New Intern Project

As the semester is coming to an end, I am currently in the process of creating an activity kit relating to the topic "Paleo-ecology". I am excited to be able to start on this project and show in a hands on way how this topic relates to the PoPlain Project. When the kit is completed I hope it will be able to effectively help kids obtain a basic background on paleo-ecology and how a specimen relates to its biotic and abiotic environment. Furthermore, explaining that by understanding how a specimen interacted with these environments one can determine specifics regarding how that specimen lived and what the environment was like that it lived in.

Initial Intern Research Experience

Since I have been an intern, I have been working extremely closely with the graduate students in research. I am learning new things about the Po Plain Project through this research every time I am in the lab. To be completely honest, I had no idea how tedious the research actually was because the are numerous things you are looking for on the fossil to categorize them. By the end of this semester I hope to be more efficient with the sorting process to the point where I am more familiar with the fossils so that I can interpret more based off of what I find at first glance.

As, I gain more experience in the research process, hopefully I will be introduced to others aspects of the research besides sorting, because I know there are far more things that are entailed in "Sequence Stratigraphy".