19th: Fossil presentation, 09:55 - 12:44, Science class at the McMinnville High School.
25th: Fossil presentation, 14:00 - 15:00, for the kids at the McMinnville Montesori School.
December: The new fossil cabinets are finally finished and fossils are in them. The processing room/den addition is about done. We will be able to work through identification-logging-photographing and stabilization all in one area!!!
17th: Meet with Dr. Hubbard, he is helping me with collecting future resources and giving me some input on my upcoming website upgrade.
November:
21st: Meet with Dr. Hubbard and Diane Bradshaw; identification and stabilization of some megafauna fossils found years ago in the Willamette Valley. A mammoth tooth plus what looks to be a couple rib fragments and maybe a partial leg bone from a bison sized beastie!
28th: Finally getting around to putting the YCPP finds for the summer into preservative baths and starting to enter them into the log.
September:
24th & 25th: Maxfield Creek Pleistocene Paleontology Dig with Professor William Orr. Linfield College paleontology class and the Yamhill River Pleistocene Project combined on a two day dig that yielded sloth, deer, bird, rodent fossils. Congrats from us to the Linfield College crew. Never worked with a better group!
August:
2nd: Field trip to the river with Dr. Alison Stenger, Dr. Lyle Hubbard and Dan MaCauley yielded some mastodon ivory, an artidactyl tooth, some megafauna bone fragments and a nice piece of a mammoth tooth. Good day on the river!
8th: Played hooky and went fishing on the Yamhill with Tom Nosack. Came home with a Bison antiquus sacrum. (And the fishing was great, also!)
16th: Planned scuba survey of some new spots on the South Yamhill River with David Ellingson yielded four more fossils including a nice section of mammoth tusk.
25th: Planned river float with a Cub Scout den from Dundee.
July:
10th: River is finally getting low enough to access. Quick scout turned up a paleo projectile point.
16th: River is back up after a torrential downpour. Survey of the McMinnville Mammoth Site revealed a complete mammoth rib. A mammoth rib fragment was also found on a gravel point bar.
23rd: Presentation for the Forest Grove Historical Society at 16:30.