Below are some of the outreach events that our lab has participated in over the years.
2024
Darwin Day
I was a participant in Arkansas State University's annual Darwin Day Event. This year the focus was on the role of paleontology in the study of evolution. I was part of a roundtable event featuring other NYITCOM-AR paleontologists, Dr. Cossette, Dr. Poole, and Dr. Green
2021
My lab, along with my Ph.D. advisor, were interviewed by Scientific American writer, Aaron Martin, for our work on ankylosaur nasal passages.
2020
Zoom guest spots
Lockdowns and CoViD-19 limited most outreach activities, but the switch to a very online format did offer unique opportunties to speak to classes around the country using Zoom, including The University of Maryland Baltimore's dinosaur physiology class taught by Dr. Sarah Leupen
2019
Summer Health Academy for Research Exploration (SHARE)
Our lab participated in NYITCOM-AR's SHARE program. Here, we mentored a gifted high school student from the surrounding community on what it's like working in a scientific lab. Our student, Jordan, learned how to digitally separate the individual bones in the skull of an iguana and he then reconstructed those bones as 3D models that were later printed
2018
St. Louis Science Center
I was invited to talk about my work at the St. Louis Science Center's annual SciFest. Their theme that year was titled: Engineering our World. I had the opportunity to interact with many engaged kids and showcase some of what paleontology can do.
