Tiffany Adrain – Mammoth tasks and mastodon skulls

The WIPS May meeting will feature speaker Tiffany Adrain, Director of Research Collections at the University of Iowa Paleontology Repository. Her talk is entitled "Mammoth tasks and mastodon skulls: a journey through the University of Iowa Paleontology Repository."

Social time begins at 6:30 p.m. followed by announcements and the program. Attend in person or on Zoom. If you're not a member and would like the Zoom link, email cHJvZ3JhbXMgfCB3ZXN0ZXJucGFsZW8gISBvcmc= before 3 p.m. the day of the meeting.

About the program -- Join Tiffany Adrain in a virtual tour of the University of Iowa Paleontology Repository, a fossil collection of over 2 million specimens from all over the world. Learn about recent and ongoing projects in collection storage, following the move of about 40 tons of rocks and fossils, and the conservation of Iowa's first scientifically excavated mastodon.

About the speaker -- Tiffany Adrain is the Director of Research Collections at the University of Iowa Paleontology Repository in the School of Earth, Environment, and Sustainability. Despite having over thirty-five years of museum experience, she never ceases to be amazed at the new challenges that arise with managing paleontology collections, and the wonderful dedication of the student volunteers who help tackle them.

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