Thanks to the grant from SBC, the lab now has an air abrasive tool that will be used to clean many types of fossils. The air abrasive tool is basically a micro sand blaster unit capable of removing delicate fossils from solid rock.
We also received a digital microscope that will be used to find tiny microscopic fossils in the sediments from the dinosaur site. Previous searches have revealed the bones and teeth of amphibians and fish that were previously unknown from the site.