Early Career: Acquisition of Paleobiological Specimen Preparation and Imaging Facility

该奖项是根据2009年《美国复苏和再投资法案》(公法111-5)资助的。授予的资金将支持一名实验室技术员在俄亥俄大学担任化石预备员。这名技术人员将支持至少九名教职员工的研究，他们依赖对脊椎动物化石和无脊椎动物遗骸的详细研究，以阐明群落对环境变化的进化和古生态反应。许多教师的研究集中在研究从井龄受限的东非裂谷序列中恢复的中、新生代脊椎动物化石。这笔赠款将在俄亥俄大学设立一个新的全职研究科学家职位，为期至少三年，并将推动多名早期职业科学家的研究计划。

0933619StevensThis award is funded under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). Granted funds will support a laboratory technician to work as a fossil preparator at Ohio University. The technician will support the research of at least nine faculty members who rely on detailed study of fossil vertebrate and invertebrate remains to elucidate evolutionary and paleoecologic responses of communities to environmental changes. Much of the faculty research center around study of Mesozoic and Cenozoic fossil vertebrates recovered from well age constrained East African Rift Valley sequences. This grant will establish a new full time research scientist position at Ohio University for a minimum of three years and will advance the research programs of multiple early career scientists.