A man in dark clothes sits in a dig site of mammoth skulls and bones.

4th Sat Speaker's Series: "Ecometrics: Using Traits Within Fossil Communities to Infer Paleoenvironment"

Agate Fossil Beds National Monument

Special Event
  • Aug 24, 2024 at 1:00 PM
  • Free

Are you interested in prehistoric environments? Come listen to Charles Bruce speak about his studies of fossil communities and how traits gleaned from them build a picture of past environments.

Charles Bruce is a PhD student at South Dakota State University studying mammal ecomorphology and paleoecology, and is particularly interested in studying carnivorans, such as badgers, weasels, and wolverines. He is from Texas, where he went to Texas A&M for his B.A. in geology and then attended East Tennesse State University for his M.S. in geosciences, paleontology concentration. Now, he is based out of Rapid City in the Black Hills, where he has previously worked as a paleontology intern at the Mammoth Site of Hot Springs and Badlands National Park during a gap year.

Fees

This event is free to attend.

Schedule

Date:

Aug 24, 2024

Time:

1:00 PM

Duration:

1 hour

Contact Information

Anne Wilson
1-308-436-9776
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Event Type

  • Talk
Tags: agfo, paleontology, fossils