Dr. Jason Loxton
@jason_loxton
Paleontologist. Science educator (@cbuniversity). Lover of fiddle, maker of jams, grower of veggies. Tweets about science, #OER, pedagogy, & Nova Scotia.
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I'm recruiting a MSc student to work on an NSF project focusing on morphological disparity in crinoids from Anticosti Island. My lab at Paleobiology Research Group at OU uses fossils, fieldwork, & phylogenetic modeling to study macroevolution in extinct invertebrates. Feel free to reach out & please RT!
After ten years of splitting and replitting ever smaller mineral sample, some much needed (and very satisfying!) refreshing of our 1st year kits. (With kind assistance from Herbert Fournier!)
If you don't follow Secrets Of The Ice, you need to! Posts of recent discoveries of archeological material preserved for hundreds or thousands of years in Norwegian glaciers. Special bonus: The background *geology* is breathtaking! (E.g., the gneiss here.)
The Miners Museum has been on edge of bankruptcy since I've lived here, despite heroic leadership by Mary Pat Mombourquette. It offers perhaps best museum experience in prov & *absolutely* should be brought into Nova Scotia Museum family. cbc.ca/player/play/vi…