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Discovery Team:
Bill Harrison
Carol Tuck
In the summer of 2001, Burpee Museum led an expedition to the Hell Creek
Formation of southeastern Montana to search for dinosaur fossils. The expedition
team, led by Michael Henderson, Burpee's Curator of Earth Sciences, was made up
of amateur rock hounds, most of whom had never been to Montana before. The day
before the expedition was due to pack up and head for home, two of the amateur
team members, Carol Tuck and Bill Harrison, discovered pieces of fossilized bone
weathering out from the side of a butte.
Excavation Team:
Chris Garnhart
Bill Harrison
Mike Henderson
Brian Ostberg
Joe Peterson
Scott Williams
By May of 2002 an excavation permit had been obtained. Over the next six weeks, a total of 40 eager
Burpee staff members and volunteers would travel to Hell Creek to set about uncovering, mapping,
and identifying the bones that had been found.
Preparation Team:
Dave Carlson
Jim Holstein
Mindy Householder
Katie Tremaine
Connie Van Beek
Scott Williams
Headed up by Scott Williams, Burpee's Collections Manager, a team
of fossil preparators began chipping away at the rocks that contained
Jane's bones. It would end up taking 15 preparators
more than 18 months and 10,000 man-hours to complete the work.
Exhibit Team:
Barbara Ceiga
Mike Henderson
Jill Hertzing
Molly Holman
Holli Palmer
Sheila Rawlings
Aron Wallace
Scott Williams
Led by Field Museum veteran, Barbara Ceiga, a team of Burpee staff began translating the story
of Jane into an exhibit experience that would excite, engage, and educate visitors of all ages--Jane: Diary of a Dinosaur.
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