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Jennifer Bauer wrote a new post, Encouraging progress and exciting research at NAPC 4 years, 8 months ago
4 years, 8 months ago4 years, 8 months agoby Matthew Speights (@matthew-speights)
My experience at NAPC this June went far beyond what I would have expected. I went into the conference most interested in talks on vertebrate paleontology and […]
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Jennifer Bauer started the topic Assistant Curators in the forum FOSSIL Sustainability 4 years, 9 months ago
4 years, 9 months ago4 years, 9 months agoWe have a team of volunteer curators for Summer 2019-2021, an appointment term of two years with a requested amount of hours examining uploaded fossils of 4 hours/month.
- Gloria Carr (@gloria-carr) has expertise in vertebrate fossils in the Pacific Northwest
- Bill Heim (@bill-heim) has expertise in sharks and ray faunas
- Christa…
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Eleanor Gardner posted an update 7 years, 2 months ago
7 years, 2 months ago7 years, 2 months agoHi, everyone! Don’t forget to join us for the second installment of the Women in Paleontology webinar series tonight at 7pm Eastern. Dr. Brenda Hunda from the Cincinnati Museum Center is our featured speaker. Her talks promises to be great! 🙂
Dry Dredgers and friends, show your support! @jkallmeyer, @kyle-hartshorn, @bheimbrock, @david-meyer, [Read more]
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Eleanor Gardner replied to the topic FOSSIL Project/Dry Dredgers Mini-Conference, June 3-6, 2016 in the forum Upcoming Opportunities 7 years, 4 months ago
7 years, 4 months ago7 years, 4 months ago@jkallmeyer recently informed me of the sad news that myFOSSIL member @robert-marsh passed away on November 30, 2016. Bob participated in the Cincinnati Mini Conference this past June and his love for fossil collecting was highly evident. Due to health complications, he was unable to clamber over the rocks at our various field trip stops, but Bo…[Read more]
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Dr. Ronny Maik Leder replied to the topic Case Miller's Original Post in the forum Fossil Prep Tips & Tricks Forum 7 years, 7 months ago
7 years, 7 months ago7 years, 7 months agoThank you Matthew for this very comprehensive and helpful post. I guess all people interested in this chemicals should know now what to do and where to get it. Very good job!
all the best
Ronny
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Robert Ross replied to the topic Case Miller's Original Post in the forum Fossil Prep Tips & Tricks Forum 7 years, 9 months ago
7 years, 9 months ago7 years, 9 months ago@matthew-speights@rleder@jkallmeyer
I am following up on some interesting earlier posts in February and March about rewoquat and its US equivalent. I used Quaternary-O as a lab technician many years ago and now have a variety of samples on which I’d like to use something similar. Matthew, how did the sample of Rewoquat work out? You said that…[Read more]
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Eleanor Gardner posted an update 7 years, 10 months ago
7 years, 10 months ago7 years, 10 months agoHi, @matthew-speights and @christa-speights! Did you take any pictures during the Cincinnati Mini Conference that you could share in the fossil gallery? We’d love to see more Cincinnatian fossils 🙂
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Jack Kallmeyer replied to the topic Case Miller's Original Post in the forum Fossil Prep Tips & Tricks Forum 8 years ago
8 years ago8 years agoHi Ronny @rleder
and Matthew @matthew-speights –
Here are some action shots of wet sawing a silicified stromatoporoid. This took longer than it should have. My estimate of time, had I not encountered an issue, would be about an hour. Two action photos attached plus one of the cut surface. The internal structures are somewhat visible in thi…[Read more]
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Jon Cartier replied to the topic Case Miller's Original Post in the forum Fossil Prep Tips & Tricks Forum 8 years, 1 month ago
8 years, 1 month ago8 years, 1 month ago@rleder, @case-miller, @john-christian, @matthew-speights, @jkallmeyer
Here are a couple more pictures. I do not have a picture of the final form, but the last picture below is the completion of the pick work – right before the air abrasion. I use 50 micron Sodium Bicarbonate on this matrix. occasionally, I will mix in a little Aluminum Oxide if…[Read more]
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Jon Cartier replied to the topic Case Miller's Original Post in the forum Fossil Prep Tips & Tricks Forum 8 years, 1 month ago
8 years, 1 month ago8 years, 1 month ago@rleder, @case-miller, @john-christian, @jkallmeyer, @matthew-speights
Black Cat Mountain Trilobite
I had the pleasure of getting to spend some time with the famous Bob Carroll, the sole lease holder of the Black Cat Mountain (BCM) trilobite site near Clarita, OK. His shop is filled with homemade tools and techniques learned over a lifetime of…[Read more]
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Jon Cartier replied to the topic Case Miller's Original Post in the forum Fossil Prep Tips & Tricks Forum 8 years, 1 month ago
8 years, 1 month ago8 years, 1 month ago@rleder, @jkallmeyer, @matthew-speights, @john-christian, @case-miller
I am a huge fan of preparation and have been learning steadily for several years. I want to encourage people to continue to share tools and techniques for those of us that are amateurs. However, some amateurs are more advanced than you think. For example, fossil prep is my…[Read more]
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Dr. Ronny Maik Leder replied to the topic Case Miller's Original Post in the forum Fossil Prep Tips & Tricks Forum 8 years, 1 month ago
8 years, 1 month ago8 years, 1 month ago@matthew-speights, @jkallmeyer
hey guys three minutes ago I just talked to the collection manager at the geological-paleontological collection at the University of Leipzig, and he told me that you can use Rewoquat after years of storage … no problem. It is just a combination of some tensides and there is no limited shelf life. He also will give…[Read more]