2005 is another year of many challenges and fascinating activities. The Women of Discovery Awards presentation in New York was followed by a two-week trip to Japan for the opening of the Dino Expo 2005 in the National Science Museum in Tokyo. 80 dinosaurs from all over the world are on exhibit and Sue, the largest, most complete, and best-preserved T.rex ever found, is the centerpiece and "star" of the show. The exhibition will be shown in four cities over the next 18 months.

Next on the schedule is a visit to Honduras where I’ll be supporting a project for the welfare of cats and dogs and will be helping with operations on animals and with vaccinations. In May and June another underwater archeological expedition will be taking place in the Bay of Aboukir where I’ll be participating as a member of the team of divers in the excavation work being carried out by Franck Goddio, the French underwater archeologist. After the sensational discovery of the sunken cities of Canopus and Heracleion in past years, the research team’s main tasks this year are, above all, the excavation of a temple area in Canopus and further work in the connecting canal between the two cities and in Heracleion itself.

In the summer months I’ll be back in Wyoming, Montana and South Dakota on the lookout for dinosaurs before probably returning to Honduras. Parallel to this, work will continue on a publication on the subject of conch pearls (pink pearls from the shell of Strombus gigas), which it is hoped will appear this year.