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Cole Rost (left) and Ethan Frye (right) beside the 3D Geomap in the museum. Museum Curator of Paleontology, Dr. Nathan Carroll, is teaching both students fossil mounting techniques and working with Mr. Whitney at CCHS. Carroll is also hand-painting the fossil formations in the map to represent the geologic time in four states. The map spans an area from Miles City to the east, Glendive to the north, Rapid City to the west, and Gillette to the south, with Carter County serving as the center point.
Cole Rost (left) and Ethan Frye (right) going over plans for the 3D Geomap bench. The map is 8 feet tall and four feet wide, presenting a design challenge.
submitted by Carter County Museum
Carter County Museum recently announced that Ethan Frye and Cole Rost have been selected for two project stipends for the Big Sky Seaway exhibition for the Spring 2024 semester. Each student will receive a $2,500 scholarship stipend sponsored by Ringling Ranch Limited Partnership Group for their work, which can go toward costs of their education after graduating in May. This scholarship is made possible through Kebi Smith and Fay Ranch Real Estate, in partnership with Ringling Ranch Limited Partnership Group. The museum is honored by their donation and we look forward to continuing this program for students in the future.
Frye and Rost are seniors at Carter County High School. Cole Rost will be attending MSU Northern in Havre for Diesel Tech and Ethan Frye will be attending Dickinson State for Welding Technology.
Their projects include making mounts for fossils for the exhibit and a bench for the 3D printed Geomap, which will serve as a centerpiece of the Big Sky Seaway exhibit, which will open on June 1, 2024 at the Carter County Museum. "Big Sky Seaway" explores the evolutionary narrative of marine life during the Mowry through the Pierre Shale; a ~30 million year record of marine transitions. This travel through time will include highlighting vibrant marine diversity, such as ammonites, marine reptiles, crabs and more!
The exhibit is funded in part by an Eastern Montana Initiative Grant from the Montana Office of Tourism, which has helped us digitize and print local fossil specimens, including Pinto the Plesiosaur, Vickie the Mosasaur, and Dory the Xiphactinus, as well as purchase other casts to fill out the story of the Western Interior Seaway in Carter County. Many of the fossils in this exhibit are from marine rock in the southern part of Carter County, allowing the museum to showcase the fossil histories of Alzada, Hammond, Boyes, and Belltower, among others.
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