paleonet interns at John Day Fossil Beds National Monument

[joda_paleontology@xxxxxxx]

Greetings lists members

As seems to happen now and then, a couple of potential interns discovered
rather late they were unable to join us.  They would have been doing a
hodgepodge of paleontological activitites including curatorial, library,
laboratory, and field work.  We need to "obligate the funding" before
October.  If you have no plans yet for the summer, you really need to think
about your future more; but perhaps you (or a paleo-inclined friend or
student or friendly student or bored professor or whatever) would like to
while away the time learning about Tertiary mammals, plants, and
volcaniclastics ... ?

If so, here is a very last minute opportunity to visit a wonderful remote
fossil basin and have your lodging, some travel, and snacks paid for whilst
you are here for 8 weeks (or so).  These are essentially volunteer
positions, but with a smidgeon of federal largesse thrown in to encourage
people who can't afford to pay all of their own expenses.

Anyway, please contact me at one or both of the email addresses below with
an email (we're in a hurry) listing who you are, when you could be here,
your skills, what your interest in paleo is, and the names of three
references we can telephone.  I'll forward that info to Lia Vella,
volunteer coordinator, and we'll go from there.

Help us keep a little bit of $ in paleo and not return it to the black hole
of the federal budget!

cheers
ted
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Theodore Fremd
Paleontologist, John Day Fossil Beds
Science Advisor, Pacific West Region
U.S.  National Park Service
Ted_Fremd@nps.gov
TFremd@.uoregon.edu
541-987-2333 x 19
32651 Highway 19, Kimberly, OR 97848
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