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Jason Carr on June 5th, 2010
The Museum of Geology’s new Paleontology Research Laboratory is finally complete, and now begins the task of moving over 500,000 specimens in.
unprepared specimens will be stored on the upper level, doors on the left lead to the prep. lab.
Over the past few days we have been moving the jackets seen above from an offsite storage facility. Specimens were loaded one at a time onto a flatbed truck, brought to the new building and unloaded onto shiny new galvanized steel pallets. The pallets will be loaded onto the heavy duty racks once the facility get its own forklift.
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Jason Carr on July 25th, 2009
Week one of paleo field camp at the Little Houston Quarry in Sundance Wyoming has conlcluded. The quarry has been reopened after 10 years, and we spent the majority of the week mapping out the bone bed. (getting the contextual data—where the fossil was found is just as important removing as the bone itself.)
On Friday we made a trip to Devil’s Tower National Monument, a volcanic neck that played a role in Stephen Speilberg’s sci-fi classic Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
We’re all excited about next week, when we hope to be able to remove a large sauropod femur.
photos are on the Museum of Geology’s facebook page here
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Sally Shelton on April 22nd, 2009
I am posting this at Michelle Pinsdorf’s request. There will be several people from here going, and again we should be able to provide transportation.
From Michelle: I thought it would be great to pass the word around about the 2nd annual Fossil Preparation and Collections Symposium, being hosted at the Tate Museum in Casper this summer. The conference runs from June 5-7th, is nice and close by, offers discounts on hotel rooms, and has a sliding scale of registration fees depending on the days and activities one wants to participate in.
The website for the symposium is here: http://www.caspercollege.edu/tate/index.html
(click the “Activities” tab and then click the “Annual Summer Conference” bar), while the schedule of events and speakers is here: http://www.caspercollege.edu/tate/downloads/2009_tateconf_schedule.pdf
and the registration form is here: http://www.caspercollege.edu/tate/downloads/2009_tate_registration.pdf
I’d very much like to go, and would be happy to make plans with others to split driving, rooms, etc., so I think this might be a good thing to announce in class and/or just around the department in general, before everyone goes everywhere for the summer.
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Jason Carr on March 26th, 2009
At the Rock and Fossil ID day people brought in some interesting finds. Two in particular caught my attention. First was a concretion containing ammonite & clam fossils brought in by Mary Alderson of Rapid City.
Mrs. Alderson and her find
The specimen was found by Mrs. Alderson’s husband in 1961 when he was digging a post for a telephone pole. He brought it home and Mary has kept it ever since. The fossil itself dates back to the Campanian about 70-78 million years ago, when this part of North America was covered by the Western Interior Seaway.
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Jason Carr on March 22nd, 2009
Thanks to SEG for hosting this event at the Museum of Geolgy. It was a great success and I hope to do it again.
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