Dinosaurs Under Foot
DPS will meet on Wednesday, March 12th, at 7PM Central time, at a new and exciting place. We will meet in the Lakeview Event and Conference Center (in the Viridian housing development), at 1200 Viridian Park Way, Arlington. Dallas College is closing their campuses that week for Spring Break, and this new event center is near the Arlington Archosaur Site, where many DPS members and friends helped excavate crocodile, turtle, and dinosaur fossils from the Woodbine Sandstone. Art Sahlstein, co-discoverer and long time watchmen over the AAS, will give us a brief update on the site. Continuing the dinosaur theme, Dr. Louis Jacobs, president since 2000 of the Institute for the Study of Earth and Man at Southern Methodist University, will speak on “The Early Cretaceous Borborema - Cameroon Dinosaur Dispersal Corridor”. His paper has made national headlines and international news, for Borborema is in Brazil in South America, Cameroon is in central Africa, and between them lies the central Atlantic, slowly widening. Please join us for this intriguing talk.
Lou Jacobs received his BS in 1970 from the University of Southwestern Louisiana, and then his MS in 1973 and PhD in 1977 from the University of Arizona. He then worked as geologist for the US Geological Survey and as Research Paleontologist for the Museum of Northern Arizona in Flagstaff. He became the head of the paleontology division at the National Museum of Kenya in 1981, beginning a lifelong interest in the paleontology and anthropology of Africa. In 1983, he moved to Southern Methodist University, advancing from Assistant Professor in the Department of Geological Sciences (and Adjunct in Anthropology) to full professor in 1992.
Dr. Jacobs has promoted the interaction between amateur and professional paleontologists by serving as one of the faculty advisors for the DPS for many years, and speaking to the society on many occasions. The DPS has awarded scholarships to many of his students who have also given presentations at our meetings. He has written two books for the general public, Quest for the African Dinosaurs and Lone Star Dinosaurs, as well as many scientific papers, posters, and abstracts. He served as president of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology from 1996-98, and helped bring their 75th annual meeting to Dallas in 2015. He has recently retired from his professor duties, but continues at ISEM at SMU.
DPS meetings are always open to the public and free! Members can bring food and snacks to share, and DPS provides water and sodas. Everyone is welcome to bring fossils to show or for identification. You can also join our meeting on Zoom at: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/85877065723 (Meeting ID: 858 7706 5723 and Passcode: 181485).
The DPS is a group of professional and amateur paleontologists that want to exchange information, interact, and continue their education in paleontology. We meet once a month on the second Wednesday evening of the month at Brookhaven College, Building H.
