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

在这次计划访问中，PI Grellet-Tner博士将与Oglala Lakota College(OLC)的Alessandra Higa博士和OLC的一名学生一起访问罗马尼亚Cluj-Napoca的Babes-Bolyai大学地质古生物系Vlad Codrea博士。他们将开始一项研究合作，通过对恐龙蛋的研究，调查白垩纪末期哈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，以及获取恐龙蛋离合器，这些离合器的性质和分类身份仍存在争议，以补充基于动物学特征的初步数据。此次调查的科学影响将有利于脊椎动物古生物学领域的研究，加深我们对特定哈特格盆地白垩纪末期动物群的了解，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，这项合作的古生物学研究将涉及松岭保护区奥格拉拉拉科塔学院的一名学生和一名教职员工。古生物学目前是OLC和部落层面上非常关注的焦点，OLC是一个部落机构，在培训美洲原住民学生的科学、技术、工程和数学领域取得了相当大的成功。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。

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.