Likely Dates...

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).

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.

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.

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

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/

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.

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!