“Bringing the Past to Life at the Alf Museum, from Dinosaurs to Dire Wolves” –
Paleontology, the study of Earth’s prehistoric life, offers windows into our past, present, and future. Virtually anyone, with a little luck, can make a major discovery—which makes paleontology a perfect showcase for the scientific process and its societal impacts. The Raymond M. Alf Museum of Paleontology at The Webb Schools is not only fossil exhibits, but a research and education center that engages high school students in real science. This talk, by museum director Dr. Andy Farke, will tell the unique origins and unique mission of the country’s only paleontology museum on a high school campus.
Andy Farke earned a B.Sc. in Geology from the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology and a Ph.D. in Anatomical Sciences at Stony Brook University. He joined the staff at the Alf Museum in 2008, as curator of paleontology. His research interests focus on the evolution and functional morphology of the ceratopsians, or horned dinosaurs.