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News Archive ... click here for 2010 and previous.
Currently Funded Projects:
2016 University of Iowa Innovations in Teaching with Technology Award (1 yr. 1/1/2016 – 10/31/2016, $10,484) In-course development and utilization of the NMITA Identification Tool (NIT): an on-line tool for learning about taxonomy, biodiversity informatics and species identification, blending technology and real fossils. (PI = T. Adrain, Co-PI = J. Adrain).
2014 National Science Foundation Grant DBI-1349322 (2 yrs, 5/1/2014-4/30/2016, $196,751) CSBR: Natural History Collections: Critical renovation and revitalization of the University of Iowa Fossil Plant Collection” (PI = A. F. Budd, Co-PIs = J. M. Adrain, T. S. Adrain, H. J. Sims)
Completed Funded Projects:
2015 Iowa Science Foundation ISF 15-13 (1 yr, $3,520) Digitizing the University of Iowa Paleontology Repository’s Amoco Conodont Reference Collection (PI = T. S. Adrain, Co-PI = C. Waid)
2015 Iowa Center for Research for Undergraduates Research Fellow Grant, University of Iowa, (Academic Year 2015-16, $2,000) Revitalization of the University of Iowa Paleontology Repository Quaternary Paleobotany Collection: curating fossil plants from the last two million years to enhance archaeology skills. (PI = T. S. Adrain)
2015 Iowa Center for Research for Undergraduates Research Fellow Grant, University of Iowa, (Summer 2015, $2,500) Curation and research of the UI Paleontology Repository Coal Ball Collection” (PI = T. S. Adrain)
2011 Iowa Science Foundation (1 yr., $1,500) “Partnerships in Paleontology: public participation in the collection, curation, preparation, and research of a fossil fauna from the Devonian of Iowa.” PI= T.S. Adrain, Co-PIs = J.M. Adrain, C. Newsom, J. Preslicka.
2011 Iowa Center for Research for Undergraduates Research Fellow Grant, University of Iowa, (Fall 2011-Spring 2012, $2,500) “Partnerships in Paleontology: public participation in the collection, curation, preparation, and investigation of a fossil fauna from the Devonian of Iowa.” (PI = T. S. Adrain)
2010 Paleontology Society Education Outreach Award (1 yr., $2,500) “Discovering Iowa’s Fossil Treasure: enhancing outreach education resources at Iowa’s Devonian Fossil Gorge” PI = T.S. Adrain, Co-PI = Sarah Horgen)
November 2011
Thank you to all our Museum Studies Service Learning students and Geoscience students who have contributed to the activities of the Paleontology Repository this semester.
Museum Studies Service Learning student Amanda Oller, cleaning original handwritten specimen labels.
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Amanda worked on the Belanski Collection, replacing acidic specimen trays and preserving original labels.
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Museum Studies Service Learning students, SGE members
and Geoscience graduate students
show off their artistic talent,
painting banners for the 2011 Creepy Campus Crawl, creating a Kraken tunnel and dressing up to entertain visitors.
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Guests were invited to "walk the plank" (go downstairs) and join in activities provided by the Department of Geoscience, Paleontology Repository, SGE, and the Iowa Geological and Water Survey.
Two hundred and forty-four people visited during the evening. Well done everyone! |
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Iowa State Fair 2011. This year the Paleontology Repository teamed up with the UI Museum of Natural History to present "What on Earth? A look at the weird and wonderful world of Natural History."
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Visitors discovered a range of objects including a model of a sabre-tooth cat skull, an eclogite, a 1.4 billion-year-old piece of rock, and lots of fossils, some of which they were able to find themselves and take home, thanks to a donation by the Mid America Paleontology Society. |
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Below: our 2011 outreach activities took us to Pine Creek Grist Mill Heritage Day at Wildcat Den State Park...
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...and Tiffin Fest. Thanks to Neo McAdams, David Majewski, Marc Spencer and Jonathan Simpson for helping at these events.
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