Letter from the interim executive director
In these times when the value of science is questioned and cultural differences under attack, I am struck by the continuing importance and relevance of the Burke’s mission.
Here at the Burke, the work that we do together — with your support — informs our collective understanding of the world in which we live. New insights lead to greater knowledge and spark new questions, many of which will be answered by the next generation of scientists and cultural practitioners who train at the museum with our curators, collections managers, and tribal scholars. Our students bring hope for the future as they push scientific boundaries, test ideas in the field, learn to lead collaboratively and with integrity, and take what they learn back to their communities.
In this year’s report to the community, you’ll read features and stories about active research in the museum, from paleobotany to Native science. I hope these stories enhance your scientific knowledge, pique your curiosity, and reaffirm your incredible support of the Burke.
Thank you,
Sara Gonzalez Interim Executive Director
NATIVE AMERICAN ADVISORY BOARD
The Native American Advisory Board and the museum have been hard at work this year to review existing museum policies and align them with the American Alliance of Museum’s Standards for Museums with Native American Collections. Teams of Burke staff and NAAB members worked collaboratively to review policies in seven areas, from financial stability to public trust and accountability. This type of work is critical to ensuring that the museum continues to lead the nation’s museums in tribal consultation and involvement and sets the stage for even greater collaboration and strengthened relationships. The NAAB is proud to do this important work alongside the Burke’s committed staff.
BURKE MUSEUM ASSOCIATION
Everything we do as the Burke Museum Association pivots on the strength of our relationships with each other and in our communities. Every new member, every new visitor, and every dollar we raise ensures that the museum is available to future generations of scientists, storytellers, makers, and leaders. This year, we are proud of the ways that we have been able to fulfill our mission of support while navigating the impacts of constant change. We are inspired by the resilience and wisdom of our larger Burke ecosystem, and we serve a future vision of global access through digitization and healing through ethical stewardship. We look forward to our work ahead and are grateful for the many people and communities that make the work of the museum possible.
From our boards
12,234
PEOPLE attended Burke events
556 BURKE and DIG BOXES rented
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ITEMS added to the Burke collections
Year in Review 2025
43
EDUCATORS participated in summer DIG Field School
GENERAL VISITORS who were youth
1,436 MEMBERSHIPS sold
87 ANIMALS featured in Rare Air: Connecting with Species of Flight
137,000 22%
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20%
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395 PUBLICATIONS cited Burke collections
2025 GATES VOLUNTEER SERVICE AWARD RECIPIENT
ELLEN FERGUSON
Ellen is an extraordinary ambassador for the Burke Museum — leading tours, welcoming guests, engaging with members and donors, and fostering a deep sense of community around the museum’s mission and vision.
We extend our heartfelt gratitude to Ellen for her lifelong commitment to the Burke and its mission. This recognition is a fitting tribute to her remarkable contributions. Congratulations, Ellen, on this well-earned honor!
“The Burke is one of the nation’s leading museums of natural history and cultural heritage. It just keeps getting better and better in its fantastic new building, with open labs and collections storage areas where you can view the ongoing work of the museum any day. I’m proud of my 50-year association with the Burke as a student, staff member, volunteer, and donor, and am excited to continue my support of the critical work of the museum in natural sciences, cultural access, and tribal relations. The Burke is truly a place of education and inspiration for all!”
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON LAUREATES
The generous donors listed below have demonstrated their commitment to the Burke Museum’s mission through their volunteer service, active support of collections- and field-based research, and capital campaign and general operations contributions. Thank you for your dedication to fostering higher education at the University of Washington and for sustaining the Burke Museum for future generations.
REGENTAL LAUREATES
Donors who have reached a cumulative giving threshold of more than $100 million to the UW in fiscal year 2025.
Michael & Lynn Garvey Anne Gittinger (not pictured)
LAUREATES
Donors who have reached a cumulative giving threshold of more than $1 million to the UW in fiscal year 2025.
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The Gates Volunteer Service Award is one of the most distinguished accolades bestowed by the University of Washington. It is presented annually by the university and the UW Foundation to recognize and honor individuals whose longterm volunteer efforts of time, service, and philanthropy have encouraged others to similarly support the University of Washington.
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RESEARCH HIGHLIGHT
Paleobotany
Plant taxonomic turnover and diversity across the Cretaceous/Paleogene boundary in northeastern Montana
When an asteroid slammed into Earth 66 million years ago, dinosaurs weren’t the only victims. Plants suffered, too.
As part of the long-term Hell Creek Project in Montana, doctors Paige Wilson Deibel, Caroline Strömberg, and Gregory Wilson Mantilla of the Burke Museum have been piecing together what happened to plant life during this cataclysm. By studying fossil leaves across the Cretaceous–Paleogene boundary (the end of the Mesozoic era and beginning of the Cenozoic age of mammals), they’ve illuminated a clear picture of how plants were affected and what recovery looked like. In turn, this information can help us understand how our world might change in the future.
The results show that plant communities were devastated, with many species disappearing outright. In the immediate aftermath, the “survivors” formed ecosystems with extremely low diversity: sparse, homogenous landscapes vastly different than the lush forests that thrived before the impact.
That scarcity didn’t last long, though. Just as mammals and birds came into their own after the age of dinosaurs, plants also staged a parallel comeback. In a relatively short period of time, new species emerged and diversified.
This work sheds light on the dynamics of plants during mass extinction events and the interconnectedness among plants, mammals, dinosaurs, reptiles, and all the other creatures thriving in northeast Montana at the twilight of the dinosaurs. Ongoing research seeks to expand this understanding even further in time, tracing how the earliest signs of recovery transformed into the extraordinary diversity of mammals we know today.
The research paper was published in Paleobiology.
AUTHORS
Paige Wilson Deibel (paleobotany collections manager), Caroline Strömberg (curator of paleobotany), Gregory Wilson Mantilla (curator of vertebrate paleontology)
RESEARCH HIGHLIGHT
Ornithology
Sharper,
straighter, stiffer, stronger: Sexually
dimorphic bill shape enhances male stabbing performance in the Green Hermit
If you imagine delicate birds sipping nectar with long, slender beaks when you think of hummingbirds, you’re in good company. But, in some species, like long-billed hermits (Phaethornis longirostris), those dainty-looking bills double as weapons.
Curator of Ornithology Alejandro Rico Guevara’s research showed that male long-billed hermits battle each other for prime real estate on display grounds called leks, where females go to “shop” for mates. And, when males clash, their beaks aren’t just for show: They’re sharpened into dagger-like tips perfect for stabbing rivals.
A team of Burke Museum ornithology researchers wanted to understand if other hummingbird species also evolved “swordplay” adaptations. To do this, they looked at another lekking species, the Green Hermit (Phaethornis guy) and put their beaks to the test.
The team created 3D digital models of the green hermit’s beak from museum specimens using photogrammetry and CT scanning and ran simulations to see how the beaks performed under stabbing forces.
The results were striking. Male green hermits also sport sharp dagger tips — and their straighter beaks transmit force more efficiently than curvier female beaks. In other words, their bills are optimized for combat, setting up epic battles for love on the leks.
While bill differences between males and females are often explained by feeding habits, this study shows that sexual selection in some hummingbird species is driving the evolution of specialized weaponry.
The research paper was accepted for publication by the Journal of Experimental Biology
AUTHORS
Felipe Garzón-Agudelo (incoming doctoral student), Lucas Mansfield (former undergrad researcher and staff), Kevin Epperly (ornithology collections manager), Alejandro Rico-Guevara (curator of ornithology)
HIGHLIGHT
Native Science RESEARCH
Fire as Medicine
Six years ago, we celebrated the opening of the new building and debuted the Burke Meadow, designing a camas prairie like those that once covered much of our state but are now in decline. From the beginning, a team of meadow whisperers, which includes Polly Olsen (Burke tribal liaison), has generated knowledge and cared for the meadow by integrating Native and Western scientific methods.
This past year, the meadow team introduced controlled burning — a cultural practice based on an ethos of responsibility to the land and intended to sustain healthy and bountiful harvests. Low intensity fire is known to control weeds, restore nutrients, and stimulate growth. Some of the original plants from 2019 have all but disappeared due to invasive lupine. The team theorized that a controlled burn would make room for and spur the regrowth of these native plants and improve the overall health of the meadow.
The meadow’s response to the burn was clear. Plant diversity increased, invasive lupine declined, and blanket flower and chocolate lily — thought to be lost — returned. Camas found its footing again, filling the landscape with more brightpurple blossoms than ever. The results proved that fire is medicine for plants and landscapes.
For the team, however, this work is about more than outcomes. It’s about process: combining Native and Western sciences, respecting the plants’ timelines, and listening to the land to understand its needs.
MEADOW WHISPERERS
Polly Olsen (Burke Museum tribal liaison), Steve Kryszko (UW Facilities lead), Ken Yocom (dean of the College of Built Environments), UW students from landscape architecture, environmental science and resource management, and Center of American Indian & Indigenous Studies
RESEARCH HIGHLIGHT
Archaeology
Spice Fights on the Banda Islands
Occupying a land area of just 17 square miles, Indonesia’s Banda Islands were once the world’s sole source of nutmeg, so it’s no surprise that these “spice islands” endured years of colonial competition for control of the nutty, earthy spice.
This past year, students from the United States and Southeast Asia participated in an archaeological field school co-directed by Peter Lape (Burke curator of archaeology), where they learned survey, excavation, and field lab processing at a variety of Banda Island sites.
Results of radiocarbon dating from three excavated village sites this year showed that the deepest (i.e., oldest) soil levels, or strata, date to about 1400–1500 AD, just before a violent period when European colonial powers fought for monopolies on nutmeg trade.
One site is known as the original house of Makatita, a Bandanese leader executed by the Dutch in 1621. The team found disarticulated bones in the strata, which may be related to the turmoil that marked this era. Carbon dating with similar ages from another site supports oral traditions as the location of the first mosque in Banda. Other analyses are in process now.
Perhaps most exciting is the impact of student-created public programs on local communities. This year’s cohort created two exhibits and three public programs targeting all ages. And who knows? Maybe they planted the seeds of the next generation of archaeologists, just like students from the 2009 field school in Banda, whose work inspired two elementary age students from one of the outer Banda islands to join the field school this year as college students at the University of Banda Naira.
FIELD SCHOOL CO-DIRECTORS
Peter Lape (curator of archaeology), Atina Winaya and Alqiz Lukman (National Research and Innovation Agency, Indonesia)
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Steve Danishek
Thomas & Patricia Ebrey
Environmental Science Associates
Equinox Research & Consulting
Sandy Erickson
Greg Gentry
Estate of Alan Gibbs
Michael Etnier
James Goedert & Svetlana Lavochina
Norman & Joanne Goldstein
Jill Green
Jamie Grover
Carol Hall
Chelsea & Robert Johnson
Gael M. Kennedy & Jessie M. Kennedy
Ash King
Estate of Theodore Lane
Martha Lee Fleming
Estate of Dr. Estella Leopold
Ellen Maxson
Janeen & Malcom McAninch
Justin McCarthy
Doug & Thelma McTavish
Miles Miller
Kyle Morrison
Marie & Charles Morrison Jr. Family
Sharon Moore & Larry Pierce
City of North Bend
Maura O’Brien
Suzanne Orr
Triebold Paleontology
Karen Perret
Jill Princehouse
Susan & Scott Pringle
Principal Properties, LLC
Jan Reese
City of Renton
Mary Robins
Seattle Public Utilities
Seattle Sounders FC
City of Sedro-Woolley
Alan Sieroty
Gary Smith
Thomas Stevens & Jim Goedert
Sarah Tait
Motoe Terami-Wada
Jill Titcomb
Barbara Christy Wagner
Xiaomei Wang
Melinda & James Wax
Whatcom County
Katherine Wildermuth & John Jamison
COMMEMORATIVE GIFTS
TO THE COLLECTIONS in memory of Jim & Mary Jean Cahail
David Cahail in honor of Ailee Leikas
Lars Larson in honor of Fredericka Martin
Tobyanne Berenberg in memory of Gary Williston Roush
Petra Martin
MADRONE CIRCLE
Madrone Circle donors have made a bequest to the museum in their estate plans.
Patrick Ashley*
Roxana & Thomas Augusztiny
Charles & Debra Barnes*
Ron & Maureen Bell
Sharon Birks
Robert Bourke
Jan Carline & Carol Sue Ivory-Carline
Bruce & Mary-Louise Colwell Jr.
Barbara Crook
Judy & Richard Davis
Katherine Diaz
Barbara Eddy
Kathi Erickson
Ellen Ferguson
Robert Gierke
Mary Halady Lanouette & Fred Lanouette
Richard & Mary Kay Hansen
John Haskins
Jane Hastings*
Marty Holm
Jennifer Hunter
Christine Knutson
Peter Kunstadter
Ronda Larson
Omar Lee
Linda & David Leisy
Louise B. Wenberg-Luce
Karl & Susan Mallory
Charles Milford*
Jeanette Mills & Dale Flynn
Robert & Rita Moore
Phillip Nudelman
Mark & Cindy Pigott
Sievert Rohwer
Virginia Schafer
Guy & Joy Smith
John Whiteaker*
Beverly Witte
Peter Wyman
Susan & Werner Zehnder
VOLUNTEERS
Volunteers are vital to our Burke teams & the work we share, creating opportunities to deepen our connection to the collections we care for & each other. The following people donated their valuable time to us over the past year:
John Alexander
Christopher Angkico
Brianne Ankenman
Madelyn Ask
Zeke Augustine
Roxana Augusztiny
David Ausmus
Jerry Austin
Art Baldwin
Shoham Barak
Jennifer Barber
Michelle Barboza
Erik Bengtson
Allison Bigelow
Chris Blakeley
Benjamin Bland
Allison Bormet
Natalee Bozzi
Samuel Bradford
Gemma Bradley
Jan Bragg
Warren Briggs
Ari Brown
Becky Bruscas
Vincent Bruscas
Maria Buckner
Shawn Canonizado
Jan Carline
Arion Chao
Lillia Chao
Lin Coker
Nijah Coleman
Ariana Conrad
Carla Conway
Christine Cook
Susan Cook
Jay Cornish
Carol Craig
Liz David
Bronwyn Davis
Quinn Davis
James DeMar
Stephanie Dewar
Jeff Dobbins
Lee Ellis
Khalila Firestone
Mary Fisher
Christopher Freidhoff
Lawrence Friedman
Kai Fujita
Henry Fulghum
Sarah Gage
Joseph Gibbs
Ava Gill
Amanda Godfrey
Gabriel Goncalves
Rebecca Gordon
Chris Green
Jill Green
Andrew Grott
Cat Grubin
Ana Luisa Gutierrez
Louise Harris
Yoshimi Hata
Jasper Hathaway
Barbara Hayford
Santiago Hernandez
Daniel Hickey
Anne Hocking
Rachel Hoffman
Mark Hohmann
Kokoro Holcomb
Anton Hollmann
Margaret Hudson
Jacob Joens-Poulton
Emily Johnson
Kelly Kadlec
Mary Claire Kendall
Mark Kernaghan
Juliana Kilty
Chris Klassen
Katelyn Knapp
Clarissa Koos
Clara Kreutziger
Daniel Lahn
Hadley LaValley
Ben Lee
Ben Lefebvre
Hannah Leibman
Tristan Levine
Fletcher Levy
Bird Lindquist
Philip Lindquist
Crystal Liston
Gary Livingston
Dennis Lund
Carly MacConnell
Gretchen Marks
Ina Mason
Natalie Mastick
Emma Mattix-Wand
Jessica Matyas
Austin May
Wendy McClure
Doug McTavish
CJ Megargee
Felix Mercado Flores
Rich Meyn
Erika Miller
Stephanie Miller
Jeanette Mills
Mel Milnes
Izzy Moore
Nikolas Moore
Daniel Mount
Jasper Nevis
Susan Nightingale
Berl Nussbaum
Frank Robin O’Keefe
Dennis Oliver
Ana Olsen
Logan Ostendorf
Miranda Otjen
Guy Paquin
Valerie Paquin
Nicholas Peterson
Jacob Pohs
Erika Price
Jean “Prim” Primozich
Alexandria Quinlan
Maya Ramadurai
Suzanne Rapp
Lynda Raymond
Linda Reinink-Smith
Anika Remmers Jansen
Lexie Renouard
Shay Rice
Glenn Richardson
Zoe Risley-Smyth
Donna Ritchey
Meredith Rivin
Marisa Rodriguez
Henry Rosato
Benjamin Rotenberg
Ari Rudenko
Diana Ryesky
Marley Salgado Smith
Lawr Salo
Sebastian Salter
Sophia Samant
Roxanne Sanders
Jennifer Sassano
Katherine Schaffer
Christopher Schiller
Taylor Schoenfeld
Jennifer Schubert
Della Scott
Mel Searle
Laurel Sercombe
Holly Seyler
Deborah Sheppard
Michael Sidell
Lesly Silva
David Slager
Mukhamad Sofyan
Natalia Stamatatos
Elizabeth Stensrud
Haley Stephens
Thomas Stevens
Merrick Studer
Christina Stuhl
Nissa Stupakoff
Mark Terry
Nyn Tomkins
Susan Torgerson
Mallory Tucker
Barbara Ulvog
Mariah Vane
Carol Vangelos
Linda Vangelos
Luke Walko
Lisa Wallace
Abigail Waller
Isabella Washburn
Susan Way
Crystal Welliver
Jade Wells
Jennifer Wells
Shauna Wendt
Nick Wiersum
Aiden Wilkson
Margee Will
Dietrich Wise
Hayden Wright
Kaela Wuesthoff
Anna Xie
Yiqi Xu
Stephanie Zaborac-Reed
SUPPORTING MEMBERS
Samantha Abshire
Carmen Almodovar
Roger & Lori Anderson
Jon & Tanya Avner
Joyce Bamberger & Dan Hensley
Steven Bass & Suzanna Darcy
Paul Beaudet & David Wertheimer
Susan & Glen Beebe
John Belanger
Mark Berkey
Herbert Berry
Karin Blakley
P. Dee Boersma & Sue E. Moore
Kayleigh Brooks
Katherine Buker
Victoria Buker
Michele Carleton
Alaina Carr
Dawn Carr
Robert & Sharon Carter
Oliver Cobb
Stacey Crawshaw & Jeff Lewis
Jack & Jane Curtright
Laura & Stephen Day
Lynne De Merritt
Jeremy & Andrea Dorsey
Sarah Dow & Andrew Graham
Kahlie Dufresne
Amanda Duncan
Kendrick Efta & Tiffany Gilbert
Maggie Fedorov
Benjamin Feetham
Elizabeth Feetham
L. Jay Field & Deborah Dwyer
Christy Fisher & Judith Howard
Brenda Fong
Douglas Frick
Beth Gest
Lynda Gilman
Peggy Glick
C. Robin Graham & Brooke Miller
Cheryl Harris
William Hawkins Jr. & Roberta Hawkins
Wesley & Molly Hays
Emerson Heald
Elise Hebb
Kim Heidebrink & Victoria Poage
Nancy & Charlie Hogan
Karen & Paul Hogle
Tuck Hoo & Tom Lyons
Mary Hotchkiss
Stephen & Elsie Hulsizer
Deborah Jensen & Steven Malloch
W. Bruce & Joanne Jones Jr.
Betty Josephson
Gunter & Gertrud Kaldschmidt
Robert Keefer
Susan Keefer
Christina Koons & Jim McIntire*
Mary Krinbring & Mike Falk
Heather Kroll & Kevin Ruddell
Luis Da Cunha Lamb
Susan Langsley
Phil Lanum & Gail Erickson
Sarah Lawer & Francis Guanco
Jamie Leigh
Corina & Greg Linden
Tate Linden
Philip X. Liu
Yunyang Liu & Jerry Chen
Lynda Mapes & Douglas MacDonald
Deborah Maranville
Peter & Janice Mathisen
Martha Maurer
Ruadhri McCormick
Michelle McDonough & Carl Tostevin
Connie McKibben
Meryl McQueen
Edith Miller
Laura & Andrew Miller
Glen & Alison Milliman
Pamela Mitchell
Ray & Sue Mooers
Mike Hayes & Mary Moser
Linda & Alan Murray
Claudia Noyes
James & Barbara Orcutt
Jose & Dorrena Ortega
Isabella Parsons
Sandra Parsons
Ronald Pascho
Herb & Lucy Pruzan
Megan Pursell
Patricia Radeke
William & Barbara Rayburn
James Reid
Megan Richards
Glenn Richardson
Byron Ricks & Maren Van Nostrand
Paula Riggert
Teresa Rodriguez & Joe LePla
Sarah & Eric Rose
Novi & Aria Roy
Anne & Steve Sarewitz
Randolph & Barbara Schnabel
Jason & Betsy Schneier
Julia Sensenbrenner
Andrew Sliwinski
Pat Soden
Lisa & Theodor Steudel
Rachel Stoermer & Toby Latin-Stoermer
Jon Struss
Paul & Michele Stutzman
Brenda Sullivan
Donald Swisher
Tamlyn Thomas
Jack & Gayle Thompson
Lauren Tran & Zane Norris
John Urdal & Claire Elam
Vineet Wahi & Tamara Smith
John Widner
Kirsten Wilhelm & Carl DeVault
Mitchell Witkowski
Lucy Wolf
Sally & Richard Wolf
Dylan Wollett
Fritz Wollett
Steven Price & Susan Woolf
Nancy Ying
*Deceased
We have made every effort to be thorough and represent each name accurately. If you note an error or omission, please contact the Burke Development office at burkedev@uw.edu so that we can correct your listing.
