EventsSpeaker Series
The Royal Tyrrell Museum’s annual Speaker Series brings world-renowned scientists and researchers to the Museum and offers them a platform to discuss hot topics in palaeontology or to share results of their current research with the public.
FREE!
All presentations begin at 11:00 a.m. in the Royal Tyrrell Museum auditorium.
Speaker Series 2012 presentations are now available online!
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For more information:
Toll free in Alberta
310-0000 then (403) 823-7707
Toll free in North America (outside Alberta)
1-888-440-4240
Outside North America
1-403-823-7707
Email
tyrrell.info@gov.ab.ca
Thursday, February 23
Annie Quinney, University of Calgary
Reconstructing the paleoenvironments of the Horseshoe Canyon Formation
Thursday, March 1
Brian Kooyman, University of Calgary
No Moa: Whatever happened to the giant flightless birds of New Zealand?
Thursday, March 8
Michael Habib, Chatham University, PA
Air Giants: Launch, flight, and ecology of Cretaceous pterosaurs
Thursday, March 15
Frank Hadfield, Palcoprep, Drumheller
Building the perfect beast: Challenges associated with displaying whales, the largest creatures to have ever lived
Thursday, March 22
Jack Brink, Royal Alberta Museum
Masters of Animals: Pronghorn hunting on the Alberta Plains
Wednesday, March 28
Mikael Siverson, Western Australian Museum
Lamniform sharks: 110 million years of ocean supremacy
Thursday, March 29
Jon Noad, Murphy Oil, Calgary
As clear as mud: Exploring ancient mangroves and their inhabitants
Thursday, April 5
Joe Sanchez, Royal Tyrrell Museum
Diving birds in the Prairies: Cenomanian hesperornithiforms from the Pasquia Hills, Saskatchewan
Thursday, April 12
Mike Newbrey, Royal Tyrrell Museum
The mysterious Myledaphus, a freshwater ray from the Late Cretaceous of Alberta
Thursday, April 19
Rhian Russell, Royal Tyrrell Museum
Palaeoconservation: An emerging field
Thursday, April 26
Lara Shychoski, University of Alberta
Study of theropod feeding behavior using finite-element analysis
Thursday, May 3 Talk has been cancelled.
Tom Lipka, Arundel Project and Geobiological Research, MD
Dinosaurs in D.C.? Paleontology of the East Coast of North America
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Directions
Located 6 km from Drumheller, the Museum is nestled in the heart of the Canadian Badlands where fossil hunters have prospected for over a century.
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