New Semester

After a productive summer of data collection, we are back for a new semester. Our undergraduate intern has returned to help us with data collection and with museum outreach. This year we have added a member to our group. We have a geology student who is looking to specialize in paleontolgoy. He has been very beneficial in helping us with our data collection. Beyond data collection, he has his own project where he will be conducting a size frequency analysis of the species from this project. He will see how mass relates to valve size. He will also determine if valve size varies with depth, time, or between different environments.

We have nearly completed sorting our ninth core. We have two abstracts submitted for presentations to the Geological Society of America Annual Conference in Denver. It should be a great semester.