Tuesday, May 20, 2014
Start of Internship!
My name is Shane Thompson, I am a physics major at UF, and this summer I will be doing an internship at the collections department at Dickinson Hall. Today I started my internship and learned the details of what I will be doing. Basically, I go through bags of deposits and screen them for fossils. We are working on an area associated with the Miocene Era. Its mostly small fossils, lizards, snakes, small mammals, but there are larger fossils, like from horses and such, didn't see none today. I was also told, I will be able to work on a research project involving bats, not sure of the details, will find out about that on Thursday!
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Hey Shane! I'm a former physics major and man do I give you credit. It didn't take me long for those difficult classes to force me to switch majors. Your internship sounds very interesting! I bet it will be exciting to find fossils of different animals, especially those larger ones you like horses. I'm looking forward to finding out about the cool things you find!
ReplyDeleteHi Shane, Your internship sounds very interesting. In the past I had the opportunity to work at the museum and I very much enjoyed it. It sounds like you will plenty of opportunities to work on projects and this will definitely be useful for your internship project.
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