Steve Sauter is the museum’s Education Coordinator and has been associated with the museum since 2002. He has designed and provides educational tours of the museum, oversees outreach programs including the museum website, and is also the Director of the Bassett Planetarium. He formerly worked at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History (where he worked with luminaries David Dunkle, Karl Flessa, and Donald Johanson as a student at Case), The Science Centers of Connecticut, and the Pember Museum of Natural History. He writes nature columns for local newspapers. His mother claims that as a child growing up in Hartford, Connecticut he slept with the track of a grallator.