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Port Townsend Marine Science Center

Port Townsend Marine Science Center. Orca Project. History. Photo by Kelly Balcom -Bartok. History. Photo by Kelly Balcom -Bartok. History.

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Port Townsend Marine Science Center

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  1. Port Townsend Marine Science Center Orca Project

  2. History Photo by Kelly Balcom-Bartok

  3. History Photo by Kelly Balcom-Bartok

  4. History In 2008, a visitor to the PTMSC casually mentioned the skeleton, wondering whether anyone had claimed it. Questions, emails and correspondence with NOAA bounced back and forth until the PTMSC were given a long term loan of the skeleton for use in education. In May, 2008, PTMSC staff and an AmeriCorps team joined a group of scientists and volunteers on the Sequim farm. The skeleton lay inside a bright orange net, covered with a thick growth of nettles and lush grass. The skeleton was carefully uncovered, the bones labeled and tagged and then loaded on a truck bound for the NOAA lab in Seattle. There the bones were cataloged, soaked and cleaned of the cartilage and dried tissue that still remained.

  5. History In March, 2009, the PTMSC received the bones, and the real work began.

  6. Bone Atlas

  7. Dimensioning

  8. Dimensioning

  9. Dimensioning – CAT Scan of “Hand”

  10. Assembly based on CAT Scan

  11. Skull without teeth

  12. Skull with dentures

  13. Lower jaw with dentures

  14. Parts

  15. Parts

  16. Rib cage and part of lower spine

  17. Rib cage and part of lower spine

  18. Lower spine with armature

  19. “cartilage” close up

  20. Base of spine

  21. Sternum and ribs

  22. Sternum, no “cartilage” yet

  23. Guess this in one try, it’s easy!(hint: look at the pelt)

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