary is just around the corner and we are planning for a fascinating group of speakers in 2012.

Saul Weisberg, Executive Director of North Cascades Institute will help us kick off the series at Our Annual Meeting, Saturday, February 11, with The Rebirth of Natural History. Weisberg is on the board of The Natural History Network (www.naturalhistorynetwork.org) that is promoting the value of natural history and the mindful awareness of the natural world.

In April, you can look forward to a treat. The Consortium for Ocean

Leadership awarded us a Distinguished Lecturer for April 2012. Dr. Steven D’Hondt, of University of Rhode Island, will be speaking on the extreme environment sub-seafloor sediments in the South Pacific Gyre. A gyre is an area in the ocean where there is little wind, little current and very little upwelling of deep water so it is very nutrient poor.

Stay tuned as we assemble a year’s worth of exciting lectures for our 30th anniversary series, made possible by the generosity and curiosity of long-time friends Soozie and Dan Darrow.

LECTURE sERiEs

Announcing PTMSC’s 30th Anniversary Lecture Series

Woven into the intricate and complex tapestry of the PTMSC are the many colors of education, some bright splashes, other subdued tones that blend with the sea and earth. Four of these exquisite colors that have shaped our fabric over the past two years are our “Sanderlings,” three of whom cast a farewell to us in late August: Jess Swihart, Valerie Lindborg and Julia Ledbetter.

Heather Jones will be with us through mid-November as a fall intern helping with our residential Orcas of the Salish Sea program.

“Sanderlings?” you ask. They are self-named for the gregarious birds that form flocks on sandy beaches. These four really loved being together, from cleaning days where they were blasting music to working as an educational team. You may have thought of them as AmeriCorps members and, yes, three of them are this year, though all four were last year. Due to age limits, Heather didn’t qualify for the program this year, but her deep commitment to the PTMSC and her desire to stay on after her first AmeriCorps term kept her with us.

In a normal year, we only get to enjoy these young people for ten months, but last year the foursome each chose to return and continue their work with us. The staff, board and volunteers who work with them were ecstatic with the news last fall, but it makes saying good bye to them this year that much harder.

“Rather than just completing my job, I was ready to expand my responsibilities and take initiative on new projects,” says Jess about her decision to return. “I also would have been very sad to leave this community that I’d grown so fond of after one short year.”

Valerie and Julia were committed to expanding their work with a desire to finish the Bolus Project—a study of indigestible material eaten by Glaucus Winged gulls as an important part of our research on micro plastics in the Salish Sea—and are close to publishing a peer-reviewed paper. “I’ve learned even more this second year and taken on more responsibilities. I’m very glad I decided to stay,” adds Julia.

Heather’s passion is the Orca Project. “Early on I became attached to the story, the bones, the volunteers and what the skeleton represents. I was committed and knew I would regret walking away from the project before completion. I was right.”

So how has their time with the PTMSC provided a springboard for their future goals? None have immediate plans, other than applying for environmental-based positions in the Pacific Northwest, but three of them are committed to attending grad school. Jess wants to focus on ecology, fisheries or marine affairs. Julia is interested in doing field research that would work toward a masters degree in conservation biology. And Valerie wants to continue her education and gain a masters in teaching so she can teach biology in either public or private schools.

To expand upon that, Valerie says her favorite moments over these past two years were “leading the GIRLS program with Julia and inspiring young people to conserve the marine environment. I also loved seeing the kids get really into Water World 2011—it was awesome!”

Whatever path these young women walk, we know they will make us proud. We wish them all the best, thankful they’ve been part of the PTMSC family for these past two years, enhancing our programs and enriching our lives.

Bidding a Fond Adieu to the Sanderlings

Julia Ledbetter, Valerie Lindborg, Jess Swihart, Heather Jones

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Tides of March Benefit Auction: Save-the-Date

Mark your calendar now for the 2012 Tides of March Benefit Auction on March 10th at the Jefferson County Fairgrounds. We are again planning a festive evening of warm camaraderie, delicious eats, fabulous shopping, and joyful giving in support of conserving the Salish Sea.

We have completed our four-year study and education program featuring plastics in the marine environment. We’re now analyzing the data so that we can draw useful information from over 200 beach samples that volunteers collected between the fall of 2008 and spring of 2011. We’re also analyzing 589 gull boluses (regurgitated pellets of indigestible materials) collected from Protection Island National Wildlife Refuge.

Stay tuned for an alert in our monthly e-news that will link to our project findings, including a research paper that AmeriCorps members Valerie Lindborg and Julia Ledbetter are preparing, “Plastics Consumption and Dietary Components for Glaucous Winged Gulls on Protection Island.”

Plastics Project Update

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Heather Jones played a vital role organizing volunteers and working with staff as we completed our whale articulation.

A PTMSC Year in Review

Lee (the “Bone Man”) Post came down from Alaska to oversee the articulation. Time went much too fast, but we all enjoyed our moments with him.

High school students from the Spokane area spent two days with Chrissy exploring

our beaches. Here they examine a dead octopus

washed up on the beach.

Our AmeriCorps volunteers and interns created many fun, educational activities for our campers this summer. The red PTMSC t-shirts were a common sight at Fort Worden. Our Marine Biology Day Camp spent an afternoon

beach seining. The contents of the net are dropped in a large wading pool so everyone can see what lives right off shore.

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The Marine Exhibit provides hands-on experiences for students to study a variety of local sea life. The first step to become a scientist is the ability to observe and describe what we see before we move on to asking questions.

Volunteers, like Linda Dacon, put in hundreds of hours in the Discovery Lab, Marine Exhibit, Natural History Exhibit, outreach tables and our auction. Many others provide those unseen tasks such as data entry, website work and flier distribution. Thank you to all!

Touch tanks are always a fun way for Junior Explorers to learn about sea cucumbers, sea stars, sea urchins and crabs.

A PTMSC Year in Review

Sequim high school students involved in our beach plastic study are amazed to find small bits of plastics and foam in a sand sample collected on Dungeness Spit.

Valerie Lindborg is the master plastics sorter.

If there was a free moment, we would see

her peering at beach samples or weighing

those little brown packets.

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Hugh “Sandy” MacNair, a volunteer from our

early days, passed away this winter. We remember him as willing, kind and cheerful. “What do you need done?” he’d ask and then he’d do it. His expertise was carpentry and fixing just about anything, but he’d also work as greeter, docent and gift shop clerk. When it came to sales in the gift shop requiring that he sort through sweatshirts for a guest he’d often say, “My wife would be better at this, but we’ll get you fixed up.”

We always felt good when Sandy was working in the exhibits because we knew our guests would be warmly welcomed. Anyone who met Sandy would agree that he was genuine and a gentle man. There is one project that he did for us that is still visible today. He repaired

sections of the massive planking in the marine exhibit floor. The floor in that building is original decking and while it has held up magnificently, there were a few patches that were starting to get spongy. Sandy noticed that and took it upon himself to make the repairs, at his own expense.

When he retired from volunteering, he still helped out by attending our auction with his wife Winnie each year. He passed away just before our auction this year, but his spirit was remembered when several attendees dedicated their donations to his memory during the Fund-A-Need portion of the evening.

In a recent note from Winnie… “The Marine Science Center and all the people involved with it meant so much to him and actually it was one of the main reasons we moved to Port Townsend when he retired. He felt such a kinship there.”

Our memory of Sandy inspires our work and reminds us why we are the type of organization that we are, focused on volunteer involvement. We send our love to Winnie and the family and share in their celebration of his life.

The passing of a big-hearted man, Sandy MacNair

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Winnie MacNair generously chose to honor Sandy’s commitment to marine science education and preservation by making a memorial

gift. There are many ways to leave a legacy that reflects your values through planned giving. Bequests, charitable remainder trusts, gift annuities and making PTMSC the beneficiary of a retirement account or life insurance policy, are all ways to be sure that what is important to you and your loved ones continues into the future. Thank you Winnie and Sandy!

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