UPDATE: Ouch, weeks after this entry was published Criteria Systems ceased operating on September 3, 2010! The video was removed from YouTube, so much for their legacy.
Criteria Systems is a company in Calgary, Canada that produces three dimensional images of objects. For one of their demonstrations they chose a trilobite.
The object was 3-D scanned and the process is described at their web site here. Also don't forget to check out their blog.
Very cool technology and it will be great when consumers will be able to take 3-D pictures or scans!
Friday, August 13, 2010
Thursday, August 12, 2010
Tear Shaped Glabella
This fragment shows a mold and some of the shell replaced by brown calcite of the glabella of a Cryptolithus trilobite. The fossil was found in the Kope Formation of Carroll County, Kentucky. The trilobite lived in the Ordovician Period.
Wednesday, August 11, 2010
Importance of Fossil Labeling
Here is a two part video on the importance of the fossil labeling. The presentation was given at a Dry Dredgers meeting (Cincinnati, Ohio, USA). The presenter is John Tate who is a volunteer at the Cincinnati Museum of Natural History and Dry Dredger member.
Ouch, I am guilty of not labeling all my fossils though I am trying to get better. Lots of good advice in the video and I can relate to curating issues of trying to figure out specimens with poor or no labels.
They appear to have a nice computer collection system at the museum. Cincinnati is fortunate to have a rich set of resources with the Dry Dredgers and the many Ohio universities with natural sciences faculty. Louisville, Kentucky is not quite at that level. I will say using a spreadsheet is a pretty good and cheap way to track specimens. Having an SQL database does not hurt either.
Also at the Falls of the Ohio State Park web site check out naturalist Alan Goldstein's "Curating Your Fossil and Mineral Collection" article.
Jessica Utrup, a curator at the Yale University's Peabody Museum, also has some thoughts about this topic on her blog at Spineless Wonders.
Thanks to Dry Dredger's Greg Courtney (flyingscience) for posting so many educational videos on paleontology on YouTube.
Ouch, I am guilty of not labeling all my fossils though I am trying to get better. Lots of good advice in the video and I can relate to curating issues of trying to figure out specimens with poor or no labels.
They appear to have a nice computer collection system at the museum. Cincinnati is fortunate to have a rich set of resources with the Dry Dredgers and the many Ohio universities with natural sciences faculty. Louisville, Kentucky is not quite at that level. I will say using a spreadsheet is a pretty good and cheap way to track specimens. Having an SQL database does not hurt either.
Also at the Falls of the Ohio State Park web site check out naturalist Alan Goldstein's "Curating Your Fossil and Mineral Collection" article.
Jessica Utrup, a curator at the Yale University's Peabody Museum, also has some thoughts about this topic on her blog at Spineless Wonders.
Thanks to Dry Dredger's Greg Courtney (flyingscience) for posting so many educational videos on paleontology on YouTube.
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