Project Funders

Travels in the Great Tree of Life is supported by the National Science Foundation through the Angiosperm Tree of Life, EuphORBia, and CIPRES projects.

 

National Science Foundation http://www.nsf.gov/	CIPRES (Cyberinfrastructure for Phylogenetic Research) http://www.phylo.org/
Angiosperm Tree of Life Project http://www.flmnh.ufl.edu/angiospermATOL/	EuphORBia: A Global Inventory of Spurges http://www.euphorbiaceae.org/

 

Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History
http://peabody.yale.edu

 

 

 

The Museum gratefully acknowledges the following institutions and individuals for their help with this exhibition:

 

For the Loan of Elephant Shrews:
Smithsonian’s National Zoo

David Kessler, Bob King, and Don Moore

For the Loan of Plants:
Yale Marsh Botanic Garden
Eric Larsen and David Garringer

 

Edgerton Park Conservatory
Trudi Ganz

 

And Conley Taylor

 

For the Loan of Specimens:
American Museum of Natural History

 

Illustration and Photos Courtesy of:
R. Beaman, C. Davis, J. Holden, C. Lee
American Association for the Advancement of Science,
Iowa State University Extension, J. Perrone, H. Iltis,
D. M. Hillis, D. Zwickl, and R. Gutell, University of Texas,

and Russell Kightley http://www.rkm.com.au

Web Design:

Kent Golden

www.GoldenMultimedia.com

 

Project Team:

 

Curator: Michael Donoghue

Curatorial Advisors: Reed Beaman, Jacques Gauthier, Bill Piel, and David Heiser

Project Manager & Exhibit Developer: Jane Pickering

Designer: Laura Friedman

Graphic Designer: Sally Pallatto

Fabrication: Walter Brenckle, Robert Charlesworth, Maishe Dickman, Eric Hoag

Modelmaker: Michael Anderson

Media Adviser: Geralyn Abinader

Filmmaker: Ann Johnson Prum

Game and Web site designer: Kent Golden

Video Animation: 422

 

Evaluator: Ellen Giusti