Undergraduate Research Opportunity in VP

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This announcement is cross-posted from the vrtpaleo. list. Please contact
Greg Gunnell (e-mail below) if you want more information.

Norm MacLeod

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SUMMER RESEARCH OPPORTUNITIES FOR UNDERGRADUATES

UNDERGRADUATE GEOLOGIC AND PALEONTOLOGIC STUDIES OF THE MIDDLE
EOCENE BRIDGER FORMATION, GREEN RIVER BASIN, WYOMING

	We are now taking applications for a summer Research Experience
for Undergraduates (REU) field program based in southwestern Wyoming.
This REU site, funded by the National Science Foundation, will combine
laboratory studies at the Albion College (Albion, MI) and University of
Michigan (Ann Arbor, MI) campuses with field research in the Green River
Basin.  Participants must be either sophomores or juniors and will be
expected to carry out tightly constrained projects that will examine
aspects of geology and/or vertebrate paleontology in the predominantly
fluvial Bridger Formation.  Each project will be designed in conjunction
with PI's Bartels and Gunnell and will integrate modern technical analysis
with fundamental principles of scientific investigation and hypothesis
testing.  Research topics can be selected from a wide range of geologic
fields including: vertebrate paleontology, vertebrate paleoecology and
paleobiology, vertebrate taphonomy and interpretation of depositional
environments, physical stratigraphy, sedimentary petrology, sediment
geochemistry, and paleomagnetic stratigraphy.

	Each participant will receive a $2,400.00 stipend for the 8 week
program and a $200.00 travel allowance.  Expenses covered include room and
board at Albion College, transportation from Albion to Wyoming and back,
and room and board in the field.  Field work involves tent camping in a
semi-desert environment for 4 to 5 weeks.  We anticipate that students
will gather in Albion in the last week of June for orientation and then
travel to Wyoming in the first week of July.  We will return to Albion in
early August and student will spend the last 2-3 weeks preparing reports
on their projects.

	For further information and application materials contact either
Dr. William S. Bartels (wbartels@albion.edu) or Dr. Gregg F. Gunnell
(ggunnell@umich.edu).  Please respond off line.


Gregg F. Gunnell Ph.D.
Museum of Paleontology
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1079
FAX: 313-936-1380
E-Mail: ggunnell@umich.edu




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Dr. Norman MacLeod
Micropalaeontological Research
N.MacLeod@nhm.ac.uk (E-mail)

Department of Palaeontology, The Natural History Museum,
Cromwell Road, London, SW7 5BD

Office Phone: 0171-938-9006
Dept. FAX: 0171-938-9277
E-mail: N.MacLeod@nhm.ac.uk
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