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
>

--
Jake

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