Become a Palaeontologist During March Break

Eight high school students will have the chance of a lifetime this March break. Four students from Nova Scotia and four from New Brunswick will have an opportunity to spend four days working at the Parrsboro museum with Canada's oldest dinosaurs.

In the summer of 2004, researchers with Dalhousie University and the Fundy Geological Museum in Parrsboro recovered 200-million- year-old Prosauropod dinosaur bones from the shores of the Bay of Fundy. Work on the bones continues in the fossil preparation lab at the museum and eight lucky students will have the chance to help out.

Students can submit a 500-word essay describing why they want to volunteer as a Project Prosauropod palaeontologist.

Project lab manager Kathy Goodwin is delighted to give students this hands-on opportunity. "With only five working labs of this kind in Canada, students don't get much exposure to this type of work other than through television," said Ms. Goodwin. "We want to give these students a chance, not only to see this work in progress, but to actually be a part of it."

To find out more about the contest, Project Prosauropod, and other Fundy Geological Museum March break activities, visit our website at http://museum.gov.ns.ca/fgm/lab/contest2.html, or call 1-866-856-DINO.