Dinosaur Research Institute
In 2019, the DRI invested over $38,000 in
student research projects, grants and fieldwork.
Student Projects
Filippo Bertozzo – PhD Student, Queen’s University, Belfast. A painful run: quantification of palaeopathologies in caudal vertebrae and pedal phalanges of Albertan hadrosaurids.
Michael Hudgins – MSc Student, University of Alberta. Anatomical description of new thescelosaurid material from the Wapiti formation and phylogenetic relationships between Thescelosaurinae and Orodrominae.
Marissa Livius – BSc Student, Carleton University. A re-evaluation of a chasmosaurine parietal previously attributed to Chasmosaurus russelli.
Brayden Longley-Holland – Postgraduate Student, University of New England, Australia. Taphonomy and systematics of a juvenile hadrosaurid bonebed from NW Alberta.
Talia Lowi-Merri – PhD Student, University of Toronto. Ecomorphology & evolution of flight in the avian sternum.
Bryan Moore – MSc Student, Carleton University. The postcranial osteology of a juvenile pachycephalosaurid (ornithischian: Pachycephalosauridae) from the Frenchman formation (Late Maastrichtian), Saskatchewan, Canada.
Danielle Jade Simon – PhD Candidate, University of Toronto. Assessing paleoecology and niche-partitioning in theropods along the dinosaur-bird transition using an extant avian ecomorphological model.
Mat Roloson – MSc Student, Carleton University. A detailed re-description of the genus Triceratops from a Canadian perspective.
Yan-Yin Wang – PhD Student,
University of Alberta. Dinosaur rib cage: morphology and functional implication
for ventilation.
Rene Vandervelde Travel Grant to Annual Society of Vertebrate Paleontology (SVP) Meeting
Samantha Hamilton – MSc Student, University of Alberta. Poster presentation at Brisbane, Australia meeting: Computational modelling of forelimb movements in Lambeosaurus (Dinosauria, Hadrosauridae) with implications for locomotion in Ornithopoda.
Mark Powers – MSc Student,
University of Alberta. Oral presentation at Brisbane, Australia meeting:
Assessing functional and phylogenetic inferences from snout morphology between
Asian and North American dromaeosaurids.
Canadian Society of Vertebrate Paleontology (CSVP) Travel Grant, Grande Prairie, Alberta
Talia Lowi-Merri – PhD Student, University of Toronto. Oral presentation: Ecomorphology of flight in the avian sternum.
University of Alberta Paleo
Society for camping expenses for attendees at CSVP.
Cretin-Falls Travel Grant for Southern Alberta Dinosaur Project
Talia Lowi-Merri – PhD Student,
University of Toronto.
Neoceratopsian Scholarship
Rebekah Vice – MSc Student,
University of Alberta. Ontogenetic change in the forelimb and pectoral girdle of
the ceratopsian dinosaur Pachyrhinosaurus lakustai.
Fieldwork and Preparation
University of Alberta students’ excavation of an associated juvenile hadrosaur skeleton and hadrosaur trackway in the Horseshoe Canyon formation near Morrin, Alberta.
University of Alberta scientists’ and students’ fieldwork in Dinosaur Provincial Park.
Preparation of early Cretaceous vertebrate fossil material from a Rocky Mountain locality.
In 2020, the DRI invested over $17,000 in
student research projects and fieldwork. Due to COVID-19, the student project
activity was reduced and in-person attendance at conferences was not possible so
no travel grants were awarded.
Student Projects
Thomas Dudgeon – PhD student, Carleton University. The morphology and function of the convoluted nasal passages of Ankylosaurus magniventris (Ornithischia: Ankylosauridae).
Sean Herridge-Berry – Graduate student, University of Lethbridge. Detection of dinosaur fossils using high-resolution-near-earth imaging.
Brayden Holland – MSc Student, University of New England, Australia. Ceratopsids from the Wapiti formation, Alberta.
Michael Hudgins – Graduate student, University of Alberta. Qualitative and quantitative assessment of differences in dentition between thescelosaurid and pachycephalosaurid ornithischian dinosaurs.
Jessica Kalyniuk – Graduate student, Greenwood lab, Brandon University. Reconstructing dinosaur diet: analysis of the stomach contents of the Albian nodosaur, Borealopelta markmitchelli, and an assessment of the contemporaneous flora of central Alberta.
Anthony Rajkumar – MSc student,
University of Toronto. A novel description of cribriform plate in Dinosauria and
implications for understanding olfactory genomics in extinct taxa.
Neoceratopsian Scholarship
John Wilson – Lab/field/research
assistant, Montana State University. New articulated subadult and adult skulls
of Einiosaurus procurvicornis and new disarticulated Achelousaurus
horneri cranial material expand ontogenetic trajectory, indicate sequence of
developmental change, and support peramorphic heterochrony within a lineage of
eucentrosauran centrosaurines from the Two Medicine Formation.
Fieldwork
University of Alberta scientists’ fieldwork in Dinosaur Provincial Park.
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