Name: WSTHU2: Unraveling the Past – Paleoanthropology and X-ray Imaging
Start: 2021-05-20T13:00:00-04:00
End: 2021-05-20T18:00:00-04:00
Location: Zoom Link: https://bnl.zoomgov.com/j/1608702674?pwd=blNmMm9VdnpaektCSURwVlhoVTFidz09

WSTHU2: Unraveling the Past – Paleoanthropology and X-ray Imaging

Thursday, 20 May 2021 - 13:00

Monday, 17 May 2021
Tuesday, 18 May 2021
Wednesday, 19 May 2021
Thursday, 20 May 2021
13:30 Introduction - Lawrence Martin Juergen Thieme (BNL)
Introduction
- Lawrence Martin
- Juergen Thieme (BNL)
13:30 - 13:50
Room: Virtual Wsorkshop
13:50 Scanning fossils at the ESRF: past, present and bright future - Paul Tafforeau (ESRF)
Scanning fossils at the ESRF: past, present and bright future
- Paul Tafforeau (ESRF)
13:50 - 14:15
Room: Virtual Wsorkshop
14:15 HEX, a new beamline to join the dig for old bones - Michael Drakopoulos (BNL)
HEX, a new beamline to join the dig for old bones
- Michael Drakopoulos (BNL)
14:15 - 14:40
Room: Virtual Wsorkshop
14:40 Evolution of the bivalve shell across shifting climates: insights from microCT and prospects for synchrotron X-ray imaging - Stewart Edie (Smithsonian Institution)
Evolution of the bivalve shell across shifting climates: insights from microCT and prospects for synchrotron X-ray imaging
- Stewart Edie (Smithsonian Institution)
14:40 - 15:05
Room: Virtual Wsorkshop
15:05 Break
Break
15:05 - 15:15
Room: Virtual Wsorkshop
15:15 Visualizing inner ears with CT, from fossils to soft-tissue - Fred Spoor (Natural History Museum)
Visualizing inner ears with CT, from fossils to soft-tissue
- Fred Spoor (Natural History Museum)
15:15 - 15:40
Room: Virtual Wsorkshop
15:40 Puzzling Uncertainty: virtual reconstruction of fossil skulls - Phllip Gunz (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology )
Puzzling Uncertainty: virtual reconstruction of fossil skulls
- Phllip Gunz (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology )
15:40 - 16:05
Room: Virtual Wsorkshop
16:05 Applications of Synchrotron Imaging for Evolutionary Anthropology - Tanya Smith (Griffith University)
Applications of Synchrotron Imaging for Evolutionary Anthropology
- Tanya Smith (Griffith University)
16:05 - 16:30
Room: Virtual Wsorkshop
16:30 Alesi baby ape cranium: a recent case study of the transformative potential power of synchrotron imaging in Paleoanthropology - Isaiah Nengo (Stony Brook University)
Alesi baby ape cranium: a recent case study of the transformative potential power of synchrotron imaging in Paleoanthropology
- Isaiah Nengo (Stony Brook University)
16:30 - 16:55
Room: Virtual Wsorkshop
16:55 Discussion and closeout
Discussion and closeout
16:55 - 17:25
Room: Virtual Wsorkshop