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Dan Chure | 1 Jul 2009 14:14

Death of Joan Wiffen

Joan Wiffen, who found the first dinosaur bones in New Zealand and was a 
recipient of the Morris Skinner Award from SVP has died at age 87.  
Details can be read at

http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/stories/2009/07/01/1245bb1b3424

Dan
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Richard W. Travsky | 1 Jul 2009 16:25
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Re: A very sad day

On Tue, 30 Jun 2009, David Marjanovic wrote:
> Three questions:

Two answers...

> ...
> - A grand total of two employees are fired? Can that possibly have been
> worth it financially?!?

This is a "savings" of 80k (koff koff)

> - Does that university have a football team...? If so, I shall not be able
> to write down what I think, because there are too many adults on this list.

Yes, there is a team. And the stadium is currently having VIP boxes 
constructed...
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Richard W. Travsky | 1 Jul 2009 16:32
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Re: A very sad day


On Tue, 30 Jun 2009, Thomas R. Holtz, Jr. wrote:

> http://paleochick.blogspot.com/2009/06/very-sad-day.html

http://www.keeplaramiedinos.blogspot.com/

A fund has been set up.
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Andy Farke | 1 Jul 2009 17:21
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Alf Museum Now on Facebook and Twitter


For those who follow such things, the Raymond M. Alf Museum of Paleontology now has a Facebook Fan Page
(searching for "Alf Museum" on Facebook should find it) and Twitter feed (alfmuseum). We'll be using
these venues to highlight current events at the museum and in the field, research happenings, cool
specimens, and other museum-related activities.

Andy

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Danvarner | 1 Jul 2009 18:33
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So, you always wanted to go to Don Glut's house?

Some images Not Safe For Work  (I think). DV

http://www.collectorsquest.com/collection/767/items-relating-to-dinosaurs-an
d-other-prehistoria.html
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Paul | 1 Jul 2009 21:16
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Impact Database v. 2009.1


Impact Database v. 2009.1

http://impacts.rajmon.cz/

http://impacts.rajmon.cz/IDhistory.html

Yours,

Paul V. Heinrich
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Paul | 1 Jul 2009 21:41
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New ASTER Global Satellite Digital Elevation Model Data Now Available Online


Articles that describe this new global Digital Elevation Model (DEM) dataset are:

1. Most Complete Earth Map Published, BBC News, June 30, 2009

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8126197.stm

2. Most Complete Topographic Map of Earth, GM International

http://www.gim-international.com/news/id3889-Most_Complete_Topographic_Map_of_Earth.html

"NASA and Japan released a new digital topographic map of Earth Monday 
that covers more of our planet than ever before. The map was produced with 
detailed measurements from NASA's Terra spacecraft. The new global digital 
elevation model of Earth was created from nearly 1.3 million individual 
stereo-pair images collected by the Japanese Advanced Spaceborne Thermal 
Emission and Reflection Radiometer, or ASTER, instrument aboard Terra. 
NASA and Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI), 
developed the data set. It is available online to users everywhere at no cost."

Homepages for the ASTER Global DEM are:

http://www.gdem.aster.ersdac.or.jp/

https://wist.echo.nasa.gov/~wist/api/imswelcome/

https://wist.echo.nasa.gov/wist-bin/api/ims.cgi?mode=MAINSRCH&JS=1

Yours,
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Dann Pigdon | 2 Jul 2009 00:38
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Re: Alf Museum Now on Facebook and Twitter

On Thu, Jul 2nd, 2009 at 1:21 AM, Andy Farke <andyfarke <at> hotmail.com> wrote:

> ...(searching for "Alf Museum" on Facebook should find it)

I was disappointed. Not a single cat recipe.

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MKIRKALDY | 2 Jul 2009 00:54
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Joan Wiffen

Posted for Ralph Molnar. 
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Joan  Wiffen passed away on 29 June. Joan was the primary figure in the 
discovery of  dinosaurs and other Mesozoic terrestrial vertebrates in New 
Zealand. Thirty some  years ago, in the 1970’s she and her husband, known to his 
friends as Pont,  decided to hunt for vertebrate fossils in North Island. 
They tracked down a map  from a petroleum company that noted “reptilian bones”
 in the Te Hoe Valley. In  their ‘50’s, when most of us would be 
contemplating retirement, they took up  prospecting for reptilian fossils. At this 
time, Cretaceous marine reptiles were  known from New Zealand, but no 
land-living creatures. By 1980, in addition to  fossils of marine reptiles, Joan and 
Pont had discovered a single bone of a  dinosaur, the first from New 
Zealand. Her later work was to reveal evidence of  probably five types of 
dinosaur, as well as of one flying reptile (pterosaur).  This is set out in her 1991 
book ‘Valley of the Dragons’.
Joan’s work is significant in several ways. First, but not least, in  
illuminating the evolutionary and geological history of the islands of New  
Zealand. Second, in shedding light on the elusive geological history of  
Antarctica, the ‘mother continent’ of New Zealand, from which New Zealand  
separated 80 million years ago, just before the time of the dinosaurs Joan  
discovered. Third, in showing what kinds of dinosaurs lived on islands since New  
Zealand was already insular when these creatures lived. And, fourth, in also  
showing what kinds of dinosaurs lived near the poles, the Southern pole in 
this  case.. Most dinosaurs are known from countries, such as China, 
Mongolia,  Argentina, and the U.S. that were continental land masses at the time 
dinosaurs  lived, and that were tropical or temperate in climate during that 
time. So  Joan’s discoveries help to illuminate the dark corners of the 
dinosaurian world,  and to provide insights into where these
creatures could and did  survive.
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Ian Paulsen | 2 Jul 2009 01:51

The Rise of Amphibians book

HI ALL:
 I just got in a reviewer's copy of the above NEW book by Robert Carroll:

http://www.amazon.com/Rise-Amphibians-Million-Years-Evolution/dp/080189140X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1246491870&sr=1-1

sincerely
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Ian Paulsen
Bainbridge Island, WA, USA
" Which just goes to show that a
  passion for books is extremely unhealthy."
 from Cornelia Funke's "Inkheart".
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