Museum of Discovery at Sheridan College

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Natural History Museum of Wyoming located in sheridan, wy

Sheridan College Students presented their research findings at the University of Wyoming INBRE and URID conferences this weekend. They even managed to find some Laramie salamanders.

Ahvaytum bahndooiveche: North America’s oldest dinosaur has a Shoshone name Paleontologists collaborated with members of the Eastern Shoshone Tribe to honor the fact that the dinosaur was found on the tribe’s ancestral lands. We hear how the project braided together two different ways of knowing from an Eastern Shoshone elder and a research scientist.

Upcoming Lecture Wednesday, March 12! See you in the museum for this one!

Sheridan College students are researching the Thermopolis mineral hot springs using next-generation DNA sequencing tools and an Innovaprep water concentration system. Guided by visiting scientist Scott Tighe from U of Vermont. Thanks to funding from and .

"Elsewhere, at the Museum of Discovery at Sheridan College in Wyoming, Hebert and the museum’s directors spent five days in January cataloging about 700 fossils. Using ArcGIS Survey123 and ArcGIS Field Maps, they manually entered the handwritten GPS coordinates where each specimen was found, attaching an RFID tag to each. That way, a digital record will show where a fossil is at any given time—on a shelf, on display, on a researcher’s desk, or even on loan to another museum. Hebert is also adding other contextual metadata to each fossil including images, chemical information to determine the age, and research paper links."

Mapping Dinosaur Fossils, from Dig to Display The Earth Sciences Foundation is creating a real-time map of dinosaur bone locations with RFID tagging and GIS mapping.

Wednesday, May 1 - 7pm.

Explore History tomorrow (Tuesday, March 19) @ Tongue River Valley Community Center in Dayton - 10:30 am to 12 noon - Hail Caesar! The Story of Sheridan College's Allosaurus.

Bill Matteson, Museum of Discovery at Sheridan College Collections Manager, will tell us about Caesar, a fossilized Allosaurus discovered by Sheridan College students during a dig near Buffalo in the 1990s. Bill will explain all the little details that go into bringing such a large animal to life. You will also learn about paleontology and hear stories about how the students discovered and excavated such an incredible find!

Explore History is free to attend and open to all.