Funded!
I want to express my sincere gratitude to everyone who donated and shared this project. This was a new experience for me, and I have been humbled by the generosity and enthusiasm you all have shown...
UPDATE: Project extension - we're almost there!
The founder of experiment.com granted extensions to projects which were making good progress and working hard, and ours was included! We are currently 92% funded with 8 days to go! If everyone shar...
The nature of volcanic ash.
This is a figure from an article I recently submitted for publication in a paleontology journal showing the various components of volcanic ash we sampled from our first field site i...
Project flyer!
Feel free to share this flyer! The crab Chaceon peruvianus is one of the most common fossils at mass kill sites we have uncovered in Argentina. Here, Chaceon affinis is beautifully ...
Mass kill horizon: a snapshot of an ancient sea floor
Silvio Casadio (right) and myself (left) examining a mass mortality surface at Punta Pardelas, Peninsula Valdes, Argentina during field work in 2014. We are walking on an ancient fo...
The Miocene transgression: perilous seas
This map shows the extent to which shallow seas flooded South America during the Miocene epoch (gray colored areas). Our previous work focused on fossils from the Valdes Peninsula i...