Joyce Drakeford @joyce-drakeford
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1 month, 1 week agoJoyce Drakeford posted a new activity commentWow. I didn’t know the newsletter was going too. Bummer.
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1 month, 1 week agoJoyce Drakeford posted a new activity comment
Why farewell??
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The project’s funding expires in September. A goal of this last stretch is to make it more self-sustaining and community driven. Could you message me your email address? I will make note to message you when we are getting ready for the last newsletter!
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Hi, @jbauer ! Do you mean the funding of myFOSSIL will expire? Will that have an impact on the site or the app?
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Yes, the NSF project funding expires in September 2019. We are working on a plan to make everything more community driven but there will be some changes. I have a team of three volunteers that are going to help me curate the specimens and will be in those positions for two-years and then we will be looking for new volunteers. We will also need help running the social media accounts, they are really active right now but we will slowly wind down and then hopefully other users may be interested in continuing in some capacity. Maybe it’s more sharing content from the site and sharing pre-existing things then making all the graphics like we have been. The app and website will still be functioning and have a monthly maintenance schedule. I think I will still be on as a 1/4-1/3 time to help make sure the data you all are entering is still getting vetted. Does that all make sense? We haven’t quite worked out all the details but the idea is the platforms will continue on but with no full paid team behind it.
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Okay, thank for letting me know! And if you need any help with anything, I’ll definitely volunteer. I work as software engineer, and I have some experience with graphic design, so maybe my experience would be applicable here.
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1 month, 1 week agoJoyce Drakeford posted a new activity comment
I’d love to.
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1 month, 1 week agoJoyce Drakeford posted a new activity comment
Thanks @jbauer! I love my stacks of reference books and really miss writing articles!!
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@joyce-drakeford – we will be doing a special farewell issue for the fall. Would you be interested in contributing something at that time? I can discuss with the other newsletter coordinators.
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I’d love to.
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1 month, 1 week agoJoyce Drakeford joined the group Bookworms
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2 months, 1 week agoJennifer Bauer and Joyce Drakeford are now friends
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1 year, 9 months ago
Thanks @rboessenecker! Definitely the close ups of the attached photo look very similar. What threw me was the flattened or pinched appearance. And it’s so small in circumference I never would’ve thought whale! 🙂
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1 year, 9 months ago
These are definitely shell fragments.
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1 year, 9 months ago
Hoping to bump this back up since I didn’t hear anything about it. Thanks!
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1 year, 9 months agoRachel Narducci and Joyce Drakeford are now friends -
1 year, 11 months agoJoyce Drakeford replied to the topic Favorite Memories of Last Year's PaleoBlitz in the forum PaleoBlitz Forum
It’s hard to pick one. I’ve made friends and contacts I hope to have the rest of my life. That was my first time in Florida so I thought it was amazing! And getting to meet Gordon Hubbell and seeing his collection was something I got to check off my bucket list! It changed the way I look at what I love to do. Instead of just collecting fossils I get to have a more scientific objective.
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2 years, 1 month ago
Final photos
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2 years, 1 month ago
Additional photos
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2 years, 1 month ago
I have been reading and researching this for almost a year. I had posted it a year ago because I was told it was Alligator, y’all confirmed it wasn’t but couldn’t give additional info because the pics aren’t great. Â I’m wondering now if it isn’t seal. It was collected from Belgrade in May 2016. It seems a bit large for a bird bone. I know partial bones make it harder to identify so I’ve taken several more close photos for assistance.
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2 years, 3 months ago
As a follow up question to Rachel’s webinar, Â the question about foam turning yellow with fossil storage… Yeah it’s an eye sore for display purposes but I want to make sure it isn’t harming my fossils either. Thank you! Â Fantastic webinar!
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2 years, 5 months agoJoyce Drakeford replied to the topic Supporting women in paleo in the forum 4. Women in Paleontology Forum
I am not a professional paleo but have faced discrimination as a woman in collecting. Being treated as unequal or not as knowledgeable. I’ve had to fight, and still fight, to be taken seriously. I can’t even imagine what you ladies go through in a professional environment. I support you all!
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2 years, 5 months agoMary Harbison and Joyce Drakeford are now friends -
2 years, 5 months ago
This ties in with the webinar Bruce just did and I’m referencing a Belgrade fossil so I wasn’t sure where to put my question. I’m wondering about labeling formations. When you are in an area you know is reworked how or do you label the formation or as possible formations? I found an Angustidens tooth in Belgrade. I know they are oligocene-miocene. When looking at formations from Belgrade would it be labeled as the the Belgrade formation or River bend formation? Would it be labeled as “reworked”?
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2 years, 5 months ago
This ties in with the webinar Bruce just did and im referencing a Belgrade fossil so I wasn’t sure where to put my question. I’m wondering about labeling formations. When you are in an area you know is reworked how or do you label the formation or as possible formations? I found and Angustidens tooth in Belgrade. I know they are ogliocene-miocene. When looking at formations from Belgrade would it be labeled as the the Belgrade formation or River bend formation? Would it be labeled as “reworked”?
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2 years, 5 months ago
This ties in with the webinar Bruce just did and im referencing a Belgrade fossil so I wasn’t sure where to put my question. I’m wondering about labeling formations. When you are in an area you know is reworked how or do you label the formation or as possible formations? I found and Angustidens tooth in Belgrade. I know they are ogliocene-miocene. When looking at formations from Belgrade would it be labeled as the the Belgrade formation or River bend formation? Would it be labeled as “reworked”?
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It’s possible the community can work to produce it but I’m not going to lie, it’s a big effort and takes a lot of time. There are three of us that work on it.