Dinosaur Dreaming Volunteers

Since the start of annual field trips to the Flat Rocks site on the Bass Coast and the Eric the Red West site on the Otway Coast, more than 700 volunteers from Victoria, interstate and around the world have joined the core of regular Dinosaur Dreaming crew who just can't stay away. These numbers do not include the myriad of sponsors who have supported the Dinosaur Dreaming project over the years. Volunteers must be over the age of 18 and have a reasonable level of fitness. They must be willing to carry equipment to and from the site including navigating a number of stairs and natural shoreline obstacles.

Volunteer jobs at the Dinosaur Dreaming site include occasional sand removal from the excavation area and sitting for hours breaking big lumps of rock into small fragments of rock. This can be quite laborious, but the rewards are great. Ask any of the volunteers how they feel when they break open a piece of rock to find a fossil bone inside, or better still - a dinosaur tooth! It's magic! All Dinosaur Dreaming volunteers are trained to recognise what fossil bone looks like in the rock. The most important tool is a X10 hand lens as some of the bones, particularly the tiny mammal jaws, can be difficult to identify with the naked eye.

For more information and to see photos of our volunteers in action over the years, check out our blog.

If you are interested in volunteering, please Contact us. We usually start assembling February's volunteer list in October.