Accounts from UCMP faculty curators, staff, and students of their adventures and findings in the field.
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Hunting for Mesozoic vertebrates in Ethiopia: Field notes from Mark Goodwin
Mark Goodwin comes through with this initial field report from Ethiopia as he prepares to take on the Mugher Mudstone in the valley of the Jema River. |
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Lorraine Casazza: Pyramids, forams, and Red Sea reefs
Graduate student Lorraine Casazza studies the largest foraminiferans that have ever lived … and finds them in the pyramids of Egypt. She also seeks a method of monitoring reef health in the Red Sea and wonders how the Red Sea's living reefs compare to its fossil reefs that formed when it was cut off from the world's oceans during the Pleistocene. |
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Stephanie Bush: Squid science
Graduate student Stephanie Bush explores the waters of Monterey Bay and the Gulf of California hoping to find out why squids that live where light doesn't penetrate still emit ink. |
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Randy Irmis: Investigating the rise of dinosaurs
Graduate student Randy Irmis and colleagues continue their excavations at the Hayden Quarry, an important Triassic site near Ghost Ranch, New Mexico. The quarry preserves the remains of the earliest dinosaurs as well as those of dinosaur precursors. |
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Nick Pyenson and Dave Haasl: Investigating a fossil whalefall locality on Año Nuevo Island
Graduate student Nick Pyenson and Museum Scientist Dave Haasl describe the first fossil whalefall community from California and find that it has implications for the evolution of these communities in the Tertiary. |
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Diane Erwin: Paleobotany field trip to the Sierra Nevada
Museum Scientist Diane Erwin and Museum Associate Howard Schorn ran a three-day excursion to several Tertiary fossil plant localities throughout the western slope of the northern Sierra. This profile includes a detailed written account of the expedition and over 100 photographs. |
