[OR_Archaeology] New Archaeology Jobs?

[Leland Gilsen]

Scientific American Dec 2014 appears to have created a new area of employment for both paleontologists and archaeologists in their mixed metaphor article "Fossil Hunting... in the Milky Way" by Kathryn V. Johnston. 

She has a subsection entitled "Digging for Galactic Fossils" that: "Over the past 15 years galactic archaeologists have gotten just that in the form of data from the Sloan Sky Survey (SDSS)." 

Another subsection "New Excavation Tools" "Two groups are now measuring chemical compositions for millions of stars, and their data could be used to tackle this problem. One is the GALactic Archaeology with HERMES (GALAH) survey led by Freedman and Bland-Hawthorn, which has a pilot survey currently underway. The other is called the APO Galactic Evolution Experiment (APOGEE)"... "Galactic archaeologists are just beginning to appreciate that studying the Milky Way is like studying 1,000 galaxies, because that many smaller objects have combined to build up the larger body."

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Dr. Leland Gilsen

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                     "However data without information are sterile"
 		 	   		  
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