GEOLOGICAL SCIENCES
FACILITIES
Vertebrate collections in the Shuler Museum of Paleontology have special
strengths in the Mesozoic and Cenozoic of Texas, Mesozoic of
Southwestern U.S., and representative and research collections from
active projects outside the U.S., including Kenya, Malawi, Cameroon,
Pakistan, Mexico, and Yemen.
The collections and personnel from the Shuler Museum are actively used and
involved in outreach programs through area public museums. One such
project is the development of a traveling exhibit with the Fort Worth
Museum of Science and History entitled
Lone Star Dinosaurs.
This exhibit is bringing the original artwork (artist Karen Carr) and
specimens used in Dr. Louis L. Jacobs' book of the same name (1995,
Texas A&M Press) to venues throughout the state.
Facilities of the Shuler Museum of Paleontology include laboratories
for fossil preparation, molding and casting, pollen extraction
and anlysis, and morphometric analysis.
The Shuler Museum of Paleontology maintains research and teaching collections
in microfossils, fossil invertebrates, fossil plants, and recent
and fossil vertebrates. Active areas of current research involve
Mesozoic and Cenozoic vertebrates and plant macrofossils, and palynology.
VISIT OF NORMAN SCHWARTZKOFF
General Norman Schwartzkoff visited Shuler Museum laboratories to interview
graduate student Elizabeth Gomani and Dr. Louis Jacobs for his segment
on NBC Nightly News with Tom Brokow. General Schwartzkoff is
intrigued by the Africa-North America connections of people now and
dinosaurs in the past. Here, Stormin' Norman, Elizabeth and Dr. Jacobs
stand in front of the tail of Malawisaurus, shipped from
Malawi with help from The
Dinosaur Society and American Airlines.
PERSONNEL
DIRECTOR: Dr. Louis L. Jacobs, Ph.D.,
University of Arizona, 1977.
ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR: Dr. Dale A. Winkler, Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin, 1985.
CHIEF PREPARATOR: Kent Newman
PALYNOLOGY LAB DIRECTOR:
Dr. Bonnie F. Jacobs, Ph.D.,
Univeristy of Arizona, 1983.
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