Job Description:

• 1) Prepares specimens for museum collections and exhibits: Cleans rock matrix from fossil specimens, using electric drills, awls, dental tools, chisels, and mallets.

• 2) Brushes preservatives, such as plaster, resin, hardeners, and shellac on specimens.

• 3) Molds and restores skeletal parts of fossil animals, using modeling clays and special molding and casting techniques.

• 4) Constructs skeletal mounts of fossil animals, using tools, such as drill presses, pipe threaders, welding and soldering apparatus, and carpenter's tools.

• 5) Constructs duplicate specimens, using plaster, glue, latex, and plastiflex-molding techniques.

• 6) Reassembles fragmented artifacts, and fabricates substitute pieces.

• 7) Maintains museum files.

• 8) Cleans, catalogs, labels, and stores specimens.

• 9) May install, arrange, and exhibit materials.