Since I enjoyed my Paleontology Internship so much during the school year, I decided to continue volunteering at HMNS during my summer vacation while I was in Houston. I volunteered about 8 hours, and got a couple new fossils to work on. I am very excited to see the new lab once it gets set up sometime this fall.
I was planning to go to my internship a couple days a week for the first three weeks of June, since that was the only large block of time I was in town this summer. The first and third week went super smoothly, and I went to the museum from 2:30 to 4:00 p.m. on Wednesday and Friday. The second week, I was going to go from 3:30 to 5:00 p.m. on Wednesday and Friday, but both days I ran into some technical difficulties, and was unable to get the air compressor machine to work properly. It got fixed the third week and everything ran smoothly. To make up a couple hours that I had missed during the second week, I went to the museum for two hours on Monday, August 7.
I worked on a lot of different fossils during my time spent at the museum, and even finished a couple pieces! A lot of them look like little pieces of fin spines, but a few of them were pieces of vertebrae. They are all very small though. Mr. Temple also gave me another little piece to work on, but I don’t know what it is yet.
I have had a great time interning at HMNS this summer, and I plan to continue in the fall.
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