Offered in-person and virtually.
From 7:00 p.m. until 8:00 p.m.
The rocks in this area are world famous for the fossils they contain, which come from an ancient ocean that covered most of North America 450 million years ago. Let's explore the animal life and communities of this ancient ocean and discover what the fossil record can tell us about our modern marine ecosystems.
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Dr. Brenda Hunda received her B. Sc. with Honors in Paleontology from the University of Alberta in 1997, her M. Sc. in Earth Sciences from the University of Alberta in 1999, and her Ph.D. in Earth Sciences from the University of California, Riverside in 2004. She is currently the Curator of Invertebrate Paleontology at the Cincinnati Museum Center and Adjunct Professor at the University of Cincinnati. Her position includes exhibit design, educational programming development, community outreach in the form of lectures and workshops, curating the largest collection of Upper Ordovician fossils in the world, developing a scientific research program that includes international travel, and playing in the one of the highest diversity fossil sea bottoms in North America.