https://depthoffield.work/contact daily 0.75 2017-09-19 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/59b2bdb22278e7557ead5d07/t/59b955333c91f1692f7d3b7b/1505318525964/IMG_1843.jpg About https://depthoffield.work/plates-1 daily 1.0 2017-09-19 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/59b2bdb22278e7557ead5d07/59beb410c027d88b27dddb1a/59c02812e9bfdf14c21096d3/1505790140425/metal+final+crop_01b.jpg Plates Jaden Stauffer Wet Plate Tin Type on Aluminum Jaden Stauffer is the youngest family member still living and working on the Zerbst Ranch in Niobrara County Wyoming, just outside of the Black Hills. Jaden is a 5th generation rancher, fossil collector and an avid photographer. The ranch she calls home has produced some of the world's most incredible fossils of Tyrannosaurus rex, Edmontosaurus, and Triceratops. Since their discovery in the early 1900's, the much celebrated 'mummified' dinosaurs from this ranch have been important elements on exhibit in New York and Seckenberg, Germany. She is photographed here on her ranch with her lariat and roping steer. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/59b2bdb22278e7557ead5d07/59beb410c027d88b27dddb1a/59beef07197aeab9c96cc559/1505789869927/Xan+Peters.jpg Plates Xan Peters Wet Plate Tintype on Aluminum Xan Peters is currently the paleoartist in residence at the Carter County Museum in Ekalaka, Montana. His work takes imaginative leaps to recreate the world of extinct life using the limited conctete evidence provided by paleontologists. Xan is pictured here with a watercolor study he is using to understand soft-tissue on latest Cretaceous aged raptors. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/59b2bdb22278e7557ead5d07/59beb410c027d88b27dddb1a/59beef04a8b2b0d4f4ded3b1/1505789775149/Tyler+Lyson+Ekalaka.jpg Plates Tyler Ranse Lyson Wet Plate Tintype on Aluminum Dr. Tyler Lyson is currently the Curator of Vertebrate Paleontology at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science. His research focuses on the extinction of the dinosaurs and changes in the ecosystem during the last 1.4 million years of the Mesozoic Era. He is also recognized as a global expert on extinct turtles. Dr. Lyson grew up collecting fossils in the Montana badlands near his hometown of Marmarth, North Dakota where his family has lived for generations. After completing his Ph.D. at Yale University and working in the Yale Peabody Museum, his research took him to Washington D.C. where he worked as a paleontologist for the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History. He is pictured here holding an original pickaxe designed and used by fabled paleontology pioneer Othniel C. Marsh in the 1870's. Throughout his ambitious field seasons, Dr. Lyson still uses the antique pickaxe given to him by Dr. Gene Gaffney, paleontologist at New York City's American Museum of Natural History. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/59b2bdb22278e7557ead5d07/59beb410c027d88b27dddb1a/59beef03e5dd5b141a266284/1505790386712/Tom+Fowlks.jpg Plates Tom Fowlks Wet Plate Tintype on Aluminum Photographer Tom Fowlks photographed here with the wet plate chemistry in Lusk, Wyoming. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/59b2bdb22278e7557ead5d07/59beb410c027d88b27dddb1a/59beeefc37c5814ba06a2f6c/1505789532736/Thomas+Carr.jpg Plates Thomas D. Carr Wet Plate Tintype on Aluminum Dr. Thomas Carr is an Associate Professor of Biology, at Carthage College, Director of the Carthage Institute of Paleontology, and the Senior Scientific Advisor to the Dinosaur Discovery Museum. His research focuses on the evolution and growth of Tyrannosaurus rex and its closest relatives. The goal of Dr. Carr's field work is to understand the changes in sedimentation, flora, and fauna during the last 1.4 million years of the Age of Dinosaurs in the American West. The badlands of Montana provide incredible localities for discovering T. rex specimens that can help expand the research database and allow his lab to reach new insights into the biology of the King of Dinosaurs. Dr. Carr's team is a part of the great tradition of academic fossil collecting in the American West, where every discovery is curated in a public trust for the benefit of the generations of students and scientists downstream. His lab limits explorations to public lands, as a demonstration of their commitment to the proper stewardship of vertebrate fossils for the benefit of the American (and global) public.   https://static1.squarespace.com/static/59b2bdb22278e7557ead5d07/59beb410c027d88b27dddb1a/59beeefb7131a53172288b40/1505789245839/Scott+Williams.jpg Plates Scott A. Williams Wet Plate Tintype on Aluminum Scott Williams is the paleontology lab and field specialist with the Museum of the Rockies at Montana State Univeristy. He's been conducting fieldwork in Montana for nearly two decades with MOR and the Burpee Museum of Natural History. Scott served as the chief fossil preparator in charge of "Jane" the most famous Juvenile Tyrannosaurus rex specimen ever discovered. Scott is pictured here with the cast skull of Jane from the collections of the Carter County Museum in Ekalaka, Montatna. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/59b2bdb22278e7557ead5d07/59beb410c027d88b27dddb1a/59beeef9bebafb312aa81a57/1505788972570/Sabre+Moore.jpg Plates Sabre Moore Wet Plate Tintype on Aluminum As executive director of the famous Carter County Museum, Sabre Moore works not only with the incredible, well-known dinosaur fossils from Eastern Montana but also many fine anthropological artifacts. These relics chronicle the details of Carter County and this region's rich human story. Here she is pictured with an in tact arrow from the museum's collections. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/59b2bdb22278e7557ead5d07/59beb410c027d88b27dddb1a/59beeef6edaed881775f52a5/1505786433877/Nathan+Caroll%3AJeep.jpg Plates Nathan Carroll Wet Plate Tintype on Aluminum Nate Carroll is currently a doctoral candidate in paleontology at the University of Southern California working in the Natural History Museum of L.A. County in Los Angeles. Additionally, he serves as head curator at the famous Carter County Museum in his hometown of Ekalaka, Montana. This small town in Montana has a big legacy when it comes to paleontological discovery, and has been an important field area for dinosaur hunters since the mid-1800's. Nathan grew up in these badlands and has been collecting fossils on his family ranch since he can remember. His research focuses on Hell Creek Formation fossil amber as well as dinosaur feather evolution. Nathan is pictured here with the original field vehicle purchased for his museum in the 1960's, which the dinosaur hunting team still uses each summer to collect the treasures waiting for discovery in Carter County. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/59b2bdb22278e7557ead5d07/59beb410c027d88b27dddb1a/59beeef6b07869c4960c6e8b/1505788691404/Natalie+Delaney-John+best+.jpg Plates Natalie Delaney-John Wet Plate Ambrotype on front-reflective mirror glass Natalie Delaney-John is an artist, taxidermist, educator and the owner of "Rest in Pieces Taxidermy." Natalie has traveled around the globe to learn this art and has been mentored by some of the world's best and most awarded taxidermists. Now an awarded taxidermist herself, she has launched Australia's first taxidermy workshops, talks and DIY Taxidermy Revival Kits. Natalie is pictured here with a mount of the Prairie Rattlesnake, (Crotalus viridis). "At home in Australia, we have 21 of the 25 most venomous snakes. The US has 1. The rattlesnake." https://static1.squarespace.com/static/59b2bdb22278e7557ead5d07/59beb410c027d88b27dddb1a/59beeeece45a7c495cc8f2b6/1505788456533/Marena+Mahto.jpg Plates Marena "Bright Eyes" Mahto Wet Plate Tintype on Aluminum Marena Mahto is a student in Political Science and Native American Studies at Montana State University. She is a member of the Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara Nation known as the "Three Affiliated Tribes." Since high school, Marena has collected fossils as a volunteer paleontologist with the Carter County Museum in Ekalaka, Montana. Raised in the badlands in close proximity to the Black Hills National Forest, she says, "The badlands are my homeland. My roots run through my ancestry and directly into the ground". Marena stands here in her traditional skirt beside a lake in the Black Hills, "the heart of everything that is". Marena is photographed burning sage, an important plant in Native culture, used in ceremonial events.   https://static1.squarespace.com/static/59b2bdb22278e7557ead5d07/59beb410c027d88b27dddb1a/59beeee42994ca4c46388640/1505788216202/Jon+Scanella.jpg Plates John B. Scannella Wet Plate Tintype on Aluminum Dr. John Scannella is currently the John R. Horner Curator of Paleontology at the Museum of the Rockies, Montana State University. His research revolves around the growth and evolution of the famous horned dinosaur Triceratops. Dr. Scannella is pictured here with a mounted Triceratops brow horn from the collections of the Carter County Museum in Ekalaka, Montana. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/59b2bdb22278e7557ead5d07/59beb410c027d88b27dddb1a/59beeeca8a02c7bed621d3c7/1509036660143/Jenifer+Hall.jpg Plates Jennifer Hall Wet Plate Tintype on Aluminum Jennifer Hall is an artist and paleontological field hand working in taxidermy, scientific illustration, and marketing at the Carter County Museum in Ekalaka, Montana. Her scientific illustrations have appeared in various publications and museums, including Dinosaur National Monument, the History Channel’s book and series, "Mankind: The Story of All of Us," Scientific American, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, and on several major television news outlets including NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams and the CBS Evening News. She is pictured here with a taxidermied mount of the red fox (Vulpes vulpes) that she prepared for the Carter County Museum's collections. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/59b2bdb22278e7557ead5d07/59beb410c027d88b27dddb1a/59beeebda8b2b0d4f4ded0e4/1509036718346/Holly+Woodward.jpg Plates Holly N. Woodward Wet Plate Tintype on Aluminum Dr. Woodward is an Assistant Professor of Anatomy and Paleontology at Oklahoma State University Center for Health Sciences. Her paleohistology research focuses on Montana dinosaurs like Tyrannosaurus rex and Maiasaura, and she examines microstructures in fossil bone tissues using a microscope to interpret patterns of growth. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/59b2bdb22278e7557ead5d07/59beb410c027d88b27dddb1a/59beeeb7d7bdcea4411ac6bc/1509036461193/Eric+Scott.jpg Plates Eric Scott Wet Plate Ambrotype on front-reflective mirror glass Eric Scott is a vertebrate paleontologist with Cogstone Resource Management, Inc. in California, and an adjunct in biology at California State University, San Bernardino. He is a widely recognized specialist in mammalian anatomy whose research focuses on the evolution and extinction of Plio-Pleistocene megafauna in western North America and globally; he has published extensively about the fossil record of horses and their relatives. Over the past thirty years, his studies have included both field and museum work throughout the American West as well as in Mexico and the Afar region of eastern Africa. He is pictured here with the articulated forefoot of an extinct Pleistocene ('Ice Age') horse from the collections of the Carter County Museum in Ekalaka, Montana.   https://static1.squarespace.com/static/59b2bdb22278e7557ead5d07/59beb410c027d88b27dddb1a/59beeeb49f8dce770780c80c/1505787392499/Deadwood+Hotel.jpg Plates Fairmont Hotel, Deadwood, South Dakota Wet Plate Tintype on Aluminum This former Victorian brothel, bar, and gaming hall is located on Main Street in Deadwood and has featured as a prominent landmark in town since it's construction in the late 1800's. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/59b2bdb22278e7557ead5d07/59beb410c027d88b27dddb1a/59beeeb146c3c4f2bf8bb07c/1509036686633/Dave+Evans+.jpg Plates Dave Evans Wet Plate Tintype on Aluminum Dr. Dave Evans is the Temerty Chair & Senior Curator in Vertebrate Paleontology at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto, Canada. His current research program at the ROM focuses on the evolution and paleobiology of dinosaurs and their role in the Late Cretaceous terrestrial ecosystems. Dr. Evans and his lab use fossils collected in Montana to research patterns of dinosaur diversity, ecology, evolution and evaluate how they relate to environmental changes leading up to the end-Cretaceous extinction event. Dr. Evans is pictured here holding a skull of "Dracorex hogwartsia", the enigmatic bone-headed dinosaur named in honor of author J.K. Rowling, but now thought to be a juvenile form of the famous Pachycephalosaurus. Specimen courtesy of the Carter County Museum collections in Ekalaka Montana https://static1.squarespace.com/static/59b2bdb22278e7557ead5d07/59beb410c027d88b27dddb1a/59beeeae0abd043fe9174b24/1508774755786/Cary+Woodruf.jpg Plates Cary Woodruff Wet Plate Tintype on Aluminum Cary Woodruff is a Ph.D candidate at the University of Toronto working in the Dave Evans Lab at the Royal Ontario Museum. His research includes the biomechanics of giant long-necked sauropod dinosaurs and the bizarre skull morphology of the pachycephalosaurid group. Cary is photographed with one of the subjects of his research, the remarkable skull of Pachycephalosaurus discovered in Carter County, Montana. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/59b2bdb22278e7557ead5d07/59beb410c027d88b27dddb1a/59beeeacf43b5503bd0df3f2/1505786609397/Badlands+with+book+on+right.jpg Plates Badlands Fossil Beds Wet Plate Tintype on Aluminum Ever since the badlands of Montana were explored by North America's first fossil collectors and scientists, they have been producing exquisite dinosaur specimens that have resolved our understanding of ancient life. While technology and other advances in science continue to change our interpretations of these fossils, the landscape in which they are discovered and the tools used to collect them have remained much the same as when scientist began working in the area in the mid-1800's.   https://static1.squarespace.com/static/59b2bdb22278e7557ead5d07/59beb410c027d88b27dddb1a/59beb417914e6bbca147a271/1509036774566/266604_003_w1.jpg Plates Kirk Johnson Wet Plate Tintype on Aluminum Dr. Kirk Johnson is Sant Director of the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History and an esteemed paleobotanist. For the last 36 years, Dr. Johnson has been researching the fossil plants of the Hell Creek Formation in Montana and North Dakota. Dr. Johnson is pictured with a petrified cycadeoid trunk from the Early Cretaceous that was discovered in the Black Hills of South Dakota.   https://static1.squarespace.com/static/59b2bdb22278e7557ead5d07/59beb410c027d88b27dddb1a/59beb41680bd5e2a6f896872/1509036621953/7N8A0408_v5.jpg Plates Thomas Holtz Wet Plate Tintype on Aluminum Dr. Thomas Richard Holtz Jr. is an American vertebrate paleontologist and principal lecturer at the University of Maryland's Department of Geology. He has published extensively on the phylogeny, morphology, ecomorphology, and locomotion of terrestrial predators, especially on tyrannosaurids and other theropod dinosaurs. He wrote the book 'Dinosaurs: The Most Complete, Up-to-Date Encyclopedia for Dinosaur Lovers of All Ages' and is an author of the chapters "Saurischia", "Basal Tetanurae", and "Tyrannosauroidea" in the second edition of The Dinosauria. He has also been consulted as a scientific advisor for the Walking With Dinosaurs BBC series as well as numerous other documentaries and museum exhibits. Dr. Holtz is also the director of the Science and Global Change Program within the College Park Scholars living-learning community at the University of Maryland, College Park, and is a Research Associate in the Department of Paleobiology in the National Museum of Natural History. He is pictured here holding a cast lower jaw from a Montana Tyrannosaurus rex, courtesy of the Carter County Museum in Ekalaka, Montana. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/59b2bdb22278e7557ead5d07/59beb410c027d88b27dddb1a/59beb411be42d6f534c2681f/1505786561246/266604_001_w1.jpg Plates Jingmai O’Connor Wet Plate Tintype on Aluminum Dr. Jingmai O’Connor is a senior professor from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology at The Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing. Her research is focused on the evolution of Mesozoic birds, which includes the eventual extinction of all non-neornithine lineages, last recorded in deposits like the Hell Creek Formation of Montana. Dr. O’Connor credits the beautiful badlands of Eastern Montana with helping her decide upon her career path in paleontology, “As an undergraduate student, I had the opportunity to participate in summer field work with our college’s resident paleontologist and right away, I was hooked.” She is photographed here holding a taxidermy mount of the Black-billed Magpie (Pica hudsonia), a clever member of Montana’s bird community with close relatives in Beijing. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/59b2bdb22278e7557ead5d07/59beb410c027d88b27dddb1a/59beb41159cc68efe0aebdba/1509032228252/266604_002_w2.jpg Plates - Alida Bailleul Alida Bailleul Wet Plate Tintype on Aluminum Dr. Alida Bailleul is a Tahitian born postdoctoral research associate in paleontology at the University of Missouri. She investigates different types of skeletal tissues found in the skulls of dinosaurs and birds. Her research has shown that birds and dinosaurs share skeletal characteristics even at the microscopic scale. She is currently looking at fossils of Tyrannosaurus rex unearthed in Montana to understand the dinosaur-bird transition from a microscopic point of view. Specifically, her work focuses on movements within the skull of Tyrannosaurus rex during feeding. She is pictured with her laptop computer and a photomicrograph image of a crocodile skull bone in thin section. https://depthoffield.work/contact-form daily 0.75 2017-09-17