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Digital Quarry Project website launch, Dinosaur National Monument
Today we proudly announce the launching of the Digital Quarry Project, a
website about the Carnegie Quarry, at carnegiequarry.com and invite
members of these lists to visit and explore. I will be at SVP next week
in Dallas if anyone would like to chat more about the project. There is
a feedback tab at the homepage as well. The site runs on desktops and
mobile platforms.
This year Dinosaur National Monument celebrates the 100th anniversary of
its establishment (and the 1,500,000 centenary of fossil deposition).
Discovered in 1909, the Carnegie Quarry has a long, rich, and
complicated history of excavation, research, in-situ fossil development
and preservation, museum design and architecture, and public education.
We possess a large archive of quarry maps, preparation notes,
correspondence, planning documents, historic photographs, etc. covering
day-to-day activities as well as the involvement of such luminaries as
Earl Douglass, Charles W. Gilmore, Barnum Brown, Ted White, and many
others. The goal of the Digital Quarry Project is to tell the remarkable
story of the Carnegie Quarry via excavation maps, movie footage, and
historic, written, scientific, and photographic documentation --- all
made freely available on line.
After many years of planning and rumination as to how to execute the
DQP, work on the project began in 2014 with extensive digital photo
documentation of the thousands of Carnegie Quarry fossils at the
monument and digitizing of historic quarry maps. In 2015 archival
scanning began and website design and development was undertaken and
completed. The DQP is an organic, growing, and evolving effort. The
existing site is far from complete, but we have chosen to launch it now
and begin sharing the fruits of our labor rather than wait many, many
years until everything is finished. Thus, the present DQP provides a
starting point and a proof of concept, with examples of the diverse
kinds of information available organized along several major themes.
Some of what is already on the site will be updated and refined later
and much more data, of interest to both the public and the scientific
community, will be added in the future.
This project would not be possible without the efforts of a number of
volunteers and colleagues, but especially the dedication and great
creativity of Geologist-In-Parks/GeoCorps interns Ben Otoo, Nicole
Ridgwell, Thea Artemis Kinyon Boodhoo, Marie Jimenez, Trinity Stirling,
and Elliott Smith. For those interested in participating, the DQP will
be the focus of work for the 2016 summer Geologist-In-Parks (NPS)/
GeoCorps (GSA) interns at Dinosaur. Although those positions will not be
advertised for several months, information about these intern programs
can be seen http://www.nature.nps.gov/geology/gip/
http://www2.nature.nps.gov/geology/mosaics/index.cfm and
http://rock.geosociety.org/g_corps/index.htm
See you in Dallas,
Dan
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