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The Delaware Valley Paleontological Society
June 14, 2026 Program
In person at the Edelman Fossil Museum and Via Google Meet
Upcoming 2026 DVPS Meetings
July - No Meeting
August - No meeting
June Speaker
Our June DVPS Meeting will be held Sunday, June 14th at 3 PM in person at the Edelman Fossil Museum, 66 Million Mosasaur Way, Sewell, NJ. It will also be shown via Google Meet. Information to access the Google Meet link for this meeting will be provided by email a day or two in advance.
Our speaker will be Dr. William B. Gallagher. Dr. Gallagher was a founding member of DVPS and from February 1979 till September 1982 served as our first President. He received his Ph.D. in geology from the University of Pennsylvania in 1990 where his doctoral dissertation investigated the Cretaceous/Tertiary boundary and its associated mass extinction event. Bill currently holds the rank of Adjunct Assistant Professor at Ryder University. Bill was the Assistant Curator of Natural History, Collections and Exhibits, Natural History Bureau, New Jersey State Museum.
Bill has traveled the world during the course of his field studies on dinosaurs and other vertebrate species, including stops in Argentina, China, Egypt, England, France, Germany, Iran, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Russia, and Switzerland, as well as much of eastern North America and most of the American west. Bill has taught both undergraduate and graduate courses at numerous other institutions, including the University of Pennsylvania, Rutgers University, Drexel University, Richard Stockton College, and Kean University, and has authored over 70 scientific papers, articles, and abstracts, as well as the popular book, When Dinosaurs Roamed New Jersey.
His current research interests include the paleoecological dynamics of mass extinction events, especially the Cretaceous/Paleogene (K/P) Boundary mass extinction event, which coincided with the disappearance of the dinosaurs.
The title of Bill’s talk is, "A Tale of Two Mosasaurs (or maybe more)".
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