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from the issue of January 26, 2006
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Museum offers fossil days, disaster events
BY KELLY BARTLING, UNIVERSITY COMMUNICATIONS
The University of Nebraska State Museum will present a day-long family event, "Dinosaurs and Disasters," Feb. 18, and Saturday fossil events through Feb. 11, all at Morrill Hall.
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| | | FOSSIL DISCOVERY - Rob Skolnick (left), a preparator with the University of Nebraska State Museum, shows Alex Nuno and his grandfather Bruce Bohluslavsky the specimen he worked on during the Fossil Discovery Day presentation Jan. 21. According to Priscilla Grew, director of the museum, attendance to the event included 262 visitors. That figure is nearly double attendance of the previous two Saturdays. The museum will host additional Fossil Discovery Day on Jan. 28 and Feb. 11, along with "Dinosaurs and Disasters" on Feb. 18. Photo by Troy Fedderson/University Communications.
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"Dinosaurs and Disasters" is 9:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., and presented in cooperation with geosciences. It will feature 20 stations for hands-on activities and demonstrations, plus shows in Mueller Planetarium on extreme weather.
Station interactive demonstrations and activities include ash samples from Ashfall Fossil Beds; identification of rocks and fossils (bring your own if you have one); giant camels stuck in the mud; "Pin the Dino on the Timeline" game; disaster game with Cenozoic fossils; a real fossil dig; K-T Disaster game; "Guess what's a meteor?" game; ANDRILL Antarctic research project; volcanoes and volcanic ash; tsunami and earthquake demonstrations; and meteorology and extreme weather phenomena.
Also on Feb. 18, Mueller Planetarium will offer "Extreme Weather on the Plains," featuring images of tornados, storms and the Northern Lights from storm chaser Mike Hollingshead. There is an additional charge for the planetarium show.
The museum is also hosting three-hour Fossil Discovery Days, Jan. 28 and Feb. 11, featuring science demonstrations in paleontology and fossil preparations. The Saturday programs are 1-4 p.m. A schedule of specific events follows.
Jan. 28 - Highway salvage paleontologists Bruce Bailey and Shane Tucker will be preparing specimens collected in the Wildcat Hills south of Gering, including a 28 million-year-old beardog, a 20 million-year-old camel and an extremely rare deer skull.
Feb. 11 - Mike Voorhies, curator for vertebrate paleontology, will conduct hands-on activities.
Admission to the museum is free for university faculty, staff, students and their families. For more information, go online www.museum.unl.edu.
Museum Events
Upcoming events at the University of Nebraska State Musem include the following:
Jan. 28 - Fossil Discovery Day with Bruce Bailey and Shane Tucker, 1 to 4 p.m.
Feb. 11 - Fossil Discovery Day with Mike Voorhies, 1 to 4 p.m.
Feb. 18 - Dinosaurs and Disasters, featuring hands-on activities and demonstrations.
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