The last semester of the Po Plain Project

Alas, we are almost done with the majority of the Po Plain project.  We have processed 14 cores in all and we only have 2 cores left to process, identify, and count.  The progress has been slow because of Troy leaving to do a postdoc at Arizona and that we have used our interns for the past semesters on more outreach activities.  Our goal outreach wise, is almost complete; we are going to be doing the final stage of outreach this semester making an interactive museum display.  I hope that our display will be a success.

Research has been ongoing, along with processing cores, we have redone the analyses that Daniele and Michal did in their pilot paper and have found better and more interesting results with the addition of 11 more cores.  We have looked at the diversity, paleoecology, and taphonomy so far and hope to further explore predator-prey interactions and paleobiogeographic distributions.