Re: Take the '''nisti""" plunge

["Jaime A. Headden" <qilongia@yahoo.com>]

Tommy Bradley (htomsirveaux@mybluelight.com) wrote:

<After sending the message, I checked the Archive, and found some
reference to the National Institute of Science and Technology, but was
followed by "...I think.">

  Bakker did in fact indicate that "nisti" was an allusion to the NIST of
the US Government, but it stands for the National Institute for Standards
and Technology, and is a Federal program. Additional information can be
found at http://www.nist.gov/ . This program funded the digs at Como Bluff
that Bakker worked with Siegwarth and others in the early 1990's, and
which uncovered such notables as the "super-saurs" of *Edmarka* and the
possibly congeneric taxon currenly unpublished by Siegwarth et al.,
*Drinker*, several mammals including *Zofiabaatar* and *Foxraptor*,
various teleosts and lungfish, turtles, etc., all at the Morrison of Como
Bluff. Because of this, the single most replete locality in faunal
diversity of the Morrison Formation, between levels, is known from the
Jurassic of Wyoming.

  Cheers,

=====
Jaime A. Headden

  Little steps are often the hardest to take.  We are too used to making leaps 
in the face of adversity, that a simple skip is so hard to do.  We should all 
learn to walk soft, walk small, see the world around us rather than zoom by it.

"Innocent, unbiased observation is a myth." --- P.B. Medawar (1969)

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