Meet a Scientist: The SUE Project
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Meet Bill Simpson, Head of Geological Collections and McCarter Collections Manager of Fossil Vertebrates, as he shares his experience with SUE from the very beginning of the project. Bill will discuss examining the fossil prior to auction, the auction itself, preparation of the fossil, facilitating research on SUE, providing input on the mounting, re-mounting in Stanley Field Hall, unveiling live on morning TV shows May 17, 2000, and directing the dismantling, move and re-mounting of SUE in 2018. A mixture of casts of SUE and real bones not on the mount will be shown.
This event is part of Summer of SUE - celebrating 25 years of SUE the T. rex at the Field Museum. Check out the rest of the SUE-lebrations we have planned for this summer!
During Meet a Scientist, you can find them in the Grainger Science Hub. They'll discuss their work and share real items from the museum’s collection of nearly 40 million objects. From collections care to field work, and dinosaurs to ecology, there’s a world of science to explore.
Visit the Science Hub on select weekdays for an up-close look at what our researchers do every day.
