News from the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology Meetings

Nearly a thousand scientists attended the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology annual meeting in Ottawa. It is impossible to summarize the diverse array of research currently being conducted across the global. It was a great chance to catch up with current trends in the field and meet with old friends. The highlight for this year was the new ceratopsian discovered by Don DeBlieux and described by Jim Kirtland from the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, in southern Utah. A full article can be found here.

Off to Canada

The 66th annual Society of Vertebrate Paleontology meetings will be held next week in Ottawa, Ontario. Several symposiums are gathering scientist across the global to discuss key innovations in the field, including a symposium to highlight new studies in developmental biology and their application to fossil vertebrates. Talks will also be given on new breakthroughs in 3D imaging of fossils, and the origin of modern whales. I will be attending the meeting, presenting a scientific poster on discoveries made last summer.
It should be an interesting congregation of both novice and renown scientists.

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