Samples

Yesterday we received samples from Daniele. Thanks Daniele! Troy and I went through the samples and separated the localities from each other and put each sample in its own box. I know this is a small step, but it is better to combat the whole project one step at a time.

When we opened the box, it was a surprise to see how little the shells are, I knew that they were small from what Mike was telling me. But I still did not fully comprehend that till today. Its amazing that Daniele sorted all these shells and I cannot wait to do this in 2 weeks. Troy and I decided on what parts of the project we want to work on, once we saw the shells. Troy has decided to work on drilling predation mainly because he has never done that before. I am trying to decide still on taphonomy and body mass. Both need to be analyzed, but trying to determine which one I want to work on is still hard to determine. I have never done either, but I am leaning towards body mass. I feel the questions we could answer focusing on that sound really interesting to me.

I wrote up the part of the website that we are working on for this portion of the project. The introduction, about the po plain, and sequence stratigraphy. Hopefully Troy will be able to upload it to the website soon. As long as we can access it!

But now we have something for Ceseley to work on and to look at the research side of the project. I hope that someone takes charge in showing her while I'm gone.