Class 6~ Office Space

In order to have more room curating and organizing the geology collections, I was allowed to move into an old office at the Cayuga Nature Center that was not being used. If you have seen the movie office space, one thing you can be sure of is that my work environment is thankfully nothing similar to that. For example, a problem I had yesterday was moving an elephant’s femur bone by myself to make more room for jars of rocks and minerals. Just five minutes ago a chipmunk, yes a real live scurrying chipmunk, decided to join me in my new office and help me design a mineral classification activity for kids. I was nervous he was going to knock the mounted dog skeleton over. My mentor Dr. Buckler and I took a trip to downtown Syracuse to meet with Dr. Peter Plumley, the Exhibits Project Manager at the Museum of Science and Technology and with Dr. Jeff Karson, a professor in the Department of Earth Sciences at Syracuse University who is co-chairing the lava project. We discussed revisions on the grant proposal and set dates to do some lava pours. My job will be to conduct front-end evaluations on those pours. The assigned readings this week will sure come in handy! CAN’T WAIT!!!