A field trip to the American Museum of Natural
History is a required part of the lab work for the Dinosaur Core sections. The purpose of
the trip is to study specimens in the Museum's dinosaur collection, and to use information
obtained during your Museum visit in your lab research project on dinosaur locomotion. The
trip also serves to satisfy the requirement of the Geology Department that all Core 8.2
students must attend a field trip as part of their lab experience in the course.
The time, date, and meeting place for the field trip for your section of the Dinosaur
Core is posted below. Your lab instructor will be present for the field trip only at
the time and date indicated below.
Field Trip Date: Sunday, April 1, 2001
Meeting Time: 11 AM
Meeting Place: Museum Rotunda just inside the main doors facing Central
Park West. We will assemble at the Barosaur display at the
center of the Rotunda.
If you are unable to attend the trip at its scheduled
time, you will have to do it on your own at another time, or attend the field trip of
another Dinosaur Core lab. If you do the trip own your own, you must submit your receipt
for the Museum entrance fee to your lab instructor as evidence of your presence in the
Museum. No other form of trip documentation will be accepted. If you attend the field trip
of another Dinosaur Core lab section you must first obtain permission of the lab instructor
whose trip you want to attend, and you must present to your own lab instructor an attendance
sheet signed by the field trip instructor indicating that you were present for the field
trip. Attending the field trip of a regular Core 8.2 section (i.e. a non-Dinosaur Core
section) is not acceptable as a replacement for the Museum trip.
