{"id":66815,"date":"2022-08-24T10:13:52","date_gmt":"2022-08-24T15:13:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=66815"},"modified":"2022-08-24T10:13:55","modified_gmt":"2022-08-24T15:13:55","slug":"miocene-fossil-collection-will-receive-tlc-thanks-to-grant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=66815","title":{"rendered":"Miocene fossil collection will receive TLC thanks to grant"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>By UNIVERSITY COMMUNICATIONS<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A grant to rehouse and preserve Sternberg Museum\u2019s Miocene fossil mammal collection will soon ensure that fragile ancient remains receive much-needed attention. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dr. Laura Wilson, professor of geosciences and\nSternberg\u2019s chief curator, and Dr. Aly Baumgartner, Sternberg\u2019s collections\nmanager of paleontology, were recently awarded an Institute of Museum and\nLibrary Services (IMLS) grant to support Sternberg\u2019s paleontology collections. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The grant focuses on preserving Miocene-aged\nfossils (approximately 7 million years old) from Kansas that document the\nchanging ecosystem as grasslands spread across central North America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With the grant of $134,274 from IMLS, the\nMiocene Minium Quarry Fossil Preservation Project will fund specimen care,\nundergraduate and graduate student employees, and the development of\neducational resources focusing on what these fossils tell us about past\necosystems and how that relates to changing ecosystems in the face of climate\nchange. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sternberg Museum\u2019s Miocene fossil mammal\ncollection is key in documenting changing ecosystems across the great plains\nregion over the last 25 million years. These fossils have been excavated by\nSternberg staff and students from the Minium Quarry, a Graham County Kansas\nfossil site owned by FHSU and Sternberg Museum. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe fossils are very fragile and need special\nattention to ensure they don\u2019t deteriorate,\u201d Wilson said. \u201cThis grant gives us\na fantastic opportunity to employ students and provide unique professional\ndevelopment opportunities they can take into the job market and graduate\nschool.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition to the physical care and\npreservation of the fossils, the grant will be used to develop web pages to\neducate the public about the collection and what can be learned from the\nfossils regarding grassland evolution. \n\n\u201cThis\ngrant allows us to further many of our goals and initiatives at the museum in\ngeneral and the paleontology department specifically,\u201d Wilson said.\n\n\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By UNIVERSITY COMMUNICATIONS A grant to rehouse and preserve Sternberg Museum\u2019s Miocene fossil mammal collection will soon ensure that fragile ancient remains receive much-needed attention.&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11722],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-releases"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66815"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66816,"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66815\/revisions\/66816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}