The Korea-Mongolia International Dinosaur Project has been collecting fossils from the Gobi Desert for the past several summers, and some of the specimens are housed in the lab in Hwaseong. My visit to Korea is funded through an NSERC Foreign Study Supplement, which is kind of like a study abroad for scientists. The purpose of my visit here is to help prepare a large ankylosaur skeleton, and to get experience working in a different culture and research environment. Continue reading
Hwaseong prep work, day 3
Here’s an example of one of the dinosaur nests found nearby. I like how they show the matrix surrounding the nest. Continue reading
First day at the Hwaseong Dinosaur Lab
After a long journey to Seoul, I have arrived in Hwaseong-si. Here’s a few pictures from my first day at the lab.
I have begun to prepare a tail club.
Another chapter finished.
Congratulations, Pete.
The coffee is well earned.
5 days to go…
The countdown is really on, now!
Here’s a few shots of my previous visit to Mongolia, in August 2007. I feel very lucky to be able to have a second visit to such a wonderful place!
The ankylosaur bonebed Aleg Tag has produced many elements of Pinacosaurus, a small and unusual dinosaur. Unfortunately, the bonebed had been poached before we got there – you can see the small crater-like depressions where bones had been ripped up.
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Some more congratulations!
Congratulations to Derek Larson who just defended his MSc thesis this morning!
Derek works on the vertebrate assemblage from the Milk River Formation in southern Alberta and has amused us greatly with his sock tans, amusing out of context quotes, cooking adventures, and various other antics.
Good work Derek!
A week in Warsaw
After last year’s very enjoyable SVP meeting in Bristol, I was able to spend some time at the Paleontological Institute in Warsaw. Mike and I were there to look at Gobi ankylosaurs. The Polish-Mongolian Expeditions in the 1960s and 70s discovered many exciting new taxa of ankylosaurs, including Tarchia and Saichania, and an excellent juvenile Pinacosaurus.
A birthday!
Happy birthday smaller sibling!
From Russia with Love.
Tetsuto is kind enough to let me post some of his excellent photos from our trip to Russia. Thanks Tetsuto!
Into the Gobi….in Mother Russia.
Guess where I was last week?
pseudoplocephalus 