Outreach
Public Talks
2021
A tale of mammoths and million-year-old DNA
The Arctic University Museum of Norway, Tromsø, Norway
Special Edition of BCST - Paleogenomics: Using ancient DNA to reconstruct the ice age:
Ancient DNA from dirt: why, where, and how?
Yukon Beringia Interpretative Centre, Whitehorse, Yukon, Canada
My talk begins at the 28-minute mark.
Pint of Science:
The hidden diversity of extinct megafauna
UiT-The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø, Norway
My talk begins at the 25-minute mark.
2016
Naturalist Night: Ancient DNA: Genetic Tales of the Ice Age Megafauna
Santa Cruz Museum of Natural History, Santa Cruz, CA, USA
The North remembers: Genetic tales of camels and bison past
Yukon Beringia Interpretive Centre, Whitehorse, Yukon Territory, Canada
Community Library, Dawson City, Yukon Territory, Canada
Exhibitions and other Outreach
2021
Heintzman, P. D., Hatteng, B., Hansen, C. S., Nylund, P.-H. & Dahlen, H.
Museum Exhibition: A mammoth discovery of the world’s oldest DNA
The Arctic University Museum of Norway (Tromsø, Norway): 3rd Dec. 2021-31 May 2022.
Outreach for our paper on million-year-old mammoth genomes
Talk on Mammoths and the oldest ever ancient DNA to 5th graders (aged 10-11) at the Tromsø International School (Tromsø, Norway)
Outreach for our paper on million-year-old mammoth genomes
Ancient DNA / Eldgammelt DNA: 1m 25s outreach video in English, by Christel Slettli Hansen: (Tromsø Museum, UiT)
The world's oldest DNA / Verdens eldste DNA: 3m 22s outreach video in English, by Christel Slettli Hansen: (Tromsø Museum, UiT)
Outreach for our paper on million-year-old mammoth genomes
2017-2018
Desembernatt: Talking to members of the public about science and research at the museum (Tromsø Museum, UiT)
2011
Skeletons: Explaining joints, locomotion, and the vertebrate limb to local school children (aged 7-11) (School of Biological Sciences, RHUL)
2010
Fossil Forage: Explaining zoology and fossils to interested members of the public during National Science and Engineering week (Grant Museum of Zoology, UCL).