Two years ago I approached UCMP Assistant Director Mark Goodwin and asked if he had any room for some student help in his research. I had no previous experience in paleontology, just a passion for learning about dinosaurs and biology. Now, as a third-year graduate student in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, I work on a variety of projects with Mark and the UCMP. For my own research, I study the micro- and nano-scale features in fossil bone with electron microscopy. I have … [Read more...] about X-ray analysis of fossil whale baleen
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UCMP’s peer-reviewed journal
PaleoBios
Volume 38, 2021:
New article by C. Hickman,10/28/21
New article by N. Bonuso et al., 08/21/21
New article by N. Van Vranken & C. Boyd, 08/19/21
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