Friday, August 7, 2015

Leaving Our Mark

Here at the end of the summer, Kaitlyn and I were finishing up a couple of projects that we have been working on. I wasn't able to finish up tracks that I was going to paint on the side walk for the kids to play around on, but we were able to get it approved to put this together.

 The purpose of this bulletin board is for people to be able to leave their opinions about what they're favorite hypothesis at the site is. We're hoping that it will be motivation for people to ask more questions and think through what may have happened. They're going to have dinosaurs that they can write on and add to our little Jurassic landscape here. Hopefully folks will have some fun with it, and learn a little bit about the scientific process.


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My Story (Very briefly...)

Lots of people claim that they wanted to be paleontologists at the age of 3. So did I. The problem is, I never really grew out of it. My third birthday party had dinosaurs. Everywhere. I grew up digging in fossil dirt from Aurora, NC, looking for coral and shark teeth. I practically lived at my local science museums (and still do, only now I get to do research, fossil preparation, and work in collections!) When local paleontologists discovered a dinosaur with a "fossilized heart" (no longer considered such) when I was little, I got to meet the man who led the work. And then, years later a dinosaur bone with soft tissue turned up. I was officially hooked.
No longer was I dreaming about dinosaurs. I was actively pursuing the science behind prehistoric creatures. I didn't want to read about it, I wanted in on the action. So I started working at the museum, and finally going on my own adventures. And thus, I needed a place to share them and maybe inspire others the way I was inspired. I have gone from watching fossils be prepared from one side of the glass at the museum to working on them on the inside of the glass. I am a student working toward my goal. I can finally start to call myself a paleontologist.