To celebrate National Fossil Day (October 11, 2017), the National Science Foundation featured four paleontologists on its social media accounts and on Science360 Radio. Dr. Laura Wilson was one of the featured scientists. Her and Sternberg Museum Adjunct Curator Mike Everhart’s recent Science Friday segment was featured on the air, and pictures of her research were shared across social media platforms. Laura currently has two National Science Foundation grants to support the paleontology collections at the Sternberg Museum.
NSF Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/US.NSF/posts/10155566238757900
NSF Twitter: https://twitter.com/NSF/status/919190210910531585
NSF tumblr: http://nationalsciencefoundation.tumblr.com/post/166433503138/fossils-hunting-in-the-kansas-sea
NSF Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nsfgov/
Two images include fieldwork with Quinter High School students in the Late Cretaceous Smoky Hill Chalk (Niobrara Formation) in Western Kansas. Laura and students from the Advanced Biology class (along with their teacher) excavated a mosasaur fossil in the spring of 2014. The third image is of the internal bone structure of a Hesperornis leg bone from the Arctic.
We can’t think of a better way to celebrate National Fossil Day than with Fort Hays State University paleontologists!
Wilson Paleontology Research Group 