U.S.-Argentina Planning Visit: Late Cretaceous Dinosaurs and Paleoenvironments of Southern Patagonia

[4067443]拉科瓦拉美洲项目的奖金将为德雷克塞尔大学的肯尼斯·拉科瓦拉博士的计划访问提供支持，他将与巴塔哥尼亚国立大学的鲁本·马丁内斯博士合作，评估最近恐龙发现的质量和意义，并为该地区的古生物学和地质学合作研究规划后勤。在世界上一个对晚白垩纪恐龙知之甚少的地区，Pis有独特的机会对它们进行采样和收集，这代表了一组生物地理学上新的和不同的化石，因此，增加了我们对它们的进化和分布的理解。除了研究该遗址和这些化石的重要性外，该项目还将涉及对美国研究生和本科生的培训，加强这些年轻研究人员进行基础研究和应用研究的能力。

0406743LacovaraThis Americas Program award will provide support for a planning visit by Dr. Kenneth Lacovara, Drexel University, to work with Dr. Ruben Martinez of the Universidad Nacional de la Patagonia to to assess the quality and significance of a recent dinosaur discovery and to plan logistics for collaborative paleontological and geological research in the area. The Pis have the unique opportunity to sample and collect Late Cretaceous dinosaurs in an area of the world where they are poorly known and which represents a biogeographically new and different set of fossils, thus, increasing our understanding of their evolution and distribution.In addition to the importance of studying this site and these fossils, this project will involve training of U.S. graduate and undergraduate students, strengthening the abilities of these young researchers to conduct both basic and applied research.