August 2001
George C. Page Museum of La Brea Discoveries, Los Angeles

Microfossil sorting.
I was employed as a laboratory volunteer to clean asphalt-laden mammal, bird, reptile, and amphibian bones using 1,1,1-trichloroethane and to
sort through excavated tar pit matrix for microfossils such as plant debris, insect exoskeletons, and gastropod shell fragments.