My very good friend and colleague Sterling Nesbitt has a new website detailing his work (mainly on Triassic archosauromorphs). Please go check it out and then totally harass him for PDFs of all of his papers.
Much of the renniassance in Triassic archosauromorph taxonomy and phylogeny is in a large part due to Sterling's work over the last decade. His forthcoming, in press, absolutely monstrous (over 500 manuscript pages) monograph on archosauromorph phylogeny (from his doctoral dissertation) promises to be the most comprehensive work ever done on this group (over 50 taxa and 400 characters, almost all scored through first hand observation of the actual specimens) and will be a foundation study for years to come.
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Photos from the CPCP Field Trip
Here are some photos from last weekends' Colorado Plateau Coring Project field trip to Chinle Formation exposures in Six Mile Canyon near Fort Wingate, New Mexico, USA. These photos and captions are all courtesy of Randy Irmis.
Don't forget to enjoy the Chinle outcrops in the background :).
Sterling Nesbitt perplexed by the mysteries of the Chinle
Ron Blakey for scale
Twins (Sterling Nesbitt and Jessica Whiteside)
Mike Benton and Dennis Kent
King Olsen of Chinle (Paul Olsen)
Jeff Martz in his natural environment
Giggles McNesbitt
Studious Bill Parker
Don't forget to enjoy the Chinle outcrops in the background :).
Sterling Nesbitt perplexed by the mysteries of the ChinleRon Blakey for scaleTwins (Sterling Nesbitt and Jessica Whiteside)Mike Benton and Dennis KentKing Olsen of Chinle (Paul Olsen)Jeff Martz in his natural environmentGiggles McNesbittStudious Bill ParkerColorado Plateau Coring Project
I've just returned from the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science in Albuquerque where I attended the 2nd workshop for the Colorado Plateau Drilling Project. This is a proposed project to core Triassic and Jurassic rocks of the Colorado Plateau (western U.S.A.) to obtain detailed stratigraphic data including paleomagnetism, palynology, isotopic dates, etc... This project is similar to what was done in the past for the Triassic and Jurassic rocks of the Newark Supergroup (eastern U.S.A.) which has became a global standard for Triassic and early Jurassic paleomagnetism. You can read about the first workshop here.
It was great to spend a few days with friends and colleagues as well as meet many new researchers from around the globe. There were some excellent talks and good field trips. Plus we got the stay one evening at the famous Route 66 El Rancho Hotel in Gallup, NM. I also was able to see the IMAX movie "Dinosaurs Alive" which features my friends Sterling Nesbitt, Randy Irmis, Alan Turner, and Nate Smith working at Ghost Ranch, New Mexico. Jeff Martz and I also appear in the film very briefly.
Jeff Martz has more on the meeting and his cool reconstruction of Typothorax here .
It was great to spend a few days with friends and colleagues as well as meet many new researchers from around the globe. There were some excellent talks and good field trips. Plus we got the stay one evening at the famous Route 66 El Rancho Hotel in Gallup, NM. I also was able to see the IMAX movie "Dinosaurs Alive" which features my friends Sterling Nesbitt, Randy Irmis, Alan Turner, and Nate Smith working at Ghost Ranch, New Mexico. Jeff Martz and I also appear in the film very briefly.
Jeff Martz has more on the meeting and his cool reconstruction of Typothorax here .
New Paleontology Blog - Paleo Errata
I'd like to point out a new blog written by one of my colleagues, Dr. Jeff Martz, called Paleo Errata and found here: http://paleoerrata.blogspot.com/
I agree with Jeff that blogs are an excellent way to communicate and share ideas on a variety of topics, especially geology and paleontology. Like Jeff, I wholly support the sharing of information and open communication between researchers and hope that some day we all can do so freely without the fear of being betrayed. Developing professional relationships with colleagues including the sharing of unpublished information not only makes science fun, it is integral to doing good science. So much is going on "behind the scenes" and "in progress" that not being privy to such information inhibits our ability to formulate and test up to date hypotheses. Of course this involves a fair amount of trust that must be earned as well as given. There is plenty of material for everyone to work on and/or collaborate on without needing to rip each other off.
Jeff has offered to provide his unpublished ideas on various subjects on his blog and I would like to do the same from time to time here as well. Let's make an effort to open things up.
I just need everyone to promise not to...... ;)
I agree with Jeff that blogs are an excellent way to communicate and share ideas on a variety of topics, especially geology and paleontology. Like Jeff, I wholly support the sharing of information and open communication between researchers and hope that some day we all can do so freely without the fear of being betrayed. Developing professional relationships with colleagues including the sharing of unpublished information not only makes science fun, it is integral to doing good science. So much is going on "behind the scenes" and "in progress" that not being privy to such information inhibits our ability to formulate and test up to date hypotheses. Of course this involves a fair amount of trust that must be earned as well as given. There is plenty of material for everyone to work on and/or collaborate on without needing to rip each other off.
Jeff has offered to provide his unpublished ideas on various subjects on his blog and I would like to do the same from time to time here as well. Let's make an effort to open things up.
I just need everyone to promise not to...... ;)
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