NORMAN — Nancy Ha, a Muskogee sophomore, was one of 10 students chosen to take part in a paleontology expedition this summer.
The program, titled “Paleo Expedition 2009,” is part of ExplorOlogy, an education program offered by the Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History in Norman. Ha, who attends Bishop Kelley High School in Tulsa, was selected from more than 30 applicants statewide.
Participants will start in the museum’s extensive paleontology collection, learning the basics of paleontology fieldwork and excavation. The team will then travel to a site in Utah. There, they will work with museum paleontologists and other scientists from the University of Oklahoma to identify and excavate fossils, including 75 million-year-old dinosaurs. The students and scientists will be living in tents for a week. The students will have the opportunity to learn wilderness basics such as mapping, GPS navigation and desert survival.
