Re: Politics by another means... (from F. Gunther)

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Date: Thu, 3 Aug 1995 15:58:04 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Dr. Fred J. Gunther" <fgunther@CapAccess.org>
To: paleonet-owner@nhm.ac.uk
Subject: Re: Politics by another means... (from N. Monks)
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As a micropaleontologist who at one time (1975) was turned down for an
oil company job because I had spent to much time studying the present
(i.e., modern continental shelf sediments and the contained
epi-/infauna) and the environmental conditions under which the aminals
lived (temperature, salinity, sediment grainsize and chemistry) under a
Sea Grant project, let me say that in my opinion the study of the recent
past is very important to any scientist's predictions for the near future.

Just think where our predictive accuracy would be if no scientist knew
about the rise in sea level since the last glacial maximum.

**THE PAST IS THE KEY TO THE FUTURE! **

Fred