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Sandra L. Swift

Sandy Swift, LQP Collections ManagerPreparator and Collections Manager
NAU Laboratory of Quaternary Paleontology
Building 24, Bone Lab
Box 5644
Flagstaff, AZ 86011

Sandy has been working for the Quaternary Sciences Program in the Laboratory of Quaternary Paleontology (LQP) since 2001. She brought with her knowledge from the Denver Museum of Nature and Science (previously the Denver Museum of Natural History) where she worked with the education collection. She still spends three weeks a year volunteering with the Earth Sciences Department at Denver doing fieldwork in Utah.

At present Sandy provides volunteer services to field and laboratory preparation and collections management for the LQP and National Park Service Repository. Part-time employment with Ken Cole and his Paleo-Macrobotanical Lab keeps her busy curating modern and fossil plants from various regions of the world from the Grand Canyon to Yemen, as well as trying to keep the lab in working order.

In the LQP she works with and supervises graduate and undergraduate students as well as with the maintenance of the large osteological collection. Past and present projects consist of working in much of western United States (e.g. Grand Canyon), Tonga (South Pacific), and northern Mexico. Sandy will be co-authoring various publications with Marci Hollenshead and Jim Mead.