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| Expedition Dinner Lecture |
Saturday March 7 @ Veterans Memorial Hall
Dr. Robert T. Bakker, Houston Museum of Natural Sciences, Key Note Speaker
“Veggie-Saurs Rule!”
Hooray for the plant eating dinosaurs! Dr. Bob presents on the duckbill “mummy”, Leonardo.
6:30pm Doors open
7:00pm Buffet Dinner Served
7:30 pm Balcony opens for "Lecture Only" ticket holders
8:00pm Presentation
$40/non-member Dinner Lecture, $30/member Dinner Lecture, $30/non-member Lecture ONLY (Balcony seating), $20/member Lecture ONLY (Balcony seating) |
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| VIP Reception & Mixer |
NEW! Book Signing and Photo Opportunity
Join us for a drink before dinner! Meet and greet the days speakers and mingle before heading to Veterans Memorial Hall. Mahlburg Auditorium opens at 5:00pm, bring your camera.
The charge is only $10 per person and includes beverage service (soft drinks, beer & wine) |
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| What to know |
Admission: $6 per person, Burpee Members are FREE
Admission to the Burpee Museum and PaleoFest includes all of the DinoBlast Passport Activities for kids.
(Coupons and reciprocal passes are not valid March 7 & 8)
Hours: March 7 & 8 only, Doors Open 10:00am-5:00pm/DinoBlast Activities 11:00am-4:00pm
Parking: FREE parking is available at Riverfront Museum Park (RMP) 711 N. Main St.
Use the Tunnel access between RMP and Burpee.
Lectures: All lectures take place in the Riverfront Museum Park Auditorium
2-DAY PASS: $70/non-member, $60/member
Includes admission to all lectures in the RMP auditorium and the festival activities at Burpee Saturday & Sunday.
1-DAY PASS: $40/non-member, $30/member
Includes admission to all lectures in the RMP auditorium and the festival activities at Burpee on either Saturday or Sunday.
Individual Tickets: $10/non-member, $9/member
Includes admission to selected lectures ONLY.
Workshops: All Workshops take place in Burpee's Mahlburg Auditorium
1-DAY PASS: $20/non-member, $12/member
Includes admission to both workshops in the Mahlburg auditorium and museum admission on either Saturday or Sunday.
Individual Tickets: $10/non-member, $8/member
Includes admission to selected workshop ONLY.
Membership:
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| Saturday, March 7 Schedule |
*All lectures will be held in the Riverfront Museum Park Auditorium
10:30AM Holly Woodward, Montana State University*
Maia, How You’ve Grown!
Exploring Maiasaur growth dynamics.
11:00AM Family Workshop, Mahlburg Auditorium
Good Mother Maiasaur
Maiasaur cared for their young. Learn more about baby dinosaurs, make a Maiasaur and nest.
12:00PM John Pojeta, Ph.D., Smithsonian Institute*
Amateurs Rock!
The Importance of Local Fossil Collectors to
Paleontology
1:00PM Family Workshop, Mahlburg Auditorium
Therizinosaur the Sickle Claw
This Cretaceous theropod had enormous claws. What else do we know? Make a sickle claw to take home.
2:00PM Chris Brochu, Ph. D., University of Iowa*
Crocodiles: The Myth of the Living Fossil
Explore the diversity of these ancient reptiles.
3:30PM Lindsay Zanno, Ph.D., Field Museum*
Therizinosaurs: A New Look at “Predatory” Dinosaur Evolution. Meet the Edward Scissorhands of dinosaurs.
5:00PM VIP Reception & Mixer, Mahlburg Auditorium
Book signing and photo opportunity. Open to all ages, includes beverages.
6:30PM Doors Open at Veterans Memorial Hall
7:00PM Dinner Buffet Opens
7:30PM Balcony Seating Opens
8:00PM Presentation by Dr. Robert T. Bakker
“Veggie-Saurs Rule!”
Hooray for the plant eating dinosaurs! Dr. Bob presents on the duckbill “mummy”, Leonardo. |
| Sunday, March 8 Schedule |
10:30AM Nancy Englehardt-Moore, Devon Energy*
Marine Microfossils
What are they and what are their uses?
11:00AM Family Workshop, Mahlburg Auditorium
Mighty Mosasaurs
Discover these predators of the ancient cretaceous seas, make a take home “mini” mosasaur diorama.
11:45AM Mike Triebold, Triebold Paleontology*
The Mosasaurs Summer
Mike Triebold describes the summer his team collected
13 mosasaurs and explains how and why they did it.
1:00PM Family Workshop, Mahlburg Auditorium
Diggin’ Dinos: Utah!
Join us for an expedition! What was the Morrison
Formation like in the Jurassic? Dig into your project.
1:15PM Scott Foss, Ph.D., Utah BLM*
T-rex of the Tertiary
Reconstructing the Most Terrifying Beast since the
Dinosaurs. These giant prehistoric mammals were called “Pigs from Hell”
2:30PM Robert Reisz, Ph.D., University of Toronto*
The Oldest Known Dinosaur Embryos
and their Evolutionary Significance
3:45PM Scott Williams, Burpee Museum*
The Best Year Yet!
The 2008 Burpee paleontological field season produced big results in the form of Allosaurus, Camarasarus,
Stegosaurus, Apatosarus and Diplodocus, all in one giant quarry. Learn more about the site that made National Geographic’s top ten discoveries list and find out about traveling to Utah & Montana with Burpee’s crew. See the EXPEDITIONS page on this website. |
| Get to Know the Speakers |
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Dr. Robert T. Bakker, Houston Museum of Natural Sciences, Key Note Speaker
Robert T. Bakker is without a doubt one of the most recognized paleontologists in the world. Dr. Bob, as he likes to be called, helped reshape modern theories about dinosaurs, particularly by adding support to the theory that some dinosaurs were endothermic (warm-blooded). Along with his mentor John Ostrom, Bakker was responsible for initiating the ongoing “dinosaur renaissance” in paleontological studies, beginning with Bakker’s article “Dinosaur Renaissance” in Scientific American, April 1975. His special field is the ecological context and behavior of dinosaurs.
Bakker has been a major proponent of the theory that dinosaurs were “warm-blooded,” smart, fast, and adaptable. He published his first paper on dinosaur endothermy in 1968. He revealed the first evidence of parental care at nesting sites for Allosaurus. Bakker was among the advisors for the film Jurassic Park and for the 1992 PBS series, “The Dinosaurs.” Bakker also observed evidence in support of Eldredge’s and Gould’s theory of punctuated equilibrium in dinosaur populations. Bakker has published dozens of books for all ages, but is best known for Raptor Red and The Dinosaur Heresies. Practically a regular on the Discovery Channel, Animal Planet and History Channel, Bakker is a much sought after commentator and public speaker. |
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| Dr. Chris Brochu is one of the world’s leading experts on crocodile evolution. Currently his research a phylogenetic perspective to temporal issues in paleontology and evolutionary biology. He is very interested in the ways phylogeny can illuminate patterns among both living and extinct organisms, from molecular estimates of divergence timing to patterns of fossil diversity over geological time. Most of Dr. Brochu’s current work explores the phylogeny and historical biogeography of archosaurs, especially crocodylians and theropod dinosaurs. Prior to becoming an Associate Professor within the Geology Department at University of Iowa, Dr. Brochu was Curator of Paleontology at the Field Museum. Dr. Brochu researched and published the formal description of the world’s most famous Tyrannosaurus rex, SUE. |
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Nancy L. Engelhardt-Moore received her B.A. from the University of Wisconsin at Whitewater in 1973 and her M.S. in Geology from Northern Illinois University (NIU) in 1980. She is an expert in planktic and benthic foraminifera and works for Devon Energy in Houston, Texas where she acts as a paleontological coordinator for worldwide projects as well as assisting with daily drilling operations in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico. Her interests include microfossils, biostratigraphy, chronostratigraphy, sequence stratigraphy, and dinosaurs. Currently, she is Vice Co-chair for the North American Micropaleontology Section of the Society for Sedimentary Geology (SEPM) research conference “Geologic Problem Solving with Microfossils II” that will be held at the University of Houston, March 15-18, 2009. Nancy was just elected SEPM Councilor for Paleontology, which becomes effective in June. She has co-authored several publications including the key reference “Gulf of Mexico Basin Biostratigraphic Index Microfossils; A Geoscientist’s Guide Part III Foraminifers, Paleocene through Eocene” GCSSEPM, 2001. In 2008, she participated in an expedition to Utah and assisted in the excavation of a Camarasaurus femur as part of a team from NIU and the Burpee Museum of Natural History. In her spare time, Nancy is a docent at the Houston Museum of Natural Science. |
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Mike Triebold has been a fossil collector his entire life, beginning as a child growing up on a farm in North Dakota. This life-long interest lead to serious avocational collecting activity in Kansas beginning about 1982, and evolved over 7 years into an idea to create a new exhibit company, which was established in 1989.
Triebold’s company, Triebold Paleontology, Inc. (TPI), soon became recognized as providing some of the highest quality prepared fossil specimens. His customer base quickly became primarily institutions. TPI was one of the first in commercial paleontology to begin molding and casting its finest specimens.
Mike’s collecting activity has taken place in MT, SD, ND, KS and TX on approximately 27 different ranches, some of which he has been working on for 23 years. The specimens collected, prepared, molded, cast, mounted, marketed and sold have included everything from Triceratops to Tyrannosaurs to tiny Cretaceous mammals. |
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| Dr. Scott Foss is the regional paleontologist for the Bureau of Land Management and is headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah. Dr. Foss received his doctorate from the Biological Department of Northern Illinois University and is an accomplished anatomist. In the early 1990’s Dr. Foss helped begin the now famous “pig dig” bonebed excavations at Badlands National Park in South Dakota. Dr. Foss is an expert on the large Cenozoic “pigs” called the entelodonts. |
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| John Pojeta, Jr. has been an active paleontologist since 1957. He is an Scientist Emeritus with the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and a Research Associate with the Department of Paleobiology, Smithsonian Institution. He earned his B.S. degree at Capital University, Bexley, Ohio, majoring in biology and chemistry, and earned his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Cincinnati, majoring in geology and paleontology. In 1963, he joined the USGS, Branch of Paleontology and Stratigraphy, where he spent his career. His research has centered on early Paleozoic mollusks, and has taken him to many American states, Antarctica, Australia, Canada, China, Czech Republic, Senegal, Sweden, United Kingdom, and elsewhere. He has been Secretary and President of The Paleontological Society; President of The Paleontological Research Institution; Chief, Branch of Paleontology and Stratigraphy, USGS; a member of the National Academy of Sciences Committee on Paleontological Collecting; and a member of the Governor’s Committee on Paleontology in Maryland |
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Robert Reisz was born August 27, 1947, in Oradea, Romania. He received his B.Sc. (1969), M.Sc. (1971) and Ph.D. (1975) from McGill University as Robert L. Carroll’s first doctoral graduate. After teaching as visiting lecturer at University of California, Los Angeles for a year, he accepted an appointment in the Biology Department at the University of Toronto’s Mississauga Campus in 1975 where he still maintains his research lab. His research has been funded continuously by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC). He conducted field work in North America, Africa, and Europe, where he excavated fossils from the late Paleozoic and early Mesozoic eras. He has published more than 100 scientific articles on subjects as diverse as lungfish and dinosaurs, but is best known for his work on early amniotes. His research includes a number of groundbreaking discoveries, including the oldest known dinosaur embryos, the oldest known bipedal reptile, and the oldest known diapsid reptile.
His achievements have been recognized by the scientific community and various professional societies and institutions. Dr. Reisz is Research Associate at the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto (since 1975), the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh (since 1980), and the Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago (since 1998). He is Senior Editor (2006-current) of the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, published by the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology. |
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| Holly Woodward has been fascinated with dinosaurs for as long as she can remember. They were some of her first artistic subjects and served to introduce her to science, biology, and geology. She decided to make a career out of her passion early on and as a first step in that direction, graduated from North Carolina State University in 2003. While working on her Master of Science degree at Texas Tech University, Holly realized that she wanted to specialize in dinosaur bone histology, and figure out how dinosaurs worked from the inside out. Since graduating in 2005, she has been pursuing her doctorate degree in Earth Sciences at Montana State University. Her research project focuses on the ontogenetic bone histology of the hadrosaurid Maiasaura. |
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| Lindsay E. Zanno earned a Bachelor’s of Science degree, Summa Cum Laude studying Biological Anthropology at the University of New Mexico in 1999, her Master’s (2004) and PhD (2008) in Geology at the University of Utah, and is now the John Caldwell-Meeker Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Geology at The Field Museum of Natural History. Lindsay has over a decade of domestic and international field experience in the fields of mammalogy, primatology, anthropology, and paleontology and has named four new dinosaurs. For her PhD Lindsay studied a bizarre group of raptor dinosaurs thought to be plant-eaters. As a postdoctoral researcher with the Field Museum, she is continuing her research on this and several other poorly understood raptor dinosaur groups and using this data to help decipher their evolutionary and paleoecological history. |
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Scott Williams is the Collections and Exhibits Manager for the Burpee Museum.
Scott began volunteering at Burpee in 1988 when he was thirteen and has been involved with the museum ever since. In 2000, Scott along with Curator Mike Henderson began the vertebrate paleontology field program with a scouting trip to the Hell Creek Formation of Carter County, Montana. He was also part of the field crew that discovered and excavated Jane, Burpee Museums juvenile Tyrannosaurus rex. In 2003 Scott began working for the museum as a fossil preparators and eventually became the manager of exhibits and collections. In 2005, Scott helped lead the team that found and eventually excavated Homer, a fairly complete sub-adult Triceratops found in the Hell Creek formation of Carter County. In 2007-2008 Scott organized an expedition to the Morrison Formation near Hanksville, Utah which resulted in the discovery of one of the largest late Jurassic Bonebeds in the last thirty years. Scott has years of experience collecting in the local Ordovician limestones and dolostones of Northern Illinois as well as the Permian fissure fills of southwestern Oklahoma. Scott received his A.S. from Rock Valley College in 2006 and is currently pursuing a B.S. in Environmental Geoscience from Northern Illinois University. |
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