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PaleoBlitz Citizen Science Opportunity, Gainesville, FL

March 18, 2016 - March 20, 2016

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The FOSSIL Project is happy to announce its first PaleoBlitz, scheduled for March 18-20, 2016, at the University of Florida!  A PaleoBlitz, similar to a BioBlitz, is an intense period of paleontological survey conducted by citizen scientists.  This pilot PaleoBlitz is intended to engage amateur paleontologists in the entire fossil collection process – from first finding a fossil, to field documentation, to museum curatorial work. The organizers, FOSSIL Project postdoc Dr. Ronny Leder and UF PhD student Victor Perez, hope that this event will be beneficial to the amateur paleontological community by promoting best practices in fossil collection and curation.

We are inviting 12 individuals from different paleontology clubs/organizations to participate in this weekend-long workshop. Please fill out this application in order to be considered; applications are due by 5pm on March 1, 2016. Ideally, we would like to have two people from each club that is represented at this event: one veteran member and a rookie member. Having participants with this dichotomy will help to establish a mentor-mentee relationship and result in a range of unique perspectives.

The event itself will give you hands-on exposure to the museum curation process. Participants will aid in identification, preparation (cleaning), curation (database entry), and documentation (photographing) of fossils collected from the Belgrade Mine in North Carolina. Additionally, there will be a tour of the paleontology collections at the Florida Museum of Natural History and a tour of the famed Hubbell collection. Finally, there will be an optional field trip to local Gainesville creeks to collect fossils.

Travelling costs will be at your own expense; however, the FOSSIL Project will cover lodging and some food expenses.  You may contact either of the event organizers, Victor Perez (victorjperez@ufl.edu) or Ronny Leder (leder.ronnymaik@flmnh.ufl.edu), with any additional questions that you may have.

For more information or to submit nominations, please contact the FOSSIL Project Coordinator, Eleanor Gardner, at fossil@flmnh.ufl.edu.

Details

Start:
March 18, 2016
End:
March 20, 2016

Venue

University of Florida
Gainesville, Florida 32606 Select a Country: + Google Map