Draper Museum of Natural History's Lunchtime Expeditions
Series
The Draper Museum of Natural History is pleased to offer Lunchtime Expeditions - a series of free public programs
that explore natural history, natural resources, conservation,
management and related current issues affecting residents
and visitors of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem.
"The important
thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as
to discover new ways of thinking about them." - Sir William Bragg |
Thursday, July 2, 2009
12:15 - 1:00 p.m.
Coe Auditorium
Free to the Public
Please Note: Lunchtime Expeditions are now on the first Thursday of every month.
"Tropical Wyoming"
by Arvid Aase, Fossil Butte National Monument, Kemmerer, Wyo.
SYNOPSIS:
In the days of the early Eocene, Wyoming did indeed have a tropical climate. Using leave fossils from Fossil Lake in Wyoming, Mr. Aase describes the science behind using leaves to estimate climate, review methods used with Fossil Lake leaves, estimating temperature and precipitation, and how that compares to selected places around the globe and future direction for research.
Arvid Aase is the Museum Specialist and paleontologist at Fossil Butte National Monunment in Kemmerer, Wyoming. He graduated with a B.S. in geology from BYU-Provo in 1993, and an M.S. in geology from The University of Kansas in 1998.
Mr. Aase thesis interpreted the life habits of the early Ordovician trilobite genus Pseudocybele. He still love trilobites and has spent over two weeks looking for them so far this year. Currently in his 12th year as Museum Specialist/paleontologist at Fossil Butte National Monument. Mr. Aase has been married for 15 years with 5 children ages 6-14, over 60 house plants (mostly succulents),
4 snakes, 2 lizards, 2 salamanders, 2 cockatiels, 16 goldfish, dozens of guppies, one slug, one Russian tortoise, and 2,000 to 5,000 crickets.
Free to the Public. Neither Food nor Drink is allowed in the Coe Auditorium. Thank you.
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