Dinosaur Dreaming: 2016

Sunday, 20 November 2016

Rookies' day snaps

Kevin, Tess, Ashley, Mary

Ross and Karina

Brittannie, Jess, Tash, Astrid,

Jasmine, Ellie, Louise, Ali,

Victoria, Jacqui, Andrew

Ali, Victoria, Ellie, Louise

Allan, Jeremy, Karina, Robert

Karina

Callum, Evan, Timothy

Rookies' day fossil finders

Brittannie

Ross

Gemma

Ellie

Eve (not a rookie)

Megan

Sharon

Kylie

Gemma (again)

Ross (again)

Jeremy (not a rookie)

Tash

Astrid

Rookies' Day Crew photo

Thanks to Tim's mum for taking the photo!

Friday, 28 October 2016

Sneak peek at the 2016 Field Report

Today the 2016 Field Report was sent to the printer.
Here's a sneak peek at the front cover!

I hope to see crew and Friends at the report day on 12 November.

Wednesday, 19 October 2016

Hard at work editing the Field Report

Preparing for Battle

The Layout... (Mary for scale)

Monday, 30 May 2016

Here are the most likely dates for the 2016/2017 Field Season:

Field Report Day: Saturday, November 12 in the afternoon at Melbourne Museum.
Rookies' Training Day: Sunday, November 20 at Flat Rocks.
ETRW Field Season: Saturday, February 4 to Saturday, February 25.

Friend's day at ETRW during the dig (probably Sunday, February 19).

Thursday, 26 May 2016

Planning for the 2017 Field Season

Planning for a Field Season starts a long way in advance. Tom Rich and Dave Pickering have been thinking about it for some time, and the first meeting of a few key organisers is scheduled for this weekend. I expect we'll propose dates for our rookie training day and the ETRW season, and decide what to duplicate or change about such thing as equipment, transportation, fossil protection, and feeding/housing the crew. I'll let you know if anything gets decided afterwards.

Tuesday, 10 May 2016

Article about Tom and our dig in The Monthly

Check it out at https://www.themonthly.com.au/issue/2016/may/1462024800/chloe-hooper/dinosaur-digger.

Thursday, 28 April 2016

Travis's penguins in The Age.

http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/museum-victoria-and-monash-university-discover-more-about-extinct-giant-penguins-20160427-gogdc6.html

Wednesday, 27 April 2016

Travis tells of giant penguins

Check out the blog of Dinosaur Dreamer Travis Park as he talks about his new paper on Australia's penguins: http://www.scilogs.com/blogozoic/penguins-down-under-a-lost-world/

Thursday, 14 April 2016

The Age reports on Travis and his Dolphins

Check it out at http://www.theage.com.au/technology/sci-tech/fossil-ear-reveals-ultraancient-origins-of-dolphin-communications-20160413-go5bmm.html.

Wednesday, 13 April 2016

Travis talks dolphins

Dino Dreamer Travis Park has just published a paper on early toothed whales.
Check it out at http://rsbl.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/12/4/20160060.

Or for those who find academic papers tough reading, check out the Museum Victoria video on dolphin echolocation at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nih58z15cn0, or read Travis' blog post at http://www.scilogs.com/blogozoic/echoes-of-the-past/.

Congratulations, Travis!

Sunday, 13 March 2016

Dr Jack Horner to speak at Melbourne Museum

On 22 March, Dr Jack Horner is speaking at Melboutne Museum as part of the new Jurassic World exhibition: https://museumvictoria.com.au/melbournemuseum/whats-on/recreating-dinosaurs-for-our-future-world
I believe he has plans to create a Chickenosaurus. That would be pretty cool.

Monday, 29 February 2016

Museum Victoria pics

Crewmates in Week 1 might remember Rob Zugaro from Museum Victoria shooting some footage to be used during the Jurassic World exhibition. He also shot some stills - you can view some of the best ones at http://mvp.pixieset.com/dinosaurdreaming-2833316/. Thanks Rob!