Montana Paleo Expedition
7 - 16 July 2007 — 10 days
DAILY ITINERARY
Note: Please bring your own tent & sleeping materials for expedition camp. If you cannot arrange to do so, please email Joseph Hatcher at:
7 July
- Pick up participants at the Billings, MT airport
- Lunch in Billings
- Set up camp
- Get to know each other
- Dinner
- Intro class: What are we doing
- Camp life explained - logistics
8 July
- Breakfast
- Load up
- Field work - prospecting, evaluation, excavation, mapping data capture
- Lunch
- Museum tour and class on collections and curation of a collection
- Class: Skeletal anatomy with cast materials
- Fossil preparation
- Dinner
- Plans for the next day
- Daily rap-up
- Time for journaling
9 July
- Breakfast
- Load up
- Field work - prospecting, evaluation, excavation, mapping data capture
- Lunch
- Drop off specimens and catalog at museum
- Class: Reading a bone bed, taphonomy, and mapping
- Fossil preparation
- Dinner
- Plans for the next day
- Daily rap-up
- Time for journaling
10 July
- Breakfast
- Load up
- Field work - prospecting, evaluation, excavation, jacketing, mapping data capture
- Lunch
- Drop off specimens and catalog at museum
- Class: Reading the rocks, geology and basics of sedimentology
- Fossil preparation
- Dinner
- Plans for the next day
- Daily rap-up
- Journaling
11 July - Fort Peck Lake Field Day
- Breakfast
- Load up
- Fort Peck Lake - geology boat tour and fun
- Dinner
- Plans for the next day
- Daily rap-up
- Journaling
12 July
- Breakfast
- Load up
- Field work - prospecting, evaluation, excavation, jacketing, mapping data capture
- Lunch
- Drop off specimens and catalog at museum
- Class: Taxonomy - Who is who and why?
- Fossil preparation
- Dinner
- Plans for the next day
- Daily rap-up
- Journaling
13 July
- Breakfast
- Load up
- Field work - prospecting, evaluation, excavation, jacketing, mapping data capture
- Lunch
- Drop off specimens and catalog at museum
- Class: Museum Curation - Field trip to Garfield County Museum
- Fossil preparation
- Dinner
- Plans for the next day
- Daily rap-up
- Journaling
14 July
- Breakfast
- Load up
- Field work - prospecting, evaluation, excavation, jacketing, mapping data capture
- Lunch
- Drop off specimens and catalog at museum
- Class: Dinosaur research trends
- Fossil preparation
- Dinner
- Plans for the next day
- Daily rap-up
- Journaling
15 July
- Breakfast
- Load up
- Field work - prospecting, evaluation, excavation, jacketing, mapping data capture
- Closing down the quarry
- Lunch
- Drop off specimens and catalog at museum
- Tying up loose ends
- Fossil preparation
- Dinner
- Program rap-up
- Journaling
16 July
- Breakfast
- Packing & break down camp
- Final clean-up of camp
- Leave for Billings
- Lunch in Billings
- Drop off at Billings Airport
End of Tour
This tour package is sponsored by The Geological Society of America's GeoVentures program.
Travel & tours for geoscience enthusiasts.