On Tuesday of last week Dr. Ott - my science teacher, the boys that I'm going on the A-term dig with me, and some other student from our school went to see the movie Dinosaur 13 at the museum. The movie was about Sue, the most complete tyrannosaurus rex ever found. Dr. Bob Bakker, a renowned paleontologist and Curator of Paleontology at HMNS, and Peter Larson, whose team discovered Sue, were both there to talk after the movie. Before the movie I got to go down to lab for about 15 minutes to show Alex, one of the students going on the dig during A-term, what I work on at the museum. I enjoyed being able to share what I do at my internship with another student, and getting to talk about what I've been working on.
On day 1 I went to the lab for 1 1/2 hours. I slowly began to remove the dirt around the pelvis. This is basically what I worked on the whole time. I had to use a lot of water to soften the dirt so I could easily remove it. I'm very excited to be reaching the bottom of the large Jane jacket I've been working on.
On day 2 I went to my internship for 2 1/4 hours. I almost removed all of the remaining dirt that was surrounding the pelvis during that time. I also had to vinac a couple bones back into place. The same ones keep coming loose so I used a thicker vinac to keep them glued. I had never used thicker vinac before, only thiner. It was harder to get out of the bottle, but it definitely worked better than regular vinac. I will be sure to use it in the future when I have bones that won't stop moving. I'm very excited to finish removing the remaining dirt around the pelvis next week.
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