| Nathan received his Junior Certification in 2009. He occasionally writes about his experiences with the Paleontology Society. |
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Nathan’s Blog for January In May of 2009, I got my Junior Certification for Paleontology Volunteer and I was very excited. But, later that year I broke my wrist so I couldn’t go to volunteer in the fall. Once my wrist healed, I went back to paleontology was Friday, January 29th 2010. That morning we learned some new lab techniques from Curtis White that are used at the Utah Natural History Museum. We learned how to clean fossil bones with scalpels. We also learned from James Jacobs from the Natural History Museum in San Diego, techniques to clean invertebrate fossils and he showed us a tool kit that was really cool. I got to pass around my modern shells when he talked about the different kinds of invertebrates. In the afternoon I also got to share my shells when Sandy Keeley talked about fossil shells. At the end Sandy Keeley showed us some of the shells that were brought back to Anza Borrego Desert State Park Collection from Chicago. |
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| Feb. 2010 Field Trip On February 15th 2010, some paleontology
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