The Paul Karrow Lecture Series
Staff and students join us on Thursday November 16th for the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences annual Paul Karrow Lecture Series!
Paul F. Karrow is distinguished Professor Emeritus, Quaternary Geology. He is one of the founding members and first chair of the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University of Waterloo. This lecture series is related to soft rock geology.
2017 Paul Karrow Lecture Series:
This years lecturer is Dr. Matthew Lamanna. He is Assistant Curator of Vertebrate Paleontology at Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh, PA. Dr. Lamanna's research focuses on dinosaurs, birds, and crocodilians that lived during the Cretaceous Period—the third and final time period of the Mesozoic Era, or Age of Dinosaurs.
“Awakening
the
Titans:
Discovering
Giant
New
Dinosaurs
in
the
Southern
Continents”
The
afternoon
lecture
details
co-discoveries
of
multiple
new
species
of
titanosaurs—the
subgroup
of
the
sauropods
(long-necked
plant-eating
dinosaurs)
that
includes
the
largest
land
animals
of
all
time—at
sites
in
the
Southern
Hemisphere
landmasses,
primarily
Argentina
and
Egypt.
This lecture is held from 3:30 to 4:30 pm in MC 4021. Open to those within the department; including all staff and students.
