SVP 08: Paleo-Bloggers
9:53 pm
So, I’m now back from Cleveland and this year’s meeting of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, five days full of museum tours, technical sessions, poster presentations, and all kinds of incredible people with a passion for paleontology: scientists, students, professors, preparators, merchandisers, artists and avocationalists. And, as seen above, a select subset running through all those groups, the bloggers.
Julia Heathcote, of The Ethical Palaeontologist, did a fantastic job organizing a PalaeoBloggers’ Lunch at this year’s SVP. I met some people whose work I’d known for several years, and a few new folks who I’ll be adding to the blogroll soon. They are:
Top row (left to right):
- Thom Holtz
- Matt Wedel: Ask Doctor Vector and 1/3 of SV-POW
- Patty Ralrick: Alberta Vertebrate Paleontology Association
- Andy Farke: The Open Source Paleontologist
- Scott Elyard: Coherent Lighthouse
- Alton Dooley: Updates from the Vertebrate Paleontology Lab
Bottom row (left to right):
- J and Amanda: Self-designed Student
- Julia Heathcote: The Ethical Palaeontologist
- Jerry Harris
- Matt Celeskey: Hairy Museum of Natural History
- Zach Miller: When Pigs Fly Returns
- Nick Gardner: Why I hate theropods
- Neil Kelley: microecos
Thanks are also due to Julia’s husband Paul, no stranger to the world of blogging, who took the group photos for everyone.
I’ll post some more stuff from the meeting later this week, but be sure to check out Alton and Zach’s blogs in particular for some excellent summaries of their experiences in Cleveland.
And you’d better read it quick, because according to David Hone, I might in violation of the embargo. :-(
It was such a pleasure meeting everybody. So. You gonna be there next year, Matt?
Hope so Scott – we’ll see how the time and budget shakes out. But if not, then 2010, definitely.
“we’ll see how the time and budget shakes out.”
I hear that. (I’ll be doing my damnedest, though.)
“But if not, then 2010, definitely.”
It’s a mark of my age that this date seems to me to be far, far into the future.
I feel pretty old, all of a sudden.
Just catching up with all the palaeobloggers now I’m back in the UK. It was a pleasure to meet you Matt, and I hope the budget shakes out enough to see you in our part of the world next year!
And don’t forget to subscribe to Paul’s serialisation of The Long Watch from this Saturday onwards…