Lab and Field Work

Laboratory

Fossil Preperation

• Manual microfossil picking, wet screening, dry screening

• Manual tool fossil preparation, pneumatic tool matrix removal, air abrasion matrix removal, consolidation and adhesion with solution based glues, etc.

• Molding, casting, nature faking

Computer Work

• • R Statistical Software

  • ImageJ

  • Phylogenetic

    • Mr Bayes

    • TNT

  • PAST

  • Specify 6

  • JMP

Other

• CT Scanning

Field Work

• • John Day Basin, Central Oregon (Oligocene; Principle Investigator)

    • Dissertation Research

  • Kyrgyzstan, Central Asia (Jurassic, Eocene, Miocene, and Pleistocene)

  • Oregon Coast (Miocene)

  • Central Oregon (Cretaceous - Pleistocene)

    • UO MNCH

    • OMSI

    • John Day Fossil Beds National Monument

  • Phosphate Mines, Central Florida (Miocene)

  • Badlands National Park, South Dakota (Oligocene)

  • Nebraska (Cenozoic)

    • Highway Salvage across entire state (University of Nebraska State Museum)

    • Ashfall Fossil Beds

  • South Dakota and Wyoming

    • Geology Field Camp in Black Hills

    • Paleontology Field Camp (Pierre Shale)

Field work with the University of Nebraska, 2011