Re: A better paleontological ratio

["Mike Styzen Shelf Expl, 588-4308" <mstyzen@xxxxxxxxx>]

Those of us who work withthe utility fossilsand those of us who work
with biology are facing a common threat.  The lack of respect accorded
paleontologists currently threatens our collective professions.  Our
futures are linked.  Biostrat is being driven into a cottage industry
(a situation I think cannot be sustained) The industrial job base that
sustains populations of bright new paleontologists entering the system
has withered. (The youngest working economic paleontologist I know of
in the US is 29.  No geriatric but not a spring chicken) Mutual respect
is a must, even if we are driving at different goals.
Mike
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