I don't mean to spam the list, but I hope you or someone you know
might genuinely be interested in supporting this project:
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1897653577/photography-of-pollen-from-a-6th-century-shipwreck
Others have preliminary work on the Tantura organic samples, but in
the important areas they weren't able to (or interested in) getting a
species-level identification with light microscopy only. I'm hoping to
be able to do so with SEM to see what additional information can be
gleaned: the ship's travels, what food was on-board, what were plants
being used (as medicine?), etc.
Thanks for your time,
-Meko
Meko Kofahl
Ph.D. Student, Nautical Archaeology Program
Texas A&M University
College Station, TX USA
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