Monthly Meetings

April Speaker 

Our April DVPS Meeting will be held Thursday evening, April 25th at 7 PM LIVE at the Giant Food Market Community Center in the Willow Grove Giant Food Market.  The address is 315 N. York Road, Willow Grove, PA  19090.  The meeting will also be held via Google Meet.  Information to access the Google Meet link for this meeting will be provided by email a day or two in advance for those who are unable to join us in person.

     Our speaker will be Michael Frunzi.  Michael is a recent graduate from Rider University. Majoring in geology, Michael hopes to pursue a career in paleontology and eventually wants to teach the science as a professor. He was taught by Rider’s paleontologist, Dr. William Gallagher, and spent two weeks in the summer of 2023 in Montana conducting paleontological field work. Currently, Michael is looking for paleontology graduate programs and volunteers at the New Jersey State Museum’s fossil prep lab.

Michael’s talk is entitled, “Reconstructing Jurassic Montana: A Field Camp Turned Undergraduate Thesis”.

In this presentation, Michael recounts his experience in Montana’s Bighorn Basin digging up dinosaur fossils, and how this two-week field camp inspired his undergraduate thesis in which he reconstructs the paleoclimate of the sites he was working in. In addition to this, the methods in which this thesis was conducted and the conclusions drawn from it, as well as the significance of this study, are discussed.

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