After two fantastic weeks in the Gobi, I'm finally back in UB. I just moved into an apartment north of Sukhbaatar Square, and it's settling in that I'll be here for another month. We had a really successful expedition, so let's get right into it! Note: I'll cover the Gobi trip over three weeks, focusing …
I'm travelling in Mongolia for eight weeks to do fieldwork and research. Each week I'll post an update of what I've been up to. Note: I'll be in the field for the next two "Mongolia Mondays", so there won't be a live update. Look for a mega-update on September 3rd! Week 1 After a long flight …
Every now and again, scientists make mistakes. Some of these are, as Bob Ross would call them, happy little mistakes, that end up being incredible scientific leaps (think Penicillin). In other cases, they're less positive, but can still provide cautionary tales for future work. Today, I want to talk about one of the latter cases. …
This week has been really exciting for me, because I just had a paper accepted! It's been extra special because it's the first paper to come out of my own fieldwork. Since 2015, a team of volunteers and I have been working in the Horseshoe Canyon Formation exposed near Drumheller. Finally, our work is bearing …
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Science is often inaccessible because of the complex terminology we use to capture big ideas. Below are definitions of some common terms you'll find on my page. If you think of any more I should add, contact me to let me know! Dinosaur: Dinosaur is the term used to describe members of the group Dinosauria. …
My first research post will be on a study we recently published. You can access that paper here or here. This project is really a culmination of a lot of my previous work, so it's a bit backwards to be featuring it first. Where it builds of off past studies I'll highlight those, and I …
Unlike many palaeontologists, I'm not entirely up to date on twittering and instagramming. But social media has become one of the main ways scientists communicate with the public, so I'd better catch up. My New Year's resolution is to become more engaged in public communication of the science myself and my colleagues do. I hope …
