Summer undergraduate reasearch opportunity requested

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What better place to post this request, than on a forum specially for
the discussion of Paleontology.  Here is my situation, I am currently a
Geology student at Oklahoma State University studying Paleontology.  I
have been doing research every summer for the past two summers, and my
mentors and I feel that it is time for me to diversify my research
experience.  Please forward this to anyone you might know who could put
me in contact with any professional that might need a research assistant
or any director of a summer internship program.  

Thank you very much,
Joseph Hall

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To whom this may concern,

	My name is Joseph Hall, I am a student of Geology studying Invertebrate
Paleontology here at Oklahoma State University, under the guidance of
Dr. Darwin R. Boardman.  I am currently an Oklahoma Alliance for
Minority Participation in Science, Mathematics, Engineering, Technology
and Education (OKAMP-SMETE) scholar and have been doing summer research
on Paleozoic Ammonoids of the North American Midcontinent sponsored by
OKAMP-SMETE and NSF for the past two summers.  Although I have enjoyed
my research here every summer, I feel it is time that I diversify my
experience in the field of Paleontology.  My interests also extend
beyond Invertebrate Paleontology to recently include an interest in the
ecology of Paleozoic plant species such as Calamites, and Annilauria, to
name just a few, and their environment of deposition.  Having said that,
I would also be interested in any research topics concerning
biostratigraphy and/or paleoecology.  I have had a great deal of
training  in most all the procedures for collecting and processing
specimens through countless field trips, however I admittedly lack an
appreciable amount of experience in measuring stratigraphic sections,
but that is being changed as I speak, as I am assisting a fellow geology
student in mapping subsurface strata in and around Stillwater, OK.  We
also plan to measure a section of Pennsylvanian shale in Jacksboro, TX
before the semester is over.  The list of courses I have had so far as
is follows; Physical Geology, Historical Geology, Paleontology,
Mineralogy, and I am currently taking Petrology.  I could have taken
Stratigraphy this semester, but I believe it will be so valuable to me
for Field Camp, and for my career that I am holding it off until the
semester before I go to Field Camp.  I currently have a 2.95 GPA (It
will hopefully be raised to above a 3.0 after this semester).  I am also
involved in a program in which once a year I take children and teachers
from Whittier Elementary in Tulsa, OK on a field trip to collect
fossils, discuss various aspects of Paleontology, show them "cool"
fossils, and discuss reasons to continue their education.  If you wish
to contact any professors in the Geology department regarding my
performance as a undergraduate student please feel free to contact the
following people by phone at 405-744-6358 or by email;  Dr. Gary F.
Stewart (gfs@okway.okstate.edu), Dr. Darwin R. Boardman II
(amm0001@okway.okstate.edu), and Dr. Zuhair Al-Shaieb
(zuhair@okway.okstate.edu).

Thank you for your time,
Joseph Hall
Student of Paleontology/Geology
OKAMP-SMET Scholar
Oklahoma State University