Re: Antonio's grant

["James R. Cunningham" <jrccea@bellsouth.net>]

Hi, Fabio -- Frank has a good idea.  I'll do the same.
JimC

frank bliss wrote:

> I have been doing paleontology on my own all my life on my own tab.
> That being said, your request amounts to maybe one dollar from each
> person on the DML list. I'll send you two US dollars if you send me
> (and the rest of the list) your address and what the postage would be
> to Italy.  If everyone else cooperates, the DML will accomplish more
> than discourse but we all want a pdf of your paper available to us.
> Frank Bliss
> MS Biostratigraphy
> Weston, Wyoming
> On May 12, 2005, at 1:07 PM, Fabio Marco Dalla Vecchia wrote:
>
> > Probably many of you have heard about a dinosaur nicknamed Antonio.
> > It is a complete and articulated skeleton of a primitive hadrosaurian
> > from
> > the Upper Santonian (85 m.y.a.) of NE Italy. I was the field work
> > director
> > when it was excavated in 1998/99. After years, finally I have been
> > allowed
> > to study that specimens and others found in the same site. I applied a
> > grant of 863 USD to the Jurassic Foundation to support my expenses
> > (travels
> > and a Wood's lamp).
> > This morning I have found the following message in my e-mail box:
> >
> > <<Dear Dr. Dalla Vecchia:
> > Thank you very much for submitting a research grant proposal to the
> > Jurassic Foundation.  We received numerous excellent proposals from
> > students and researchers around the world, far in excess of the number
> > we were able to fund.  Given this abundance of proposals and the
> > limited
> > potential for funding, the committee decided to direct funding toward:
> > 1) graduate students; and 2) international researchers who otherwise
> > might not be able to access funds.  Even within these categories,
> > however, we were able to fund only a portion of the applicants. I am
> > sorry to inform you that your proposal was not selected for funding.
> >
> > Nonetheless, I sincerely thank you once again for your submission, and
> > I
> > wish you continued success in your academic and professional pursuits.
> >
> > Sincerely,
> >
> > Scott D. Sampson, Ph.D.
> > President, Jurassic Foundation>>
> >
> > On one side I am happy. This means that somewhere in the world many
> > specimens more important and worth of a sponsoring than a complete and
> > articulated basal hadrosaurian of Santonian age that lived in an
> > island in
> > the ocean between Eurasia and Afroarabia, are going to be studied and
> > described.
> > On the other side, not only I am not retributed at all to study
> > Antonio,
> > but, if I want to do it, I must pay by my own all the expenses.
> >
> > What would you do if you were in my position?
> >
> > yours
> >
> > Fabio M. Dalla Vecchia, Ph.D.
> >