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Dinner
Meeting
Date: Thursday,
January 19, 2006
Time: 5:30
pm Cash Bar
6:00
pm Dinner
7:30
pm Guest Speaker
Location: Trumpeter
Hotel
Cost: $20.00 Members & Guests
Guest Speaker: Dr.
Philip Currie, Canada
Research Chair, University of Alberta
Topic: Why
Polar Dinosaurs are Important
Philip Currie is professor, Canada Research Chair at the
University of Alberta in the Department of Biological Sciences, former Curator
of Dinosaurs at the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology and Adjunct Professor
University of Calgary. He received his BSc in Toronto, 1972, MSc and PhD
at McGill in 1975 and 1981. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (1999)
and a member of the Explorers Club (2001). As a researcher at the Royal Tyrrell
Museum of Palaeontology (Drumheller), he has published 100 scientific articles,
85 popular articles and twelve books, focussing on the growth and variation of
extinct reptiles, the anatomy and relationships of carnivorous dinosaurs, and
the origin of birds.
Fieldwork connected with his research has been concentrated
in Alberta, Argentina, British Columbia, China, Mongolia the Arctic and Antarctica.
Dr. Currie received the Sir Frederick Haultain Award (for significant contributions
to science in Alberta) in 1988, the American Association of Petroleum Geologists’ Michel
T. Halbouty Human Needs Award in 1999 and the Michael Smith Award in 2004. Since
1986, he has supervised or co-supervised 31 MSc and PhD students at the University
of Calgary, the University of Saskatchewan, and the University of Copenhagen.
He has given hundreds of popular and scientific lectures on dinosaurs all over
the world, and is often interviewed by the press.
To register, call:
Shirley Layne, CMP @ APEGGA – 1-800-661-7020 by January 17
VISA, MasterCard and American Express are accepted forms of payment.
If you have questions, call:
Bert Hunt, P.Eng. @ Grande Prairie Regional College – (780) 539-2008 or
hunt@gprc.ab.ca
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