5/13/2023 0 Comments The forest of the hands and teeth![]() ![]() ![]() General Biology major, University of Washington You get to start off your morning with a boat ride across the lake watching the sun rise, hike across rugged hills to a peak where you are offered 360-degree views of the badlands, and the fossils we find at that site are beautiful! I think my favorite memory of fieldwork in the Hell Creek area was visiting one of our plant fossil sites across the lake from camp. ![]() This will be my sixth DIG Field School in Montana. As the Paleobotany Collections Manager, though, I also oversee >70k plant fossils in our collection which span over 400 million years of Earth history and come from across the globe! My research investigates the impact of mass extinction events on the diversity and ecology of plant communities. Burke Museum Paleobotany Collections and Lab Manager, University of Washington ![]()
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