Digital fossils: Using X-rays to Uncover Secrets of the Past

Calendar
Lectures
Date
Wednesday, 11 Sep 2024 7:30 pm
Locations
& CSTS Zoom Channel ID 912 0723 6181 , Royal Agricultural University - Sir Emrys Jones Lecture Theatre
Speaker
Professor Emily Rayfield, Professor of Palaeobiology
School of Earth Sciences University of Bristol

Description

Digital fossils: using X-ray to uncover secrets of the past
 
Or rather, how do  they know that?
Thanks to Jurassic Park, Walking with Dinosaurs and other computer-generated imagery, we are all familiar with dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals brought to life on our television and movie screens.  But how do scientists know anything about how dinosaurs moved, fed, the sounds they made and their colouration?
In this talk I will discuss how far palaeontologists can make statements about the behaviour of extinct animals, drawing together evidence from fossils, living animals and using X-rays and methods co-opted from engineering.

 

 

News Flash from the Bristol University website!

A University of Bristol palaeontologist is among 25 medal and award winners announced by the Royal Society today [Wednesday 28 August].

Professor Emily Rayfield from the University’s School of Earth Sciences has received the Gabor Medal for pioneering a new, cross-disciplinary era of engineering-informed computational palaeobiology.

Professor Rayfield’s research focuses on how skeletal mechanics influences morphological evolution and the relationship between form and function in biology.

 

More at : https://www.bristol.ac.uk/news/2024/august/emily-rayfield-royal-society-medal.html

Location

& CSTS Zoom Channel ID 912 0723 6181

Street
Market Place
City
GL7 Cirencester
County
England

Based in Cirencester, Capital of the Cotswolds

Royal Agricultural University - Sir Emrys Jones Lecture Theatre

Street
Sir Emrys Jones Lecture Theatre, RAU
City
GL7 6JS Cirencester
County
Gloucestershire

Royal Agricultural University (RAU) is situated close to the junction of the A419 (Cirencester to Stroud road) and the A433 (Cirencester to Bath road) on the south-west edge of Cirencester. 

The entrance to the Stroud Road car park is off the A419. (Satellite View, RAU page and RAU campus map)

The Parkinson Lecture Theatre (19 on the map) can be found by entering from the Stroud Road car park, and following the path on the right-hand side of the Garner Lecture Block, the first entrance on the right leads to the Parkinson Lecture Theatre.

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