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Tetrapod World: May 2015
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Monday, 25 May 2015. TW:eed Project meeting - new advances. Recently we held out seventh team meeting of the TW:eed Project, this time at the Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge. 20 members of the project met together for two days of talks, discussions and workshops. As we are now nearing the end of the project (just over a year remaining) it’s really great to see the results coming together and new research avenues being discussed. Members of Team TW:eed at our seventh project meeting. Romer&...
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Tetrapod World: August 2015
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Monday, 31 August 2015. This August was the TW:eed Project’s Microfossil Month at the University of Leicester. With the help of volunteers, we examined many samples from our main field site. The aim was to record the microfossils present in sieved samples, and identify differences in the assemblages present in various rock types and stratigraphic levels throughout the Ballagan Formation. Some of the volunteers this month, from left to right: Jake, Rebecca, Matthew and Kate. Thursday, 6 August 2015. Durin...
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Tetrapod World: May 2014
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Monday, 19 May 2014. In recent months several TW:eed Project scientists have been out and about doing some fieldwork. Here is a short summary:. A fossil-plant bed at Coquetdale. The sequence at Ayr, with the Heads of Ayr in the background. And CTV News Atlantic. And highlighted the importance of the site. They examined material from lungfish, rhizodonts, actinopterygians and tetrapods. Go to our TW:eed Project Facebook. Page to find out more about the visit. The Blue Beach field exposure. The Symposium o...
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Tetrapod World: February 2015
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Friday, 20 February 2015. Meet the TW:eed Team: Nick Fraser. Nick Fraser is head of the Department of Natural Sciences at the NationalMuseums of Scotland. In Edinburgh. His role on the TW:eed Project is to manage the curation of vertebrate and other important fossils discovered during the project, coordinate large-scale fieldwork activities, and oversee a national TW:eed Project museum exhibit (coming in 2016). Here Nick answers our questions and describes his research interests:. He is sadly missed.
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Tetrapod World: November 2014
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Monday, 24 November 2014. A day in the life: Volunteer Lab Assistant. This time we have a guest blog post from the TW:eed Team’s Rob Clack, about his recent volunteer lab work uncovering fossil bones! Some time ago, I started looking at material like this that we’ve collected from quite high in the Ballagan Formation sequence. This particular fossil-rich bed has already yielded a large rhizodont cleithrum (see photo) and the partial lower jaw of a large tetrapod called Crassigyrinus. Last week member of ...
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Tetrapod World: August 2014
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Wednesday, 13 August 2014. A Day In the Life, with TW:eed Project’s Becky Bennion. The TW:eed Project keeps on growing, with new volunteers, researchers and student projects! Becky Bennion is an undergraduate at The University of Cambridge. She has recently started a summer placement at. The University Museum of Comparative Zoology, Cambridge. She is working on Early Carboniferous sharks, with a special focus on the preparation of rock samples to reveal shark teeth and bones. What has been your most exci...
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Tetrapod World: July 2015
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Tuesday, 28 July 2015. TW:eed Project presents at E.O.M. 8. This week I travelled to Tartu in Estonia to present our work at the 8. Check out this great new site ostracoda.net. The group photo of E.O.M. 8, in Tartu, Estonia. Endla Nature Reserve, a large wetland area that is a habitat for living ostracods. Tuesday, 21 July 2015. TW:eed Project Excavation Finale. Rob Clack reports about week 2 on the TW:eedProject Facebook page. They also found some fantastic fish and plant fossils. Most of the week w...
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Tetrapod World: January 2015
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Wednesday, 21 January 2015. The Skills of Fossil Preparation. Have you ever wondered how fossil bones are recovered from a rock? TW:eed Team volunteer Maggie Wood from the National Museums ofScotland. Has been learning all about just that. Maggie recently spent a fortnight with Sarah Finney (Geological Conservator) at the University of Cambridge, Sedgwick Museum of EarthSciences. Maggie describes the experience:. Vicen Carrió and Maggie Wood preparing a fossil specimen. It was very stimulating to meet co...
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Tetrapod World: March 2015
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Monday, 23 March 2015. The TW:eed Project’s amazing ostracods. On Friday I went to the biannual Ostracod Group meeting of The Micropalaeontology Society. At Queen Mary University of London. A typical ostracod shell from the Ballagan Formation, approximately 1 mm in length. The Ostracod Group of The Micropalaeontology Society. Thank you to Anna March from QMUL for organising the day! We are all looking forward to the next ostracod conference, which will be the 8thEuropean Ostracod Meeting. Follow me on Tw...
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Tetrapod World: December 2014
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Tuesday, 23 December 2014. TW:eed Project presents at BSRG. The TW:eed Team were back on the conference trail again, this time at the annual meeting of the British Sedimentological ResearchGroup. The conference was well attended with a packed schedule of talks, posters, a core workshop, fieldtrip, and great conference dinner and social events. This year there was a wide variety of sedimentary topics, from fluvial deposits to provenance studies and palaeoclimate trends. Saturday, 20 December 2014. This we...
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