2005 DINOSAUR LAB INTERNSHIP
Written by: Charlita, Manny and Alice
This summer, three students interned at
Dr. Paul Sereno’s Dinosaur Lab at
the University of Chicago. The internship
ran for six weeks, from July 18 until August
26, 2005. As interns, they learned how to
prepare a 65-million-year-old Edmontosaurus fossil. Edmontosaurus was a plant-eating
hadrosaur that lived during the Cretaceous
period. The students worked with a variety
of tools and learned special techniques.
They were able to observe the professional
preparators and the work needed to place
these fossils into museums all over the
world.
Manny scraping
the dirt from a fossil.
Photo: J. Havens
The three high school graduates selected
were Alice, Manny, and Charlita. Alice graduated
from Whitney Young High School and will
be attending the University of Chicago.
She loves studying dinosaurs and pre-historic
sea creatures. Manny graduated from Lane
Tech High School and will be attending Northeastern
University. He will major in anthropology
and minor in geology, in the hopes of becoming
an archeologist. Charlita graduated from
Senn High School and will be attending Northern
Michigan University in the fall. She loves
the paleo world and wants to venture further
into the field. All three students have
participated in numerous Project Exploration
programs such as Junior Paleontologists,
Science Giants, and Summer Science.
Click
here to read the intern's Dinosaur Lab journal |
