The January meeting for the DPS will be held at 7:30pm on January 11th at Brookhaven College, Building H, Ellison Miles Geotechnology Institute, 3939 Valley View Lane, Farmers Branch, TX 75244. Our special speaker is Dr. Louis Jacobs, professor of geology and president of the Institute for the Study of Earth and Man at Southern Methodist University. […]
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A look back at the top SMU news stories of 2016
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Medium Originally Posted: November 6, 2016 “Report from the Top of the World!” The flier caught my attention immediately. The U.S. Embassy in Oslo and the Royal Norwegian Embassy in Washington, DC wanted to send graduate journalism students to the Norwegian Arctic as part of a new internshipprogram. I applied because I wanted to gain a global perspective on my […]
Live Science Originally Posted: November 8, 2016 Shortly after an asteroid smashed into Earth about 65.5 million years ago, obliterating much of life on Earth,an ancient sea turtle with a triangular-shaped head swam along the relatively arid shores of southern Africa, a new study finds. The creature, a newly identified species, lived about 64 million years ago […]
On the right is Dr. Yoshitsugu Kobayashi, a professor at Hokkaido University, Soporo, Japan. He received a master’s and Ph.D. In Earth Sciences from SMU. On the left is Yosuke Nishida, now an editor for Springer based in Tokyo, who received his MS in Earth Sciences from SMU. The photos were taken in the Hokkaido […]
D Magazine, Frontburner Originally Posted: October 11, 2016 In addition to Pioneer Cemetery, there’s another quiet space in Dallas that holds the bones of ancestors: the Shuler Museum of Paleontology, located on the SMU campus. The Shuler Museum has no fully assembled skeletons of prehistoric carnivores on premises or other dazzling displays (though the day […]
Tuesday, Oct 4th, 7:30 PM, 153 Heroy Hall, Southern Methodist University Dr. Barbara Seuss of Friedrich-Alexander University in Erlangen, Germany, will speak on “The Buckhorn Asphalt Quarry – An upper Carboniferous ‘Impregnation Lagerstätte’ “. In the Arbuckles near Sulphur, Oklahoma, a Pennsylvanian asphalt seep preserved aragonitic shells, tiny larvae and protoconchs, and delicate ornamentation and […]
YouTube Originally Posted: August 22, 2016 American archaeologists of their field areas in Malawi, where Louis Jacobs is now. He is working with Dr. Elizabeth Gomani Chindebvu, former SMU graduate student. The Mwakasyunguti valley is below the red layer where the archaeologists were digging. The dinosaur beds are the light colored beds. [youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YPYHn26Twk&feature=youtu.be[/youtube]
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Oh, the places Dedman College students will go… (after graduation)!
Mustang Minute Originally Posted: August 5, 2016 https://youtu.be/T1YQINaGTfo