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Denver Fowler
Museum of the Rockies
600 W Kagy Blvd
Bozeman MT, 59717
Phone: (406) 994-3170
Fax: (406) 994-2682
df9465@yahoo.co.uk
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Welcome to Denverfowler.com. I'm a British Palaeontologist (and adventurer!) working towards my PhD under Prof. Jack Horner at the Museum of the Rockies, Bozeman, Montana USA. I specialise in field palaeontology, especially prospecting for, and digging up dinosaurs. Widening public access to, and awareness of, scientific knowledge is another of my main interests; writing articles with minimal amounts of jargon, encouraging wide-appeal museum displays or media projects, and making time for non-professionals with interests in the sciences.
This site is an ongoing project, so please forgive any empty links. Scroll to the bottom of this page for a history of new pages added. Sometimes photos don't load first time, reloading the page usually works.
Academics:
Professional Affiliations:
Research interests:
My research focuses in two areas: stratigraphy and palaeobiology. I would like to think that most of my research takes a novel perspective, or approach in solving problems.
My PhD concerns the stratigraphy of the Hell Creek Formation, Montana, and equivalent units, using sequence and biostratigraphy to interpret their relative ages. Since 2005 I have been working on a comprehensive stratigraphic chart of all fossiliferous North American Late Cretaceous (Santonian-Maastrichtian) terrestrial units (an expansion of my New Mexico work with Dr. Robert Sullivan). The chart encompasses all published radiometric dates, up-to-date high-resolution magnetostratigraphy, and biostratigraphic ranges of ammonites, mammals, and dinosaurs (I intend to add all taxa eventually). I presented a preliminary version of this chart at SVP2006 (see publications). This project will eventually be published, and become a chapter of my PhD thesis.
I am also interested in dinosaur palaeobiology: gleaning information from the fossil record that can reveal how dinosaurs lived.
A list of my publications & presentations, with abstracts, pdf downloads, and enlarged figures, can be found here
Fieldwork
For me, fieldwork is the most important and enjoyable part of being a palaeontologist (see here for photos and locality details). An appreciation of true diversity and completeness of the fossil record simply cannot be attained without spending a lot of time on outcrop. I have over 20 years experience in field palaeontology, but I specialise in prospecting and field identification of terrestrial vertebrates, especially dinosaurs, which I have been digging up since about 1993. Alot of my research has its origins in field observations.
Media:
I dabble in scientific illustration, with a couple of drawings published (you can see some of my drawings here). I've worked freelance as a scientific editor on a new series of children's books on dinosaurs, soon to be released. I have also been involved in a couple of TV projects on dinosaurs:
Preparation & Museum work:
From 2008-2009 I have been assisting in renovating and redesigning the geology & fossil exhibits at Makoshika State Park visitor center (Glendive, eastern Montana; Montana Fish Wildlife & Parks). The new exhibit is due to open for summer 2009 and includes lots of new fossils from the park (mainly Hell Creek Formation, hence my involvement).
During my time at the Museum of the Rockies (2007-) I have performed various duties in collections, including curation, proper storage & preservation, and the design and implementation of a new SQL database. I also have main responsibility for collection and arrangement of field data for the Hell Creek Formation crew.
Aside from cleaning my own fossils, I have worked as a preparator at Dinosaur Farm Museum, Isle of Wight (1996-2006) and at the Dept. Earth Sciences, University of Bristol (2000-2001). See 'Fossil Preparation' for more details.
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