Emielity was museum's guide for fossil hunters

From: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel | Date: April 20, 2002| Author: AMY RABIDEAU SILVERS | Copyright information

Emielity was museum's guide for fossil hunters

By AMY RABIDEAU SILVERS of the Journal Sentinel staff

Saturday, April 20, 2002

Hundreds of millions of years after trilobites inhabited what would become Wisconsin, Joseph G. Emielity began digging in the local geologic record.

Emielity was a geologist, born in Milwaukee, who spent his career with the Milwaukee Public Museum. Lacking the obvious geological features to study -- Wisconsin isn't known for its mountains or ...