Michael Ryan
Adjunct Professor
Faculty of Science
Department of Earth Sciences
Ottawa, Ontario
michaelj.ryan@carleton.ca
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(613) 897-4010
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Ryan is dinosaur palaeontologist who teaches a vertebrate paleontology field course as well as the in-demand course Dinosaurs to more than 400 students each year.
He has previously held positions as Head of Vertebrate Paleontology at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History and Director o...
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He has previously held positions as Head of Vertebrate Paleontology at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History and Director o...
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Bio/Research
Ryan is dinosaur palaeontologist who teaches a vertebrate paleontology field course as well as the in-demand course Dinosaurs to more than 400 students each year.
He has previously held positions as Head of Vertebrate Paleontology at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History and Director of Education and Public Programs at the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology.
His research involves the systematics, taphonomy and palaeoecology of Late Cretaceous dinosaur faunas of western North America and Mongolia, with a specialization in Ceratopsia (the horned-dinosaurs). His primary research is conducted through my Southern Alberta Dinosaur Program that I co-lead with David Evans (ROM/U of Toronto). This long term project is investigating the patterns of dinosaur evolution, ecology, and biogeography in the Late Cretaceous as they relate to shifting land mass availability and environmental changes during this period. He also has broad interests in the history of evolutionary thought, and non-dinosaur vertebrates such as Late Devonian placoderms and crocodylomorph evolution.
Over the course of his career he has lead or co-lead expeditions in Canada, the United States, Mongolia, Greenland, South America and Africa. He has described more than a dozen new dinosaur species and authored more than 200 research papers and conference presentations.
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He has previously held positions as Head of Vertebrate Paleontology at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History and Director of Education and Public Programs at the Royal Tyrrell Museum of Palaeontology.
His research involves the systematics, taphonomy and palaeoecology of Late Cretaceous dinosaur faunas of western North America and Mongolia, with a specialization in Ceratopsia (the horned-dinosaurs). His primary research is conducted through my Southern Alberta Dinosaur Program that I co-lead with David Evans (ROM/U of Toronto). This long term project is investigating the patterns of dinosaur evolution, ecology, and biogeography in the Late Cretaceous as they relate to shifting land mass availability and environmental changes during this period. He also has broad interests in the history of evolutionary thought, and non-dinosaur vertebrates such as Late Devonian placoderms and crocodylomorph evolution.
Over the course of his career he has lead or co-lead expeditions in Canada, the United States, Mongolia, Greenland, South America and Africa. He has described more than a dozen new dinosaur species and authored more than 200 research papers and conference presentations.
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