Episode 17 - The Society of Vertebrate Paleontology (SVP)

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Common Descent

Science, Education, Natural Sciences, Earth Sciences, Science:natural Sciences

4.8 • 896 Ratings

🗓️ 10 September 2017

⏱️ 98 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, David tells tales of his trip to Calgary for this year’s SVP meeting: research presentations; meeting new people; paleo-field trips in Alberta; and more. If you’re into vertebrate paleontology, this is one of the biggest and more exciting events of the year! In the news: several hundred research projects presented by paleontologists from all over the world, who came together at the end of August for the annual meeting of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology! We mention just a few of these studies. Time markers: Intro & Announcements: 00:00:00Main discussion (with News throughout): 00:04:00 Check out our blog for bonus info and pictures: http://commondescentpodcast.wordpress.com/ Follow and Support us on: Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/commondescentpodcast Twitter: https://twitter.com/CommonDescentPCFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/commondescentpodcast/PodBean: https://commondescentpodcast.podbean.com/ iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-common-descent-podcast/id1207586509?mt=2 Stitcher: http://www.stitcher.com/podcast/common-descent/the-common-descent-podcast The Podcast music is “On the Origin of Species” by Protodome. More music like this at http://ocremix.org.

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0:00.0	You're listening to the Common Descent Podcast.
0:18.0	Hello, Will. Hey, David.
0:20.7	And hello, world.
0:23.0	All of you beautiful people out there in the world.
0:27.0	This is Common Descent Podcast, episode 17.
0:31.6	Welcome back.
0:34.6	Today, we are talking about a special event. Yeah. The 2017 annual meeting of the Society of
0:44.8	Vertebrate paleontology, which I was fortunate enough to attend at the end of August,
0:50.5	and we're going to tell you all about it. It's a big deal. It's pretty awesome.
0:54.7	It is kind of a big deal.
0:56.7	Before we get to that, there are a couple of announcements to make.
1:00.9	Announcements, announcements, announcements.
1:03.6	For starters, it is September.
1:06.2	This is the first episode of September, which is a good time to remind all of our listeners that the
1:11.7	Common Descent episodes in September are brought to you largely by our patrons on Patreon.
1:18.7	Woo!
1:19.7	Big thanks to our patrons.
1:22.2	We, through the people who are donating money on Patreon, currently, we are making enough money monthly
1:29.6	to offset the cost of producing the podcast.
1:33.5	Yep.
1:34.6	So this is literally produced by viewers like you.
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