Andrea Kirkpatrick, Curator of Canadian and International Art, New Brunswick Museum
Andrea Kirkpatrick has a BA in Art History from the University of British Columbia, an Honours Equivalent from the University of Guelph, a Master’s of Library Science from the University of Western Ontario and a Master’s Degree in Art History from Queen’s University. Before coming to the New Brunswick Museum in 1988, she worked at the National Gallery, London, England, and the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa. Her current curatorial responsibilities encompass a wide range of artifacts from around the world and from most of human history.
Dr. Randall F. Miller, Research Curator and Head, Geology and Palaeontology Section, New Brunswick Museum
Dr. Randall Miller studied geology at the University of Waterloo and received his Ph.D. in Environmental Earth Science in 1984. His research for his graduate studies was about climate change during the last ice age. For his thesis "Stable isotopes of carbon and hydrogen in the exoskeleton of insects; developing a tool for palaeoclimatic research" he received the University of Waterloo ‘W.B. Pearson Medal’, awarded by Faculty of Science for outstanding evidence of creative scholarship in research. Before finishing a Ph.D. he spent a term as a visitor at the California Institute of Technology in the Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences. In 1986, after two years of contract research for the Geological Survey of Canada and the Canadian Museum of Nature, Dr. Miller moved to Saint John to become the Curator of Geology and Palaeontology at the New Brunswick Museum. The museum traces its history to one of the oldest geological collections in the country, with mineral and fossil specimens that were collected as far back as the 1820’s. Dr. Miller is also an Adjunct Professor with the Department of Geology at the University of New Brunswick and a Professional Geoscientist registered with the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of New Brunswick. Although Dr. Miller still studies ice age climate and climate change, New Brunswick has fossils going back almost one billion years and he has published over 50 scientific papers on a variety of topics. His research has included studies of the world’s oldest most complete shark fossil, giant sea scorpions, tiny spider-like trigonotarbids, walrus fossils, ancient lobe-finned fish, fossil footprints and the history of geological discoveries in New Brunswick. In January 2004 his work on fossil sharks was described in Discover magazine and featured on the CBC Radio show ‘Quirks and Quarks’. He has also written a children’s book, Fossil Hunter - Will and the Giant Trilobite, to accompany an exhibit of the same name, and contributed to a best-selling book about the geology of the Maritimes called The Last Billion Years.
Dr. Stephen Clayden (B.Sc. Mt. Allison, M.Sc. Montréal, Ph.D. King’s College London)
Dr. Clayden is a botanist specializing in the biogeography and ecology of lichens. He has been curator of botany at the New Brunswick Museum since 1987. Here, he established collections of algae, bryophytes, lichens and non-lichen fungi, currently numbering >40,000 specimens. His long-term research focuses on the diversity, distributions, and conservation of the lichens of Atlantic Canada. With T. Goward and I. M. Brodo, he co-authored The Rare Lichens of Canada (COSEWIC, 1998). In July 2005, he taught a field-course at the Humboldt Field Research Institute (Maine, USA) on the identification and ecology of ground-inhabiting lichens.
Gary Hughes, M.A., Curator of History & Technology
Gary Hughes, Curator of History and Technology, grew up in Saint John, N.B., was the product of local schools and has been employed at the New Brunswick Museum since 1976. In that time he has served in a variety of curatorial positions, including Chief Curator from 1985 to 2000. Responsibilities in collections acquisition and interpretation include maps & architectural plans, military, industrial, scientific and labour history and material culture. Mr. Hughes has an M.A. in History from the University of New Brunswick and has lectured widely to academic and non-academic audiences both in province and elsewhere. He has also had work published in scholarly and non-scholarly journals and books. During his career at the New Brunswick Museum (NBM) he has curated 25 exhibitions, including three which have or will travel nationally with the support of the Department of Canadian Heritage – Music of the Eye: Architectural Drawings of Canada’s First City, 1822-1914 for which he wrote an accompanying catalogue by the same name and The Lure of the River: Sport Fishing in New Brunswick. The latter was part of a larger series of traveling exhibitions entitled Lifelines: Canada’s East Coast Fisheries involving museums from Newfoundland, Prince Edward Island and the Canadian Museum of Civilization in Gatineau, Québec. In 2002, Lifelines was chosen as Most Outstanding Exhibition, Project Team at the Canadian Museum Association’s Award Ceremony in Calgary. Its various components continued circulating until 2005. The third national traveling exhibition was opened at the New Brunswick Museum in Saint John in November, 2005 and entitled Ordinary People in Extraordinary Conflict: New Brunswickers in Wartime, 1914-1946. It tells the stories of those involved in the First and Second World Wars both overseas and on the home front. The exhibition will remain in Saint John until the end of 2006 when it will be available for circulation to other parts of Canada.
Don McAlpine, Ph.D., Curator of Zoology
Peter Larocque, M.A., Curator of NB Cultural History & Art
Jane Fullerton, Director