Snowmass Ice Age Discovery 2010
Dusting off this classic video from 2010 - the year we found Snowy the Mammoth and the other many ice age fossils perfectly preserved under Ziegler reservoir. Watch as people from around town were getting excited about the new find.
Beyond Mastodons & Mammoths: Scientific Understanding from the Snowmass Ice Age Discovery
Stephanie Lukowski, Paleontologist, Snowmass Ice Age Discovery Center
What was Snowmass like during the last interglacial period? As a result of the geologic and fossil data collected during the Snowmastodon excavation at the Ziegler Reservoir in 2010-11, scientists were able to reconstruct the ecosystem during the Sangamon interglacial period. Stephanie Lukowski of Snowmass Ice Age Discovery will take an in depth look at the geologic history of the Ziegler Reservoir and the fossil plants and animals featured in the paleoenvironmental reconstruction to explain how the past ecosystem changed in response to the climate of that time.
Speaker Bio: Stephanie Lukowski grew up in the Chicago area, where as a high school student, she volunteered at the Field Museum of Natural History. She received her Bachelor’s degree in geology from Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana. Subsequently, she obtained her Master’s degree in vertebrate paleontology from the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, in Rapid City, South Dakota. Her graduate research focused on Paleocene-age mammals from the Crazy Mountains Basin in Montana. She has worked extensively in the field, with sites ranging throughout the western United States and Panama as a part of the Panama Canal Project with the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute and the University of Florida. Stephanie is excited to be a part of the Ice Age Discovery Center, and welcomes any questions regarding the discovery in Snowmass, paleontology and geology.
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November 10 Snowmass Village Field Report
Wintery temperatures slowed the pace of work from frenetic to manageable today at the Museum's Ice Age fossil excavation in Snowmass Village.
The Incredible Snowmastadon Site of Colorado
UI Explorers Seminar with Richard Baker, Professor Emeritus, UI Department of Geoscience. Recorded Thursday, April 18, in the Senate Chamber of the Old Capitol Museum.
The Snowmastodon site, near Snowmass Village, Colorado, was discovered in 2010 when construction workers building a reservoir dam to supply water to Snowmass Village uncovered fossil bones that turned out to belong to a young female mammoth. Official fossil excavations, organized by the Denver Museum of Nature and Science under the nickname Snowmastodon Project, began in November of 2010.
Over the next year, the project unearthed nearly 5,000 bones from 26 different Ice Age animals, including mammoths, mastodons, bison, camels, a Pleistocene horse, and the first ground sloth ever found in Colorado. Dr. Richard Baker of the University of Iowa has been assisting with analysis of the plant record from the site and will present his tentative findings, as well as discuss how the site was formed and review the animal assemblage present at the site.
'A Flintstone Moment': Mammoth Amount of Ice Age Fossils Found in Colorado
Wednesday's NOVA looks at an unexpected discovery near a Rocky Mountain ski resort: thousands of bones from ice age mammals, including mammoths, ground sloths and mastodons. Hari Sreenivasan speaks with Kirk Johnson of Denver Museum of Nature and Science about the dig and ongoing research into the animals' mysterious deaths.
November 11 Snowmass Village Field Update
Excavation crews from the Denver Museum of Nature & Science are racing to wrap up work on the Ice Age fossil dig site at Ziegler Reservoir near Snowmass Village as winter weather moves in. If all goes well, work at the site should be completed for the season in the next few days.
November 9 Snowmass Village Daily Update
Three inches of fresh snow greeted Denver Museum of Nature & Science excavation crews this morning in Snowmass Village, Colorado, and more snow fell throughout the day.
Snowmass Mountain Hike 2007
Part 1
Researchers, volunteers dig up mastodon in Michigan's Thumb
Researchers, volunteers dig up mastodon in Michigan's Thumb
Researchers, volunteers dig up mastodon in Michigan's Thumb
Video: Scientists Dig into Mammoth Bones
By Jessica Habjan
The public got its first look at the mammoth bones during a press conference when OSU officials unveiled their prize discovery.
Murderous Minds: Ted Bundy | Serial Killer Documentary
This documentary is the result of extensive research looking at the life and mind of Theodore Robert Bundy to try and understand what drives an outwardly normal man to commit some of the most heinous acts ever recorded...
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