Re: Antonio's grant

[Phil Bigelow <bigelowp@juno.com>]

After all of the donations have been collected, it would be easier and
faster (and maybe cheaper) just to wire Fabio the money.  Wiring is safer
and more secure, too.

One mail collection point would handle all of North America.  But having
DML donors snail-mailing money to a U. S. collection point from other
continents is VERY inefficient, particularly if the donations are on the
order of only a couple bucks/Euros per list member.  Perhaps 3 additional
collection points on other continents would be useful.

If the U. S. $ total turns out to be more than U.S. Customs
regs./Treasury regs. allow, then just break up the wire into mutiple
smaller amounts.

Don't bother with PayPal.  Just wire it directly.

If this works, perhaps it could evolve into an annual award-type thingy.

<pb>
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On Thu, 12 May 2005 20:15:23 -0600 frank bliss <frank@blissnet.com>
writes:
> According to the USPS the following restrictions would apply:  Coins; 
> 
> bank notes; currency notes (paper money); traveler's checks; 
> jewelry; 
> and other precious or valuable articles must be enclosed in an 
> insured 
> parcel post package in order to be mailable to addressees in Italy.  
>  
> Therefore, a single package less than one pound shipped to Italy 
> would 
> cost 14 bucks plus insurance covering 1000 bucks which costs $16.80. 
>  
> Total cost of a bundle of $863 insured US dollar bills to Italy, is 
> 
> $30.80.   Total is around 900 bucks.  I would be willing to collect 
> the 
> money piecemeal and ship it off to Fabio sans any other volunteers.
> 
> Here is his bio off the web as of 1995 which is the latest I could 
> find 
> in English.
> 
> Fabio Marco Dalla Vecchia is doing his post-doc at the Department of 
> 
> Geology, Paleontology and Geophysic of the University of Padova 
> (Italy) 
> (fax 0039/49/8272070). He is the Curator of the Paleontological 
> Museum 
> of Monfalcone (Italy) ( tel. 0039/481/40014). He discussed his Ph.D. 
> 
> dissertation on the triassic pterosaurs at the University of Modena. 
> At 
> the present he is studying the triassic pterosaurs of Northern 
> Italy, 
> mainly the new specimens from Friuli region (NE Italy) (osteology, 
> taxonomy, dating, deposition and life environment). He is also 
> working 
> on the dinosaur evidences on the carbonate platform of the Adriatic 
> 
> region (Italy, Slovenia, Croazia). In particular he is researching 
> dinosaur footprints in the cretaceous of Istria (Croazia) with a 
> grant 
> from "The Dinosaur Society". The study of sauropod bones of Early 
> Cretaceous age from this region is also in progress. Anyone 
> interested 
> on these subjects can contact him. He will be at the SPV meeting in 
> 
> Pittsburgh. Please mercy for his scarce knowledge of english 
> language.
> 
> Does anyone have a problem with this approach in this forum other 
> than 
> the fact that we can't do this all the time?
> 
> Passing the hat around for dinosaur research???
> 
> Frank Bliss
> MS, Biostratigraphy
> Weston, Wyoming
> 
> On May 12, 2005, at 8:29 PM, James R. Cunningham wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> >>>
> >
> >
> >
> 
> 
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