Oceans of Kansas - 85 million years ago
Schedule
Sat Jul 16 2022 at 03:00 pm to 05:00 pm
Location
Topeka & Shawnee County Public Library | Topeka, KS
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Discover many strange & wonderful creatures that inhabited the Western Interior Sea some 85 million years ago. We'll hear from Mike Everhart, Adjunct Curator of Paleontology at the Sternberg Museum of Natural History & a science adviser on the 2007 National Geographic IMAX film Sea Monsters. Meet us in the library's Marvin Auditorium BC or join us by Zoom (register for Zoom link https://events.tscpl.org/event/6837637).
Mike is a graduate of Wichita State University, a military veteran, and has served as an Adjunct Curator of Paleontology at the Sternberg Museum of Natural History, Fort Hays State University since 1998. He is an expert on Late Cretaceous marine fossils of central and western Kansas, and on the history of paleontology in Kansas. Mike's discoveries have been featured in five made-for-television documentaries on the History and Discovery channels.
Mike is the author of Oceans of Kansas – A Natural History of the Western Interior Sea (Indiana University Press, 2005) and Sea Monsters: Prehistoric Creatures of the Deep (National Geographic, 2007). Both titles were honored as Kansas Notable books. The second edition of Oceans of Kansas was published in September 2017. In addition, Mike has authored more than 50 papers describing the fossils of the Smoky Hill Chalk, including the naming of a new species of an extinct marine reptile (mosasaur) from Kansas: Tylosaurus kansasensis.
He is the creator and webmaster of the educational website Oceans of Kansas Paleontology. Mike was President of the Kansas Academy of Science in 2005 and 2015. He served as a co-editor of the Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science from 2006 to 2011, and shared the Managing Editor positions for the same journal with his wife, Pamela, until they retired in mid-2021.
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Where is it happening?
Topeka & Shawnee County Public Library, 1515 SW 10th Ave, Topeka, United StatesEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
