This is an update from a SDSM Alum on the University of Nebraska State Museum’s Highway Salvage Program. We recently returned from a 2 weeks + field excursion to North Central, South Central, and the Panhandle of Nebraska checking current and previous highway construction projects. Prospecting at these projects yielded a wide assortment of megafauna fossils, as well as microfossils. As part of this expedition, we were asked to help with the Sandhills Conference in Ainsworth, NE by providing a dig for conference attendees and manning a fossil ID booth. I, as a School of Mines alum, was somewhat lost with the geology of Nebraska, but now have learned more than before. Work at the Museum in Lincoln has focused on picking concentrate from several Highway localities. It has been interesting and exciting since graduating from the School of Mines.
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