Final Week

Well this is the last week of class, and Monday was my last day on the job!  It was a great summer, I really enjoyed working with Keith and Sharon and making new friends.  I have printed my poster and am all ready to go.  I enjoyed going to class and listening to everyone talk about their internships and summers as well, wish everyone the best, maybe some of us will have UF teach classes together. Other than not, not much else to say...so, this is Shane Thompson...signing off. 

Last full week update of my Internship.

Hi everyone!  The funniest part of my week was yesterday, Keith and I took Sharon to ginnie springs for her birthday.  While there we taught Keith how to swim, that was pretty fun.  I also got Sharon to swim down into the cave entrance after some encouragement.  It is really cool at the springs, as so many of the springs have been great places to discover some great fossils.  I finished all my data collecting for my project finally today, and I am almost done with my poster.  I can't believe summer is almost over, it has been a fun summer.  My last day at the internship will be on Monday probably, then it all focus to finish my lesson plans!

Week 9

Things have been pretty quiet at the museum research and collections building the past week.  The standards procedure was work on Thomas Farm in the first part of the day, that being picking out identifiable fossils from the previous days screen washing.  Then the second half of the day we screen washed.  I chose to do a poster for my presentation, I've done both PowerPoint and posters before, and I like the simplicity of posters.  I pretty much have all my ideas for my lesson plans wrapped up.  Now its just a matter of sitting down and writing them out....which is never the fun part.

Captians Log: Week 8

Nothing out of the ordinary, I have been picking through some sediment bags for Dr. Steadman.  I have to go through and pick out charcoal, that will then be sent to be radiocarbon dated.  This will be used to determine the age of a site from which Dr. Steadman is working on, a site in the Bahamas I believe.  Sounds like a rough site doesn't it? I mean who could complain about having to go to the Bahamas. Other than that, I have been screen washing again.  Also Dr. Steadman gave us some time to work on our projects, so I was able to get some of that done, as had time to figure out a solution to my physics problem.  Before I had only used the length and width of the femur.  Well I also need to get the weight, and also the same data for the humerus as well, and the math comes out beautifully.