DEPARTMENT OF EARTH SCIENCES ACADEMIC STAFF MEMBER RECORDS LECTURES IN THE GOBI DESERT FOR AN UPCOMING MOOC ON DINOSAUR ECOSYSTEMS
2015.08.25
Dr. Michael Pittman (Research Assistant Professor and head of the Department's Vertebrate Palaeontology Laboratory) was recently in the Gobi desert of Erlian, Nei Mongol, China filming lecture segments for a future MOOC on dinosaur ecosystems. His course is co-instructed with Professor Xu Xing of the Chinese Academy of Science’s Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP) who named and described many of Erlian's fossils, including the massive beaked dinosaur Gigantoraptor. For a blog about their filming trip click here.
Dr. Michael Pittman (Research Assistant Professor and head of the Department's Vertebrate Palaeontology Laboratory) was recently in the Gobi desert of Erlian, Nei Mongol, China filming lecture segments for a future MOOC on dinosaur ecosystems. His course is co-instructed with Professor Xu Xing of the Chinese Academy of Science’s Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP) who named and described many of Erlian's fossils, including the massive beaked dinosaur Gigantoraptor. For a blog about their filming trip click here.
