JUNIOR PALEONTOLOGIST
PROGRAM 2008
Photo
E. Schroeter
Jessica
R., Brandi, and Iman stand next
to a reconstructed alligator
inside the collections department
at The Field Museum in Chicago.
This year, 12 students
from different Chicago Public schools,
and two returning team leaders,
were brought together for this
intensive three-week program. The
first two weeks were spent at a
University of Chicago lab where
students learned the skills necessary
for the field expedition to South
Dakota. There, they learned careful
observation, rock identification,
familiarity with the vertebrate
body plan, teamwork, and more.
The last week was spent at the
Mammoth Site in Hot Springs, South
Dakota, where the JPs discovered
new fossil specimens, excavated
mammoth fossils more than 26,000
years old, sorted microfossils,
and made professional casts of
Columbian mammoth teeth.
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