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Post by Admin on Aug 15, 2012 5:53:54 GMT -5
Hi all,
Just want to introduce myself to you, I'm Dave Marshall, I'm 27 and from Manchester, UK. I was a micropalaeontologist for a consultancy in the oil industry, but have taken time off to concentrate on Palaeocast and getting some of my own research published. My main area of interest is Palaeozoic chelicerates, particularly the aquatic ones (so sea scorpions and horseshoe crabs) and how they are all related.
Palaeontology never fails to amaze me as there's always something new just waiting around the corner. Normally people will only look to the latest news and generally the media will only report on dinosaurs, mass extinctions or climatology, but this way so much knowledge is left almost unreachable to the general public. To me, this is what Palaeocast is all about: bringing the vast wealth of palaeontological research to the public. I hope you enjoy it.
Dave
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Post by Admin on Aug 15, 2012 6:12:35 GMT -5
Hey, Quick intro: I'm Jon. I started off as a planetary geologist at university, but was seduced by the dark side of Palaeontology (dinosaurs) and made the switch to straight geology to learn about them. After that, I did the highly recommended course at the Natural History Museum in London in biodiversity and taxonomy, which provided a nice approach to applied techniques for Palaeontology, or Palaeobiology. My main interests include the macroevolutionary patterns of terrestrial vertebrates during the Mesozoic, and this will be the focus of my PhD. I blog at fossilsandshit.wordpress.com/ on mostly Palaeo-related things, and also tweet as protohedgehog. Palaeocast for me, is about unlocking what is so often relegated to dusty shelves or non-accessible journals. No other science captivates the public as much as Palaeontology, in my experience, and we'd like to continue telling everyone about just how fascinating the numerous, and often concealed, facets of it are.
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Post by Leggi on Aug 30, 2012 7:44:38 GMT -5
Hey guys,
Allow me to be the first non-admin post and hopefully encourage others to introduce themselves. I'm David (Legg), Aries, 5'4''.... only joking (although it's all true). I'm currently doing my PhD at Imperial College London and the Natural History Museum. I spend most of my days dealing with all things arthropod - living and dead - particularly the way in which they are related. This means that on any given day I can be dissecting spiders or looking at gorgeous material from the Burgess Shale (~ 510 Million years old). I also spend a disproportionate amount drawing new beasties from this locality (which no doubt will appear on this site in the near future).
Like many palaeontologist I went through a "dinosaur phase" as a child and became "palaeo-fixated". It was during my A Levels that I first discovered the Burgess Shale and haven't looked back since. I spent my undergrad studying Palaeobiology and Evolution at the University of Portsmouth where I discovered the joys of arthropods and later honed my skills by working on fossil scorpions during my Masters at the University of Bristol.
All the best for Palaeocast. Congratulations to the admins. And I hope to see lots of rousing discussion in these forums in the future.
David
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Post by joekeating on Sept 1, 2012 7:12:12 GMT -5
Hello all
Quick introduction.
My names Joe Keating. I'm 24 and originally from Brighton. I've been interested in palaeontology since I can remember - I was one of those annoying kids that could name all the dinosaurs. I did an undergraduate masters at Leicester, which I finished in 2011. My masters project was on some Devonian osteostracan fish (just published in this months JVP).
After uni I worked for a year as a micropalaeontologist in the oil industry. During that time I met Dave who invited me onto the Palaeocast team!
I'm back off to uni later this month, this time at Bristol, to start a PhD looking into the evolution of the vertebrate skeleton.
Looking forward to chatting to anyone interested in palaeo, particularly fellow early vertebrate lovers. We've got some big plans for palaeocast that I hope to set in motion soon. Watch the space...
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Post by James on Sept 1, 2012 9:15:26 GMT -5
Hi guys, I'm currently studying at the University of Kansas, working on arthropod phylogeny with a focus of aquatic chelicerates, cambrian beasts and aulacopleuroid trilobites. I am also interested in various other issues including ontogeny, heterochrony, phylogenetic theory, and mass extinctions (whether or not you see selection across extinction boundaries, to be more precise). Right now I'm describing some Devonian eurypterids from Wyoming, including a number of juveniles that show some pretty interesting differences from the adults. I'm also collaborating with researchers in Copenhagen on broader issues of arthropod phylogeny. Palaeocast looks impressive so far, guys. Admins might want to split their forum accounts so they don't look so schizophrenic.
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Post by Ross on Sept 1, 2012 10:23:42 GMT -5
Hi guys, Ross here ( rossmounce.co.uk/) Great to see that the site is now live. I'm listening to Ep1 now. As for introductions... well everyone in the thread probably knows me already but for the benefit of others - I'm a PhD student at the University of Bath working on the placement of fossils in the tree of life (aka phylogeny). I also take a keen interest in modernising and expanding access to research data and research literature beyond just rich 'ivory tower' institutes - Open Access for all (because after all, most palaeontological research is taxpayer or charitably-funded). In this role I'm an Open Knowledge Foundation ( science.okfn.org/) Panton Fellow and thoroughly support initiatives such as this that are free to access for everyone, not just ivory tower academics. Well done guys, and best of luck!
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Post by alinemghilardi on Sept 7, 2012 16:32:19 GMT -5
Hello folks,
I was anxious to hear the first episodes. It took some time, but it was worthed: so far they are GREAT! I'm looking foward for the next one.
My name is Aline Ghilardi, I'm from southeast Brazil. Currently I'm a PhD student at the Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro working on Evolutionary Ecology and Geometric Morphometry of terrestrial Crocodyliforms (especially from the Bauru Basin). I'm also a enthusiast paleoartist and a blogger (www.scienceblogs.com.br/colecionadores).
Nice initiative! Best of luck for the team!!
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Post by mvda on Oct 16, 2012 10:23:59 GMT -5
Greetings, all:
I'm called Matthew von der Ahe. I work as an engineering and environmental geologist in Seattle, USA. My MS (isotopic & mineralogic paleotemperature proxies from Eocene-Oligocene foraminifera & arkose) was at the U of Washington in 2008.
Palaeocasters, you have made a great start to the podcast!
Since, as you know, we live in a microbe world, I'll be interested to hear interviews with scientists working on ancient microbes and their microscopic, macroscopic (i.e., stromatolites), and chemical fossils.
Thanks, and keep up the good work.
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Post by davemarshall on Oct 18, 2012 13:26:42 GMT -5
Since, as you know, we live in a microbe world, I'll be interested to hear interviews with scientists working on ancient microbes and their microscopic, macroscopic (i.e., stromatolites), and chemical fossils. Hi Matthew, I definitely want to make sure that we give a good representation of microbial world! Our first episode was a statement of intent in that respect; we could so easily have done an episode on archaeopteryx or T.rex, which no doubt would have generated more interest. Stromatolites are something we'll be doing for sure. But as none of us work in microbes, we'd appreciate any suggestions in the relevant section under the episodes header! We'll look into each and every one! Dave
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Post by davemarshall on Jan 1, 2013 16:58:36 GMT -5
Merry Christmas and a happy new year to all those who venture this far! One of my new year resolutions is to pay more attention to the forum, so hopefully I'll get the chance to chat to a lot more of you! We have quite high traffic on this board, so please feel free to jump in and get involved. I'd love to hear from all of you!
Dave
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Post by Infodino on Jan 2, 2013 19:31:20 GMT -5
My name's Jason, and i'm from the U.S. I have absolutely zero educational background in any sciences, so i'll probably be mistaken for a tourist keeping my dictionary handy for all the unfamiliar words. Guess i'll be the first 'that guy' who's here because he found dinosaurs as a kid and never really grew out of them. I'm mostly here to learn (Liked Episode 2 & 8 so far) and see what all is out there.
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Post by davemarshall on Jan 9, 2013 18:27:09 GMT -5
Hi Jason,
Glad you could join us! As a non-scientist it'd be great to get your opinions on our podcast so far! If you could private message me or drop me an email to info@palaeocast.com I'd love to ask you a couple of questions!
And generally, I don't think many palaeontologists outgrew dinosaurs from when they were kids!
Dave
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Post by mariessa on Feb 26, 2013 10:36:57 GMT -5
Hi,
I’m a student of Infection Biology from Germany. I’ve just found this interesting podcast and I enjoy catching up with the latest episodes. I have always been interested in a lot of aspects of life and earth like evolution and geography (although I neglected this a little bit lately) and definitely had a dinosaur phase, too.
One remark about the introductions of you, Dave, Jon and Joe: It might be nice to have the information about you and your background directly on the palaeocast website as well. Maybe I was just not clever enough but it took me quite a while to finally discover them in the forum.
And just in case you still need some help with translations that do not require a profound background in palaeontology, I might be able to help with German stuff. Thanks for your work and the interesting interviews! Mariessa
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Post by davemarshall on Mar 1, 2013 11:34:03 GMT -5
Hey Mariessa,
Thanks for the comments, sure, we could have an 'about' section, I'll look into it. I didn't think that many people would be interested, or that we could slowly build familiarity with each of us in the introductions to each episode. Our very first post (the only one without an attached podcast) has some information on us too. I'd be very interested on doing something on pathogens! So many people just want dinosaurs, but they're just a tiny portion of life on Earth!
Glad you like what we've done! Dave
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Post by brooke on May 14, 2013 9:01:10 GMT -5
Heyup I'm Brooke, I've been interested in palaeontology for as long as I can remember. One of my oldest memories is finding a bit of coal with a shell imprint in it and wanting to know what it was. A trip to the library and an OU tv lecture on dinosaurs later I was on the beach looking for ammonites. Growing up on the UK North East coast there where plenty about. I'm currently an undergrad studying geology at Birkbeck as a distance learner but will be moving to the London in the autumn. As cool as all palaeontology is my first love will always be invertebrates, especially anything from the lower paleozoic. I was the weird kid who liked worms and woodlice. Trilobites, eurypterids, nautiloids anything weird will grab my attention but especially ediacarans and other engimatic taxa. My plan post grad would be to go on to further study in this area. I also like to draw and this also stems from fossils as a youngster I would draw my specimens, my avatar is my handy work. I think my interest in palaeo comes from my love of stories. For me the greatest story is the one that starts with a mess of inorganic chemistry and leads over billions of years to a creature that can split a rock, look at the bits and read that story. I have always been driven to share this with people and to show palaeontology is really the story of us all and not just something for scientists in labs. That's why one of my long term goals is to lecture on the subject. I found palaeocast randomly googling 'palaeontology webcast'. At my day job I am allowed to listen to music ect and blitzed through the first ten or so episodes in a single day. I also talk a lot (despite being very shy in person) and like cats and short bread!
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