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Recent updates

Judy at podiumAnother feather in Judy Scotchmoor's cap
May 17, 2013

Judy receives the 2013 Chancellor’s Award for Public Service.

Susan with boxes of matrixFinding forams in the Caldecott Tunnel
May 17, 2013

Grad student Susan Tremblay has been breaking up rocks from the Caldecott Tunnel fourth bore project to find microfossils.

Ashley Poust with air-scribePrepping the fossils from the Caldecott Tunnel
May 16, 2013

This past semester grad student Ashley Poust has spent a lot of time in the prep lab working with the Caldecott Tunnel fossils.

Cindy and DoriThe Looy Lab paleo detectives: Dori and Cindy at the NMNH
April 24, 2013

Assistant Professor Cindy Looy and grad student Dori Contreras visit the National Museum of Natural History in our nation’s capitol for different reasons.

Return addressReports from Regatta: Two Cal Alumni and the USGS Menlo Park Collection
March 19, 2013

Documents found with the extensive US Geological Survey Menlo Park Invertebrate Collection add value to the specimens.

synchotronThe Looy Lab paleo detectives
February 26, 2013

See how the Looy Lab is using Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory’s synchrotron to look at fossils inside rocks.

Lisa makes her presentation to the classDarwin Day Roadshow
February 26, 2013

Lisa White brings evolutionary science to an Oakland, California, middle school as part of the 2013 Darwin Day Roadshow.

rareoctopusCaldwell's rare octopus research makes headlines
February 22, 2013

Read a San Francisco Chronicle story about a rare, beautiful, and so far unnamed species of octopus studied by Roy Caldwell and colleagues.

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