Snailboi gone!? I'm shocked and I'm saddened. And it happened just as he was coming into his curmudgeonhood... RIP Andrew On Sat, Sep 4, 2010 at 8:23 PM, Jim Arnott <jrasite@eoni.com> wrote: > Researching a bit of New Zealand this evening I came across this: > > http://www.listserv.uga.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind1007b&L=conch-l&P=267 > > From: Marcus Coltro <marcuscoltro@HOTMAIL.COM> Subject: [CONCH-L] > Passing of Andrew Grebneff To: CONCH-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU Received: > Thursday, July 8, 2010, 10:54 AM > > I am deeply sorry to inform the passing of my dear friend Andrew > Grebneff from New Zealand. Below is the message I got this morning. > Marcus Coltro > > Dear staff and senior students of the Department of Geology: > I am sorry to pass on a message received about 4 pm this afternoon > Thursday: that our paleontology technician Andrew Grebneff has been > found dead in a hotel room in Mexico. Andrew worked last week until > Wednesday, and then said he'd take a few days off. He had the weekend > with his family, somewhere out of town, but returned home early, > ostensibly to do field work. He didn't return home on Monday night, > and on Tuesday was tracked to Los Angeles. From there, he sent a brief > message saying he would not be back in New Zealand. > > Andrew Grebneff worked with me as a fossil preparator since 1985, on > rolling short term contracts. He had consuming interests in > paleontology, and in the study of molluscs. He was an exceptionally > skilled preparator, meeting the highest international standards. His > wife Kala, and two teenage children, can be contacted at 38 Crosbie > Street, Mornington, Dunedin; tel 453 4436. Sincerely Ewan -- R. Ewan > Fordyce *Associate Professor, and Head of Department, Department of > Geology University of Otago, PO Box 56, Dunedin 9054, NZ tel > 3-479-7510, fossil prep lab 3-479-4575, cell 021-037-3964, fax > 3-479-7527 Administrative office: 3-479-7519 or > hod.geology@stonebow.otago.ac.nz > web: _http://www.otago.ac.nz/geology/people/fordyce/index.html_ ( > http://www.otago.ac.nz/geology/people/fordyce/index.html > ) *Research Associate, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian > Institution > > And this: > > http://www.otago.ac.nz/geology/news/files/andrew_grebneff.html >
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