July 12

Post date: Jul 22, 2011 5:56:20 PM

Adam gave me a few scientific papers to read (about his research) so I could get a better grasp of the overall theme at the

end of the first day. It turns out that these manuscripts are quite hard to read. A paper that was four pages long took

me about two hours to read. Thankfully, I only had to read of few of these papers, but they were pretty enlightening.

Today was the first lab meeting I went to. It was the first day I could see the whole paleobiology lab group - graduate

students, high school students, undergraduate students, post-docs, and professor. Adam gave a presentation on his project

which had to do with calcium isotopes and the Guadalupian-age extinction. Exciting stuff! Adam told me there was

a calcium isotope reading group every Thursday and that I was free to join him (or do whatever I wanted to). I think

I'll go check it out.