micro fossils vlog style!!!

man, oh man! i knew that returning to my old hometown would dredge up some old memories. little did i realize some of these would be videoized ones!

amy "dug up" this old presentation i did for the badlands sciency camp. the nice folks over at prehistoric insanity have been nice enough to help me turn it into a plog (which i used to call vlogs, but it was pointed out to me that a vlog is typically a moving picture, where mine are just still ones with a voice over. so i figured i needed to give my format a new name... so taaa-da! welcome to my "first" plog!)

this used to be the power point introduction for an educational program where kids at camp would help sort micro fossils for actual scientific research by dr. donald brinkman of the royal tyrrell musuem! you might recognize some of the pictures in it from my first ever big adventure on this blog over 2 years ago!

now of course watching these plogs remember that they were made back when i still worked for the museum, and that a lot has changed in my life since then (in particular how i get along with my cousin larry!)

the reason i'm uploading these in the middle of my recent field work is that i just found a big cache of micro fossils, and rather than retype all this out I thought why not share this great Palaeo FACT! of mine from the old days!

so now that you know you're micros, i can tell you all about my recently found micro site!... next post that is...

homeward bound (DPP part 4)

well digging is all done sadly...

we got 12 bags of micro fossil matrix (that is to say we have 12 bags full fossil rich dirt!) which is pretty good... took me a little while to load them all into the truck mind you. tony and dr. brinkman were still tired from supervising me dig.

due to the long day we're simply heading straight back to the museum to unload our precious cargo.

we are taking one quick stop though at the dpp gas station... thus my chance to hop on dr. brinkman's portable co-puter...


they have a really good dino employment plan out here around dpp. the security guard was an albertosaurus. i chatted to him for a few minutes, and it turns out he is related to lillian... mmmmmm lillian so hot... but he won't tell me who she likes or put in a good word for me... he said i was not her type... jerk! oh well he's only a distant relative.

i can't wait to get to the museum, and tell everyone that i traumador went on a dig. that'll impress them!!! hopefully especially lillian...

buried treasure!!! (DPP part 3)

who knew that being a palaeontologist was so much work?!?

i mean we all hear about the fame, fortune, and or course girls... can you believe the ladies actually give palaeontologists full access to their, ummm, anatomy... lucky smucks is all i have to say!


at least they have to work for it, i discovered today. arriving at the micro fossil site dr. brinkman got right to work with the excavating (that's a pro term for digging f.y.i.)


it was worth it though. we knocked loose tons of solid chunks of matrix (no not keanu! that's what sciency people call the rock around fossils of both the micro and uh non-mirco kind) within were the little prehistoric treasures we were looking for!


but it's such hardwork that after only two minutes dr. brinkman got so tired that he let me do the digging! he said that there was no way he could continue so while i dug him and tony sat by supervising me... though i didn't know that sitting under an umberlla and drinking iced tea was supervising, but that's what dr. b said, and he's the expert!

no such thing as lunch? (DPP part 2)

wow!

been a while since i've been to the dpp's field station... they've made it all bigger and cooler! and to think it was out of comission for a whole year...

have to say though its a bit racey for a family establishment... what with the really pretty girl in the front lobby. baring everything for the world to see, have they no shame?!? i might have to write a letter to the minister...



well after both the shock and perusaling... or uh i mean disgust... it was time to find some lunch. after all one doesn't go into the field looking for fossils on an empty stomach...

i was in the mood for a steak, but sadly the local pack had already jumped all over the selection... ever since jurassic park them raptors think they owe the place... if only my mom, dad, brother, sister, cousin larry, or any other big t-rex were here. they'd remind them who the king of the dinosaurs was!


fortuently there was a nice burger just around the gallery. so after i'm done with this guy it's off to find fossils... wish us luck!

totally cool opportunity! (DPP part 1)

hello people of the web wide world

me once again... today was the most amazing day ever...

so there i was just sitting in the garden when suddenly my buddy tony came up and was like "hey traum what are you doing today?" and i was like "nothing"... cause remember since the end of summer my job doesn't exist anymore...

tony then asked me to come with him... turns out that he and THE dr. donald brinkman (curator of vertabrate palaeontology at the royal tyrrell museum!!!) were going to dinosaur provincal park (in my hubble little dinosaur opinion the best place in the world!) to dig for micro fossils.

micro fossils are just like normal fossils, the trace remains of ancient living dead things, just a tiny bit smaller...

anyways they needed more ppl to come on their dig, and since everyone else said no they came to me... isn't that really nice!!!

so here i am at dpp (that's the fancy short way to say dinosaur provincial park.... hehehehe look at me talking all like a sciency guy) ready to set off on a palaeontologic adenventure with tony

and dr. brinkman!!!

let you know how the dig goes first we have to check into the field station... keep you posted