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July 16, 2024

Dinosaur and fossil hunts, Summer 2024

Join palaeontologist Fossiliam for some family-friendly fossil-finding fun in York and North Yorkshire this summer!

#ChalkingWithDinosaurs/Outreach/Teaching

July 4, 2024

York Guildhall’s ancient seafloors

On the first Wednesday of each month, for York’s Hidden History, I lead a Guilded Tour of medieval York. The walk takes an hour, and we start and finish outside York Guildhall, but if there aren’t any events on, we might sneak a peek inside. As a geologist, one of the things I particularly like about the Guildhall is that...

Outreach/Teaching

March 30, 2024

Stegosaurs of Whitby

Leading a family fossil hunt at Whitby, I walked my group onto East Scar, beneath Whitby Abbey. The rocks in the foreshore and lower part of the cliffs here are Early Jurassic marine shales. The dark grey layers, peppered with hard, pale lumps, belong to the Whitby Mudstone Formation. The hard pale lumps are limestone nodules (concretions) that grew around...

#ChalkingWithDinosaurs/Outreach/Research/Teaching

December 29, 2023

Twenty plenty more

I could review 2023, with The Rock Showman and I delivering a fab fossil festival in wonderful Whitby; and the magnificent Kirkleatham Museum team inviting me to work on their Lemon Tops & Lobster Pots exhibition; and the NLHF Dynamic Collections scheme awarding funding for YorEarth Heritage with Scarborough Museums and the University of Leeds; and becoming a champion of...

Media/Outreach/Research

November 21, 2023

Far from boring: the Kirkleatham Musseleum

Saint Cuthbert of Lindisfarne is strongly associated with fossils, but the church named after him in Kirkleatham, near Redcar, takes his palaeontology off in a new direction. The oldest part of St Cuthbert’s Church is its mausoleum, which was erected in 1740 in memory of Marwood William Turner. (The rest of the church was rebuilt in the 19th Century.) The...

Outreach/Research

November 7, 2023

The star of Skinningrove

Our BEACH (Bold Earth/Art Cleveland Heritage) project is funded by the UK Science Festivals Network, with the aim of connecting Earth science researchers, artists, and local people to explore the rocks and fossils of Redcar & Cleveland, creatively. We did pretty well at our Skinningrove event on Halloween, not least because one of the young people on our morning fossil...

Outreach/Research

October 19, 2023

The BEACH at Redcar Palace

What did you miss if you didn’t come to our first BEACH (Bold Earth-Art Cleveland Heritage) event at Redcar Palace? Oh, not much. Only MONSTER MOLLUSCS, MICROSCOPIC MOUNTAINS, and MAGNIFICENT MYTH-MAKING! Monster molluscs After a quick introduction at the Palace, we all headed out onto Redcar Rocks, to see what remarkable things we might find. Seven year-old Oliver was the...

Outreach/Research/Teaching

October 10, 2023

BEACH

The Bold Earth-Art Cleveland Heritage Project This autumn, thanks to funding from the UK Science Festivals Network ‘Making Connections‘ scheme, The Rock Showman and Fossiliam are leading BEACH: The Bold Earth-Art Cleveland Heritage Project. Through a series of free events, the BEACH aims to bring together local communities, researchers and artists to explore the amazing Earth history of Redcar &...

Outreach/Research/Teaching

September 25, 2023

Fossiliam’s Awesome Autumn

Fall into fossils this autumn, with my busy programme of activities! Saturday 7th October, York York Unlocked at the YPS Lodge, York Museum Gardens, 10-12pm and 2-4pm. As part of the York Unlocked weekend, we’ll be opening up the lodge to visitors, and showing off some Yorkshire fossils. It’s free, and everyone is welcome. You are also welcome to bring...

Outreach

September 5, 2023

Fossils & Palaeoenvironments

This November – on Saturday 11th and 18th – I am teaching a two-part online course for the University of York Centre for Lifelong Learning. Fossils & Palaeoenvironments will explain what fossils are, how we’ve worked this out, and how we use fossils to understand ancient environments. Saturday 11th November will be the Fossils day, introducing fossils, palaeontological techniques, and...