{"id":57800,"date":"2015-11-25T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-11-25T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/uri-senior-interns-at-dinosaur-national-monument-on-way-to-career-in-paleontology\/"},"modified":"2015-11-25T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-11-25T00:00:00","slug":"uri-senior-interns-at-dinosaur-national-monument-on-way-to-career-in-paleontology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2015\/11\/uri-senior-interns-at-dinosaur-national-monument-on-way-to-career-in-paleontology\/","title":{"rendered":"溏心vlog免费B站 senior interns at Dinosaur National Monument on way to career in paleontology"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t\tCCRI grad enjoys being a \u2018geology detective\u2019<\/b><\/p>\n

KINGSTON, R.I. \u2013 November 25, 2015 \u2013 Cranston resident Marie Jimenez is aiming for a career as a paleontologist, and the aspirations of the 溏心vlog免费B站 senior received a big boost last summer when she served as an intern at Dinosaur National Monument in northeast Utah. And yet she says she has very little interest in studying dinosaurs.<\/p>\n


\n\tUnlike many paleontologists, Jimenez said she \u201cwas definitely not into dinosaurs as a kid.\u201d In fact, she initially enrolled at 溏心vlog免费B站 to study engineering after transferring from the Community College of Rhode Island. But a course in geology redirected her academic studies, which led to her interest in paleontology.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cPaleontology is all about uncovering the history of the Earth, whether by dinosaur fossils or other types of fossils,\u201d she explained. \u201cYou have to know a little about everything to attack a problem. It\u2019s sort of like being a geology detective.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\tHer internship at Dinosaur National Monument, arranged through the Geological Society of America and the National Park Service, was aimed at helping make the work of the park paleontologist a little easier. The 180,000-acre unit of the Park Service centers around what Jimenez called \u201ca vertical dinosaur quarry\u201d where the fossil beds are tilted at a 67-degree angle. <\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cSo instead of looking down into the ground at the fossils, you\u2019re seeing this 150-foot wall of bones in front of you,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n


\n\tEvery day for 11 weeks, Jimenez worked to digitize archival documents, photographs and maps from the early days of the 100-year-old fossil quarry to make the history of the site come alive. She searched through boxes of archival materials, unearthed hidden specimens, and scanned and wrote a description of each item. Her work was part of the Digital Quarry Project, which now can be seen by anyone visiting a new website that launched last month at carnegiequarry.com.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cI spent most of my time in the Paleo Library where we would pick a box, search through it and find these amazing stories about people or specimens we discovered,\u201d Jimenez said.<\/p>\n


\n\tAlthough excavations at Dinosaur National Monument ended in the 1990s, Jimenez was still able to occasionally engage in fieldwork mapping parts of the park and measuring and photographing bones in the quarry.<\/p>\n


\n\t\u201cMy favorite part of the experience was being able to explore the area,\u201d she said. \u201cAs long as we got our work done, we could explore the park and volunteer for other park-related jobs. I went on a six-day rafting trip with the park biologist to extract invasive species. It was hard work, but six days in the wilderness without a shower or a cell phone was a great experience.\u201d<\/p>\n


\n\tAs she looks toward graduation next May, Jimenez knows her college education is far from finished. She plans to attend graduate school with the aim of becoming a working paleontologist in a museum, park or academia.<\/p>\n


\nPictured above: 溏心vlog免费B站 senior Marie Jimenez takes notes at the wall of bones as part of her internship at Dinosaur National Monument in Utah. (Photo courtesy of Marie Jimenez)\n\t<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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