Somewhere in the gulf between paleontology and sanity....
Monday, December 6, 2010
Effective communication is key...
to good lab management. This note says it all.
"Because it is a pain in the ass to sort through 15,000 samples, twice, to find the six tubes that should have been left in my rack in the first place!"
Matthew Brown works in a slightly obscure corner of paleontology doing work called fossil preparation. Fossil preparators spend most of their time actually doing what most people think all paleontologists do all day. He has worked for the University of Chicago, Field Museum of Natural History, the National Park Service at Petrified Forest, and currently the University of Texas at Austin. Now residing in Swinging South Austin, he recently lived off the grid in a dome in the middle of the Painted Desert, where his cat Jake was eaten by a bobcat, coyote, mountain lion, or phytosaur. Gustav, Jake's replacement, fared pretty well, and stayed behind in Arizona to guard the house.
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