Last week, our own Andrei Ichaso successfully defended his doctoral thesis! His thesis focused on the stratigraphy, sedimentology, and ichnology of the middle Cambrian to Early Ordovician Deadwood Formation in western Canada and the midwestern United States. Congratulations Dr. Ichaso!
Andrei’s doctoral thesis earned him the University of Saskatchewan Graduate Thesis Award in the Physical & Engineering Sciences category from the College of Graduate & Postdoctoral Studies at USASK. Congratulations Andrei!
The 2023 Canadian Paleontology Conference was recently held at the University of Toronto Mississauga in Mississauga, Ontario, held by the Geological Association of Canada’s Paleontology Division (GAC PD). Our own Gabriela Mángano was honoured at the conference as the 2023 recipient of the Billings Award! This is an award given to those who have made an outstanding long-term contribution to any aspect of Canadian paleontology or by a Canadian to paleontology.
Gabriela is the first woman paleontologist to win this distinction! You can read more about the Billings Award on the GAC PD website here.
Photo provided by Luis Buatois
Huge congratulations to Gabriela from all of us at Ichnoplanet! You’ve certainly left traces of your wisdom in the substrate of paleontology!
At the annual meeting of the Geologic Society of America in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, our own Dr. Gabriela Mángano is the 2023 recipient of the Distinguished Career Award from the Geobiology and Geomicrobiology Division! We’re super thrilled to have Gabriela receive this awesome award and couldn’t agree more as to her deserving of this recognition.
From the Geologic Society of America Geobiology and Geomicrobiology Division website: “Gabriela has approached geobiology from the perspective of animal-substrate interactions in deep time. She likes to move along the geologic time scale to detect evolutionary breakthroughs and track the deep history of bioturbation. Her research attempts to reconstruct the emergence of modern marine benthic ecology discern environmental from evolutionary controls, and temporally calibrate ichnofacies and ichnofabrics.”
Congratulations Gabriela from all of us at Ichnoplanet!
Photos courtesy of the Geologic Society of America Geobiology and Geomicrobiology Division and Luis Buatois
This past summer, Jack Milligan represented Ichnoplanet during fieldwork conducted by the Boreal Alberta Dinosaur Project (BADP) at the University of Alberta (UA), and the Philip J. Currie Dinosaur Museum (PJCDM) under the leadership of UA professor Dr. Corwin Sullivan, and USASK adjunct professor and PJCDM curator Dr. Emily Bamforth. Objectives of this fieldwork include collecting fossils from the late Cretaceous Wapiti Formation near the city of Grande Prairie. The Wapiti Formation is rich in fossils, including freshwater invertebrates, small vertebrates, and especially non-avian dinosaurs. The most common dinosaurs in northern Alberta based on the number of occurrences are the hadrosaurs, commonly referred to as the “duck-billed” dinosaurs. These are large herbivorous dinosaurs that have been suggested to travel in large herds in search of new food sources and as a defense against predatory theropod dinosaurs.
During July and August, BADP collected several large, three-toed hadrosaur tracks from various sites across northwestern Alberta. These tracks are isolated natural casts of footprints that infilled the original track and weathered out of situ. Some of these tracks were carried out of the site by hand across rushing rivers much to the chagrin, all be it temporary, by the team. Studying these tracks will allow the BADP team to learn more about the kinds of environments these dinosaurs were walking through and the taphonomy and different preservation of the tracks.
Images provided by Jack Milligan and Emily Bamforth.
Ichnoplanet would love to congratulate Dr. Manuel Pérez-Pueyo on his successful Ph.D. thesis defense at the University of Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain. His thesis is titled; “Contributions of the Tremp Fm (upper Maastrichtian) in Ribagorza (Aragonese Pyrenees, Huesca) to the knowledge of finicretaceous vertebrate communities on the Ibero-Armorican island.” Our own Luis Buatois was an external supervisor of this research. You can read more about Dr. Manuel Pérez-Pueyo’s research here.
We’re excited to hear about this outstanding accomplishment, and can’t wait to see where Manuel goes next!
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