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Houston Museum of Natural Science
On my way home from Buenos Aires I had an eleven hour layover in Houston. Having just about exhausted the entertainment potential of the Houston airport on my nine hour layover on the way down, and...
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Let it snow...
Well it's a balmy -37C windchill here today (but just -27C without, so it's not so bad! right?), and wonderfully snowy, and what do you know but there's an article about our day in Dinosaur Provincial...
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Care of Magical Creatures
The University of Alberta is currently hosting an exhibit called Harry Potter's World: Renaissance Science, Magic, and Medicine, in the John W. Scott Health Sciences Library. Let's Talk Science, a...
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5 Questions for Stephanie Blais
I'm hoping to feature some more University of Alberta-related research over the next few weeks, and first up is an interview with Stephanie Blais, a UALVP grad student studying ischnacanthid...
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5 Questions for Caleb Brown
I'm very pleased to present another UALVP-related study today, this time by Caleb Brown (formerly at the University of Calgary and now at the University of Toronto). Caleb recently published a paper in...
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5 Questions for Phil Bell
Hot on the heels of yesterday's interview with Caleb, here's an interview with Phil Bell of the Pipestone Creek Dinosaur Initiative. Phil is a former Currie Lab member who completed his PhD last...
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Spared no expense.
Well, this weekend marked a major milestone for me: I saw Jurassic Park on the big screen for the very first time! Although I have watched it countless times, first on VHS and then on DVD, Victoria in...
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Cool Stuff
"Cool Stuff: The University of Alberta Museums Do Winter" is a winter-themed exhibit that opened last week at the U of A's Enterprise Square location. I checked it out last weekend and was pleased to...
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Gobi Desert Diaries: Nemegtomaia Edition
Today I've got five questions for Federico Fanti, the lead author on a paper published a few weeks ago in PLoS ONE on a nesting oviraptorosaur. I first met Federico during the 2007 Nomadic Expeditions...
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5 Questions for Aaron Leblanc
It's been a bit quiet around here lately as I plug away at my thesis, but here's an interview with UALVP alumnus Aaron Leblanc, now a PhD student at the University of Toronto. Aaron's description of...
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Waking up from hibernation.
And by hibernation, I mean grad school. The last few weeks have been pretty busy here in Edmonton and I've found myself without a lot of time to blog about interesting things that have been going on....
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LogiCON and the Paleo Gala
Fieldwork has begun here in Edmonton and I'll have some more pictures to show off next week...currently we are digging a big hole in the dirt, so there's not much to see yet. Until then, here's a...
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Thoughts on Tarbosaurus, Part 1.
Last time I promised photos of our fieldwork here in Edmonton, but then over the weekend the palaeoverse kind of erupted (in a good way) over the auction of a Tarbosaurus skeleton. Go read Brian...
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Thoughts on Tarbosaurus, Part 2
In my last post I talked about the role of museums in conserving fossil resources, with regards to the recent news about the Tarbosaurus auction. I wanted to address some of the other frequent comments...
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Thoughts on Tarbosaurus, Part 3
Previously in this series on the poached Tarbosaurus skeleton, I've discussed the role of museums in fossil collecting, how the specimen was identified as Tarbosaurus, and how we know the skeleton came...
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What I Did on My Summer Vacation: Danek Bonebed
The summer is over and school is back in session. Here in Edmonton the leaves already started to turn yellow last week. And somehow the summer got so busy that I hardly posted anything at all here....
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What I Did on My Summer Vacation: Happy Campers
This is Happy Jack's (or as it used to be called, Old Mexico Ranch), an old homestead occupied by Happy Jack Jackson from 1903 to 1942. There are a couple of log cabins, some with cacti growing on the...
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What I Did on My Summer Vacation: Take the Left Turn at Albuquerque
I visited the New Mexico Museum of Natural History in June for a couple of days with my friend and colleague Mike Burns to look at [top secret specimen yet again, sorry!]. OH MAN was Albuquerque toasty...
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What I Did on My Summer Vacation: From Wolf to Woof
I had a chance to visit "Wolf to Woof", a travelling exhibit hosted by the Royal Alberta Museum this summer. This exhibit does a nice job covering the biology and evolution of dogs, and the...
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What I Did on My Summer Vacation: Fine Feathered Friends
The Royal Alberta Museum is also currently hosting a temporary exhibit on the use of feathers in hat-making (millinery!) and fashion, called Fashioning Feathers. I'm not usually all that into the...
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