US-Romania Planning Visit: Faunal assemblage and paleoenvironment of the Late Cretaceous Hateg Basin

美国-罗马尼亚计划访问：晚白垩世哈特格盆地的动物群落和古环境

• 批准号: 1023978
• 负责人: Gerald Grellet-Tinner
• 金额: $ 1.37万
• 依托单位: The Journey Museum
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-06-15 至 2011-05-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1023978&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: US; Romania; Planning; Visit; Faunal

In this planning visit, the PI Dr. Grellet-Tinner, along with Dr. Alessandra Higa from Oglala Lakota College (OLC) and an OLC student, will visit Dr. Vlad Codrea at the Babes-Bolyai University, Department of Geology-Paleontology, Cluj-Napoca, Romania. They will begin a research collaboration to investigate, through the study of dinosaur eggs, the paleoenvironment and the Cretaceous fauna of the Hateg Basin during the terminal Cretaceous. The proposed research will encompass finding more refined sedimentological records and accessing dinosaur egg clutches whose nature and taxonomic identity are still debated to augment preliminary oological character-based data. The scientific impact of this investigation will benefit the field of vertebrate paleontology in general, refine our understanding of the terminal Cretaceous fauna in the particular Hateg Basin, and bring more data to dinosaur paleobiology. This research effort will also enhance scientific collaboration between Romanian and U.S. scientists. Furthermore, this collaborative paleontology research will involve a student and a faculty member from Oglala Lakota College located on Pine Ridge Reservation. Paleontology is currently the focus of much attention at OLC and tribal levels, and OLC is a tribal institution with considerable success in training Native American students in science, technology, engineering and mathematics fields. This award is sponsored jointly by the Office of International Science and Engineering and the Sedimentary Geology and Paleobiology progam.

在这次计划访问中，PI Grellet-Tinner博士将与奥格拉拉拉科塔学院（OLC）的Alessandra Higa博士和OLC的一名学生一起访问罗马尼亚克卢日纳波卡巴贝斯-博利亚大学地质古生物学系的Vlad Codrea博士。他们将开始一项研究合作，通过对恐龙蛋的研究，调查白垩纪末期海特格盆地的古环境和白垩纪动物群。拟议的研究将包括寻找更精细的沉积学记录，并获取性质和分类身份仍有争议的恐龙蛋，以增强初步的基于生态学特征的数据。这项研究的科学影响将有利于整个脊椎动物古生物学领域，完善我们对Hateg盆地白垩纪末期动物群的认识，并为恐龙古生物学带来更多的数据。这项研究工作还将加强罗马尼亚和美国科学家之间的科学合作。此外，这项古生物学合作研究将涉及一名学生和一名来自松树岭保留地奥格拉拉拉科塔学院的教员。古生物学目前是OLC和部落层面关注的焦点，OLC是一个在科学、技术、工程和数学领域培养美国原住民学生方面相当成功的部落机构。该奖项由国际科学与工程办公室和沉积地质学与古生物学项目联合主办。