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SUMMARY:November 2025 - Member Show ‘n Tell & Annual Business Meeting\, Short talks about field trips & activities
DESCRIPTION:Steve Miller -Two Decades with the Cretaceous Rocks and Fossils of the Comanche National Grassland\nWIPS has been offering trips to the Comanche National Grassland for 20 years. This area of Colorado presents modern landforms of prairie and canyon overlying rocks formed on the floor of the Western Interior Seaway. Over the years\, WIPS members collected dozens of marine specimens. Some vertebrate specimens have been donated to various museums.\n\nThis video was created for an audience with a fundamental understanding of the Western Interior Seaway. Hopefully\, everyone will see how WIPS has contributed to supporting the science of paleontology through the kinds of information that were reported to the US Forest Service. WIPS members have collected some amazing fossils over the past twenty years.\n\nDennis Gertenbach – Douglas Pass Insects: What They Tell Us About Ancient Colorado\nThis presentation will show fossil insects I have found at Douglas Pass from the Eocene Green River Formation\, dating to about 50 million years ago. Douglas Pass is well known for the large variety of fossil leaves found there. These leaf fossils\, combined with studies of the Green River Formation geology\, give a good picture of what the area looked like during the Eocene. However\, the fossil insects also found at Douglas Pass bring the Eocene ecosystem to life. By comparing these insect fossils to modern insect relatives\, a picture of life in ancient Colorado comes to life.
URL:https://westernpaleo.org/event/november-program/
LOCATION:Clements Community Center\, 1580 Yarrow Street\, Lakewood\, United States
CATEGORIES:Programs
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SUMMARY:October Program - Nigel Hughes -What’s new with ancient trilobites? Tails (and more) from close to home and far afield
DESCRIPTION:Spectacular discoveries of “soft-bodied” fossils have\, in recent years\, tended to overshadow the “traditional” fossil record of invertebrate animals with mineralized shells\, such as trilobites. However\, these ancient arthropods still have a few tricks under their doublures for revealing important information about Earth and life’s co-evolution. Nigel will review some highlights of his career-long travels with trilobites\, seeking to convince you that there’s life in these old bugs yet\, including his recent description of a new species from Colorado and its connection to James Bond.\n\nNigel has worked as a professional paleontologist in museums and universities around the globe. He has been a faculty member at the University of California – Riverside since 1997\, has published over 150 peer-reviewed articles\, and won the Moore Medal for paleontology from the Society of Sedimentary Geologists. He is interested in both the biological and geological applications of fossils and owes his career to help from “amateur” paleontologists. His talk is part of the Distinguished Speakers program sponsored by the Paleontological Society.
URL:https://westernpaleo.org/event/october-program-2025/
LOCATION:Clements Community Center\, 1580 Yarrow Street\, Lakewood\, United States
CATEGORIES:Programs
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SUMMARY:September Program - Karen Chin -A Dung’s Eye View of Dinosaur Life in the Cretaceous Period
DESCRIPTION:Brief description of presentation: \nStudies of 75-million-year-old coprolites (fossil feces) from Montana and Utah reveal that some plant-eating dinosaurs periodically consumed foods we would not expect giant herbivores to eat.  This talk will describe the fossil evidence for this unexpected discovery and how it changes our understanding of dinosaur paleobiology.   \nBrief bio:\nKaren Chin is a professor in the Department of Geological Sciences and Curator of Paleontology at the Museum of Natural History at the University of Colorado Boulder.  She began her career in paleontology working with dinosaur paleontologist Jack Horner at the Museum of the Rockies at Montana State University.  She later received her doctorate from the University of California at Santa Barbara where she studied with paleobotanist Bruce Tiffney.  Dr. Chin studies Mesozoic ecosystems — mostly through analysis of fossil feces (coprolites) and burrows.  She is particularly interested in ancient symbiotic relationships\, trophic interactions\, nutrient cycling processes\, evidence for paleoenvironmental conditions\, and the taphonomic processes that constrain our understanding of ancient ecosystems.
URL:https://westernpaleo.org/event/september-program-karen-chin/
LOCATION:Clements Community Center\, 1580 Yarrow Street\, Lakewood\, United States
CATEGORIES:Programs
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SUMMARY:May Program - Tiffany Adrain - Mammoth tasks and mastodon skulls: a journey through the University of Iowa Paleontology Repository
DESCRIPTION:Join Tiffany Adrain in a virtual tour of the University of Iowa Paleontology Repository\, a fossil collection of over 2 million specimens from all over the world. Learn about recent and ongoing projects in collection storage\, following the move of about 40 tons of rocks and fossils\, and the conservation of Iowa’s first scientifically excavated mastodon. \nTiffany Adrain is the Director of Research Collections at the University of Iowa Paleontology Repository in the School of Earth\, Environment\, and Sustainability. Despite having over thirty-five years of museum experience\, she never ceases to be amazed at the new challenges that arise with managing paleontology collections\, and the wonderful dedication of the student volunteers who help tackle them.
URL:https://westernpaleo.org/event/may-program-tiffany-adrain-mammoth-tasks-and-mastodon-skulls-a-journey-through-the-university-of-iowa-paleontology-repository/
LOCATION:Clements Community Center\, 1580 Yarrow Street\, Lakewood\, United States
CATEGORIES:Programs
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SUMMARY:April Program - Andrew Milner - Preliminary report of tritylodontid bonebeds in the Lower Jurassic Kayenta-Navajo Transition (Glen Canyon Group) at Glen Canyon National Recreation Area\, Utah
DESCRIPTION:The Lake Powell shorelines in Glen Canyon National Recreation Area expose Permian through Jurassic redbeds rich in fossil resources\, many of which have been the focus of inventories spanning more than three decades. The lake level fluctuations provide the opportunity to document many fossil sites. In March 2023\, a bonebed was discovered containing disarticulated but associated tritylodontid cynodonts in the Lower Jurassic Navajo Sandstone. An emergency recovery took place in April 2023 that resulted in the discovery of articulated skeletons at the first site\, and a second\, older bonebed nearby in the uppermost Kayenta Formation. \nAndrew Milner is the site paleontologist and curator at the St. George Discovery site at Johnson Farm\, in St. George\, Utah\, where he works with all scientific aspects of the St. George Dinosaur Discovery Site at Johnson Farm\, dealing with paleontology and geology. Andrew has been working there since October 2001. He has published more than 60 peer-reviewed papers on a wide variety of subjects\, but most of his work deals with the Late Triassic-Early Jurassic of the American Southwest\, especially tracks and traces. \nIn March\, 2003\, Andrew discovered early Jurassic tritylodontid bonebeds within Glen Canyon National Recreation Area that he claims is one of the most significant discovery he has ever made. \nBorn in England\, Milner moved to Quebec in eastern Canada in 1971\, getting his Canadian citizenship in 1987. He then moved to Utah in 1997.
URL:https://westernpaleo.org/event/april-program-andrew-milner/
LOCATION:Clements Community Center\, 1580 Yarrow Street\, Lakewood\, United States
CATEGORIES:Programs
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SUMMARY:March Program - Caelan Libke
DESCRIPTION: The ceratopsian dinosaur\, Triceratops\, is one of the most widespread and abundant dinosaurs from the end of the Cretaceous Period in North America. Fossils of this iconic dinosaur have been found as far north as Alberta and Saskatchewan in Canada to as far south as Colorado. There have been some suggestions that Triceratops fossils from Canada and Montana tend to be larger than those from further south\, although this theory has not been properly tested. The speaker will talk about testing this theory and what size variation in Triceratops\, if it exists\, might tell us about these dinosaurs and the world they lived in.\nAbout the speaker –I am a 2nd year Ph.D. candidate working with Dr. Jordan Mallon at the Carleton University in Ottawa\, Canada. I have worked on a wide range of fossils from turtles to insects in amber\, and\, of course\, dinosaurs. My current Ph.D. work focuses particularly on the dinosaurs that lived in the western interior region of North America immediately prior to the end-Cretaceous mass extinction
URL:https://westernpaleo.org/event/march-program-jordan-mallion/
LOCATION:Clements Community Center\, 1580 Yarrow Street\, Lakewood\, United States
CATEGORIES:Programs
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SUMMARY:February Program Riley Black - Author
DESCRIPTION:Winner of the 2023 AAAS/Subaru Prize for Excellence in Science Books \nRecipient of a 2024 Friend of Darwin award from the National Center for Science Education \nRiley Black (she/they) has been a fossil fanatic since the time she was knee-high to a Stegosaurus. Her evolution into a science writer and amateur paleontologist was only natural. Based in Salt Lake City\, Utah\, right in the center of dinosaur country\, they chase tales of vanished lives from museum collections to remote badlands. \nA prolific writer\, Riley’s byline has appeared in publications such as National Geographic\, Slate\, Smithsonian\, Nature\, Science\, atmos\, Popular Science\, New Scientist\, SIERRA\, and many more. She’s also been a frequent guest on radio programs such as Science Friday and All Things Considered\, and Riley was among the paleontologists highlighted in the NOVA documentaries “Alaskan Dinosaurs” and “Dinosaur Apocalypse.” In a dream come true\, Riley was also the “resident paleontologist” and consultant to the Jurassic World franchise. Her expertise has also led Riley to speak at a variety of venues from the Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History to Dinosaur National Monument\, most prominently delivering the 2022 keynote at tthe he annual Society of Vertebrate Paleontology meeting. \nBut Riley loves writing books most of all. Starting with Written in Stone in 2010\, they’ve written more than 10 books for fossil fans of all ages. Her latest\, the critically-acclaimed The Last Days of the Dinosaurs\, won the 2023 AAAS/Subaru Prize for Excellence in Science Books. Riley’s next book When the Earth Was Green: Plants\, Animals\, and Evolution’s Greatest Romance\, will be published on February 25th\, 2025 by St. Martin’s Press. Presently\, Riley’s working on The Shortest History of Dinosaurs for The Experiment. \nBut Riley does more than just write about fossils. Every summer she volunteers with an array of museums and universities to discover and excavate new specimens. These expeditions have taken her from the mountains of Alaska and the arid deserts of New Mexico to a Wyoming cave filled with Ice Age mammal bones. Visits to lost worlds fuel Riley’s writing and her enthusiasm for life’s amazing history.
URL:https://westernpaleo.org/event/riley-black-author/
LOCATION:Clements Community Center\, 1580 Yarrow Street\, Lakewood\, United States
CATEGORIES:Programs
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SUMMARY:January Program - Gabi Rossetto-Harris
DESCRIPTION:Speaker:  Gabi Rosetto Harris \nPaleontologist\, Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument \nIn her talk at the January WIPS meeting\, Gabi will share her recent research on the Paleocene Castle Rock\, Colorado Flora\, give an overview of the paleontology of Florissant Fossil Beds\, and discuss the upcoming research projects going on at Florissant. \nAbout the speaker: During her undergraduate years pursuing a B.A. in Geology at Colorado College\, Gabi completed a Mosaics in Science internship at Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument (2014)\, which quickly shifted her interests from geochemistry to paleontology. She then spent two years immersed in the Denver Museum of Nature & Science as a paleontology field and research intern and later promoted to a collections assistant in paleobotany (2015-2017). Gabi fulfilled her dream of doing research in her father’s homeland of Argentina with the completion of a M.Sc. and Ph.D. working on Eocene-Oligocene Patagonian fossil plants at Penn State University (2017-2023)\, where she described and curated fossil plants at the National Museum of Natural History (Smithsonian) and Argentine museums\, the Museo Paleontológico Egidio Feruglio and the Museo Paleontológico Bariloche. Following her doctoral studies\, Gabi was awarded a National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in Biology. This allowed her to spend the last nine months investigating the rainforest affinities of fossils from the Paleocene Castle Rock flora in Colorado\, while affiliated with the Denver Museum of Nature & Science\, Denver\, Colorado\, and the Field Museum\, Chicago\, Illinois. Gabi is now thrilled to be returning to Florissant Fossil Beds National Monument for her first permanent federal position. As the successor to Dr. Herb Meyer\, who recently retired\, she is the paleontology program manager and museum curator at FLFO.
URL:https://westernpaleo.org/event/steve-veatch/
LOCATION:Clements Community Center\, 1580 Yarrow Street\, Lakewood\, United States
CATEGORIES:Programs
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