I know I will miss his posts.  Prayers for tranquility for  the
family  in the coming weeks and months.

DM&FS

At 10:23 PM 9/4/2010, Jim Arnott 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