White Mountain Dino goes to SVP
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White Mountain Dinosaur Exploration Center (WMDEC) is humbly asking for your support to send Douglas, Hazel & Christopher Wolfe, of to the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology (SVP) International Conference in Salt Lake City, Utah, October 24-30, 2016.
Douglas & Hazel have co-authored their first paper together in an abstract titled; “TRACKWAY EVIDENCE FOR A THEROPOD GROUP ATTACK UPON A POSSIBLE CERATOPSIAN DINOSAUR FROM THE MORENO HILL FORMATION (TURONIAN) NEW MEXICO”, providing evidence showing early tyrannosauroids were likely active social predators. Douglas is also co-author with Dr. David Smith (Northland Pioneer College) on a talk; “BASICRANIAL AND VERTEBRAL PNEUMATICITY IN THERIZINOSAURS: IMPLICATIONS FOR DEVELOPMENT AND FUNCTION”, showing very bird-like skeletal adaptations in the enigmatic therizinosaur dinosaurs.
SVP Conference attendance provides opportunities for networking with fellow researchers, putting students with professionals, learning and sharing the latest research in Dinosaur Paleontology. The Wolfes will chaperone several student interns from Southwest Paleontological Society (SPS; Mesa, AZ), some who are attending their first international paleontological conference.
At the conference, the White Mountain Dinosaur Exploration Center (WMDEC, Springerville, AZ) will host a 20th Anniversary party celebrating the 1996 discovery of the Zuni Basin Dinosaurs (the Zuni Basin Paleontological Project; ZBPP), bringing past and current collaborators together with students and citizen scientists who continue to support our work. The celebration is planned for Thursday night of the conference. The conference and celebration will also be an opportunity to highlight WMDEC as both a new research oasis for paleontological discovery and as a resource for field-based natural sciences education to students more locally in the White Mountains region of Arizona and New Mexico
The now iconic Zuni Basin Dinosaurs include Zuniceratops christopheri, the oldest ceratopsian dinosaur with brow horns in North America; Nothronychus mckinleyi, North America’s first identified sickle-clawed therizinosaur; Jeyawati rugoculous, a new duckbill and a new tyrannosauroid to be named. These discoveries from 90mya changed the understanding of dinosaur evolution and migration, illustrating much earlier connections between Asian and North American Dinosaur families than once thought.
ZBPP/WMDEC research promotes understanding of evolution and paleoecologic response during the middle Cretaceous climate extremes of high CO2, temperature and sea-level rise, a time of oceanic mass extinction; helping to better understand and communicate current and future climate variation probabilities. Our work includes new partnerships with University of North Carolina, Oklahoma Museum of Natural History, St. Louis Science Center, Northland Pioneer College, Arizona Museum of Natural History/SPS, Museum of Northern Arizona and others. Working with Dr. Andrew McDonald, new discoveries in the Crevasse Canyon and Menefee Formations of New Mexico provide important data further reducing the Middle Cretaceous Gap, when dinosaur fossils from a water-covered continent were rare.
Utah Natural History Museum (Salt Lake City) is the Federal Repository for Menefee Formation fossils collected to date; attending the conference will allow us to transport and curate recently collected field specimens, and to study specimens curated so far.
We depend on, and are grateful for, the support of, friends, community, and peers who have helped us pursue the challenge of science and education at the temporal frontier of Earth sciences. Please help us to meet the WMDEC mission: “To Seek, To Learn, To Teach”, by helping to expand our efforts contributing meaningful research involving students and citizens into the future.
Thank you for consideration and support!
Follow our progress at whitemountaindino.com and facebook.com/wmdec . We will be uploading video from the conference, putting a copy of our poster on display at the Center and a pdf will be available after the conference.
Society Vertebrate Paleontology Budget
Registration Costs DW $385, HW $385, CW $160 = $930
Lodging Costs (Budget Hotel) 3 rooms x 4 Nites x $179= $2148
Transportation Fuel: 1420 miles =75gallons at $2.25= $168
Meals: Wolfes 6 days x $150, BM & KK 3 days $150 = $1350
20yr Anniversary Party Room $201 and refreshments $400 = $601
Total: $5197
Douglas & Hazel have co-authored their first paper together in an abstract titled; “TRACKWAY EVIDENCE FOR A THEROPOD GROUP ATTACK UPON A POSSIBLE CERATOPSIAN DINOSAUR FROM THE MORENO HILL FORMATION (TURONIAN) NEW MEXICO”, providing evidence showing early tyrannosauroids were likely active social predators. Douglas is also co-author with Dr. David Smith (Northland Pioneer College) on a talk; “BASICRANIAL AND VERTEBRAL PNEUMATICITY IN THERIZINOSAURS: IMPLICATIONS FOR DEVELOPMENT AND FUNCTION”, showing very bird-like skeletal adaptations in the enigmatic therizinosaur dinosaurs.
SVP Conference attendance provides opportunities for networking with fellow researchers, putting students with professionals, learning and sharing the latest research in Dinosaur Paleontology. The Wolfes will chaperone several student interns from Southwest Paleontological Society (SPS; Mesa, AZ), some who are attending their first international paleontological conference.
At the conference, the White Mountain Dinosaur Exploration Center (WMDEC, Springerville, AZ) will host a 20th Anniversary party celebrating the 1996 discovery of the Zuni Basin Dinosaurs (the Zuni Basin Paleontological Project; ZBPP), bringing past and current collaborators together with students and citizen scientists who continue to support our work. The celebration is planned for Thursday night of the conference. The conference and celebration will also be an opportunity to highlight WMDEC as both a new research oasis for paleontological discovery and as a resource for field-based natural sciences education to students more locally in the White Mountains region of Arizona and New MexicoThe now iconic Zuni Basin Dinosaurs include Zuniceratops christopheri, the oldest ceratopsian dinosaur with brow horns in North America; Nothronychus mckinleyi, North America’s first identified sickle-clawed therizinosaur; Jeyawati rugoculous, a new duckbill and a new tyrannosauroid to be named. These discoveries from 90mya changed the understanding of dinosaur evolution and migration, illustrating much earlier connections between Asian and North American Dinosaur families than once thought.
ZBPP/WMDEC research promotes understanding of evolution and paleoecologic response during the middle Cretaceous climate extremes of high CO2, temperature and sea-level rise, a time of oceanic mass extinction; helping to better understand and communicate current and future climate variation probabilities. Our work includes new partnerships with University of North Carolina, Oklahoma Museum of Natural History, St. Louis Science Center, Northland Pioneer College, Arizona Museum of Natural History/SPS, Museum of Northern Arizona and others. Working with Dr. Andrew McDonald, new discoveries in the Crevasse Canyon and Menefee Formations of New Mexico provide important data further reducing the Middle Cretaceous Gap, when dinosaur fossils from a water-covered continent were rare.
Utah Natural History Museum (Salt Lake City) is the Federal Repository for Menefee Formation fossils collected to date; attending the conference will allow us to transport and curate recently collected field specimens, and to study specimens curated so far.
We depend on, and are grateful for, the support of, friends, community, and peers who have helped us pursue the challenge of science and education at the temporal frontier of Earth sciences. Please help us to meet the WMDEC mission: “To Seek, To Learn, To Teach”, by helping to expand our efforts contributing meaningful research involving students and citizens into the future.
Thank you for consideration and support!
Follow our progress at whitemountaindino.com and facebook.com/wmdec . We will be uploading video from the conference, putting a copy of our poster on display at the Center and a pdf will be available after the conference.
Society Vertebrate Paleontology Budget
Registration Costs DW $385, HW $385, CW $160 = $930
Lodging Costs (Budget Hotel) 3 rooms x 4 Nites x $179= $2148
Transportation Fuel: 1420 miles =75gallons at $2.25= $168
Meals: Wolfes 6 days x $150, BM & KK 3 days $150 = $1350
20yr Anniversary Party Room $201 and refreshments $400 = $601
Total: $5197
Organizer
Hazel Wolfe
Organizer
Springerville, AZ
