Research Training Program

Lisa Gawen
University of North Carolina
Chapel Hill, NC

Bill DiMichele, Ph.D.
Department of Paleobiology

"The program is set up for a great deal of education and it succeeds in delivering it."

Paleobotanical Studies in Illinois

The month at the Smithsonian was spent experiencing a variety of aspects of the studies conducted within Paleobotany. A great deal of background reading was completed in order to understand what and why certain tasks were necessary to perform. Coal ball peels were made in the morning and afternoons of the West Mineral, KS cool area. The process of spore maceration was also observed and general species identification in different localities was learned.