Panama Canal Project (PCP PIRE)

Oct 8, 2014

New application deadline: November 15, 2014 Are you interested in a geology and paleontology? How about traveling to Central America … Continue

Oct 3, 2014

New fossils from Eocene deposits of Panama on the Azuero peninsula (at arrow) are revealing that ~50 Million years ago, when … Continue

Oct 3, 2014

New paleontological museum internships are available! Starting in January 2015, interns will be able to explore questions dealing with the … Continue

Sep 30, 2014

Today at Cartagena “hill,” the cohort [..Jorge] encountered two peccary findings about 500 feet away from each other: an isolated … Continue

Sep 24, 2014

Sean Grim of Lafayette College (where two of our Summer 2014 interns hail from) wrote about some of their summer … Continue

Sep 11, 2014

Sep 9, 2014

Aug 28, 2014

This morning the interns headed out for a brief time in the field, in an area close to Newberry, FL. … Continue

Aug 27, 2014

Monday, Aug. 25, four new interns began their hands-on pre-Panama training. This training, orchestrated by Aaron Wood, was started in … Continue

Aug 20, 2014

PCP PIRE just wrapped up the 2014 All Hands Meeting in Fort Robinson, Nebraska. Why Nebraska? That’s in the center … Continue

Aug 8, 2014

Tomorrow morning we leave Panama to travel back home to the United States (specifically to Ft. Robinson, Nebraska for the … Continue

Aug 5, 2014

Ever wonder what an average morning of fieldwork along the Panama Canal is like for a PCP PIRE intern? Well, … Continue

Aug 1, 2014

Last night I tried my hand at making a Latin American dinner for myself consisting of cooked fish filet (corvina, … Continue

Aug 1, 2014

These images show the front and back of a tooth of Carcharocles chubutensis, UF262182. This fossil was found in the … Continue

Jul 25, 2014

This is the lower jaw of “Cynorca” occidentale UF234400, early to middle Miocene, 19-14.8 mya. This extinct peccary was part … Continue

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