University of Michigan Museum of Paleontology

Macroporaster species from the systematic collection of the UMMP! Using food coloring on echinoderms is a historical way to even out colors & bring features to light for specimen photography. #fossil

Today’s #DayOfScience started with editing Sam’s #NSFGRFP application, catching up on emails, and preparing a new loan invoice for the University of Michigan Museum of Natural History. Now that I got that situated I can work with some specimens for a while!

This drawer has been sitting out in the collection space because a summer visitor was…[Read more]

From the end of the day yesterday:

The last bit of my #DayOfScience Scienceathon is going to be spent looking through some of the #UMichPaleo #Devonian collections and recording what is where!

These specimens have undergone two major moves across campus in the past year to end up in this nice off-campus facility. Much of our stratigraphic…[Read more]

To start my first #DayOfScience I wanted to start by answering what a collection manager actually… manages. This will vary between institution and position but is generally true. Most facilities have many cabinets of fossils, check out some of my awesome compact-able cabinets! The foundations of a collection manager position are with cataloging,…[Read more]