Six workshops will be offered in conjunction with the Annual Meeting. Advance registration is required for all Workshops. Onsite registration will not be accepted. SVP reserves the right to alter or cancel a workshop due to low registration. In the event of a workshop cancellation, SVP will refund fees in full.
What Rock is That? (and other common 4th grade questions)
Work with educators from the Natural History Museum of Utah to discover new ways to foster independent exploration, help students gain a deeper understanding of the natural world, and answer tricky student questions about rocks, minerals, and fossils. Participants will walk away with useful information and resources to use inquiry effectively in your own science program while covering important geologic concepts.
The focus of this workshop—Earth Science/Geology—is an area we find teachers struggle to effectively communicate with school-age children the most. Using geology as a lens, participants will feel more confident in their own abilities as science educators and learn up-to-date research-based information on inquiry learning and scientific process skills.
Date: Tuesday, October 29, 2013
Time: 9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Location: The Westin Bonaventure Hotel & Suites
Cost: $40.00 per person
Minimum Number of Participants: 8
Maximum Number of Participants: 30
Leaders:
Natalie Toth, Outreach Educator, Paleontologist
ntoth@nhmu.utah.edu
801.587.3536
Jessica Seppi, Outreach Educator, Environmental Scientist
jseppi@nhmu.utah.edu
801.587.5706
Virtual 3D Analysis of Chewing in Mammals – Occlusal Fingerprint Analyser (OFA) Workshop
Precise dental occlusion is a key adaptation in the evolution of mammals. In combination with various modifications of the dentition, modern placentals and marsupials developed versatile masticatory functions. The reconstruction of the chewing cycle and quantification of mastication performance is a major problem in functional morphology of the dentition. To overcome the shortcomings of 2D-models, a 3D virtual manipulation software, the Occlusal Fingerprint Analyser (OFA), was developed within the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft Research Unit 771. The OFA allows a detailed 3D surface analysis with the integration of masticatory movements and original wear patterns of teeth. The workshop will include a presentation of this new 3D surface analyzing software which is available free as download. The participants will manipulate actively polygonal tooth models in 3D and create animated chewing motions. At the end of the workshop, each participant should be able to use the OFA for their own functional analyses. The organizers of this workshop are initiators and qualified users of the OFA who will be able to provide detailed background information on the software and its development. The aim is to demonstrate that virtual manipulation and the animation of chewing cycles can be used by everyone in the scientific community who is interested in 3D and/or mastication processes. The proposed workshop provides a basic training or the OFA including a comprehensive explanation of all major functions of the software.
Begins: Tuesday, October 29, 2013
Time: 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Location: The Westin Bonaventure Hotel & Suites
Cost: Free
Cost Includes: Virtual 3D-surface-models of different mammalian taxa with versatile feeding habits will be provided in advance via download from website, or can be copied from organizers’ USB device at the beginning of the workshop.
Minimum Number of Participants: 10
Maximum Number of Participants: 15
Items to Bring: Attendees should bring their own notebooks (minimum requirements: Dual Cord Intel/AMD 32/64bit, 4200+/2200MHz, 2GB RAM, nVidia GeForce 6600GT or AMD/ATI Radeon x800, 1GB free disk space, monitor resolution 1280x1024, 32bit Windows XP SP2)
Leaders:
Julia A. Schultz
Steinmann-Institut für Geologie
Mineralogie und Paläontologie der Universität Bonn
Nussallee 8, D-53115 Bonn (Germany)
E-Mail: julia.schultz@uni-bonn.de
Phone: 0049- (0)228-73 3095
Fax: 0049-(0)228-73 3509
Achim Schwermann
Steinmann-Institut für Geologie
Mineralogie und Paläontologie der Universität Bonn
Nussallee 8, D-53115 Bonn (Germany)
E-Mail: achim.schwermann@uni-bonn.de
Phone: 0049-(0)228-73 9338
Fax: 0049-(0)228-73 3509
Leonie Schwermann
Steinmann-Institut für Geologie
Mineralogie und Paläontologie der Universität Bonn
Nussallee 8, D-53115 Bonn (Germany)
E-Mail: leonie.schwermann@uni-bonn.de
Phone: 0049-(0)228-73 4189
Fax: 0049-(0)228-73 3509
Ulrike Menz
Senckenberg Forschungsinstitut und Naturmuseum
Abteilung Paläoanthropologie und Messelforschung
Senckenberganlage 25, D-60325 Frankfurt a.M. (Germany)
E-Mail: umenz@senckenberg.de
Phone: 0049-(0)69-7542 1275
Fax: Fax:0049- (0)69-7542 1558
Ottmar Kullmer
Senckenberg Forschungsinstitut und Naturmuseum
Abteilung Paläoanthropologie und Messelforschung
Senckenberganlage 25, D-60325 Frankfurt a.M. (Germany)
E-Mail: okullmer@senckenberg.de
Phone: 0049- (0)69-7542 1364
Fax:0049- (0)69-7542 1558
Thomas Martin
Steinmann-Institut für Geologie
Mineralogie und Paläontologie der Universität Bonn
Nussallee 8, D-53115 Bonn (Germany)
E-Mail: tmartin@uni-bonn.de
Phone: 0049-(0)228-73 4803
Fax: 0049-(0)228-73 3509
Video Made Easy
Now that our phones and DSLRs shoot video and you can edit the footage on a laptop, everyone can be a video producer. But making successful videos is not so simple as just having the equipment. There is craft involved, and learning that craft means the difference between creating professional caliber programs or ending up with reams of unusable footage.
This workshop is a crash course in Production, the craft of executing a video project. It is geared toward the scientist documenting a field season, the preparatory shooting a training video, the curator augmenting an exhibit. Some of the topics we’ll cover include:
· Preproduction: plan to get the most out of your shoot.
· To script or not to script? Writing for the ear.
· Film grammar: how to tell a story onscreen.
· Best practices for camera, sound and lighting.
· Continuity & coverage: shooting to edit.
· Nonlinear editing made simple: the 5 tools you really need.
Along the way the workshop will offer a career’s worth of tips, tricks, default strategies and other shortcuts to success. Attendees will leave armed with an arsenal of techniques to help make their next premiere a red carpet event.
Date: Tuesday, October 29, 2013
Time: 2:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Location: The Westin Bonaventure Hotel & Suites
Cost: $45.00 per person
Minimum Number of Participants: 6
Maximum Number of Participants: 15
Items to Bring: If you have them – Video cameras, Flip cameras, phone with video capability, still camera with video capability, laptop with video editing software (iMovie, FCP, Premiere, MovieMaker)
Leaders:
Alan Zdinak
Emmy nominated veteran of film, TV and video production.
Fossil preparatory, AMNH (volunteer)
video.workshop@alanzdinak.com
http://www.alanzdinak.com
Photogrammetry: Digital Data Collection in the Lab and Field
Photogrammetry is a powerful and relatively inexpensive tool for documentation of the appearance and condition of fossil resources during any step of the curatorial process. The purpose of this workshop is to familiarize participants with the methodology, applications, and products of photogrammetry as it relates to collection, preparation and curation of fossil vertebrate material. The general concept of the workshop is to provide an overview of photogrammetry and requirements of image capture. The workshop will begin with a discussion of the basics of stereo photography and what makes photogrammetry work; followed by an overview of the photogrammetric process, camera/equipment, simple to complex project designs, types of software, importance of camera calibration, examples of project layouts and results, and what can be done with the data. The hands-on part of the workshop will allow participants to use their own cameras to collect digital data using photogrammetry of various vertebrate specimens and then a walk-through of some of the easier processing software programs that can be utilized; allowing participants to actually see some of the processed data from their photogrammetric work. Participants will have the chance to process some of their own data and will leave the workshop with a highly detailed three dimensional digital image file of their specimens, as well as a better understanding of the monitoring and conservation opportunities photogrammetry provides for the field of vertebrate paleontology. Participants are encouraged to bring their own digital cameras, laptop computers, and iPads.
Date: Tuesday, October 29, 2013
Time: 9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Location: The Westin Bonaventure Hotel & SuitesCost: $55.00 per person
Cost Includes: Workshop training manual and specimens to photograph.
Minimum Number of Participants: 15
Maximum Number of Participants: 30
Items to Bring: Digital camera, laptop computer, and/or iPad.
Leaders:
Neffra Matthews
Geospatial Section
National Operations Center
http://www.blm.gov/noc/st/en.html
Denver Federal Center, Bldg. 50
P.O. Box 25047, OC-534
Denver, CO 80225-0047
ph: (303)236-0176
Brent H. Breithaupt
BLM Regional Paleontologist - WY, ID, MT, ND, SD, NE
5353 Yellowstone Road
Cheyenne, WY 82009
Phone: (307) 775-6052
Fax: (307) 775-6042
Brent_Breithaupt@blm.gov
Matt Smith
Museum Technician
Petrified Forest National Park
1 Park Road
P.O. Box 2217
Petrified Forest National Park
928-524-6228 ext 240
Matthew_E_Smith@nps.gov
Paleontology and the Media – Communicating Your Research to the Popular Press
The role of paleontologists as commentators on new discoveries in the fields of evolution, the history of life on Earth, and its changing ecosystems allow us a unique opportunity to share our understanding of these topics with the public in an understandable and concise manner. However, communicating the results of research to the public is not always as simple as it sounds. Our discoveries and their implications for an understanding of evolution are intimately linked and being the faces and voices that represent our society and our science is a serious responsibility. One must also keep in mind, that many writers, commentators, and bloggers may not be as science-minded as we might hope. The Media Liaison Committee would like offer a workshop aimed at helping members of the SVP get their points across to media. Workshop participants will include: Nick Fraser, National Museums of Scotland, Jason Goldman, University of Southern California and blogger for Scientific American, and Kate Wong, editor and writer for Scientific American
Join members of the Media Liaison Committee and other professionals in a one-hour workshop in which you will learn to:
- Develop a media-friendly press release
- Be quoted the way that you want to be quoted
- Get your point across without scientific jargon
- Develop newsworthy and credible talking points
- Avoid common traps and mistakes
- Convey your own personality and enthusiasm for science
- Learn how to interact with reporters in a constructive way
- Discover new types of media outlets in the digital age
Date: Wednesday, October 30, 2013
Time: 12:30 p.m. - 1:45 p.m.
Location: The Westin Bonaventure Hotel & SuitesCost: Free
Minimum Number of Participants: 10
Maximum Number of Participants: 45
Leaders:
Dana Ehret
Alabama Museum of Natural History
Box 870340
Tuscaloosa, AL 35487-0340
Phone: 352-871-7944
Email: dana.ehret@gmail.com
Darin Croft
dac34@case.edu
Anthony Friscia
tonyf@ucla.edu
Practical Computing for Paleontologists
We live an an era of big data, big databases and a multitude of file formats. Join us on October 1st for a workshop in Python and Unix to learn how to use programming to make your research more repeatable, more tractable and more efficient! No prior experience with programming necessary.
Date: Tuesday, October 29
Time: 10:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
Location: The Westin Bonaventure Hotel & Suites
Cost: Free
Maximum Number of Participants: 75
Items to Bring: Participants must bring their own computer.
Leaders:
April Wright
wright.aprilm@utexas.edu