Re: Antonio's grant

[don ohmes <d_ohmes@yahoo.com>]

Words I never thought I'd commit to media-- sure, I'll
risk a sawbuck on Fabio, if this thing jells. 

Don

--- frank bliss <frank@blissnet.com> wrote:

> 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.
> >>>
> >
> >
> >
> 
>