Friday, December 5, 2008

Thesis update #1

So, for the first post I'll talk about just where I am on my master's thesis. Currently my plan is to be finished writing by May and probably do my defense sometime during the summer. Recently I had a meeting with my committee about my now previous topic. Suffice to say, things didn't go well. Its not that it wouldn't work, its that it would take way too much time and would require me visiting another lab somewhere, possibly Cal Tech. Anyway, so I've decided to fall back on my previous research for my thesis which involves a combination of carbon, oxygen and strontium isotope analysis of middle Miocene(~15 mya) fossils.
I'll post my thesis proposal once I have it finished...
Title: Isotopic paleoecological analysis of mammalian mega fauna of Fort Polk, La