CSC student, faculty presenting geoscience research
Chadron State College geoscience student Jennifer Balmat of Chadron and professor Mike Leite will present research about geological sites north of Crawford at the 119th annual meeting of the Geological Society of America. About 6,300 geoscientists are expected to attend the meeting, which is Oct. 27-31 at the Colorado Convention Center at Denver.
Balmat, a senior, will tell about landscape changes that have occurred over thousands of years at Hudson-Meng Kill Site, the assemblage of thousands of bison bones that were discovered below the earth’s surface.
Leite will present information about the replication of latex-molded trackways of Toadstool Park by using measurements and photography. The trackways are those of mammals and birds that inhabited the area more than 25 million years ago. Upon completion, trackway replicas will be displayed and interpreted at the Eleanor Barbour Cook Museum of Geology in CSC’s Math and Science Building, Leite said.
Others listed for their involvement with the research are Balmat’s husband and fellow student, Josh, Hannan LaGarry, CSC adjunct professor of geoscience, Brent Breithaupt, director of the University of Wyoming’s geological museum, and Neffra Matthews, geographic information systems specialist with the Bureau of Land Management in Denver.
Leite, LaGarry, Breithaupt and Matthews also were selected to present a joint paper about the Toadstool Park trackways at the Cenozoic Vertebrate Track Symposium at Albuquerque, N.M., Oct. 22-24.
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