Education: Pedagogy and Technology in the Modern Paleontology Classroom

December 19th, 2018 by

By Jen Bauer & Jeanette Pirlo  Every year there are special short courses, or one-day programs at the annual Geological Society of America (GSA) meeting, surrounding a topic in paleontology. This year the workshop centered on incorporating new pedagogy (practice of teaching) and technology into the classroom (click here for advertisement). The program was set up where […]
Paleoart: Greer Stothers

December 19th, 2018 by

Greer Stothers is an illustrator located in the Greater Toronto Area. Her risographs won the Applied Artists Youngblood Illustration award, were shortlisted for a Broken Pencil award, and have been displayed in galleries in Canada, the United States, Germany, and Indonesia. She received her training at Sheridan College, graduating in 2016 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Illustration, and is currently studying Evolutionary Biology […]
Amateur Spotlight: Jack Kallmeyer

December 19th, 2018 by

Introduction to Jack Kallmeyer by Dr. Dave Meyer, lead nominator for the Strimple Award At the 2018 Annual Meeting of the Geological Society of America in Indianapolis, The Paleontological Society presented its Strimple Award for contributions by an amateur to paleontology to Jack Kallmeyer of Cincinnati, Ohio. I was among several paleontologists who nominated Jack […]
Featured Fossil: Eocene Egg

December 19th, 2018 by

By Sean Moran During July and August of this summer, a group of vertebrate paleontologists from the Florida Museum of Natural History spent four weeks combing the badlands of Nebraska looking for ~34 million-year-old (Ma) fossils. The northwestern corner of Nebraska, in addition to containing some of the state’s most beautiful scenery, also preserves some […]
Featured Professional: Adriane Lam

December 19th, 2018 by

Editor’s Note: Adriane Lam is a Ph.D. student at University of Massachusetts Amherst where she actively participates in understanding foraminifera assemblages of the Neogene to use to reconstruct ancient ocean circulation patterns and the evolution of foraminifera subgroups. Adriane is a first generation college student and a strong advocate for diversity in the geosciences. She has […]
Club Corner: Bolivian Paleontology Club “FosilBol”

December 19th, 2018 by

By Giovanni Rios For a long time, paleontology as a science was considered exclusive to a select group of people due to a lack of access to information. Within the last two decades, access to scientific information via the internet has propagated the development of new paleontology experts, some of them self-taught.  At the end of […]
Upcoming Events

December 13th, 2018 by

January 6 Meet the Paleontologist – Fossil Fish Tales, Falls of the Ohio State Park (Indiana) January 12 Dickson Mounds Kid’s Collectors Day (Illinois) February 1 GSA Graduate Student Research Grants application DEADLINE February 2 Geoscientists in the Park and GeoCorps America application DEADLINES February 2 – February 17 Tucson Gem, Mineral, and Fossil Showcase […]
FOSSIL Project Updates Fall 2018

October 17th, 2018 by

By Sadie Mills myFOSSIL Mobile App In August, FOSSIL team members joined students, staff, and volunteers from the Florida Museum on a field expedition to the Nebraska Badlands. In addition to searching for vertebrate fossils from the Eocene-Oligocene transition (approximate 34 million years ago), team members field-tested the myFOSSIL mobile app. You can see some […]
Upcoming Events

October 17th, 2018 by

October 19 – October 21 KGMS Gem, Mineral & Jewelry Show (Tennessee) October 20 – October 21 Florida Fossil Hunters Fossil Fair (Florida) October 25 “The Lost Bird Project” Public Lecture (Florida) October 26 Dinos After Dark (Pennsylvania) October 28  – October 29 Philadelphia Shell Show (Pennsylvania) October 28 KU Natural History Museum Member Day […]
Featured Fossil: Ichthyornis dispar

October 17th, 2018 by

By Christina Byrd, Paleontology Collections Manager, Sternberg Museum of Natural History Before his first day of college in the summer of 2014, incoming Fort Hays State University (FHSU) freshman Kris Super found a fossil of a bird skeleton in the Late Cretaceous chalk deposits in Gove County, Kansas. Prior to college, Kris had already spent […]