Symposium Talks and Workshops

Talks to be presented based on the following papers:

• Adhesives for fossil preparation: A mini-seminar - Amy Davidson, American Museum of Natural History
• Analysis of mistakes corrected and perpetuated in multiple mounts of Placerias gigas and resin cast conservation problems - Pete Reser (Retired) and R.M. Geiser (Retired)
• The Preparator: A Survival Guide - Scott Madsen (Retired)
• Evaluation and certification of fossil preparators: An outsider's view - John Kane, University of Heidelberg, and Matthew Brown, Petrified Forest National Park
• Evaluation and certification of fossil preparators: ideas for the future - Matthew Brown, Petrified Forest National Park, and John Kane, University of Heidelberg
• Rediscovery: Salvaging the collections at Petrified Forest - Scott Williams, Petrified Forest National Park
• Lessons from the Lagerstätte: An Ashfall Fossil Beds Retrospective and Update - Greg Brown, University of Nebraska State Museum
• 120 years of photographic history at Petrified Forest - Scott Williams, Petrified Forest National Park
• One sand grain at a time: Fossil preparation under the microscope - J. P. Cavigelli, Tate Museum, Casper College, WY
• Three-dimensional preparation of a Late Cretaceous sturgeon from Montana - Constance Vanbeek, Chicago Field Museum of Natural History
• Please don't drop my box of rocks!: Packing methods for domestic and international fossil shipping - ReBecca Hunt, Augustana College
• A Paleontology Laboratory Approach to Radon Hazards, Detection, and Mitigation - Gavin McCullough, Arizona Museum of Natural History
• Modernizing American Fossil Preparation at the Turn of the 20th Century - Paul Brinkman, North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences
• Fossil Preparation Test: An indication of manual skills - Lisa Bergwall, Field Museum of Natural History
• A Closer Look at the Preparation Techniques of Fossils from the Fossil Butte Member of the Green River Formation - James Holstein, The Field Museum

Posters

• From the Cradle to the Waterboard: Handling Large Bones with Limited Resources - Scott Madsen (Retired), Dale Gray, and Tom Nelsen, Dinosaur National Monument
• Rotten Wood in Sand: Difficult Preparation of a Large Theropod Specimen - Anthony Maltese, Rocky Mountain Dinosaur Resource Center
• The use of linear collapsible foam for molding fossil footprints in the field - Thomas C. Nolan, WIPS/Denver Museum of Nature and Science; Rob Atkinson, WIPS; and Bryan Small, Denver Museum of Nature and Science

Additional presentations are currently being confirmed, and will be posted with an abstract as they come in.

Participants will have a choice of two of the following workshops:

• Introduction to molding and casting of museum objects
• Welding for mounted specimens and armatures
• Roundtable discussion on publication and building the preparation literature
• 3D visualization of collections using laser scanning equipment and software

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