Field Trip to Scientists Cliffs

Intern Alexandre Ribeiro (left) and field trip leader Dave Bohaska (right) search the beach for Miocene fossils

Field Trip to Scientists Cliffs

Julianne Rowehl (left) and Mike Holcomb (right) hold fossil shark teeth they found.

Field Trip to Scientists Cliffs

Katarina Topalov (left) and Stacie Poulos (right) search for fossil shark teeth.

Field Trip to Scientists Cliffs

The group joining the Scientists Cliffs feild trip.

Courtney Porreca examins the pottery shards included in her research.

Botany Collections Tour

Greg McKee (right) lead the group on a behind-the-scenes tour of the 4.6 millions specimens in the U.S. National Herbarium, including the "Botany Best" collection which features many rare and unique botanical collections.

Botany Collections Tour

Erin DiMaggio examines one of the Botany collections, noting the mounting techniques featured by U.S. National Herbarium specimens.

Botany Collections Tour

Dawn Stodden holds a specimen of the famed double coconut.

Scientific Illustration Workshop

Erin DiMaggio tries the pen and ink technique of scientific illustration.

Cladistics Discussion

Vicki Funk engages the group in discussion about cladistics including a practice session using "Yowies" - toys of unusual animals from Australia.

Cladistics Discussion

Julianne Rowehl (left) and Erin DiMaggio (right) prepare to open the chocolate egg holding their yowie toy.

Academic Resources Room

Enjoying the "blue couch" as well as relazation time in the Academic Resources Room are (left to right): Julianne Rowehl, Courtney Porreca, Jeff Saarela, Laura Holladay, Stacie Poulos, Matt Friedman, and Alexandre Riberio.

Paleobiology Lecture

Amanda Ash offered the featured lecture for Paleobiology, presenting "A Historical Perspective of Paleobiology in Mongolia" highlighting her recent field work as well as historical expeditions to the Gobi.

Paleobiology Tour

Liz Valiulis provided a behind-the-scenes our of the Burgess Shale collection.

Paleobiology Collection Tour

.Abigail Knee studies the fossil collections.

Paleobiology Collection Tour

Bob Purdy treated the interns to a tour of the paleo-vertebrate collections.

Paleobiology Forams Workshop

My Le Ducharme (center) hosted a hands-on workshop session for interns to learn what foraminifera are, how they are identified, and how they are used to tell the stories of marine environments from millions of years ago.

Entomology Collections Tour

Nancy Adams lead the group on a behind-the-scenes tour of the Entomology collections.

Entomology Insect Pinning Workshop

Mary Jo Molineaux demonstrated insect pinning and lep spreading, here Yolanda Chacon watches carefully before trying the techniques herself..

Mineral Sciences Collections Tour

Linda Welzenbach (left) and Dawn Stodden (right) explore the meteorite collection.

Mineral Sciences Collections Tour

Paul Pohwat offered the students a unique look at the mineral and gem collection.

Mineral Sciences Collections Tour

Leslie Hale gave a tour of the National Rock and Ore collection.

Poster Stuffing Pizza Party

Students gathered in the Botany Library to (eat pizza, and) prepare and mail the 7,500 RTP posters sent to world-wide location to recruit students for the '02 RTP.

Museum Support Center Collections Tour

.Charlie Potter (right) gave a tour of the marine mammal facilities at the Museum Support Center, includeing the whale skulls (shown here).

Museum Support Center Collections Tour

Marita Davison enjoyed seeing the osteopreparation facility, known as the "bug room."

Museum Support Center
Collections Tour

.Charlie Potter explains the storage problem of housing large skeletal collections. .

Museum Support Center Collections Tour

Among the large storage pods, there is a little something for everyone. Much to everyone's surprise, "Olive, the other reindeer" was discovered among them . . . or so Trevor Krabbenhoft thought.

Anthropology Collections Tour

The Anthropology Tour offered a chance to see many interesting specimens but the mummy room proved to be everyone's favorite, especially Matt Freidman (above).

Ice Cream Social

Interns from acorss the Institution gathered to enjoy donated Ben & Jerry's Ice Cream during the annual Internship Council Ice Cream Social. Enjoying their "first" helping are: Katarina Topalov, Stacie Poulos, Mike Holcomb, and Shannon Schwaller.

Vertebrate Zoology Lecture

.Roy McDiarmid's lecture featuring his research in the Tepui region of Venezuela is always entertaining as well as edncational.

Mammals Collection Tour

.Jeremy Jacobs Holds the skull of a dolphin.

Mammals Collection Tour

.Suzie Collins demonstrates the new storage cases holding the mammal collections at MSC.

Mammals Collection Tour

.Dawn Stodden and Sharon Wilson were amazed at the size of some of the mammal skulls.

Reptiles and Amphibians Collections Tour

Fishes Collections Tour

.Sharon Wilson quietly wanders through the fish collections.

.Fishes Collections Tour

Dawn Stodden searches the fish collection for some of the species she studied in her biology class. Although a geologist by training, Dawn found biology much more interesting when confronted face-to-face with the actual specimen.

Closing Reception
in the Director's Office

RTP interns, along with more than 60 members from the NMNH scientific community, gather the NMNH DIrector's Office for a closing reception.

Closing Reception in the Director's Office

NMNH DIrector, Bob Fri (left) hosts the closing reception and offeres a few words of complement to the students and their research advisors for a productive and enlightening summer.

Closing Reception in the Director's Office

Trevor Krabbenhoft (right) review the displays of natural wonders featured in the NMNH DIrector's Office.

Matt Friedman (left) is congratulated by Director, Bob Fri (right) during the closing reception and award presentations. Brian Huber and Rom Heyer look on from the background.

Research Training Program
Class of '01

Alice Eve Kennington Intern

Alexandre Riberio

Alice Eve Kennington Intern

Alexandre Riberio

Women's Committee Interns
2001

Jeffery Saarela, Katarina Topalov, Laura Holladay, and Julianne Rowehl