Alton Dooley

Alton Dooley

Mar 22, 2019

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Remember me?

It has been more than a year since my last post, but it has been a year well spent. Our research project has finally come to fruition, a manuscript has been submitted and accepted, and will be officially published next Wednesday, March 27. The results of the paper are embargoed until that time.

On the 27th, at 10:00 am PST, we'll be holding a press conference at the Western Science Center to announce the results of our research which we plan to livestream on Facebook, and I'll be publishing a detailed post here later that day. And of course our paper and data will all be open access, so you can read the results of our work directly if you like. I'll be posting those links on the 27th as well.

Thanks again for your support, which has made this research possible!

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  • Tamara Kauffman
    Tamara KauffmanBacker
    Congratulations! Look forward to your press conference! Visited the WSC with a visiting friend last May and truly enjoyed the displays! What a gem of a place!!
    Mar 22, 2019
  • Alton Dooley
    Alton DooleyResearcher
    Thanks some much, and Im really glad you enjoyed your visit to WSC!
    Mar 22, 2019

About This Project

American mastodons lived all across North America during the Ice Age. Paleontologists long suspected that western mastodons differed in subtle ways from eastern ones, and our initial data suggest they may have been distinctive in size and tooth proportions. We plan to examine various museum collections to build a robust database of mastodon measurements, allowing us to document regional population differences and helping us understand ecosystem variation and animal dispersal during the Ice Age.

Blast off!

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