Bruce’s Paleo-Tutorial

Hi all,

Is there a lab meeting today?

Adania

We will meet today in the Director’s Conference Room $ 11:45. Gabe Santos will present his GSA talk. Please pass the word.

FLMNH Seminar tomorrow: Dr. Andrea Dutton, Associate Professor – UF Department of Geological Sciences & Faculty Fellow – Thompson Institute for Earth Systems, will present “Chasing the signal of Last Interglacial polar ice sheet collapse in the tropics.”​

To promote sustainability and green practices, as part of the TIES mission, please bring your own mugs for coffee (and if you have extras bring them for others to borrow).

See Holiday Invite Flyer in Files

‘Tis the Season!

You will find the official holiday party invitation attached!  Please be sure to RSVP to me by Nov. 28th.  Lab managers, please distribute this invite to the students working in your labs.

Thank you – and hope to see you all there on Dec. 3rd!

Griffin Sheehy

Asst. to the Director

Florida Museum of Natural History

Dickinson Hall

PO Box 117800

[email protected]

Phone:  352-273-1901

Fax:  352-392-8783

www.flmnh.ufl.edu

I wasn’t sure if you all already knew about this, but ToScA is happening here at UF March 6-8, 2019. They have an abstract submission section for education and outreach – it might be cool to show some of the CT scanning/3D printing everyone’s been doing? Abstract deadline is Nov. 30th and here’s the direct link https://www.rms.org.uk/discover-engage/event-calendar/tosca-north-america-2019.html

And here’s a more detailed email about the meeting/abstract submission:

Dear all:
The second ToScA North America Symposium is to be held at the University of Florida. The symposium provides an opportunity for open discussions, networking with researchers and commercial industry representatives, and a platform to engage in collaborations across disciplines using tomography.
The symposium will include pre-conference hands-on software workshops, keynote speakers, student talks, poster presentations, and an image competition. 
Abstracts are now being accepted for both talks and poster presentations.
Abstract Submission Deadline Date – Friday 30 November 2018.
To submit your talk / poster abstract for the symposium please follow the guidelines below:

• Abstracts should be submitted as a Word Document NOT a PDF
• Abstracts should be approximately 300 words in length
• Ensure you include a full title, all authors and affiliations and references if appropriate
• Include Keywords if possible
• You may include images or diagrams where appropriate
• Please indicate in your submission if you are a Student
• Presenting authors are required to register, pay and attend the symposium
• Please indicate which sessions your abstract would be most appropriate for from the list below:
  • Organismal Biology – Research stemming from the oVert grant,  biological sciences
  • Education and Outreach – Science communication, public engagement
  • Medicine and Veterinary Sciences – Medical applications, forensics, anthropology, bioengineering
  • Materials Science and Engineering – Industrial applications, failure analysis, computer science, aerospace & mechanical engineering
  • Agricultural Science and Food Technology – Industrial applications, plant science, entomology, food science & biotechnology
  • Food and Cosmetology – Industrial applications, nanotechnology, foam analysis, porosity analysis, drug delivery, cosmetic science
  • Earth and Space  – Industrial applications, geology, petroleum engineering, astrophysics, cosmology
  • Data Solutions – Data storage, owning, repurposing and management, software capabilities
  • Future Advances and Complementary Technologies – Industrial advances, contrast staining, synchroton radiation micro/nano CT, multimodal imaging, 4DCT

Abstracts should be emailed as an attachment to Kate Wooding @ [email protected]
Image Competition
Image size: less than 2500 x 2500 pixels. If your image(s) are accepted we will request a high resolution version of the image from you (ideally 300dpi and more than 2500 x 2500 pixels).
Accepted image formats: .png, .tiff , .jpg and .bmp
File size limit: 2MB
Copyright: ToScA has permission to reproduce the images submitted although the copyright will remain with the originator.
To submit your image for the competition, please email Kate Wooding @ [email protected] and include the following information in your email:
Image Title:
Full Name:
Affiliation/Institute:
Contact Email:
Please attach a copy of your image in either .png, .tiff , .jpg or .bmp format no greater than 2MB.
Image submission deadline: Friday 30 November 2018.
More information at:
https://www.rms.org.uk/discover-engage/event-calendar/tosca-north-america-2019.html
 
Regards,
Amelia
 
Dr. Luisa Amelia Dempere
Engineer and Director
Research Service Centers (RSC)
Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering
http://rsc.aux.eng.ufl.edu

We will meet today, as regularly scheduled. See you then.

Talk on science communication that was discussed earlier:
Dr. Jamie Loizzo “Mobile Online Science Communication and Engagement”
http://idigbio.adobeconnect.com/pjd016ldfcuv/

Jamie’s project Streaming Science: https://streamingscience.com/

Looking forward to our session tomorrow, regular place and time.

@michael-ziegler & @rnarducci featured in the news!

https://www.hernandosun.com/index.php/article/celebrate-national-fossil-day

GSA People: Anyone leaving from MCO on Friday, November 2nd?

I fly out at 7:35 pm from the Orlando Airport.

Would love to carpool, either tagging along with someone already heading to the Orlando Airport Friday or anyone wanting to join me if I need to rent a car!

“Beyond Teaching: Using Context Diversity to help students thrive while broadening diversity in the geosciences” 1 hour long webinar through SERC’s InTeGrate program. Registration deadline on Oct. 18th (it’s free, it’s so you get a reminder and instructions for tuning in).

https://serc.carleton.edu/integrate/workshops/webinars/2018_2019/beyond_teaching/index.html

1st Palaeontological Virtual Congress: http://palaeovc.uv.es/

Abstracts are due Oct. 8th (next week), 250 words no figures or references – there are quite a few targeted sessions and then several vague sessions.

Registration is 5 euros, unclear deadline but presumably after the schedule is set.