March 22 & 23, 2025
Green Center, Colorado School of Mines, Golden, Colorado
Revealing the past with the tools of today
The WIPS Founders Symposium 2025 speaker lineup is taking shape! Topics will cover advances in many paleontological specialities including photogrammetry, laboratory methods and preparation, paleobotany, paleobiology, vertebrate research in Africa, the changing commercial perspective and more.
Scheduled speakers
SATURDAY, MARCH 22, 2025
Arvid Aase, Fossil Butte National Monument
8:30 AM
Attention to Details: The shift through time in our understanding of exceptional fossil preservation in deposits of ancient Fossil Lake (Ypresian, Eocene), Green River Group, Wyoming
Brent Breithaupt, BLM & Neffra Matthews, Prehistoric Impressions
9:15 AM
A Quarter Century of Utilizing Photogrammetry for the Preservation and Management of Paleontological Resources: Documenting ancient ecosystems
Ellen Currano, University of Wyoming
11 AM
Seeing the Forest Through the Leaves: Advances in reconstructing Cretaceous & Paleogene forests from the Rocky Mountain Region
Todd Green, New York Institute of Technology College of Osteopathic Medicine
1:15 PM
Anatomical Imaging in Paleontology: A case study in dinosaur cranial ornamentation
Louis Jacobs, Southern Methodist University
2 PM
The Vertebrate Paleontology of Africa in Four Stories
Neal Larson, Larson Paleontology
3:45 PM
Professional Fossil Collectors’ Contributions to Paleontology
SUNDAY, MARCH 23, 2025
Jeffrey Martz, Museum of Texas Tech University
8:15 AM
Triassic Paleontology in the Western Interior: 1985-2025
Mary Schweitzer, North Carolina State University
9 AM
Biomolecules in paleontology
Beth Simmons, Western Interior Paleontological Society
10:30 AM
Bifungites, the two-way tube worm
Josh Slattery, University of Wyoming Geological Museum
11:15 AM
Reconstructing Ammonoids: New insights into their biology, ecology, evolution and extinction
Evan Tamez-Galvan, Denver Museum of Nature & Science
1:30 PM
Incorporating 3D Scanning into a Preparation Workflow as a Means to Increase Accessibility to Vertebrate Paleontology Collections
Natalie Toth, Denver Museum of Nature & Science
2:15 PM
A Paleontology Powerhouse: New, exciting discoveries at the Denver Museum of Nature & Scienc