One thing that we have going for us in
the geology department at UNLV is
extremely interesting rocks and fossils
in our region. Las Vegas Natural
History Museum is a registered
repository for federal fossils and
that's very important for us because
before we had a museum in Southern
Nevada that could properly care for
fossils and could prove that to the
federal government all of Nevada fossils
would go out of state.
The Las Vegas Natural History Museum which allows us this lab space so I can come here and do my research.
I have volunteers that help me with my
prepping too so they get experienced.
We have a prep lab here that where my
students and I can actually work on the
fossil. So when we collect fossils in the
field, we bring them here to the museum.
We're in the prep lab, we're able to work
on them and our our activity in the prep
lab is part of the museum experience for
the museum visitor.
We have Indian patrons coming in, we have classes and field trips every day coming in, and that
supports you know people coming to
museum to learn about Southern Nevada
fossils or just science, STEM research.
Research isn't free it's it takes a lot
of passion. In order to complete it, you'll also need assistance paying for it.
Without having some money like that
it's it's difficult if not impossible to
do the kinds of cutting-edge research
that we're doing here at UNLV.
