Welcome to the 2018 Mapes intern blog! We all successfully made it through one week in NYC and are excited to share our experiences with you as we work to rehouse, catalogue and database this extensive collection of Paleozoic marine invertebrate. This is the third year of the Mapes internship at the American Museum of Natural History and it is our job to work through the final 20 cabinets of specimens. We hope you enjoy learning about the collection! Before we begin, we would like to introduce the 2018 intern crew. Lindsey : Lindsey Powell is a Hoosier pursuing a Geology degree from Indiana University-Purdue University of Indianapolis. She has spent time at the Black Hills Institute, as an intern, employee, and volunteer, where she was active in the preparation, assembly, and shipping of the Tyrannosaurs rex known as Trix. In her free time she volunteers at the Children's Museum of Indianapolis in the PaleoLab, and her only hobby is learning more about tyrannosaurs....