@afwhitaker.bsky.social
U of T PhD candidate โข Paleontologist studying the preservation of Paleozoic critters โข Museum Studies M.A. ๐โ๐ท
Hey #earthscience friends-
Iโm teaching a class on cores (retrieval, processing, storage, sampling & uses) this week so Iโm collecting papers:
What are your favorite/coolest studies using core data- can be rock, sediment, or ice cores! Thanks!
Congrats!!
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๐จNew paper alert ๐จ
Technically a few weeks old, but sharing another now-published dissertation chapter this #FossilFriday
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A full house at CPC 2023 as Jean-Bernard Caron kicks off the dayโs talks with a jellyfish from the Burgess Shale!
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Highlighted text that reads โ the โGreat Taconic Controverseyโ that ensued โaffected the lives and careers of every prominent geologist in the United States and Canadaโ until the end of the nineteenth century and was โthe graveyard of so many scientific reputations.โโ
Born too early to explore the stars, born too late to dash my scientific reputation on the rocks of the Great Taconic Controversy
27.10.2023 00:37 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 0โStudent volunteers get free dinnerโ
The dinner:
Oops forgot to post yesterday but thank you everyone who came out to the session & the presenters! Had fun talking about the Eramosa and moderating a session for the first time #GSA2023
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A google search for โextremely round eurypteridโ, aka carcinosomatids
The talk is going great ๐ฅน
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Brassica xkcd.com/2827
11.09.2023 23:57 โ ๐ 4106 ๐ 905 ๐ฌ 28 ๐ 44By some divine humor it will probably come up in my defense
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A moment of silence for slide 13-1๐
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Save the Date! ๐๏ธ
The Canadian Paleontology Conference is back in person, hosted at the University of Toronto Mississauga October 27th-28th.
Abstract submission and details will be coming soon, keep an eye on the Geological Association of Canada website.
#FossilFriday
Dodging social media extinctions left and right โ๏ธ
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A white phosphatized fossil of an arthropod of contested affinity from the Eramosa Formation
Made the jump here, so trying to find my paleo community again! Iโm a PhD candidate at @uoft.bsky.social working on taphonomy of Paleozoic Lagerstรคtten, specifically the Silurian Eramosa Fm. I also focus on museum collections and anthropogenic biases that affect research conclusions. ๐ชฑ๐ฌโ๏ธ๐ท๏ธ
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