UFOP Lecture-April

Lectures are held the 2nd Tuesday of each month with the exception of the months June, July and August, when no lectures are held

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Lecture Time: 7:00 pm immediately following the UFOP meeting at 6:30 pm

Lecture Location: CEU Prehistoric Museum (in the classroom upstairs in the Hall of Man)

                                155 East Main Street-Enter from the rear parking lot, one door will be unlocked

Don DeBlieux is a paleontologist with the Utah Geological Survey, who for the past five years has been in charge of the preparation laboratory and field operations. Don grew up in western Massachusetts and received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in zoology from the University of Massachusetts in Amherst. He spent ten years skiing and rock climbing in Colorado before moving to Durham, NC to work as a research associate at the Duke University Lemur Center. He has participated in 14 international paleontological expeditions to Egypt, Madagascar, and Namibia, in addition to numerous projects in Utah, Montana, Wyoming, and Colorado.
 
Talk Synopsis: Madagascar, the fourth largest island in the world, is located off the southeast coast of Africa. Madagascar has been an island since the late Cretaceous. This isolation has meant that it has a very interesting flora and fauna, made up almost entirely of plants and animals found nowhere else in the world. For this reason, it has been described as a “naturalist’s wonderland”. In his presentation, Don will describe his work