In the mean time I am still working away in the lab. I am currently finishing up the weighing portion of a DiploBlaster project from the Flower Gardens. DiploBlaster has become my new name for Diploria now, it sounds funny and makes me giggle :) At some point I will have a name for everything if I continue to stay so late in the lab. Coffee, Coke, and Skittles can only keep you awake for so long while drilling before insanity sets in.
They lab is now wonderfully decorated with Donax, Mesodesma (Messies) and oyster shells in various stages of processing. Julie cut the umbos of her oyster samples the other day and has put them in epoxy for thin sectioning. They look awesome all lined up on our tables!
Becky is off to Peru now. Becky is currently an archeology student but we are slowly turning her over to the paleoclimate side. "Come to the climate side we have cookies!" Her work with Messies produced some really nice images for band counting. Becky has told us she may take a trip to the Peruvian coast during her dig trip to see if she can find some modern Donax for reconstruction. I think we have done well in converting her.
I have yet to figure out how to set up a sun lamp in the lab so I can at least get some sun this summer. Not to mention I would get a heat lamp out of it. They like to freeze us in the labs on the first floor. I bet I am the only person in Louisiana wearing a Mountain Hardware fleece jacket during the day, or at all this summer.
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