Category: Research Methods

  • Coastal Erosion and Drawing

    The Wasson Bluff site is designated under the Special Places Protection Act (1989) as a protected place that prohibits any collection of fossils or minerals without obtaining a Heritage Research Permit. The following work was carried out under an approved Heritage Research Permit (2015). Status of the Cliff Exposures The erosion of the coastal cliffs…

  • Field Work Preparations

    During the past several weeks we have been getting equipment and supplies prepared for 10 days of field work. Dr. Tim Fedak will lead a crew of 3-4 students and volunteers to examine the site where Canada’s oldest dinosaur skeletons have been found.  Previous field work (2000, 2004, 2006) recovered the bones of at least…

  • Field Mapping on Fundy Shore

    Location, location, location – the three important factors of real estate …. are just as important in paleontology.  A fossil is nothing, when out of context.  A fossil has scientific and historical value only when the details of its original location are well documented. the location and orientation of each bone is carefully documented when…