Digital Media + Geology
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Principles of Sidewalk Geology
Concrete sidewalks are interesting public spaces, or rather public non-spaces. Sidewalks are places of transit, places of transition from here to there, often overlooked because of their functional nature. Yet concrete sidewalks are perhaps the most accessible aspect of urban geology, providing opportunities to study geological material and processes. Foundation Knowledge The principles of sidewalk…
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Digital Innovation in 2000
I was looking back at field notes and photographs from the “Dinosaur Expedition 2000” online web updates. These images and written notes and labels all contain important data that was obtained during the two week long collection of new dinosaur bones at the site. The project proved to be innovative in the level of online…
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Updating the Quarry Map
It was in September 1997 that I first traveled to Nova Scotia to begin my study of dinosaur skeletons at Wasson Bluff. I then spent the next ten years collecting new specimens, and completed my PhD dissertation describing what is now recognized as a bone bed of sauropodomorph (long necked) dinosaurs. Now, twenty-five years later,…