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Research
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Photo Gallery
1999
29
May 1999 - 6 August 1999
A
total of 23 students were selected to participate in the 1999 session
of the Research Training Program including 2 international students representing
Brazil and Ecuador.
Schedule
of Events |
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Program
Summary
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Photo
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1999
Following
are a few captured moments from the summer session of the '99
Research Training Program.
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Joana
Silva delights in her discovery during the field trip to
Scientists Cliffs of one of the worm species she's interested
in.
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Scientists
Cliffs Field Trip
Melissa
Jensen listens to the opening remarks as the site plans
are reviewed.
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Scientists
Cliffs Field Trip
Cynthia
Cheung studies some of the fossil shark teeth she found.
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Scientists
Cliffs Field Trip
Melissa
Jensen and Sadie Solomon couldn't resist doing some
insect searching in addition to looking for fossils.
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Scientists
Cliffs Field Trip
Looking
for fossil shark teeth.
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Scientists
Cliffs Field Trip
Group
leaders, Bob Purdy (center) and Dave Bohaska (right) compare
finds.
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Carolina
Laughlin studies her insect genetalia.
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Jennifer
Quincey shows some of the Dorset archeological material.
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Johnas
Wright was amazed by the reduced-to-scale dinosaur bones
being produced.
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Scientific
Illustration Workshop
Christina Moon practices scientific illustration techniques.
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RTP
research advisor, Dr. Mike Wise leads intern Christina Lopono
"before hours" through the Museum's Morefield Mine
exhibit which features Christina's research project site.
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Tawney
Seaton measures whale bones in the basement so as to get
the data for her morphometric analysis.
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Paleobiology
Collections Tour
Bob
Purdy lead the group through the paleobiology collections, and
an adventure through evolutionary time, as students observed
evolutionary changes in tooth and jaw morphology.
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Entomology
Collections Tour
Dave
Furth lead the group through the insect collection, including
te beetles.
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Insect
Pinning Workshop
Rut
Rivera, Sydella Blatch, and Ryan Hurtado try
insect pinning.
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Entomology
Collection Tour
Scott
Larcher showed the spider collection.
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Second
Annual RTP Poser Session
Jennifer
Quincey with her presentation poster.
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Cynthia
Cheung with her presentation poster.
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Research
Training Program
Class of '99
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