Ginny Switt
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2017 FOSSILs for Teachers Professional Development 5 years, 10 months ago5 years, 10 months ago5 years, 10 months agoPam, Jeanette, anyone else..any interest in going fossil hunting on Monday (MLK day?) We would love to go hunting…doesn’t have to be the Peace River, could be anywhere. Just let me know!
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Ginny Switt posted a new activity comment 6 years, 1 month ago
6 years, 1 month ago6 years, 1 month agoI will keep an eye out! I have an inflatable kayak.
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Ginny Switt posted a new activity comment 6 years, 1 month ago
6 years, 1 month ago6 years, 1 month agoI will definitely let you know!
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Ginny Switt posted an update in the group
2017 FOSSILs for Teachers Professional Development 6 years, 1 month ago6 years, 1 month ago6 years, 1 month agoHello!
I know several of you are regular Peace River visitors, and a few of you were offering to take people out. Well I am ready! I know the river is high right now, but as soon as it lowers enough, my son and I really want to go. We don’t scuba dive, so would like to be in an area shallow enough to dig and sift. I would like to go bef…[Read more]
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Hi Ginny!
I’d love to take you and your son to the peace. This is the USGS website we use. https://waterdata.usgs.gov/fl/nwis/uv?site_no=02295637 (Zolfo Springs). How we gauge when we go in the river is when Zolfo Springs is at 5′ or less you can find a place to dig. However you also have to watch the discharge. It’s measured in cubic feet per…[Read more]
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I will keep an eye out! I have an inflatable kayak.
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Let me know when you decide to go! I know a few of use would enjoy going out! The last time I went was in December and it was beautiful!
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I will definitely let you know!
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Ginny Switt replied to the topic Geologic Time Scale Activities: Which works best? in the forum K-12 Fossils and Lessons Forum 6 years, 2 months ago
6 years, 2 months ago6 years, 2 months agoI do this with third grade, so a much younger crowd. I put sticky notes up down our hallway, from my classroom to our library (so winding through the school). My white board is humans, and about halfway around my classroom is dinosaurs, right outside my room are the first shelled animals, first single celled animals, etc…then walking really, r…[Read more]
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Ginny Switt posted an update in the group
2017 FOSSILs for Teachers Professional Development 6 years, 4 months ago6 years, 4 months ago6 years, 4 months agoHi!
I wanted to thank everyone for a wonderful, informative PD. I am sorry I did not get to go “creeking” with you all (I am going to a wedding) but I really enjoyed meeting each and every one of you. When you have a chance, can you post your name, where you are from, and your specialty on here? I remember everyone now, but in 6 months when I…[Read more]
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Hi Ginny!
Stephanie Killingsworth: [email protected]
7/8 gifted science Conniston Middle School
West Palm Beach, Florida
member of myFOSSIL, GABI-RET, follower of Dry Dredgers, Tampa Bay Fossil Club, Active digger at many sites! -
Excellent idea.
Tricia Lynn (Glotfelty-Grosser)
Avocational paleontologist
Florida fossils.
Especially mammals.
Especially horses and proboscidians.
Member of several fossil clubs, fossil educator in schools, digging weekly to discover more fossils!!
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Jeanette Pirlo
Grad Student of Paleontology
Interested in studying sharks
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David Lindberg
Member, Paleontological Society of Austin (among others)
Interested in marine Cretaceous reptiles
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Jen Bauer
Member of the Dry Dredgers, Knoxville Gem and Mineral Society
Grad student in Invertebrate Paleontology (super interested in Paleozoic inverts)
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Eleanor Gardner
previous FOSSIL Coordinator at FLMNH and new Outreach & Engagement Coordinator at the Univ of Kansas Nat. History Museum
Master’s degree in geology with specialization in avian taphonomy/paleontology
Lawrence, KS
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Ginny Switt replied to the topic Montbrook Fossil Dig in the forum Pictures In The Field 6 years, 7 months ago
6 years, 7 months ago6 years, 7 months agoI loved the actual act of digging, and my students today LOVED to see the pictures that I had! I learned so much about identifying fossils.
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