Thursday, March 18, 2010 AGS Luncheon Topic: "Mesozoic Vertebrates of Alaska" Noon Luncheon 11:30-1:00 pm About Speaker: Patrick Druckenmiller - Earth Science Curator, University of Alaska Museum, Department of Geology and Geophysics, UAF, Fairbanks, Alaska
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Patrick Druckenmiller is Earth Sciences Curator at the University of Alaska Museum and Assistant Professor in the UAF Department of Geology and Geophysics. He received his BA at the University of Wisconsin Madison, his MS at Montana State University Bozeman, and his PhD at the University of Calgary, Alberta. Pat s research focuses on Mesozoic marine reptiles and dinosaurs, particularly those from high latitudes. Pat is currently involved in a large collaborative project with the University of Oslo Natural History Museum collecting and documenting new marine reptiles from Svalbard in the Norwegian high arctic. He is also involved in several projects involving Alaskan fossil vertebrates including Triassic ichthyosaurs from the Brooks Range and Southeast Alaska, and Cretaceous dinosaurs from the North Slope.