Fossil Wednesdays! will resume January 23, 2019 3-5 pm 326 Cherry Emerson Building, Georgia Tech Resuming January 23rd: become a fossil hunter and help discover how communities have changed through time. Experience what it is like to be a paleontologist, finding and identifying new specimens. You will be picking 3,000- to 30,000-year-old fossil specimens...
In collaboration with Julie Meachen (Des Moines University), we have received funding to conduct two more seasons of field work at Natural Trap Cave. We plan to perform additional excavations, particularly to fill out our microvertebrate data. We will also do a survey of the microvertebrates living in the vicinity of the cave, both...
**UPDATE** Position filled! Please see our Opportunities page for additional opportunities to become involved in SEPL. We are currently inviting applicants for a postdoctoral position to examine the microfauna of Natural Trap Cave. Postdoctoral researchers will work closely with Drs. Jenny McGuire (GT) and Julie Meachen (DMU). For this project, we are looking for...
We have our screen wash station up-and-running in lab! Look at Joe screening all of that material. We’re going to have a ton of new material to pick through during Fossil Wednesdays!...
Julie Meachen, Assistant Professor at DMU, visited SEPL over the last week to continue work on the Natural Trap Cave project. Julie, along with Dr. Alan Cooper of the University of Adelaide, is the principal investigator on the grant that opened up Natural Trap Cave for research over the last 5 years. The original...
Wyoming PBS has done an episode of it’s “Main Street, Wyoming” series about Natural Trap Cave. This episode explains all about where we get the material that we look through at Fossil Wednesdays and really puts it into the broader context of the research being done at the site. Check it out above!...
326 Cherry Emerson 3-5 pm every Wednesday Feb. 7- April 18 We have new fossil material and new faces. Come join us for Fossil Wednesdays this Spring and explore matrix excavated Summer 2017 at Natural Trap Cave. Hear about the new publications coming out of the cave. See pictures & videos of Jenny’s new...
Read the blog write-up about Aaron Woodruff, Paleo Lab Tech extraordinaire, and his love of paleontology!...
iCCB (Integrative Climate Change Biology) is an incredibly successful program, funded primarily by the IUBS (International Union of Biological Sciences), to develop trait-based approaches that can make deep-time perspectives from paleontology applicable for understanding organisms’ responses to climate change. During its last round of funding, the IUBS tasked the iCCB with making inroads with...
After several months of learning how to ship pallets and negotiating prices, our pallet full of Natural Trap Cave Matrix has arrived from Des Moines! We now have 1300 lbs of sacks containing soil, rocks, and (most importantly) fossils from Natural Trap Cave’s latest excavations. Each of these sacks was collected with careful, fine-scale...
